(Acts 28:8) the same as our dysentery, which in the East is, though sometimes sporadic, generally epidemic and infectious, and then assumes its worst form.
·- The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The matter thus discharged. II. Flux ·noun Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. III. Flu...
To cheat, cozen, or over-reach; also to salivate. To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The flowing in of the tide. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt To stain with blood. II. Bloody ·adj Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody ...
A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal. ...
·- A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the Un...
·- A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly preval...
·adj Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. ...
The sign and token of our Lord's great agony (Luke 22:44). ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat. ...
A large red flag. ...
One of the physical phenomena attending our Lord's agony in the garden of Gethsemane is described by...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A bull beggar, or scarechild, with which foolish nurses terrify crying brats. ...