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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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CARNAL-MINDED a.

Worldly-minded.

CARNAL-MINDEDNESS n.

Grossness of mind.

CINDER n. 4 definitions

The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

COMET-FINDER; COMET-SEEKER n.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

CYLINDER n. 7 definitions

The revolving square prism carryng the cards in a Jacquard loom. Cylinder axis. (Anat.) SeeAxis cylinder, under Axis. -- Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See…

A writ. See Detinue.

DOUBLEMINDED a.

Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

oken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

EARTHLY-MINDED a.

Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.

Burnt to cinders. [R.]

Having equanimity.

Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. -- E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.

Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. -- Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. -- Fair"*mind`ed*ness, n.

FAULT-FINDER n.

One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

FEEBLE-MINDED a.

er; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

FLINDERMOUSE n.

A bat; a flittermouse.

pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.