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A humming or buzzing.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

See Bromate, v. t.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.

To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]

To calcine. [R.]

by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

A vessel used in calcination.

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. Tomlinson.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Having a flesh color.