Phlegm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHLEGM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a thick mucus secreted in the air passages
• the thick viscous substance secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, especially when produced in excessive quantities during a cold.
• (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, believed to be associated with a calm, stolid, or apathetic temperament.
• calmness of temperament
• thick yellowish substance formed in the nose and throat during a cold
• apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
• expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness
• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
ADJECTIVE:
• One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
• Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
• A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
• Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.

Words related to PHLEGM

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How to use PHLEGM in a sentence

• They have to be constantly watched and renewed, and to those unused to the idea of dwelling in the presence of such constant peril, the phlegm of the Hollanders is remarkable.
• Your northern phlegm may render the analogy less apparent, but it is to be found as well among the cooler temperaments of the Teutonic stock, as among us of warmer blood.
• Unsatisfactory results will rouse their phlegm or fire, and they declare they will not send another piece of goods to auction, come what may.
• If she fell to him, the next in precedence was bestowed upon me, and there might not be a pin to choose between them for phlegm and inflation.
• This preference did not arise entirely from what the French term the phlegm of our national character, which cannot be affected but by powerful stimulants.
• The music and dancing are as dull as might be expected among beings so full of phlegm.
• Abscess of the liver depends upon some vice of the blood, the bile, the phlegm or the black-bile.
• So they went to Italy, and Peter picked things up with judgment, and Leslie paid for them with phlegm.
• He was shocked out of all his inherited and acquired phlegm.
• A person had these various temperaments according as the amount of blood, phlegm, yellow or black bile was uppermost in his composition.
• Latterly much of the thick phlegm had adhered to the lungs, and consequently the difficulty of breathing was great.
• Their blood or phlegm is much disordered on account of their food, which consists mainly of the roots of herbs, of fruit, and fish.
• The court of Madrid seemed to have shaken off that indolence and phlegm which had formerly disgraced the councils of Spain.
• The consumptive woman was not asleep, but lay with wide open eyes, her cloak folded under her head, trying to keep back the phlegm that irritated her throat, and not to cough.
• Calm enough, these officers, true to their birthright of phlegm.
• The landlord sat calm and indifferent, his hands in his pockets, exhibiting all the phlegm of a Pennsylvania Dutchman.
• All thy phlegm I know will be roused into vengeance when thou readest it.
• Because the phlegm which doth proceed from the brain is purged by them.
• It is occasioned by the corruption of the meat, and the corruption of phlegm with a choleric humour.
• Sometimes it happeneth by reason of the shrinking of certain sinews which go to the tongue, which are corrupted with phlegm.
• From the froth of the lungs, which according to the physicians, is the seat of the phlegm.
• For this reason, because that through great motion they disperse and dissolve the superfluous phlegm that breeds greyness.
• It proceeds from a weakness of the spirits, or because warmth of digestion cause phlegm to abound in them.
• These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body.
• At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.

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