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Causing uneasiness. [Obs.] Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon.

The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

To unseat. [R.] Shak.

To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. [Obs.] This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.

To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain. Camden.

To sear; to dry up. [Obs.] Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.

To make search; to try to find something. [Obs.] -- v. t.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.

Same as Basedow's disease.

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.

Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.

A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix. Pope.

To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.

To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.