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To censure; to blame. [Obs.] He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

A filament of a stamen. [Obs.]

here. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

A hot coal without flame; an ember. Swift.

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. I poured out my complaint before him. Ps. cxlii. 2. Grievous complaints of you. Shak.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

To lament or grieve over. [R.] I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.

Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

s. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20.

A convex body or surface. Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame. Tickell.

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]