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The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Free from loss. [Obs.] Milton.

Without tongue; tongueless.

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

usa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

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

Colossal. [R.]

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]

ic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.

Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McE…

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.