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paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

A cloth worn around the breech.

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.

helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

See Camelet. [Obs.]

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

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

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [Obs.] Shak.

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

The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

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

Dissection or opening of the head.

An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.