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et up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5.

ity, the separation of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a facture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natural body a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual." Bacon. -- Standardized solution (Chem.), a solution which is used as a…

Plastic surgery of the mouth.

fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. Dunglison. -- Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist. -- Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above. -- Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In th…

Surgery. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments. Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

By means of surgery.

A wound healed or healing outwardly only. [Obs.] Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure. Chaucer.

The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. Shak.

Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.

Same as Piggery. [R.]

Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A tryptich for sacred imagery.