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

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.

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

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

To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.

To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.

The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.

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

The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. "The inflammation of fat." Wilkins.