phlegm

[Phlegm]

Phlegm is a thick secretion of mucous. It's hard to sleep when you have a bad cold and your throat is full of phlegm.

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One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

Noun
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

Noun
expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

Noun
apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions


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One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

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Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

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A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.

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Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.


Phlegm

Phlegm , n. [F. phlegme, flegme, L. phlegma, fr. Gr. a flame, inflammation, phlegm, a morbid, clammy humor in the body, fr. to burn. Cf. Phlox, Flagrant, Flame, Bleak, a., and Fluminate.] 1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. Arbuthnot. 2. (Physiol.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages. 3. (Old Chem.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. Crabb. 4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm.

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

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