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Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. -- Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

To commit forgery.

Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

Conception of the ideal; imagery.

To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

orth. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.

deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy. -- Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil.

e end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery. Brande & C.

Pettifoggery.

stic force. (Physiol.) See under Force. -- Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

Imitation of handwriting; forgery.