Crossword clues for catlin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catling \Cat"ling\, n. [Cat + -ing.]
A little cat; a kitten. ``Cat nor catling.''
--Drummond.Catgut; a catgut string. [R.]
--Shak.(Surg.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.]
--Crobb.
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Housing Units (2000): 854
Land area (2000): 0.785433 sq. miles (2.034263 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003749 sq. miles (0.009711 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.789182 sq. miles (2.043974 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11774
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Location: 40.066423 N, 87.706592 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61817
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Headwords:
Catlin
Wikipedia
Catlin may refer to:
A catlin or catling is a long, double-bladed surgical knife. It was commonly used from the 17th to the mid 19th century, particularly for amputations; thereafter its use declined in favor of mechanically driven (and later, electrically driven) oscillating saws.
Surgeon William Clowes wrote about the instrument in a medical treatise written in 1596, that amputation required the use of "a very good catlin, and an incision knife," Later, surgeon John Woodall referred to a "catlinge" in a work in 1639. By 1693, when British navy surgeon John Moyle described proper amputation techniques, he wrote that "with your Catling, divide the Flesh and Vessels about and between the bones, and with the back of your Catling, remove the Periosteum that it may not hinder the saw, nor cause greater Torment in the Operation,".
The term was thereafter understood to refer to an interosseous knife.
Usage examples of "catlin".
Catlin as he went closer to the window and looked at Chinese bronzes for the first time in years.
Lindsay proceeded down the line of bronzes, Catlin divided his attention between the two sides of the deceptive mirror.
Perhaps it was just that he had responded to the bronzes as she herself did, but she had the feeling that Catlin had been honest in his words.
With each deep breath, the warm male scent of Catlin reassured her in an elemental way that she neither understood nor questioned.
His chest shook with voiceless sobs, and Kipp remembered how glad he had been that Catlin had not been there to see Four Bears cursing the whites.
Here was both the wildest and most civilized man Catlin knew or could ever have imagined.
On page 158 of the first volume of the same work Catlin describes the great annual mysteries and religious ceremonials of which this image of the ark was the centre.
She could see despite the darkness, and the sharply defined spine of a basaltic mountain range loomed where no mountains belonged, here at the heart of the Catlin plain.
Darujhistan, in Pale, in Saltoanmeaning he knows we will be crossing Catlin River somewhere, somewhen.
Saltoan had once stood alongside the river Catlin, growing rich on the cross-continent trade, until the river changed its course in the span of a single, rain-drenched spring.
There was no chance of getting lost, of course, so long as one kept Catlin River within sight to the south.
Positioned on the banks of the Catlin River among sea-fearing peoples, this site had become a focus for trade, encouraging sedentary behaviour.
Picker and the others would later learn of the sudden and bloody pitched battle that occurred at the landings on the coast and on the shore of Catlin River.
Of the thirty transport barges and floating bridges the Pannions had used to cross the Catlin River, only a third remained serviceable, the others having fallen prey to the overzealous White Face Barghast during the first day of battle.
Paran said as the two of them resumed their walk towards the Malazan encampment, newly established on the south shore of Catlin River.