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A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.

ontusion. Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

ract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.

A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [Obs.] Shak.

An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

aw), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart. -- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage. -- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink. -- Maiden plum…

the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberat…

An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. Shak.

overing; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. Though mantled in her cheek the blood. Sir W. Scott.

o apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. The blood of English shall manure the ground. Shak.

One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] Bartlett.

A large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]

ed the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.

Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.

e, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anæmia.

dden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Youatt.

A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.