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An osteocomma. Owen.

One who overcomes.

Physiognomist.

An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.

Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea. -- n.

To oblige; to confer a favor on. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.

The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.

One who ransoms or redeems.

One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

A lodger. [Colloq.]

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.

Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism.

It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism.

One who unbosoms, or discloses. [R.] "An unbosomer of secrets." Thackeray.

Any one of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.

A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.

Of or pertaining to the vomer.

One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer. Shak.