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

The operation or activity of such agent. By chance a priest came down that way. Luke x. 31.

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

ul solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

To perform the operation of churning.

The quantity of butter made at one operation.

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…

An operation for opening the colon

sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations. -- Standing committee. See under Stand…

sly intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

etween them. Sir, I desire some confidence with you. Shak. Confidence game, any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler. -- Confidence man, a swindler. -- To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.…

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self- affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these mo…

Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence. The melodious consent of the birds. Holland. Such is the world's great harmony that springs From union, order, full consent of things. Pope.