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Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

See Cauliflower.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

Containing or producing coral.

resembling coral in form.

Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidæ.)

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

apacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.

That can be exemplified.

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

One who exemplifies by following a pattern.

To show or illustrate by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper.

Flowing with gall. [R.] Johnson.

Producing threads. Carpenter.