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Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.

The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [R.] Bacon.

In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.

Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. [R.] W. Nichols.

The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.

volence; well wishing; kindly feeling. (b) (Law) The custom of any trade or business; the tendency or inclination of persons, old customers and others, to resort to an established place of business; the advantage accruing from tendency or inclination. The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that t…

The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.

The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. (c) pl.

ucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.

custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior. A man of very shy, retired habits. W. Irv…

In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

The ethical theory which finds the explanation and authority of duty in its tendency to give pleasure.

A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

th itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

A tendency towards moisture.

Tendency to imitation. [R.] Carlyle.

With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God. He would not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.…