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Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [R.]

ferences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetometer.]

look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic (#), a.

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

ion of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

The measurement of the heads of living persons. -- Ceph`a*lo*met"ric (#),a.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

See Camomile.

Divination by means of apperances in the air.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.