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The art of making microphotographs.

or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.

Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Excision of the nymphæ.

The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.

Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.

One who is skilled in ornithotomy.

The anatomy or dissection of birds.

Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.

Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.

The property of cutting at right angles.

Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems. Encyc. Brit.

From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.

pl. of Parashah.

Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.