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Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

The heaves.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

Worldly-minded.

Grossness of mind.

The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

See Corrundum.

A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus. [Prov. Eng.]

The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric, or Cylindrical, surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as…

In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.