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A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

To drink excessively. See Booze.

Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.

Splendor; brightness. [Poetic] Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. Milton.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way Luke xxiv. 32.…

That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine. -- Co*ca"in*ist, n.

To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper. How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

ts or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

Excessive; extreme; abominable. [Colloq.]

Excessively. [Low] He's so consumedly pround of it. Thackeray.

rregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.