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A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

he vertebræ, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line.

ied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

nlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton.

ing opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.

uminated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.

from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

To make less severe or rogorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, esrnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors. The stature of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legilature. Swift.

Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.

Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.

The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.

Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.