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omach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

To express; to manifest; to give forth. Others articles breathe the same severe spirit. Milner.

Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

s; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the…

Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts.

aracterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestin…

rt of the Scriptures or of some other work. This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary. Hallam.

eduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. Mallet.

To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31.

ersation; chat. Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

ovenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

elas" little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism. Macaulay.

Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.

A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. Hessian crucible (Chem.), a cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.