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Distemper logo #10101) Animal disease 2) French word used in English 3) Method of painting 4) Paint with distemper 5) Painting technique 6) Third-wave ska group 7) To disease 8) To disorder 9) To disturb 10) To intoxicate 11) To make disproportionate 12) To paint using distemper 13) To ruffle 14) To temper or mix unduly
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Distemper logo #10101) Choler 2) Crossness 3) Disease 4) Fretfulness 5) Fussiness 6) Irritability 7) Moodiness 8) Peevishness 9) Petulance 10) Strangles
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Distemper logo #21000[paint] Distemper is a term with a variety of meanings for paints used in decorating and as a historical medium for painting pictures, and contrasted with tempera. The binding element may be some form of glue or oil; these are known in decorating respectively as soft distemper and oil bound distemper. ==Soft distemper== Distemper is an earl...
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Distemper logo #21002• (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. • (v. t.) To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. • (v. t.)...
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Distemper logo #22599A highly contagious disease which if caught by your ferret is 100% lethal. In order to protect your ferret it is important to have your ferret vaccinated by your vet.
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Distemper logo #21040Paints made by mixing pigment with water and bound with casein, glue or egg. Widely used before the arrival of emulsion.
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distemper logo #21003(from the article `painting`) Distemper is a crude form of tempera made by mixing dry pigment into a paste with water, which is thinned with heated glue in working or by adding ...
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Distemper logo #21442Cat distemper is the name some people give to feline panleukopaenia infection, or as it is also known, feline infectious enteritis.
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distemper logo #20688One of the earliest painting media, known in Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia and used by the Greeks in interior decoration. It is a mixture of powdered colour with chalk or clay, diluted with water...
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Distemper logo #20938A traditional water-based paint, the application of which allows a wall to 'breathe' (to absorb and emit water). It is an unsuitable base for applying modern paints.
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distemper logo #209731. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. ... This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four 'humors' in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind. ... 2. Severity of climate; extreme w...
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distemper logo #21001(dis-tem´pәr) a name for several infectious diseases of animals, especially canine distemper, a highly fatal viral disease of dogs, marked by fever, loss of appetite, and a discharge from the nose and eyes.
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Distemper logo #10444Disturbed condition of the body or mind, ill health, illness, a mental or physical disorder, disease or ailment - Disease usually of animals with malaise and discharge from nose and throat
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Distemper logo #20972Dis·tem'per transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Distempered ; present participle & verbal noun Distempering .] [ Old French destemprer , destremper , to distemper, French détremper to soak, soften, slake ...
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Distemper logo #21500An old name for strangles in the horse, sometimes used to denote any infectious respiratory disease
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Distemper logo #21217In painting, distemper is a preparation of opaque colour mixed in a watery glue, such as size, eggwhite or gum. It was used chiefly in scene-painting and in paper for walls during the 19th ecntury, but was employed in the higher departments of art before the introduction of oil-painting in the 16th century. Distemper is painted on a dry surface, fr...
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Distemper logo #21217In painting and decorating, distemper is properly a composition of common white bound with either glue size or casein. The term is loosely, and inaccurately, frequently applied to any form of water paint or water thinned material.
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distemper logo #21328A blend of glue, chalk and water-based paint, used mostly for murals and posters.
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distemper logo #21379Alternative name for strangles.
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Distemper logo #20694A traditional wall paint made from pigment, water and glue.
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distemper logo #20974 noun a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
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distemper logo #21221(painting) One of the earliest painting media, known in Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia and used by the Greeks in interior decoration. It is a mixture of powdered colour with chalk or clay, diluted with water and a gel substance (size or gum) instead of oil. Although distemper is a type of tempe...
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distemper logo #21221Any of several infectious diseases of animals characterized by catarrh, cough, and general weakness. Specifically, it refers to a virus disease in young dogs, also found in wild animals, which can now be prevented by vaccination
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Distemper logo #21273An infectious viral disease occurring in dogs, characterized by loss of appetite, a catarrhal discharge from the eyes and nose, vomiting, fever, lethargy, partial paralysis caused by destruction of myelinated nerve tissue, and sometimes death. Also called canine distemper.
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distemper logo #21199 · Also calledcanine distemper.an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh, photophobia, and vomiting. · Also calledcolt distemper,equine distemper,strangles.an infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacillus Streptococcus equi and characterized by cata...
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