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Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

icate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

(Med.) Pain in a gland.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

Glandlike; glandular.

The part of physiology that treats of the glands.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Disease of a gland.

Producing glands.