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A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.

igestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. Dunglison.

An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

A dungfork. [Scot.] Burns.

ed by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

rt (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of…

A dolt; a dunce. [Low.] Holloway.

A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.

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.

See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

seal; a hooded snake. Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow. -- Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull. -- Hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodl…

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