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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.

The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.

Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

erin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.

excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.

preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

am from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.

ed from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Written also brezilin.]

Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron.