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The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.

Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.

urgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

ir; as, an apneumatic lung; also, effected by or with exclusion of air; as, an apneumatic operation.

e: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

h a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceive…

To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart…

pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

A low fire used in chemical operations.

nd ladies spake aside. Sir W. Scott. To set aside (Law), to annul or defeat the effect or operation of, by a subsequent decision of the same or of a superior tribunal; to declare of no authority; as, to set aside a verdict or a judgment.

Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. Cooley.