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assafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

A chronicle. L. Addison.

w the diaphragm; -- called also coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning. -- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter. -- Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.

rnamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. [Obs.] Halliwell.

periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

rable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.…

bs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

st its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds.

To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. [R.]

To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize. [R.] Evelyn.

The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim. In [chronical distempers], the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts. Arbuthnot.

person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.

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.

A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.