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a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

hing previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.

A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

lor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

rally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss. Dorsal vessel (Zoöl.), a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.

e by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor.

Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

e. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42.

Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak.

damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. -- Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term. -- Dry castor (Zoöl.) a kind of beaver; -- called also parchment beaver. -- Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping. -- Dr…

n England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.

state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

Effusion; loss. "Much effuse of blood." Shak.