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A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Ne…

ocess of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. Kent.

A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. South…

A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

lation. Coleridge. There is none righteous, no, not one. Rom. iii. 10. No! Nay, Heaven forbid. Coleridge.

Morbid dread of disease.

Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

essing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.

A suffix used in medical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name. Milton.

Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.

A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem…

ilent; to stop. [R.] "Peace your tattlings." Shak. When the thunder would not peace at my bidding. Shak.

Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.

ice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.