Word Meanings - EXANTHEMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
Related words: (words related to EXANTHEMA)
- BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - FEVER
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - FEVERFEW
A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities. - FEVERISH
1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. - LIMITARY
1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. - FEVERET
A slight fever. Ayliffe. - BREAKAWAY
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd. - LIMITANEOUS
Of or pertaining to a limit. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - ATTEND
L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. - LIMITATE
Bounded by a distinct line. - BREAKDOWN
1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, - EFFLORESCENCE
Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth. - DISCOLORATION
1. The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin. 2. A discolored spot; a stain. Arbuthnot. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - SHODDY FEVER
A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - PRELIMIT
To limit previously. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak. - BUCK FEVER
Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.