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Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

Sharp passion; vexation. [Obs.] Heart-burning brame. Spenser.

, etc. See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.

A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph.

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.…

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

A writer of chronograms.

An outer wall. [Obs.] Chambers.

An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.

Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.