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Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.

Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. Pope.

des. Grinder's asthma, phthisis, or rot (Med.), a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.

; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

ty of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.

Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.

Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation.

To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation; as, an irritative fever. E. Darwin.

Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. [R.] Hales.

er Bank, Collateral, etc. -- Issue pea, a pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus. -- To join, or take, issue, to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.

ischarge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

imals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito…

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.

A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation. Men take up piques and displeasures. Dr. H. More. Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique. De Quincey.

another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.

deposit in the muscles of the upper and inner part of the thigh, due to the pressure and irritation caused by the saddle in riding.

Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize; specifically (Med.), allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.