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A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

Producing diarrhea, or a purging.

A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.

ch the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.

In a dioecious manner. Dioeciously hermaphrodite (Bot.), having flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.

The state or quality of being dioecious.

The condition of being dioecious.

The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

Diploic.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.

The skin of the doe.

Difficulty of breathing.

One who, or that which, echoes.

See Epizoön.

The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.