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To blow up; to inflate; to inspire. [R.] T. Ward.

The act of blowing up or inflating. [R.] Coles.

staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley.

the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

A woman who flatters with servility.

A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.

ure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

Relieving flatulence; carminative.

or service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.