| slovo | definícia |
famine
(mass) | famine
- hlad |
famine
(encz) | famine,hlad n: Zdeněk Brož |
famine
(encz) | famine,hladomor n: |
famine
(encz) | famine,nedostatek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Famine
(gcide) | Famine \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr.
????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.]
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. "Worn with famine." --Milton.
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There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi.
1.
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Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.
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famine
(wn) | famine
n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine,
shortage]
2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting
in violent hunger and starvation and death |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
famines
(encz) | famines,hladomory n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
feast or famine
(encz) | feast or famine, |
the irish famine
(encz) | the Irish Famine, n: |
timber famine
(encz) | timber famine,nouze o dřevo [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Famine
(gcide) | Famine \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr.
????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.]
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. "Worn with famine." --Milton.
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There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi.
1.
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Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.
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famine fever
(gcide) | Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
former worse state.
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Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually
fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
[1913 Webster]Typhus \Ty"phus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? smoke, cloud, stupor
arising from fever; akin to ? to smoke, Skr. dh?pa smoke.]
(Med.)
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks,
attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and
marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also
called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever,
spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
[1913 Webster]Famine \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr.
????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.]
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. "Worn with famine." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi.
1.
[1913 Webster]
Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.
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Famine fever
(gcide) | Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
former worse state.
[1913 Webster]
Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually
fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
[1913 Webster]Typhus \Ty"phus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? smoke, cloud, stupor
arising from fever; akin to ? to smoke, Skr. dh?pa smoke.]
(Med.)
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks,
attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and
marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also
called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever,
spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
[1913 Webster]Famine \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr.
????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.]
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. "Worn with famine." --Milton.
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There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi.
1.
[1913 Webster]
Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.
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the irish famine
(wn) | the Irish Famine
n 1: a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between
1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6
million emigrated (most to America) [syn: {the Irish
Famine}, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, {the
Great Calamity}] |
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