DISTEMPER
\dɪstˈɛmpə], \dɪstˈɛmpə], \d_ɪ_s_t_ˈɛ_m_p_ə]\
Definitions of DISTEMPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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paint with distemper
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an angry and disagreeable mood
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a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
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a painting created by distemper
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paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
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any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
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To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
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To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
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To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
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An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
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Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
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Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
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Political disorder; tumult.
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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.
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A painting done with this preparation.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
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To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
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To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
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To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
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An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
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Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
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Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
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Political disorder; tumult.
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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.
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A painting done with this preparation.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A name for several highly contagious viral diseases of animals, especially canine distemper. In dogs, it is caused by the canine distemper virus (DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE). It is characterized by a diphasic fever, leukopenia, gastrointestinal and respiratory inflammation and sometimes, neurologic complications. In cats it is known as FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of painting.
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A morbid or disorderly state of body or mind: disease, esp. of animals: ill-humor.
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To derange the temper: to disorder or disease.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A disordered state of the animal system, especially in brutes; a catarrhal disorder in dogs; a disordered state of mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; disorder; uneasiness; ill-humour; painting, in which the colours are mixed in watery glue, and laid on a dry surface.
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To derange the functions of the body or mind; to deprive of temper or moderation; to make disaffected or ill-humoured; malignant; to compound into distemper.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Disease; malady; any morbid or diseased state of an animal body; a morbid state of mind; a disease in dogs beginning with a running from the nose and eyes.
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To disorder; to derange body or mind.
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In painting, the preparation of colours with size and water, or gum-water.
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To mix up colours with size and water, &c.-see tempera.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A derangement or disturbance of the "temper" or "humour"; ill-health; illness
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A disease of dogs, characterized by running at the nose, cough, and loss of strength.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Disproportionate mixture of parts;—predominance of some bad humour; disease; especially in dogs;—predominance of any passion or apetite;—ill humour; bad temper;—malady; indisposition.
By Thomas Sheridan
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