Decoction: alternatives and connections

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "…

Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedn…

Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…

an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.

That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imit…

Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselve…

swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.

Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for,…

Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another…

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.