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An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

wer is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." Deut. ix. 15.

The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the b…

Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

Inflammation of a bursa.

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.

Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

ccult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.

Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

llects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

darius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicuña, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).

Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

A lamp stand of any sort.