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All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]

A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.

The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.

A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia.

A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilt…

hanged, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously invuced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.

he proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.

The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence. I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.

A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition. Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer, Assist, if OEdipus deserve thy care. Pope. If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Matt. iv. 3.

The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, or iliac, passion.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.