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To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise. [Obs.]

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

so, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

righten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

taining little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.