Costive

[kɒstiv]

(adj.) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating .

Typist: Rodger--From WordNet

(a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

(a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.

(a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Typed by Brian

a. Constipated.

Typed by Jeanette

adj. having the motion of the bowels too slow: constipated.—adv. Cos′tively.—n. Cos′tiveness slowness in the action of the bowels.

Checker: Thelma