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A dunce; a stupid fellow.

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

ckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

m birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Aliment; food. Dunglison.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.

tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

f parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] -- Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. -- Buffalo cod (Zoöl.), a large, e…

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

A blockhead; a dunce. It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

ermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

The nightmare. Dunaglison.

sembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

ation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocardris and Pericarditis. Dunglison.