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g to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.

An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.

isposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotyp…

ich treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the applicatio…

A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm.

The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

y of undestanding or feeling. Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Sir W. Hamilton.…

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

l heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.…

The operation of introducing a catheter.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]