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Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.

See Cowpox. Dunglison.

ion, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison.

t Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.

head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.

- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison.

akefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

ical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. Dunglison.

id matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

ering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

ating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. Dunglison.

A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases. Dunglison.

A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison.

That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.

named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera. -- Ear stones (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear trumpet, an instrument to aid in hearing. It c…

neous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.