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Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

my supplications when I cry unto thee. Ps. xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Is. xl. 3. Some cried after him to return. Bunyan.

To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." Shak.

y be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Is. li. 3.

ved of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools…

Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.

To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.…

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

r supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. Bacon.

Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling. The giddy motion of the whirling mill. Pope.

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.

t. Wild howled the wind. Sir W. Scott. Howling monkey. (Zoöl.) See Howler, 2. -- Howling wilderness, a wild, desolate place inhabited only by wild beasts. Deut. xxxii. 10.

An inextricable or bewildering difficulty. I' the maze and winding labyrinths o' the world. Denham.

d their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.