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A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.

The leavings or dung of beasts.

mation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

iarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change. Dunglison.

tions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

n in such a state that acts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body. Dunglison. -- Live box, a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. P. H. Gosse. -- Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic. -- Li…

Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton.

Long-lived. Dunglison.

or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison. Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortif…

A salve or confection of thick consistency. Dunglison.

makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.

An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks. Dunglison.

Ordure; dung. [Obs.] Burton.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another. Dunglison.

A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]

medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.

A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.