uintornis

[Pref. uinta-, and Gr. ornis =a Paleont.: A genus of Picarian Birds, allied to the Woodpeckers, from the Eocene of Wyoming. ūkāse, s . [Fr., from Ru . ykaz '=an ordinance, an edict, from kazate to show.] An edict or order, legislative or administrative, of the Ru ian Govern i ment. They have the force of laws until annulled by subsequent decisions or orders. A collection of the ukases i ued at various times, made by order of the Emperor Nicholas in 1827, and supplemented since, year by year, constitutes the legal code of the Ru ian empire. An edict or order, generally, i ued by some competent authority. "If the French bookmakers persist in refusing to bet at all until the ukase against them is withdrawn, victory will not be long in declaring itself on their side."-London Daily Telegraph. Ük-e-wal-list (was v), s. [UCKEWALLIST.] û-lạn, s. [UHLAN.] û-lar-bu-rõng, s. [Malay name.] Zobl.: Dipsas den drop hila , a tree-snake, from the Malayan Archipelago. ül-çer, s . [Fr. ulcère , from Lat. ulcerem , acc us. of ulcus an ulcer: Sp. & Ital. ulcer a ; cogn. with Gr. helkosa wound, a sore, an absce .] 1. Lit. & Med.: A chasm, a solution of continuity, produced in some external or internal surface of 4245 the body by the proce of absorption, the absorbents, whether lymphatics or veins, but chiefly the former, being more actively concerned in the formation of such chasm. This is corroborated by the fact that when old sores break out afresh, the substance forming the bond of union first gives way, and oven in the case of old fractures, the callus is removed, and the extremities become again disunited, as happened among the crow of the Centu rion , in Lord Anson's memorable voyage. This was first pointed out by John Hunter. While the ulcerative proce is going on, the secerning arteries, which in heal health bring and deposit new materials to every part of the body as the old are removed, lose this power, and are even taken away, as well as the rest of the organization, including the ab sorbents themselves. The cicatrix formed by the healing of an ulcer is then a substitute for the old and original skin, but inferior to it in vital power, Ulcers are of three kinds: Healthy, unhealthy, and specific. The first is the simple sore, or simple purulent ulcer; the second comprises the indolent, irritable, phagedenic, and varicose, with others dependent on disorder of the digestive functions; and the third, such as the scrofulous, cancerous, and venereal. The great object in the management of ulcers is to keep the surrounding skin clean and dry, and to produce a healthy surface on the sore itself; the latter object is now frequently obtained by skin-grafting, with permanently favorable results. 2. Fig .: Anything which eats into or festers in any body; a moral sore. [ULCER, 8.] To ulcerate. *ül-çer, v. t. [Latin ulcero = to make sore.] "This ulcers men's hearts with profanene " Fuller: Holy and Profane State, V. vi. 3.