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  • English Word Distemper Definition Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
  • English Word Distemper Definition A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
  • English Word Distemper Definition Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
  • English Word Distemper Definition Political disorder; tumult.
  • English Word Distemper Definition A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
  • English Word Distemper Definition A painting done with this preparation.
  • English Word Distemperance Definition Distemperature.
  • English Word Distemperate Definition Immoderate.
  • English Word Distemperate Definition Diseased; disordered.
  • English Word Distemperately Definition Unduly.
  • English Word Distemperature Definition Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.
  • English Word Distemperature Definition Disorder; confusion.
  • English Word Distemperature Definition Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
  • English Word Distemperature Definition Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
  • English Word Distempered Definition of Distemper
  • English Word Distempering Definition of Distemper
  • English Word Distemperment Definition Distempered state; distemperature.
  • English Word Distend Definition To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
  • English Word Distend Definition To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
  • English Word Distend Definition To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
  • English Word Distended Definition of Distend
  • English Word Distending Definition of Distend
  • English Word Distensibility Definition The quality or capacity of being distensible.
  • English Word Distensible Definition Capable of being distended or dilated.
  • English Word Distension Definition Same as Distention.
  • English Word Distensive Definition Distending, or capable of being distended.
  • English Word Distent Definition Distended.
  • English Word Distent Definition Breadth.
  • English Word Distention Definition The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.
  • English Word Distention Definition Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.