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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



362 words match “DUNG”

PROSPHYSIS n.
of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.
PROTHESIS n.
See Prosthesis. Dunglison.
PSYCHIATRIA; PSYCHIATRY n.
The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison.
PUER n.
The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning. Simmonds.
PUPIL n.
contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.
PURPURA n.
od, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.
PURPURIC a.
Of or pertaining to purpura. Dunglison.
PYROTHONIDE n.
tures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.
RECLINATION n.
t front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.
RECREMENTITIAL a.
Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 (b). "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.
RECRUDESCENCE; RECRUDESCENCY n.
Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. Dunglison.
RECTITIS n.
Proctitis. Dunglison.
RED n.
The menses. Dunglison. English red, a pigment prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red. -- Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum. -- Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra.
REMORA n.
An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. Dunglison.
REPELLENT n.
A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.
REPERCUSSION n.
The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. Dunglison.
RETENTIVE a.
Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory. Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. Shak.
ROSE n.
The erysipelas. Dunglison.
ROTHER a.
er beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.
SAFE a.
e, etc. "The man of safe discretion." Shak. The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat. Milton.
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