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Bengal (medicine)


bengal


1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid coloured light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light. Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with coloured stripes. See Bengal. Bengal tiger.

<zoology> See Tiger.

Source: Websters Dictionary


horoscope (medicine)


horoscope


1. The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment. The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.

2. The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus.

3. A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places.

Origin: F. Horoscope, L. Horoscopus, fr. Gr, adj, observing hours or times, esp. Observing the hour of birth, a horoscope; hour + to view, observe. See Hour, and -scope.

Source: Websters Dictionary