Medicine, the flux of a thin limpid humour from the urethra. See Medicine Index.
Glenalagh, otherwise called the Seven Churches, anciently a celebrated town of Ireland, situated five miles north-west of Rathdrum, in the county of Wicklow, and province of Leinster. The name signifies "the valley of the two lakes." In this valley, surrounded by high and almost inaccessible mountains, St Kevin or Cavan, called also St Coemgene, about the middle of the 6th century, founded a monastery, which in a short time from the sanctity of its founder was much resorted to, and at length became a bishoprick and a religious city. St Kevin died 3d June 618, aged 120; and on that day annually numbers of persons flock to the Seven Churches to celebrate the festival of that venerated saint. During the middle ages the city of Glenalagh, called by Hovedon Episcopatus Biflagratus, was held in great esteem, and received several valuable donations and privileges, its episcopal jurisdiction extending to the walls of Dublin.—About the middle of the 12th century, on some account or other, it was much neglected by the clergy; and became, instead of a holy city, a den of thieves, wherefore Cardinal Papiro, in 1214, united it to the see of Dublin, which union was confirmed by King John. The O'Tools, chiefs of