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postoperative (iou)



postoperative adjective & noun. L19.
[from POST- 2 + OPERATIVE.]
Medicine.
A. adjective. Occurring in or pertaining to the period following a surgical operation; having recently undergone an operation. L19.
b. noun. A person who has recently had an operation. M20.
postoperatively adverb E20.

spit(1) (iou)



spit noun1.
[Old English spitu = Middle Low German, Middle Dutch spit, spet (Dutch spit), Old High German spi (German Spiess), from West Germanic.]
A slender pointed rod on which meat is skewered and set over a fire or next to a grill etc. for roasting. Also roasting-spit. OE.
beat with the spit (now dial.) treat harshly, esp. without cause.
V. S. Reid Wild hogs turn on spits all day. Which? Five of the cookers had roasting spits.
gen. Any pointed rod or stick; a skewer, a broach; spec. (a) joc. arch. derog. a sword; (b) Printing the axle of the carriage wheels of a hand-press; (c) (now Scot. & dial.) a stick for hanging up fish to dry. ME.
transf.
a. = OBELUS. LME-E17.
b. A small projecting point of land; a narrow reef or sandbank extending from the shore. L15.
US Air Along its grassy spit, you're..likely to find artists at work on their seascapes.
Comb.: spit dog a firedog with a hook on its upright for supporting a spit; spit-jack a mechanical device for rotating a spit; spit-roast verb trans. cook on a spit.