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nts. Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

t defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

Inflammation of a tendon.

Inflammation of a tendon.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.…

An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou. -- Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept.

Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Inflammation of the cæcum.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the urethra.

Inflammation of the uvula.

Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.

s grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.