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The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.

The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] Shak.

A representation of the world. [R.]

An incision of the urethra, esp. incision for relief of urethral stricture.

The operation of removing the uvula.

Excision of a varicosity.

Resection or excision of the vas deferens.

Resembling vellum.

Face; countenance. [Colloq.] Spenser. Lamb.

Full of whims; whimsical. The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so. Coleridge.

Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." Shak.

Cross fertilization.

Xerophthalmia.

Art of preparing sections (transverse, tangential, or radial) of wood, esp. by means of a microtome, for microscopic examination.

Animal chemistry; zoöchemistry. Dunglison.

The sexual reproduction of animals.

The laws animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.