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A king. To play rex, to play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

The absence or intermission of fever.

Relating to apyrexy. "Apyrexial period." Brande & C.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.

An interregent, or a regent.

A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.

A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

genous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

To excite too much.

Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.

To exert too much.

Excessive exertion.

To expose excessively; specif. (Photog.),

Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.

The febrile condition.

Of or pertaining to fever; feverish.