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Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. The cadet of an ancient and noble family. Wood.

algic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

erwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Title; appellation; name. [Obs.] I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son His youngest son, and would not change that calling. Shak.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

can rodent (Hydrochærus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.

he heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." Shak. Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug. -- Carpet knight. (a) A knight wh…

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

rity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture [Obs.]

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or spec…

hold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.