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that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.

under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.

mmotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.

In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment wh…

To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton.

Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.

on of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.

Revelry; confusion; frolic. [Obs.] Herrick.

A vegetable. [Obs.] The blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones. Shak.

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

ss or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.

as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.