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disposition; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris).

Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

ase of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.

"Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

r pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papilæ.

he organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

ative in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shel…

ast (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. -- The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.…

oisoning. -- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter. -- Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.

resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins. -- n.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.