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A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.

To flash as lightning. [R.]

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.

Lightning. [Obs.]

A false die. [Cant] [Written also fullam.] Shak.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

In a smoky manner.

Same as Foumart.

pty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

Having a full supply of blood.

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.

With full speed. [Colloq.]

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.