Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sponge of the genus Fistula.
- noun A fistula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fistula.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
fistula .
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Examples
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But it must be either a dry dropsie, or a megrim or letarge, or a fistule
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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But it must be either a dry dropsie, or a megrim or letarge, or a fistule in ano, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing
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