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Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.

Tenacity; viscidity; viscidity, as of fluids.

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. "With anxious, acidulent face." Carlyle.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

rosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv.

Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

ing to tear or pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.

Very fat; obese.

In a corpulent manner.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

Drawing asunder. [R.]

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).