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To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches. [Obs.]

To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

Intoxicated.

The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]

Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.…

In an intricate manner.

The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.

Intricate. [Obs.] Shak.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

call on, or for, in supplication; to implore. If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. Milton.

To root deeply. [R.]

See Junket.[Obs.] Spenser.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

To magnify or extol. [Obs.] Marston.