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Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.

but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3. A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also cal…

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]

Situated under the mammæ; as, submammary inflammation.

ents. Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

h; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning.

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

t; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon.

and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. Amid these hot, telluric flames. Carlyle.

To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper. [Obs.] It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.

e wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks. Shak. And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge. Milton. There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson.…

Inflammation of a tendon.

Inflammation of a tendon.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.…

th the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.