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A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Suc…

animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

e nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

ads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

To praise inordinately; to flatter. They demi-deify and fume him so. Cowper.

One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

en very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk. -- Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech. -- Grape sugar. See Glucose. -- Grape worm (Zoöl.), the l…

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

-- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.

An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

nation by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.