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n. The state or quality of being costive; constipation.

n. Inability to express oneself; stiffness.

n. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

n. Inability to express one's self; stiffness.

n. A morbid retention of fecal matter in the bowels. See constipation.

n. Figuratively, slowness in action; especially, slowness or difficulty in giving forth or uttering, in a general sense; closeness; reticence.

"Old milk, and especially when boiled, is liable to induce this kind of costiveness in some grown persons; which is probably owing to their not possessing sufficient gastric acid to curdle and digest it; for as both these processes require gastric acid, it follows, that a greater quantity of it is necessary, than in the digestion of other aliments, which do not previously require being curdled."

constipation    stiffness   

fasciculation    lymphadenopathy    vulvar    plague-spot    intrenching