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A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.

Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson.

An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.

A trental.

A brothel. [Obs.] Robert Greene.

An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.

In a tugging manner; with laborious pulling.

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.

Not originated; existing from all eternity. F. W. Newman.

Without origin.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.

Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.

A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

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