Word Meanings - APOPHLEGMATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

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• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• MUCUS
  A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.
• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• PHLEGMON
  Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• MOUTH
  An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
• FACILITATE
  To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.
• PHLEGMATIC
  1. Watery. "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton. 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. 3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne. 4. Not easily excited to
• PHLEGMONOUS
  Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia. Harvey.
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• PHLEGMATICAL
  Phlegmatic. Ash.
• PHLEGM
  Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages. (more info) 1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. Arbuthnot.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• DEPHLEGMATORY
  Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
• FROGMOUTH
  One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
• LEUCOPHLEGMACY
  A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
• DEPHLEGM
  To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. Boyle.
• DEPHLEGMEDNESS
  A state of being freed from water. Boyle.