Bible Dictionaries
Constipation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.

(2):

(n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Constipation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/constipation.html. 1828.