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The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot. 2. Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms

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The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot. 2. Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. South.

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  • TWINGE
    OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
  • SMARTWEED
    An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
  • AGONY
    1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
  • EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
    A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
  • PAROXYSMAL
    Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. -- Par`ox*ys"mal*ly, adv.
  • BOILED
    Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
  • BOILARY
    See BOILERY
  • CONVULSIONARY
    Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.
  • OUTBURST
    A bursting forth.
  • CONVULSIONAL
    Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. Lamb.
  • BOILING
    Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
  • BOIL
    a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
  • ANGUISH
    Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31. Note: Rarely used in the
  • BOILERY
    A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
  • SMARTLY
    In a smart manner.
  • ERUPTION
    The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.
  • SMARTNESS
    The quality or state of being smart.
  • THROE
    perhaps influenced by Icel. a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. to 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton. 2. A tool
  • EBULLITION
    1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. 2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the
  • CONVULSIONIST
    One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.
  • REBULLITION
    The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
  • OVERBOIL
    To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
  • IMBOIL
    See EMBOIL
  • NATAL BOIL
    = Aleppo boil.
  • ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
    A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
  • PARBOIL
    through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
  • NOSESMART
    A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
  • LANCASHIRE BOILER
    . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
  • INEFFERVESCENCE
    Want of effervescence. Kirwan.
  • LANGUISH
    languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases.

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