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A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species.…

write now. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton.

its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.

nder Bill. -- In particular, specially; peculiarly. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs." Blackmore. -- To go into particulars, to relate or describe in detail or minutely.

To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

eristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.

Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.

ying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

n; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. Cheyne.

The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.

Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.

An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.

A combining form from Gr. a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n.

A description of the lungs. Dunglison.