n. [ F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See 1st Fust, and cf. Fustic. ] The wood of the Rhus Cotinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Honesty; honorableness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. obstetricius, fr. obstetrix, -icis, a midwife, fr. obstare to stand before: cf. F. obstétrique. See Obstacle. ] 1. Of or pertaining to childbirth, midwifery, or the period around the time of the birth of children; as, the obstetric art. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to obstetrics; as, the obstetric unit of a hospital. [ PJC ]

Obstetrical toad (Zool.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially Alytes obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. obstetricatus, p. p. of obstetricare, fr. obstetrix. ] To perform the office of midwife. [ Obs. ] “Nature does obstetricate.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To assist as a midwife. [ Obs. ] E. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Obstetric. ] Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. obstétrique. See Obstetric. ] 1. The science of midwifery. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The branch of medicine that deals with childbirth or the care of women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Obstetrics. [ Obs. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. sestetto, fr. sesto sixth, L. sextus, fr. sex six. ] 1. (Mus.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor. [ Written also sestett, sestette. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Poet.) The last six lines of a sonnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.[ It. ] (Mus.) A sestet. [ 1913 Webster ]

L., subj. 3d pers. sing. of stare to stand, remain. [ See Stand. ] (Print.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stetted p. pr. & vb. n. Stetting. ] (Print.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Stearic + ethal. ] (Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the breast + -graph. ] (Physiol.) See Pneumatograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; chest + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sth^qos the breast + -scope: cf. F. stéthoscope. ] (Med.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. stéthoscopique. ] Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope. -- Steth`o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One skilled in the use of the stethoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of examination by the stethoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spendthrift. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]