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† uvule Obs.
Also 6 vuels.
[a. older F. uvule (also OF. uvele, huvele), or ad. med.L. ūvula uvula.]
1. Anat. = uvula 1.
c1530Judic. Urines ii. vii. 30 A sekenes yt is called..casus vuule, yt is no more for to say but sekenes of vuule. 1547Boorde Brev. Health xxvi. 16 Metyng with reume at the vuels in the rough [= roof] of the mouth. Ibid. ccclxxviii. 121 In Englyshe it is named vuels the whiche doth lye in the roufe of the mouthe lyke lytle longe teetes.
2. (See quot.) rare—1.
1589J. Banister Antidotary (1633) 87 A Gargarisme for them that be roofe-fallen, commonly called the Vvule. |