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as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.

tution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. Shak.

A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of…

sting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

Gonorrhea. Dunglison.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster des…

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

Blue vitriol. Dunglison.

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

ckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

Aliment; food. Dunglison.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.

tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

f parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] -- Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. -- Buffalo cod (Zoöl.), a large, e…

ermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.