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{ ‖‖ } n. [ Malay. ] The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [ Written also blimbi and blimbing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Bilimbi, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cim, in cimstān base of a pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f. ] The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [ Written also chime. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. Chime. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ciambella. ] A kind of confectionery or cake. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [ Written also cimia. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. -- n. One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany. -- n. The language of the Cimbri. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Well-proportioned; symmetrical. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Climbed Obs. or Vulgar Clomb p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing. ] [ AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klīfa, and E. cleave to adhere. ] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being climbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
Syn. -- withdrawal, backdown. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Grand climacteric or
Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zool.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Climb; cf. Clamber. ] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Climbing fern. See under Fern. --
Climbing perch. (Zool.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. orig., a cavity, and the same word as dimple. See Dimple. ] A bower; a dingle. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + imbitter. Cf. Disembitter. ] To free from bitterness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or }[ Corrupted from female hemp. ] Light summer hemp, that bears no seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Fimbriæ [ L., fringe. See Fringle. ] (Anat.) (a) pl. A fringe, or fringed border. (b) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al a. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. fimbriatus fibrous, fringed, fr. fimbria fiber, fringe. See Fringe. ] Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fimbriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fimbriating. ] To hem; to fringe. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a fringed border; fimbriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fringed; jagged; fimbriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennæ of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

or /mhw>, n. [ See Gimmal, n. ] A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. --
Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Gimlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tropical American tree (Bursera simaruba) yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.
Syn. -- Bursera simaruba. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Arch.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embalm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put under a ban. [ R. ] Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into a band or bands. “Imbanded nations.” J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imbanked p. pr. & vb. n. Imbanking. ] [ Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. Embank. ] To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having banners. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bar in; to secure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To imbar their crooked titles. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Embargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. See Embark. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To store in a barn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To diminish in value. [ Obs. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embase. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bastardize; to debase. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. im- in + bathe. Cf. Embathe. ] To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse. [ 1913 Webster ]

And gave her to his daughters to imbathe
In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. imbecillis, and imbecillus; of unknown origin: cf. F. imbécile. ] Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.

Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic. [ 1913 Webster ]