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al love; relating to sexual intercourse. Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Exciting venereal desire; provocative to venery.

Venereal. [R.] Dunglison.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

The venereal disease. [Obs.]

. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

xcitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

cted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.] Shak. Rank modus (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3. -- To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) rank, to set so as to take off a thick shaving. Moxon.

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. Quain.

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin…

In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.

re is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. -- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radia…

Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [Obs.] "I am all venerean in feeling." Chaucer.

Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac. [Obs.]