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e of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder. The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. Sir H. Wotton.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

ansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

nesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

A kind of movable stepladder. Knight. Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. -- Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.

A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. [Obs.]

on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

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

The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.

The urinary bladder.

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.