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The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

ave so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. This tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wild…

The condition or quality of being bushy.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ"mic, Ca*che"mic (#), a.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

ed with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." South. "A calamitous prison" Milton.

To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. A cunning man did calculate my birth. Shak.

hat branch of mathematics which treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities…

Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.] Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger.