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eness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

ctive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

d muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]

ge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy.

, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there. M. A. Lower.

to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. Lamb. -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.

An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. [Written also lamper eel, lamp…

An instrument for performing laryngotomy.

A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.

Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look. Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks. Locke. There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this. Carlyle.

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak.

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

Actinomycosis. [Colloq.]

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. Sir W. Temple.

Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.