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Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

d, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

To disclaim; to expel. [Obs.] "Money did love disclame." Spenser.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.

Same as Eclampsia.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

Shining. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.

ng, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom. The kind of poem which was called epithalamium . . . sung when the bride was led into her chamber. B. Jonson.

Epithalamium. [R.] Donne.

A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I d…

Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.