Word Meanings - COLICKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

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• COLICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. Swift.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• COLIC
  A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile
• COLICKY
  Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DISORDERED
  1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
• TROUBLOUS
  Full of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time of troublous need." Byron. A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.
• TROUBLABLE
  Causing trouble; troublesome. troublable ire." Chaucer.
• TROUBLE
  turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. An angel went down at a certain season into the pool,
• DISORDERLINESS
  The state of being disorderly.
• COLICROOT
  A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike . Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• TRICHOSCOLICES
  An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
• EPICOLIC
  Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
• ILEOCOLIC
  Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocæcal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
• UNDECOLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C11H18O2, of the propiolic acid series, obtained indirectly from undecylenic acid as a white crystalline substance.
• BUCOLIC
  Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
• BUCOLICAL
  Bucolic.