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e away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. Spenser. Milton.

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.

Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.

Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.

The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.

The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.

Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." Shak. Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.…

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

o return; to recall. [Obs.] And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.