† Uvule

Also 6 vuels. Obs. [a. older F. uvule (also OF. uvele, huvele), or ad. med.L. ūvula UVULA.]

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1. Anat. = UVULA 1.

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c. 1530. Judic. Urines, II. vii. 30. A sekenes y^t is called … casus vuule, y^t is no more for to say but sekenes of vuule.

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1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, xxvi. 16. Metyng with reume at the vuels in the rough [= roof] of the mouth. Ibid., ccclxxviii. 121. In Englyshe it is named vuels the whiche doth lye in the roufe of the mouthe lyke lytle longe teetes.

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2. (See quot.) rare^–1.

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1589. J. Banister, Antidotary (1633), 87. A Gargarisme for them that be roofe-fallen, commonly called the Vvule.

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