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An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.

To cut the throat of. [R.] Jacob Bigelow.

The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

b, lump, swelling, or protuberance. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. Tennyson.

on of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.

d usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

d greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green linnet (Zoöl.), the European green finch.

common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.

ales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

rtyx pictus) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. -- Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. -- Mountain rice.…

adelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.

The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.]

A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. S. purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

the European whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.]

ound in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown. [Written also neelghau, nilgau, and nylghaie.]

A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.