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A dungfork. [Scot.] Burns.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

ition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.

e development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

y, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

e lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described by Hippocrates. Dunglison. -- Hippocratic oath, an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

Same as Histogenesis. Dunglison.

terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.…

influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison.

int, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in pine, ice; and the short sound, as in pîn. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in words of foreign…

Fossil dung of fishes.

ure. [Obs.] The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

henomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.

An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison.

g of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the iris. "Irian nerves." Dunglison.