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An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill.

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. Tatler.

Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.

Unfitness; ineptitude. The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More.

Having, or indicating, an equal amount of cloudiness for a given period; as, isonephelic regions; an isonephelic line.

See Cowpox. Kin"e*scope (, n.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

Of or pertaining to the metanephros.

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.

A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

The head kidney. See under Head.

The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]