‖n. [ F. ] (Mil.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.

a. [ L. conflagrans, p. pr. of conflagrare; con- + flagrare to blaze. See Flagrant. ] Burning together in a common flame. [ R. ] “The conflagrant mass.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conflagratio: cf. F. conflagration. ] A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conflating. ] [ L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare to blow together; con- + flare to blow. ] 1. To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. conflatio. ] 1. A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. conflictus a striking together, fr. confligere, -flictum, to strike together, to fight: cf. F. conflit, formerly also conflict. See Conflict, v. ] 1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

As soon as he [ Atterbury ] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. W. H. Seward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conflict of laws, that branch of jurisprudence which deals with individual litigation claimed to be subject to the conflicting laws of two or more states or nations; -- often used as synonymous with Private international law.

Syn. -- Contest; collision; struggle; combat; strife; contention; battle; fight; encounter. See Contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conflicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Conflicting. ] [ L. conflictus, p. p. of confligere to conflict (cf. conflictare); con- + fligere to strike; cf. Gr. fli`bein, qli`bein, to press, L. flagrum whip. ] 1. To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fire and water conflicting together. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be in opposition; to be contradictory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other. Wheaton.

Syn. -- To fight; contend; contest; resist; struggle; combat; strive; battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing; marked by discord.
Syn. -- antagonistic, at odds(predicate), clashing. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Torn with sundry conflicting passions. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. in disagreement; -- of facts or theories.
Syn. -- at odds(predicate), contradictory, self-contradictory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confluentia. ] 1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage. [ 1913 Webster ]

You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The confluence . . . of all true joys. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. confluens, -entis, p. pr. of confluere, -fluxum; con- + fluere to flow. See Fluent. ] 1. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.
Syn. -- merging(prenominal). [ 1913 Webster ]

These confluent steams make some great river's head. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) (a) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules. (b) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small steam which flows into a large one. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. confluxus, p. p. See Confluent. ] 1. A flowing together; a meeting of currents. “The conflux of meeting sap.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The general conflux and concourse of the whole people. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large assemblage; a passing multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What conflux issuing forth, or entering in. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tendency of fluids to run together. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to flow or run together. -- Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. A thrashing floor. Hos. ix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flour or starch prepared from the grains of corn; it is used in cooking as a thickener.
Syn. -- cornstarch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure. [ PJC ]

2. a reduction of the value of a currency in international exchange markets caused by a government; -- usually done as a means to improve the country's international balance of payments. [ PJC ]

v. t. To clothe with flesh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. en- (L. in) + fleur flower. ] A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enflowered p. pr. & vb. n. Enflowering. ] To cover or deck with flowers. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation, as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year. A famous example occurred in Germany after the first World War, reaching its peak in the period 1923. When the hyperinflation ended by 1924, the value of the mark had decreased by more than one trillion times compared to its value in 1914. Periods of lesser hyperinflation have occurred in many other countries, as in Russia in 1994. [ PJC ]

v. i. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inflamed p. pr. & vb. n. Inflaming. ] [ OE. enflamen, OF. enflamer, F. enflammer, L. inflammare, inflammatum; pref. in- in + flammare to flame, fr. flamma flame. See Flame. ] 1. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. [ 1913 Webster ]

We should have made retreat
By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though more, it seems,
Inflamed with lust than rage. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

But, O inflame and fire our hearts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. [ 1913 Webster ]

It will inflame you; it will make you mad. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. Addison.

Syn. -- To provoke; fire; kindle; irritate; exasperate; incense; enrage; anger; excite; arouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Having an inflammation in; -- of tissues; as, an inflamed appendix. [ PJC ]

n. The person or thing that inflames. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inflammabilite. ] Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. F. inflammable. ] 1. Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflammable air, the old chemical name for hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inflammable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inflammatio: cf. F. inflammation. See Inflame. ] 1. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. “The inflammation of fat.” Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with tenderness, heat and pain. It may be caused by exposure to any number of injurious agents. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inflammatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. inflammatoire. ] 1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflammatory crust. (Med.) Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy. --
Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be inflated. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ L. inflatus, p. p. of inflare to inflate; pref. in- in + flare to blow. See Blow to puff wind. ] Blown in; inflated. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflating. ] 1. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

When passion's tumults in the bosom rise,
Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. J. Scott of Amwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflate themselves with some insane delight. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To expand; to fill; to distend. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously or without due cause; as, inflated prices; inflated expectations, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner tending to inflate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation. ] 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Persistent expansion or increase in the general level of prices, usually caused by overissue of currency, and resulting in a reduced value of the currency. It is contrasted with deflation, and is when it occurs to a very high degree is called hyperinflation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Inflate, v. t. ] A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The divine breath that blows the nostrils out
To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting. ] [ L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and cf. Inflex. ] 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are they [ the rays of the sun ] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ? Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To modulate, as the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Bent; turned; deflected. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion. See Inflect. ] [ Written also inflecxion. ] 1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) (a) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice. (b) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Opt.) Same as Diffraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of which a curve bends in contrary ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]