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everely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic Locke.

in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

d Style). The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benz…

An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the eyelids. -- Bleph`a*rit"ic (#), a.

An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone. [Obs.]

A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

nds, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

Abscess of the mammary gland.

Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.