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or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul. Brathwait.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

One who plays upon a reed or pipe. [Obs.] Blount.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.

A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.] All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.

A short dressing jacket for women.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

sumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.