n.
An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
n.
A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
n.
An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.
n.
A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
v. i.
To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
n.
The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cackle
v. i.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
v. i.
To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
v. i.
To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
n.
The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
n.
Idle talk; silly prattle.
n.
One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
n.
The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
n.
A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.