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A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

Inductive. Latham.

purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

o called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

ss ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

le, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. I. Watts.

Feeding on milk.

A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

Earth-eating.

A grappling iron. [Obs.]

A vermifuge.