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To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.

many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.

The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.

Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys. -- n.

To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver.

To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.

The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

urine, liable to be found in any portion of the urinary passages or in the pelvis of the kidney. -- Urinary pigments, (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc., present in the urine together with indican, a colorless substance which by oxidation is convertible into colore…

In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney.

A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.

joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc. -- Wandering kidney (Med.), a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; -- called also floating kidney, movable kidney. -- Wandering liver (Med.), a morbid condition of the liver, simi…

enings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.

n." Bp. Hall. Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid. -- Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.

g day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.] Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.

one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

A lamb or a kid; an eanling. Shak.