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The act of incising, or cutting into a substance. Milton.

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

Simple incision. Dunglison.

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. For me the balm shall bleed. Pope.

ith boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as…

An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

To sparate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

To cut or mark with an incision; to gash. Moxon.

Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf.

A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.] Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. Spenser.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations. Am. Cyc.

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.