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tion may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to auscultation. Dunglison.

on of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.

the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

Unleavened; unfermented. "Azymous bread." Dunglison.

as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.

tution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. Shak.

A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of…

sting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

Gonorrhea. Dunglison.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster des…

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

Blue vitriol. Dunglison.