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A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [Obs.] Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak.

To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.

Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops. Craik.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices. -- n.

Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.

Moderately narcotic.

Moderately saline or salt.

Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W. Scott.

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

deration in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.…

Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.

The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.

To make or become tepid, or moderately warm. Goldsmith.

Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.

The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.

Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.

Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp. by certain substances that have been exposed to the action of light or to the cathode rays. ---lu`mi*nes"cent (#), a.