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te rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.

To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. Shak.

The wolf fish.

uct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory org…

hould be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. Mortimer. Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. Shak.

(Balæniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.

Once; for a time. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.

To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

Infested by spiders; cobwebbed. Wolcott.

A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. Fuller.

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

ore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.

Capacity for receiving; susceptibility. [R.] Wollaston.

The wolf fish.

in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. -- Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.

ee the Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. -- Tasmanain wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; -- called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.