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Enormous. [Obs.] Spenser.

ity of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey.

Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

In an enormous degree.

The state of being enormous.

gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

ce, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope.

ild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

a stigma, upon. The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy. Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

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

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]