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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

Febrifuge.

Having an aril.

Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

The act of gathering flowers.

A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin. [Written also furil.]

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

hildish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

In a puerile manner; childishly.

The quality of being puerile; puerility.

onsecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the spoils of sacrilege. South.

Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.

One guilty of sacrilege.

n or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts. The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter. Cowley. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than father's ancient name. Sir W. Scott.

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.