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To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

Candidacy.

Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone.

on, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize. By carbureting the gas you may use poorer coal. Knight.

Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.

Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.

olatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. [Written also carburettor.]

One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or a float, float-feed, or spray, carburetor. In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasolin…

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

The act or art of engraving or embossing.

Height; altitude. [Obs.]

Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. [Obs.] Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak.

One who censures. Sha.

omposite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

A foot covering of any kind.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

A chloride. [Obs.]