1. the end left after cutting, the stump of a tree, (Iliad by Homer); δοκοῦ τ. the end of a beam, (Thucydides); λίθοι ἐν τομῇ ἐγγώνιοι stones cut square, (Thucydides); so, τομῇ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον having fitted the lock to the place from which it was cut , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 2. a cutting, hewing, cleaving , ἐν τομᾷ σιδήρου by stroke of iron, (Sophocles Tragicus); φασγάνου τομαί (Euripides):—;as a surgical operation, τομῇ χρῆσθαι (Plato Philosophus); διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομῶν by cautery and the knife , (Plato Philosophus) (ML)