| acetonuria | ‖n. [ NL. See acetone; Urine. ] (Med.) Excess of ketone bodies (including acetone, acetoacetic acid and beta-hydroxybutyric acid) in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes
Syn. --ketonuria [ AS ] |
| albuminuria | ‖n. [ NL., fr. L. albumen + Gr. o'y^ron urine. ] (Med.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. AS [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anura | ‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + o'yra` a tail. ] (Zool.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [ Written also anoura. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| anuran | n. 1. an amphibian of the order Anura; any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species; a frog or toad.
Syn. -- frog, toad, toadfrog, batrachian, salientian [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| anuran | n. .
Syn. -- batrachian, salientian [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] |
| anuresis | n. 1. 1 inability to urinate.
Syn. -- anuria. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| anuria | n. 1. inability to urinate.
Syn. -- anuresis. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| anuric | adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to anuresis. [ WordNet 1.5 ] Variants: anuretic |
| Anurous | a. (Zool.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [ Also written anourous. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anury | n. [ Gr. 'an priv. + o'y^ron urine. ] (Med.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cinura | ‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; To move + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Coenurus | ‖n. [ NL. fr. Gr. koino`s common + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia cœnurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ This bladder worm has on its surface numerous small heads, each of which, when swallowed by a dog, becomes a mature tapeworm in the dog's intestine. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Conure | n. [ NL. conurus, fr. Gr. kw^nos a cone + o'yra` tail. The name alludes to the tapering tail. ] (Zool.) An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cyanurate | n. (Chem.) A salt of cyanuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cyanuret | n. (Chem.) A cyanide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cyanuric | a. [ Cyanic + uric: Cf. F. cyanurique. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cyanuric acid | (Chem.), an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Demeanure | n. Behavior. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Disinure | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disinured p. pr. & vb. n. Disinuring. ] [ Pref. dis- + inure. ] To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. [ 1913 Webster ] We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dry nurse | A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| dry-nurse | , v. t. To feed, attend, and bring up without breastfeeding it. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Drynurse |
| Enure | v. t. See Inure. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Enuresis | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; to urinate in; &unr_; + &unr_; urine. ] (Med.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Fulminuric | a. [ Fulminic + cyanuric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Haminura | ‖n. (Zool.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ill-nurtured | a. Ill-bred. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Inurbane | a. [ L. inurbanus. See In- not, and Urbane. ] Uncivil; unpolished; rude. Opposite of urbane. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Inurbanity | n. [ Cf. F. inurbanité. ] Lack of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Inure | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inured p. pr. & vb. n. Inuring. ] [ From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See Ure use, practice, Opera, and cf. Manure. ] To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. “To inure our prompt obedience.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ] Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ] The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] “Here the fortune of the day turned, and all things became adverse to the Romans; the place deep with ooze, sinking under those who stood, slippery to such as advanced; their armor heavy, the waters deep; nor could they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty javelins. The barbarians on the contrary, were inured to encounter in the bogs, their persons tall, their spears long, such as could wound at a distance.” In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of the emperor ever be found. Such was the fate of Decius, in the fiftieth year of his age; . . . Gibbon [ quoting Tacitus ] (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. 10) [ PJC ] |
| Inure | v. i. To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [ Written also enure. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Inurement | n. Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Inurn | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inurned p. pr. & vb. n. Inurning. ] To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. [ 1913 Webster ] The sepulcher
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Isocyanuric | a. [ Iso- + cyanuric. ] (Chem.) Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuric acid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knur | n. [ See Knurl. ] A knurl. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knurl | n. [ See Knar, Gnar. ] A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. One who, or that which, is crossgrained. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knurl | v. t. To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knurled | a. 1. Full of knots; gnarled. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knurly | [ Compar. Knurlier superl. Knurliest. ] [ See Knur, and cf. Gnarly. ] Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Knurry | a. Full of knots. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Kohnur | { } n. [ Per. koh-i-nūr, lit., mountain of light. ] A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindu legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindu and Persian rulers. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Kohinoor |
| Kynurenic | a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, dog + &unr_; urine. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [ Written also cynurenic. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lantanuric | a. [ Formed by transposition of the letters of allantoin and -uric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Leonurus | n. A genus of stout Old World herbs having cut-lobed leaves and flowers in whorls.
Syn. -- genus Leonurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Lichanura | n. A genus of boas of western North America.
Syn. -- genus Lichanura. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Manurable | a. 1. Capable of cultivation. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Capable of receiving a fertilizing substance. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Manurage | n. Cultivation. [ Obs. ] Warner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Manurance | n. Cultivation. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Manure | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Manured p. pr. & vb. n. Manuring. ] [ Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. manœuvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera, and cf. Inure. ] 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ] Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved;
And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. [ 1913 Webster ] The blood of English shall manure the ground. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| manure | n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance. Especially, , dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Manurement | n. [ Cf. OF. manouvrement. ] Cultivation. [ Obs. ] W. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
