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One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

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.

ance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

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.

Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.

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…

Flattened lengthwise. Compessed air engine, an engine operated by the elastic force of compressed air.

Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraininig; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.

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

Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.

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.…