Word Meanings - DACTYLITIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.

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• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• GROSS-HEADED
  Thick-skulled; stupid.
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• GROSS
  grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• GROSSBEAK
  See GROSBEAK
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• INFLAMMATORY
  Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease. Inflammatory crust. Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. -- Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation. (more
• GROSSNESS
  The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.
• GROSSULIN
  A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries and other fruits.
• GROSSLY
  In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
• GROSSULARIA
  See GROSSULAR
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• ENGROSS
  n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak. 2. To amass.
• DISAFFECTION
  1. State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.
• ENGROSSER
  1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.