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A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

State of being famished.

anguage or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8. --…

Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

Smoky; hot; choleric.

Choler; fretfulness; passion.

A gastromomer.

The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al (#), a. --Ge`o*chem"ist (#), n.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

To divide along the mesial plane.

A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.

The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. J. P. Peters. ten Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressur…

Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.

A half of a spheroid.

Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.

A half spherule.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.