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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.

n the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

on or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.

d hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.

ck (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.

Ergotized rye or other grain. [R.]

Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye. Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals with a spur.

r; 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.