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Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

See Clientele, n., 2.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Containing or resembling collagen.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their connerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

ing combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Smart.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid. Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.

A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

nd fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

s; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. T. Moore.