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yance; anger. The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. De Quincey.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

A medicine that diminishes irritation.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.

feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very sudden in choler. Shak.

A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaulay. -- Counter irritation (Med.), the act or the…

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. -- Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.

The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot di…

tion of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness. Any man . . . in a state of disturbance and irritation. Burke.

An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.