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Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

hromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston.

The old plural of Eye. And eke with fatness swollen were his een. Spenser.

Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.

The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

tible. The difference between right and wrong, is some petty cases, is almost evanescent. Wollaston.

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

ys reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the same direction; -- called also Wollaston's goniometer, from the inventor.

Swollen, as if from gout. Derham.

Grandeur. Wollaston.

Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.

Swollen; gibbous. [Obs.]

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

Multipied an infinite number of times. [R.] Wollaston.

The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson.

ruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. -- Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. -- Milk meat…

, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.

a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.