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h blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion. Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.

leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

ts one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

A stalk or peduncle.

Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.

To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. The land was polluted with blood. Ps. cvi. 38 Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. 2 Esd. xv. 6.

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.

act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus.

Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. Sir W. Raleigh.

e of Christ. 1 Peter iv. 14. That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors. Dryden.

That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.

A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.