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Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] Johnson.

esicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

A setula.

A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Having a title. [Obs.] Fuller.

to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

A malignant pustule.

Relieving flatulence; carminative.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A flatulent disease of sheep. Blast furnace, a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure. -- Blast hole, a hole in the bottom of a pump stock through which water enters. -- Blast nozzle, a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blas…

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

An eruption of pustules.

A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.