n. [ NL. ] (Med.) A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to infection with actinomycetes, especially by Actinomyces bovis in cattle and by Actinomyces israeli or Arachnia propionica in man. It is characterized by hard swellings usually in the mouth and jaw. In man the disease may also affect the abdomen or thorax. In cattle it is called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

‖n. [ NL. See Anthrax. ] (Med.) A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis. See also the related conditions pneumomelanosis and pneumoconiosis (black lung). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a disease of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. OF. coussier maker of mattresses; or couseor tailor, fr. OF. & F. coudre, p. p. cousu to sew, fr. L. consuere to sew together; con- + seure to sew. See Sew to stitch. ] A tailor who botches his work. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the same signification. Cockerham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. co- + sign. Cf. Signatory. ] Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cosignitaries One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See Cozily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cousinage. ] (Law) (a) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill. (b) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For co. sinus, an abbrev. of L. complementi sinus. ] (Trig.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) infestation with echinococci (tapeworms). An infection with the larval form is called hydatid disease. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. glay`kwsis. ] (Med.) Same as Glaucoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Glucose. ] (Chem.) One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; twenty + &unr_;, combining form of &unr_; four + &unr_; seat, base. ] (Crystallog.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jocose act or saying; jocoseness. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The natural family of arachnids including the wolf spiders.
Syn. -- family Lycosidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. muscosus mossy, fr. muscus moss. ] Mossiness. Jonhson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. na`rkwsis. See Narcotic. ] (Med.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fa`rmakon drug, poison + E. siderite. ] (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Med.) (a) Abnormal formation of flesh. (b) Sarcoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; a fig. ] (Med.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to unite by flesh, to cover over with flesh; sy`n with + &unr_;, &unr_;, flesh. ] (Anat.) The junction of bones by intervening muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Varix, and -osis. ] (Med.) The formation of varices; varicosity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being varicose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Viscosity + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. viscosité, LL. viscositas. ] 1. The quality or state of being viscous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) A property possessed by a viscous fluid, being a resistance to the forces causing a fluid to flow, caused by interactions between the molecules of the fluid and between the fluid and the walls of the conduit through which it moves; also, a measure of such a property. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]