Anagrams of: ERGOTISM

• poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

• (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint

• cut a hole for a tenon in

• join by a tenon and mortise

• slightly wet

• A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars.

• A stupid, awkward, or oafish person.

• An inept trainee or serviceperson.

• An opponent in combat or in training.

• An undesirable hospital patient, or a patient who does not need medical care.

• A dirty, senile, or otherwise unpleasant patient.

• A patient who does not respond to medical treatment.

• A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.

• A vessel of one omer.

• The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

• The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.

• anything regarded as making something unclean

• make soiled, filthy, or dirty