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A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

Ease; pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases. Essential character (Biol.), the prominent characteristics which serve to distinguish one genus, species, etc., from another. -- Essential disease, Essential fever (Med.), one that is not dependent on another. -- Essential oils (Chem.), a class of volatile oils, extracted fr…

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. And fires eternal in thy temple shine. Dryden.

To become pale through disease or absence of light.

Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison.

on of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'.

At the very time; in the very case. I knew they were had enough to please, even when I wrote them. Dryden.

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. [R.] Shak. He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil. Addison.

render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.

A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

act; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.

e skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. "Exasperation of the fits." Sir H. Wotton.