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lied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. Dunglison.

Deathlike; resembling death. Dunglison.

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

el; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.

of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. Dunglison. Tic douloureux (. Etym: [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

ue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.

Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle. Dunglison.

See Tumbledung.

Of or pertaining to a cough. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

That part of medicine which treats of urine. Dunglison.

, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.

vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. Dunglison.

A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. Dunglison.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

ral expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters. -- Whooping swan (Zoöl.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan.