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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiscating. ] To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken without permission or consent, especially by or as if by a public authority; as, the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain; teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits.
Syn. -- appropriated, confiscate, seized, taken over. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ L. coruscare to flash, vibrate. ] To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Syn. -- To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish. ] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. “To expiscate principles.” [ R. ] Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. inescatus, p. p. of inescare; in- in + esca bait. ] To allure; to lay a bait for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To inescate and beguile young women! Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. infuscatus, p. p. of infuscare; pref. in- in + fuscare to make dark, fr. fuscus dark. ] To darken; to make black; to obscure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Darkened with a blackish tinge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inviscated p. pr. & vb. n. Inviscating ] [ L. inviscatus, p. p. of inviscare to birdlime; pref. in- in + viscum, viscus, the mistletoe, birdlime. ] To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. lemniscatus adorned with ribbons, fr. lemniscus a ribbon hanging down, Gr. lhmni`skos. ] (Geom.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; as, muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Finest raisins, dried on the vine; “sun raisins.” [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Variously written moscatel, muscadel, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obfuscatus, p. p. of obfuscare to darken; ob (see Ob-) + fuscare, fuscatum, to darken, from fuscus dark. ] Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [ Obs. ] [ Written also offuscate. ] Sir. T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obfuscated p. pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating. ] 1. To darken; to obscure; to becloud. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear. [ 1913 Webster ]

His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Skate, for the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]