lientery
/ˈlʌɪənt(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] archaic
A form of diarrhoea.Enteritis and colitis may result from lientery....
- I attended, some time ago, a lady suffering from lientery, for whom I ineffectually prescribed a low dilution of China.
- My own view of the case is that the lientery was due to the presence of the tumor in the neighbourhood of the stomach.
Origin
Late Middle English: via French lientérie or Latin lienteria from Greek leienteria, from leios 'smooth' + entera 'bowels': see -ery.
- kill someone with (or by) kindness
- kill switch
- kill the fatted calf
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
- kill two birds with one stone
- Killy, Jean-Claude
- kill zone
- Kilmarnock
- Kilmer, Joyce
- kiln
- kiln-dry
- Kilner jar
- kilo
- kilo-
- kilobase
- kilobit
- kilobyte
- kilocalorie
- kilocycle
- kilogram
- kilogramme
- kilohertz
- kilojoule
- kiloliter
- kilolitre