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ate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

ganic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay.

tate of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers. -- n.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.