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The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

nts and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.

The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper. Addison.

The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.

Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.

Irritability.

hargic. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.

ty (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bod…

ent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.

Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize; specifically (Med.), allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

ssue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc. McKendrick.

, in which the color of the body is partly bright yellow. These wasps are noted for their irritability, and for their painful stings. -- Yellow lead ore (Min.), wulfenite. -- Yellow lemur (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow macauco (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow mackerel (Zoöl.), the jurel. -- Yellow metal. Same as…