[ Named from Thomas Addison, M. D., of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, hypotension, and loss of weight; it is due to insufficient secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Untreated disease is usually fatal. Called also chronic adrenocortical insufficiency [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + sea. ] On the sea; at sea; toward the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A tribe of plants comprising the bamboos.
Syn. -- tribe Bambuseae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ Named for Dr. Basedow, a German physician. ] (Med.) A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. beaucéant. ] The black and white standard of the Knights Templars. [ 1913 Webster ]

A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Med.) the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [ PJC. ]

[ From Dr. Bright of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy presence broadseals our delights for pure. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) 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 caused by the release of bubbles of gas, usually nitrogen, from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues, when a person, having been in an environment with high air pressure, moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing. It may be fatal, but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure, and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids. It is a danger well known to divers. It is also called the bends and decompression sickness. It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure, or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water, such as helium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. i. 1. to turn into cheese; -- of milk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to undergo caseation; -- of dead tissue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. caséation. See Casein. ] (Med.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Gas Manuf.) A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers so as to cut out each one in turn for the renewal of the lime. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. (Gas Manuf.) A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers so as to cut out each one in turn for the renewal of the lime. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Carlos Chagas, a physician in Brazil, 1879-1934 ] a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi, found principally in South America. It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs, and has natural reservoirs in dogs, armadillos, rodents and other domestic and wild mammals. Stedman's Med. Dict., Dorland's Illustr. Med. Dict.
Syn. -- South Amercian trypanosomiasis, Chagas-Cruz disease. [ PJC ]

a. Colossal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Countersealed p. pr. & vb. n. Countersealing. ] To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. at some distance from the shore; as, deep-sea fishing.
Syn. -- offshore. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; as, deep-sea exploration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as deep-rooted.
Syn. -- deep-rooted, fundamental, ingrained. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to diaphysis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car. [ British English ]
Syn. -- dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dicky-seat, dickey box. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. same as dickie-seat.
Syn. -- dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. disese, OF. desaise; des- (L. dis-) + aise ease. See Ease. ] 1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disease germ. See under Germ.

Syn. -- Distemper; ailing; ailment; malady; disorder; sickness; illness; complaint; indisposition; affection. -- Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term. Disorder mean&unr_; much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals. Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed; as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep-seated and permanent, or at least prolonged; a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary; malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diseased p. pr. & vb. n. Diseasing. ] 1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His double burden did him sore disease. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Afflicted with disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving.

Syn. -- See Morbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [ R. ] T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Causing uneasiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [ R. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Uneasiness; inconvenience. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unseat. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + seam suture. Cf. Inseam. ] To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + seam grease. ] To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sear; to dry up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OF. encerchier. See Search. ] To make search; to try to find something. [ Obs. ] -- v. t. To search for. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } (Anat.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A perennial herb of Northeastern U. S. (Hydrastis Canadensis) having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves.
Syn. -- golden seal, yellow root, turmeric root, Hydrastis Canadensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ So called after Dr. Graves, of Dublin. ] Same as Basedow's disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half drunk. [ Slang: used only predicatively. ] Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

. (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. (b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inseamed p. pr. & vb. n. Inseaming. ] To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inside seam of an article of clothing; especially, the seam that runs from the crotch of a trouser leg down to the bottom. [ PJC ]

2. The length of the inseam of a trouser leg. [ PJC ]

v. t. To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. inter- + osseous: cf. F. interosseux. ] (Anat.) Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament. [ 1913 Webster ]