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n. (Med.) the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [ PJC. ]

v. t. To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted from plunger. ] A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi&unr_;ing the clay in potteries; a plunger. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G.; bund confederacy + versammlung assembly. ] See Legislature, Switzerland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

imp. & p. p. of Cling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling, v. i. ] Wasted away; shrunken. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name. ] (Zool.) The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [ Also written coolen and cullum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mullein. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Implunge. ] To plunge; to implunge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. widely spread or distributed; as, the far-flung corners of the Empire. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

imp. & p. p. of Fling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plunge. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A steel chamber, usually cylindrical, enclosing the entire body of a person except for the head, used to assist respiration for people suffering from disease, especially poliomyelitis. A reciprocating piston at the end causes alternating high and low pressure inside, which forces or assists the breathing of the patient within. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light. √125. See Light not heavy. ] (Anat.) An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

My lungs began to crow
like chanticleer. Shak.

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☞ In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lung fever (Med.), pneumonia. --
Lung flower (Bot.), a species of gentian (Gentian Pneumonanthe). --
Lung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. --
Lung sac (Zool.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge, Long. ] A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lunged p. pr. & vb. n. Lunging ] To make a lunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Namaycush. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person with pulmonary tuberculosis. [ informal ]
Syn. -- consumptive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Having lungs that adhere to the pleura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A guillemot. [ Written also longie. ] [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. longis. See Lounge. ] A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind. langūr. ] (Zool.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the ability to speak loudly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (Strongylus filaria) are the best known. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (Pulmonaria officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung. (b) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. Mertensia Virginica and Mertensia Sibirica), plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cow's lungwort mullein. --
Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America. --
Tree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. mélanger to mix, mélange a mixture. ] One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the
Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From the Amer. Indian name. ] (Zool.) A large American pike (Esox masquinongy formerly Esox nobilior) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [ Written also maskallonge, maskalonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. See Nibelungs; Lied. ] A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl.; sing. Nibelung /sing>. In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plunged p. pr. & vb. n. Plunging ] [ OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr. (assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See Plumb. ] 1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. “To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To baptize by immersion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To plunge into guilt of a murther. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself. --
Plunge battery, or
plunging battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump. --
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine. --
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double-acting [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Sling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slung shot, a metal ball of small size, with a string attached, used by ruffians for striking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]