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Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture. [R.]

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

The act of making cold. [Obs.]

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Same as Galactometer.

the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

f milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

ed as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.

A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.

Heterodactylous. -- n.

A group of birds including the trogons.