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To disclaim; to expel. [Obs.] "Money did love disclame." Spenser.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

levated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak.

Destitute of flame. Sandys.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame.

The person or thing that inflames. Addison.

Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

To kindle again into flame.