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A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.

made of cut flowers. (b) (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers. -- Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

atural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion. Dunglison.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

Herpes; tetter. Dunglison.

The dung of deer. B. Jonson.

The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence. Dunglison.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]

Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

ct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

A baby; a dunce. [Prov. Eng.]

The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to Germany. German Baptists. See Dunker. -- German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. -- German carp (Zoöl.), the crucian carp. -- German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared…

on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.

ies of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

r unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose. See under Fen. -- Goose barnacle (Zoöl.), any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia. -- Goose cap, a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- G…

A dung fly.