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a. Pertaining to amenorrhoea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of small motile sulphur bacteria.
Syn. -- family Athiorhodaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hound for baiting or hunting bears. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers.
Syn. -- genus Callirhoe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Catarrhal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nothingness. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut. ] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique. ] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Counter. ] A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dovecote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; dog-rose; &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, dog + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; rose. ] (Bot.) A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ L. diarrhoea, Gr. dia`rroia, fr. dia`rrei^n to flow through; dia` + "rei^n to flow; akin to E. stream. See Stream.] (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

{ } a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

{ } a. (Med.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fairness; beauty. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. gonorrhoea, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; that which begets, semen, the genitals + &unr_; to flow: cf. F. gonorrhée. ] (Med.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap. It is caused by infection with the bacterium Neiseria gonorrheae, and is commonly transmitted by sexual intercourse. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Hemorrhoidal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. hémorroïdal, hémorrhoïdal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ L. haemorrhoidae, pl., Gr. &unr_;, sing., &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), pl., veins liable to discharge blood, hemorrhoids, fr. &unr_; flowing with blood; a"i^ma blood + &unr_; to flow: cf. F. hémorroïdes, hémorrhoïdes. See Rheum.] (Med.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.] [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Horehound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Leuco- + Gr. "rei^n to flow.] (Med.) A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

‖ [ NL., fr. L. lignum wood + Gr. "ro`don a rose.] (Bot.) The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera. [1913 Webster]

n. The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A mountain in Italy and Switzerland, 14, 690 feet high. According to WordNet, 14, 780 feet high [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black + &unr_; to flow. ] (Bot.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhœa usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu (in Burma), and yields a valuable black varnish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also neighbourhood. ] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

a. [ Ortho- + rhombic. ] (Crystallog.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. o'y^s, 'wto`s, the ear + &unr_; to flow. ] (Med.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred in England for hunting otters. Called also otter dog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; (sc. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;); 'oxy`s acid + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; made of roses, "ro`don rose.] (Med.) A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses. Floyer. [1913 Webster]

n. A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where porter is sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A horn in which gunpowder is carried. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Pyrrhonêus: cf. F. pyrrhonien. ] Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism. [ 1913 Webster ]