Word Meanings - PRUNELLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Angina, or angina pectoris. Thrush. Prunella salt , niter fused and cast into little balls.

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• NITER; NITRE
  A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
• FUSE PLUG; FUZE PLUG
  A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse. 2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.
• FUSILE
  See A
• FUSURE
  Act of fusing; fusion.
• FUSCIN
  A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
• FUSION
  The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues. (more info) 1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals. 2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a
• THRUSHER
  The song thrush.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• FUSTIGATE
  To cudgel. Bailey.
• FUSIL
  1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. "A fusil sea." J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. Milton.
• FUSTILUG; FUSTILUGS
  A gross, fat, unwieldy person. F. Junius.
• FUSTINESS
  A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
• FUSILEER; FUSILIER
  Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
• FUSCATION
  A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. Blount.
• FUSSILY
  In a fussy manner. Byron.
• PRUNELLA; PRUNELLO
  A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• FUSIFORM
  Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
• FUSIBLE
  CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water.
• FUSE
  1. To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt. 2. To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.
• AFFUSE
  To pour out or upon. I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.
• PERFUSIVE
  Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• DEFUSE
  To disorder; to make shapeless. Shak.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• INFUSCATION
  The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• DIFFUSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
• PROFUSENESS
  Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and