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One who languishes.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

In a languishing manner.

The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak.

Languishment. [Obs.]

tate of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic] Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.

To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.

ottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.

Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

A miner's two-pointed pick.

An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc. Knight.

Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.