different between intestine vs hippolith

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?st?n/, /?n?t?s?ti?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/, /??nt?sta?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Etymology 1

From Latin intest?num, neuter of intest?nus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below.

Noun

intestine (plural intestines)

1. (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
2. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.

Synonyms

• bowel
• gut
• tharm

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• entrail
• innard
• colon

Etymology 2

From Latin intest?nus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).

Adjective

intestine (not comparable)

1. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p.2:

     It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.1,

     Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

2. (obsolete) Internal.
   • a. 1776, David Hume, Of the Origin of Government

     a perpetual intestine struggle […] between authority and liberty

3. (obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     Every thing labours under an intestine necessity.

4. (obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

Italian

Adjective

intestine f pl

1. feminine plural of intestino

Latin

Adjective

intest?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of intest?nus

English

Etymology

hippo- +? -lith

Noun

hippolith (plural hippoliths)

1. A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of a horse.

References

• hippolith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.