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A large herbaceos plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a sald.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

edicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

To operate on with a catheter. Dunglison.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

lond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [Low] Knowles.

Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix. Dunglison.

Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.] The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. Byron.

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

Climatic. Dunglison.

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

Having an irregular, convulsive motion. Dunglison. Clonic spasm. (Med.) See under Spasm.