ulcerative

[Eng. ulcer at (e); -ive.] 1. Of or relating to ulcers. 2. Causing or producing ulcers. "The dregs of vinegre must of nece ity be much more sharpe, biting, and ulcerative than wine lees." P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xxiii., ch. ii. ulcerative-stomatitis, s. Pathol.: [NOMA.] ŭl-çered, a. [Eng. ulcer, s.; -ed.] Having be come an ulcer; affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated, ulcerous. "Breathings hard drawne their ulcered palates teare." May: Lucan; Pharsalia, bk. iv. ül-çer-oŭs, adj . [Latin ulcerosus , from ulcus (gen it. ulcer is )=an ulcer (q. v.); Fr. ulcereux ; Sp. & Ital. ulceroso .] 1. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. "The ulcerous barky scurf of leprosy." Browning: Para cels us, iv. 2. Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. "People -Shakesp.: Macbeth , iv. 3. All swollen and ulcerous." ül-çer-oŭs-lý, adv . [Eng. ulcerous ; -ly .] In an ulcerous manner, ül-çer-oŭs-ne , s. [Eng. ulcerous ; -ne .] The quality or state of being ulcerous or ulcerated. *ŭl'-cus-çle, *ul-cus-cüle, s . [Lat. ulcusculum , dim in. from ulcus =an ulcer (q. v.).] A little ulcer. ū-lē, s. [Mexican.) The Ule-tree (q. v.). ule-tree, s. Botany: Castilloa elastic a and C. mark ham i an a , which yield caoutchouc. They are Mexican trees, having male and female flowers alternating on the same branch, the latter consisting of numerous ovaries in a single cup. u-lē-mą, subst . [Arab. ulema , pl. of alim =wise, learned, from alima = to know. The collective name of the hierarchical corporation of learned men in Turkey, who have the advantages of freedom from military service, and who furnish judges, ministers of mosques, profe ors, and have charge of the department of the government relating to sacred matters. This body is composed of the Imams, or ministers of religion, the Muftis, or doctors of law, and the Cadis, or administrators of justice. ū-lex, s. [Lat.=a shrub resembling rosemary.] Bot.: Furze, whin, or gorse; a genus of Cytisee. Very thorny shrubs, with leaves trifoliolate when young, simple when old. Flowers yellow; axillary calyx two-partite, with a small scale or bractea on each side of the base; the segments nearly entire, or the upper one with two, the lower with three, teeth; standard scarcely longer than the calyx, bifid; keel erect, blunt; legume scarcely longer than the calyx, turgid, few-seeded. Known species twelve, from the west and the south of Europe, and northern Africa.