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to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.

The person or thing that inflames. Addison.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

ands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin,…

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited. -- to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. [Colloq.] -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." Dickens. -- To catch up, to snat…

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

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

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle. Shak.