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Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way. Shak.

An instrument for measuring and recording the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc. -- Er`go*graph"ic (#), a.

A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer. -- Er`go*met"ric (#), a.

Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.

An extract made from ergot.

A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

To travel over. [R.] Shak.

To gorge to excess.

See Parergy.

Lit., an arbor or bower; specif.: (Italian art)

A continuous colonnade or arcade; -- applied to the decorative groups of windows, as in Venetian palazzi.

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

cted to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

A lower or inferio

To gore underneath.