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A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.

See Tumbledung.

Same as Dunker.

Of or pertaining to a cough. Dunglison.

oint, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Bearing one flower only; as, a uniflorous peduncle.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

That part of medicine which treats of urine. Dunglison.

, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.

vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. Dunglison.

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. B. Edwards.

A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. Dunglison.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

ral expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters. -- Whooping swan (Zoöl.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan.

sander. [Local, U.S.] -- Winter sleep (Zoöl.), hibernation. -- Winter snipe (Zoöl.), the dunlin. -- Winter solstice. (Astron.) See Solstice, 2. -- Winter teal (Zoöl.), the green-winged teal. -- Winter wagtail (Zoöl.), the gray wagtail (Motacilla melanope). [Prov. Eng.] -- Winter wheat, wheat sown in autumn, which l…

s undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

The delundung.