Word Meanings - WHITE-WATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dangerous disease of sheep.

Related words: (words related to WHITE-WATER)

• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• SHEEPSHEAD
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other
• SHEEP'S-EYE
  A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.
• SHEEP-FACED
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• SHEEPHOOK
  A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.
• SHEEPBITE
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. Shak.
• SHEEPMASTER
  A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.
• SHEEPCOT; SHEEPCOTE
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• SHEEPRACK
  The starling.
• 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
• SHEEP-SHEARING
  1. Act of shearing sheep. 2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.
• SHEEPBACK
  A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural.
• SHEEPSHANK
  A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
• 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.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• 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.