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o, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric. [Obs.]

d red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Urine. [Prov. Eng.]

To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle. Hudibras.

r the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

sugar (Med. Chem.), a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. -- Fruit sugar. See under Fruit, and Fructose. -- Grape sugar, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from man…

Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.

Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain.

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

A tambourine. [Obs.]

See Tambourine. Spenser.

A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.…

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

er extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.