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n expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia. -- Sal catharticus Etym: [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), Epsom salts. -- Sal culinarius Etym: [L.] (Old Chem.), common salt, or sodium chloride. -- Sal Cyre…

Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray. Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.

Resembling scirrhus. Dungliston.

Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

d from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.

Dung; excrement. [Obs.] [Written also shern.] Holland.

ndications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign. The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin. Macaulay.

A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine. Dunglison.

Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.

Dung; fæces; compost; manure; as, night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. Mortimer. Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.

A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.] The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number. Sir T. Browne.

Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." Dunglison. Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.

A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison.

The dung of an otter.

Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw. [Obs.]

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

A chalybeate medicine. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.