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Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.

Arthrodynia :: Arthrodynia (n.) An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease..

Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence..

Missy :: Missy (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss..

Bright''s Disease :: Bright's disease () An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process..

Heart :: Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish h

Scrofulide :: Scrofulide (n.) Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.

Fondness :: Fondness (n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles..

Yearn :: Yearn (v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager..

Disaffection :: Disaffection (n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike..

Engaged :: Engaged (a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed..

Love :: Love (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.

Fond :: Fond (superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

Sun-struck :: Sunstroke (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil..

Fit :: Fit (n.) A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter..

Heart-robbing :: Heart-robbing (a.) Stealing the heart or affections; winning.

Commemorate :: Commemorate (v. t.) To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July..

Acne :: Acne (n.) A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands..

Worldly :: Worldly (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men..

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