plagiotropism (plajiotropizm)

[ IMG:content-0316.jpg:[blocks in formation] after a period of incubation of from two to seven days, be- Oh, 'twas a plaguy thump, charg'd with a vengeance! Fletcher, Mad Lover, v. 4. gin suddenly with prostration, headache, dizzine , and sometimes vomiting and diarrhea; after few hours or or two days a chill develops, followed by high fever with plaguy (pla'gi), adv. [ noisy delirium, pa ing into coma; on the second to the fourth day buboes, most frequently inguinal, develop; in non-fatal cases they more frequently suppurate than resolve; there may also be carbuncles, boils, and petechiæ; convalescence begins from the sixth to the tenth day. The mortality is extreme, sometimes running as high as 95 per cent. The black-death of the fourteenth century may have been a modified form of this plague; so, too, the Pali plague. Also called the pest, the pestilence, glandular plague or pestilence, inguinal plague, Levant or Levantine plague, Just in i an plague. IMG:content-0317.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. As an expletive with the article the, used like the devil, the deuce, etc. Compare devil, 7. How the plague shall I be able to pa for a Jew? Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 1. Indian plague, a pestilential disease which prevailed locally in northwestern India during the nineteenth century, similar in some respects to the plague as described under def. 2, and perhaps identical with it. Also called Pali plague. - Plague on or upon, may a plague or curse descend upon (the person or thing mentioned): commonly used lightly, in a diminished sense, and expre ing mere annoyance. A plague o ' both your houses! Shak., R. and J., iii. 1. 94. Plague on your pity, ma'am! I desire none of it. Sheridan , School for Scandal, v. 2. To be at the plague, to take the trouble. [Scotch.] But I can seldom be at the plague , an' it binna when my bluid 's up. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxvi. ly; deucedly: as, plaguy hard; a plaguy long time. [Humorous.] He looked plaguy sour at me. Steele, Tatler, No. 25. You're so plaguy shy that one would think you had changed sexes. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, ii. [Formerly also plaise, place;