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See 2d Will. [Obs.]

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

Wool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

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

A bird of the family Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

nded beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Swollen; protuberant.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

Swollen. [Obs.]

ossessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston.

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [R.] Cudworth.

disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree. Wollaston.