Word Meanings - ELEPHANTIASIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
Related words: (words related to ELEPHANTIASIS)
- ROUGHING-IN
The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it. - THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - ROUGHEN
To grow or become rough. - ROUGHT
imp. of Reach. - ROUGHHEWN
1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon. - ROUGHLEG
Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe, - FISSURE
A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole - ROUGHINGS
Rowen. - FISSURATION
The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured. - ROUGHSHOD
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others. - ROUGHCAST
1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing. 2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. Shak. - ENORMOUSLY
In an enormous degree. - ROUGHTAIL
Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails. - DISEASEFUL
1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. - ROUGHSTRINGS
Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - 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. - ROUGH-FOOTED
Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. Sherwood. - ELEPHANT
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and - ROUGH-LEGGED
Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird. rough-legged hawk. See Roughleg. - 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. - HIGH-WROUGHT
1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak. - THOROUGHWORT
See BONESET - THOROUGH BASS
The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony. - DROUGHTY
1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.