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Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.

Sound; normal. [Obs.] To make of him a formal man again. Shak. Formal cause. See under Cause.

(Mach.) To operate like a freewheel, so that one part moves freely over another which normally moves with it; -- said of a clutch.

The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

o one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (…

given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points.

-- Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere. -- Geographical mi…

btained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

an a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense. They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered. Burke.

Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.

Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;- the ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow and well away!" Spenser. Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain. Chaucer.

sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.