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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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42 words match “ROIN”

ROIN v. 2 definitions

See Royne. [Obs.]

See Roynish. [Obs.]

AROINT interj. 2 definitions

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.

GASTROINTESTINAL a.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

GROIN v. 7 definitions

To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bears that groined coatinually. Spenser.

Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.

HEROINE n. 2 definitions

A woman of an heroic spirit. The heroine assumed the woman's place. Dryden.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170º Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for ill…

PROIN v. 2 definitions

o lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

it, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

nia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

ing and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidem…

disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.