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212 words match “ADDER”

JEALOUS a.
th these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.
KNAPBOTTLE n.
The bladder campion (Silene inflata).
LAKE n.
ually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
LIMMER n.
A man rope at the side of a ladder.
LITHIASIS n.
he formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.
LITHIC a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis. LIthic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.
LITHOCLAST n.
An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
LITHONTRIPTIC a.
Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forcéps. -- n.
LITHOTOME n.
An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.
LITHOTOMIST n.
One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.
LITHOTOMY n.
The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
LITHOTRIPSY n.
The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
LITHOTRIPTIST n.
One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.
LITHOTRIPTOR n.
An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.
LITHOTRITY n.
The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
MAROON a.
Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon. Maroon lake, lake prepared from madder, and distinguished for its transparency and the depth and durability of its color.
MATHER n.
See Madder.
MEASLES n.
væ of any tapeworm (Tænia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
MILK n.
gulus, or O. eximius). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc. -- Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below). -- Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky w…
MULL n.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
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