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Same as Stethometer.

A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec

The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

Of or pertaining to a bed. [R.]

rticulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A law; a precept.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

See Perkinism.

Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [R.] Gay.

To transmigrate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To bore through; to perforate. [Obs.]

Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

Occurring once in every three hours.

A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.…

A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.