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The state of being blithe. Chaucer.

Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

An aërolite. [R.]

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition. Bacon.

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

ation called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

Inflammation of a capsule, as that of the crystalline lens.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

g carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.