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A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

he back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

eing mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.

That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.] Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.

of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.