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Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. Ex. xvi. 15.

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. B. G. Wilder.

oken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon. B. G. Wilder.

To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott.…

The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened. "Obfuscation of the cornea." E. Darwin.

The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. B. G. Wilder.

The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.

To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. "Perplexd beyond self- explication." Shak. We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor. iv. 8. We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. Locke.

ntricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

Led by pixies; bewildered.

The foramen of Monro. B. G. Wilder.

The inferior vena cava. -- Post"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.

of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.