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A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.

The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).

A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. [Eng.] Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.

The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

Want of ease; discomfort; misery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having discomfort or misery; troubled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not easy; painful. [Obs.]

An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

A substance which produces nausea.

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.

Causing nausea; nauseous.

A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.

A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.

Beyond the sea; foreign.

Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.

To search all over.