These are the meanings of the letters ETHROG when you unscramble them.
- Ergot (n.)
A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
- Ergot (n.)
A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
- Ergot (n.)
See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
- Ergot (n.)
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
- Other (adv.)
Otherwise.
- Other (conj.)
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
- Other (pron. & a.)
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
- Other (pron. & a.)
Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
- Other (pron. & a.)
Left, as opposed to right.
- Other (pron. & a.)
Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
- Throe (n.)
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
- Throe (n.)
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
- Throe (v. i.)
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
- Throe (v. t.)
To put in agony.