Costive: alternatives and connections

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionar…

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

Costive; constipated.

Constipated; costive.

Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the litera…

voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge

Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received…

The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a sto…

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the ma…

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedar…

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