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A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

Usually. [Obs.] Milton.

In a customary manner; habitually.

Quality of being customary.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

Bear baiting with a dog. Hudibras.

A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.

The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.