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concealed in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. -- Latent period. (a) (Med.) The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesti…

To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.

Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

ene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set…

A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.

ng luxuriant; luxuriance. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator.

Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt floor, a floor…

tom; a trace; specifically, a permanent impression of one's activity or character. The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation. Bacon.

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.

To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin. [Obs.]

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée. [Obs.] Holland.

d menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

Glass in a state of fusion. Knight.

lly by exciting quarrels. -- To play the mischief, to cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.]

Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination. Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. Pope. Abbot, or Lord, of Misrule. See under Abbot, and Lord.