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A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

A sunstroke.

Egotism. Krauth-Fleming.

A woman's club; an association of women. [U. S.]

The development of the spermatozoids.

A condition of vegetation in which there is too abundant growth of the stem and leaves, accompanied by deficiency of flowers and fruit.

Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

reproduction by spores.

he vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope.

Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.

A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of b…

Subsistence. [R.]

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

s. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When…