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The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

cular partnership; -- a term sometimes applied to a partnership in a particular business, operation, or adventure. -- Special plea in bar (Law), a plea setting forth particular and new matter, distinguished from the general issue. Bouvier. -- Special pleader (Law), originally, a counsel who devoted himself to drawing…

es of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.

e who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Spo…

To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

The Stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul.

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- Staph`y*lo*raph"ic, Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic, a.

The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.

A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.

The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

ion (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.…

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

rategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.

The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

Situated under the skin; hypodermic. -- Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.

To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.

That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.