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raint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak.

raw out in length. A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frall world. Milton.

Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

Tipsy. [Vulgar, Eng.] Forby.

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles. Harvey.

direction; an opposing influence. [Obs.] A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton.

To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Ex. xx. 17.

ther side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. --…

ruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

aw, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

rom fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." J. D. Forbes.

A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. Croton oil (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

To embrace closely; to foundle. Forby.

yan. Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or somet…

ird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. Milton.

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavaties or in the substance of an organ.