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A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum.

public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

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

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

Same as Eclampsia.

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.

Half-filled. [Obs.] Lions' half-clammed entrails roar food. Marston.

Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22.

Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency. Landor.

, as the common American species. (Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

ood Lafeu, bring in the admiration. Shak. Note of admiration, the mark (!), called also exclamation point.

ing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.