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To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.

See Pneumatograph.

An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage.

Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope. -- Steth`o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art. Obstetrical toad (Zoöl.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.

To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] "Nature does obstetricate." Evelyn.

The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.

Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.] Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.

The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

Obstetrics. [R.] Dunglison.

osed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor. [Written also sestett, sestette.]

A sestet.

A spendthrift. [Obs.]