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lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.

out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora. Dunglison.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. Shak.

See Dunnage.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

Febrific. Dunglison. -- n.

Producing fever. Dunglison.

ing to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. Dunglison.

pe of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

The application of fire, or of a cautery. Dunglison.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

Leaf of lard. "Pig's flare." Dunglison.

, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.