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An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.

rom its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.

, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

eat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

umors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

The sudden disappearance of inflammation.

stance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.

Inflammation of the skin.

To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord . . . shall be sold or redeemed. Lev. xxvii. 28.

ecies), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

y the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.

; to derive. Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. Cheyne. Until you had drawn oaths from him. Shak.

ve dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

oal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.