Word Meanings - ANTISPLENETIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

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• SPLEENY
  1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• SPLEENFUL
  Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• SPLEENLESS
  Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• SPLEENISH
  Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n.
• SPLEEN
  A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known. 2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
• SPLEENED
  1. Deprived of the spleen. 2. Angered; annoyed. R. North.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• 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
• SPLEENWORT
  Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
• REMEDY
  The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint , a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance. Syn. -- Cure;
• DISEASED
  Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Morbid.
• DISEASEMENT
  Uneasiness; inconvenience. Bacon.
• 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
• UNSPLEENED
  Deprived of a spleen.
• 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.