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Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing. [R.] "Omnispective Power!" Boyse.

The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

Wandering anywhere and everywhere. [R.]

A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.

All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zoöl.), eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the shoulder or the scapula.

Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food; as, omophagic feasts, rites.

The shoulder blade, or scapula.

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

Of or pertaining to the omosternum.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

Of, pertaining to, or expressed from, unripe fruit; as, omphacine oil.

Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.

A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the umbilicus, or navel.

A hernia at the navel.

d, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Omphalomesenteric.