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osed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments. Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.…

capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples…

Retaliation. [Obs.] Just heav'n this taliation did decree. Beaumont.

vers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.

To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont.

of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.