Word Meanings - BACKWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

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• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• FILANDERS
  A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• DISEASE
  1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting
• WRIGHTINE
  A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree , and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.
• DISEASED
  Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Morbid.
• DISEASEMENT
  Uneasiness; inconvenience. Bacon.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• WAINWRIGHT
  See WAGONWRIGHT
• MILLWRIGHT
  A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
  One who makes or repairs plows.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• BASEDOW'S DISEASE
  A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.
• CAISSON DISEASE
  A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due
• LOCO DISEASE
  A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.
• THOMSEN'S DISEASE
  An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.