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ness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs. Phlegmasia dolens ( Etym: [NL.], milk leg.

Watery. [Obs.] "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton.

Phlegmatic. Ash.

In a phlegmatic manner.

Phlegmatically. [Obs.]

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia. Harvey.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

The action of apophlegmatics.

An apophlegmatic. [Obs.]

To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.] Boyle.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.

A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.

A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.