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A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.

a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

The under side of the toes.

An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.

Pertaining to the iliac and lumbar regions; as, the iliolumbar artery.

To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

Capable of being illuminated.

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. Boyle.

Illuminative.

ar; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.

Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 (a).

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

Illuminism. [R.]

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.

ccupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.