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can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. Amid these hot, telluric flames. Carlyle.

To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper. [Obs.] It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.

th the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

tance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

ulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for draw…

to twist bays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

To peep under. "The flame . . . would underpeep her lids." [R.] Shak.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke. Milton.

Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.

epresented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.