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Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

An uncle. [Obs.] Spenser.

lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

e of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

ade of cut flowers. (b) (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers. -- Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. Shak.

t (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of i…

Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Unclean. [R.] Burton.

Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. Sterne.

Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.

now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.