in Anatomy, the name of a muscle of the testicle, of which there is one on each side. See Anatomy, Table of the Muscles.

CREMATION is sometimes used for burning, particularly when applied to the ancient custom of burning the dead. The custom is well known to have prevailed among most eastern nations, and continued with their descendants after they had peopled the different parts of Europe. Hence we find it prevailing in Greece, Italy, Gaul, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, till Christianity abolished it.