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The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.

A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.

sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

ity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Rom. ii. 15.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

nic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

o ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

ighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

aining little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.