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a. (Med.) Good against dysentery. -- n. A medicine for dysentery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. One who consents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disassents; a dissenter. [ Obs. ] State Trials (1634). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Disinter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. The Roman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct class.” Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. dysentericus, Gr. &unr_;; cf. F. dysentérigue. ] Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. “Dysenteric symptoms.” Copland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dysenteria, Gr. &unr_;; dys- ill, bad + &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, intestines, fr. 'ento`s within, fr. &unr_; in, akin to E. in: cf. F. dysenterie. See Dys, and In. ] (Med.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. mésentérique. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Meso-, and Enteron. ] (Anat.) All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomodaeum, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctodaeum, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mesente`rion, me`sos + 'e`nteron intestine: cf. F. mésentère. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misrepresents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Omphalo- + mesenteric. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representative. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resents. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]