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Burnt to cinders. [R.]

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle. Shak.

To wind about; to encircle. In the circle of his arms Enwound us both. Tennyson.

Having equanimity.

ions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. -- E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.

xpel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.

al type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. -- Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. -- Fair"*mind`ed*ness, n.

One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

er; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.

of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

Capable of beong found; discoverable. Fuller.

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

A censurer or caviler. [Obs.]

Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. [Obs.] Whitlock.

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.

Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial. [Obs.] A cold May and a windy Makes the barn fat amd findy. Old Prover

A bat; a flittermouse.

pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.