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and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. I can vent clamor from my throat. Shak.

Same as Throatlatch.

The Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.] By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

A drip, or drip molding.

A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

ern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

ralian singing bird (Phyrrholæmus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.

(Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).

eral species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.

called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

e breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his throat applied. Dryden.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

The larvæ of several species of botfly, especially those larvæ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]