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Word Meanings - CARNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease of horses, on which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

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  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • AFFLICTIVELY
    In an afflictive manner.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • AFFLICTIVE
    Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
  • AFFLICTING
    Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
  • AFFLICTION
    1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • DISEASEFUL
    1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • MOUTHFUL
    1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
  • HORSESHOE
    The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
  • FURRIER
    A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
  • DISEASEFULNESS
    The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
  • AFFLICTIONLESS
    Free from affliction.
  • ANIMALCULE
    An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
  • FURRY
    1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. "Furry nations." Thomson. 2. Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden. 3. Resembling fur.
  • 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.
  • LOUD-MOUTHED
    Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
  • REDMOUTH
    Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • UNDERFURROW
    To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
  • FLAP-MOUTHED
    Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
  • HOT-MOUTHED
    Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.

 

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