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carbuncled, ppl. a.|ˈkɑːbʌŋk(ə)ld|
[f. prec.]
1. Set or adorned with carbuncles.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. viii. 28 Carbunkled Like holy Phoebus Carre.
2. Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; spotted, pimpled; red or shining like a carbuncle.
1664Brome Good fellow in Songs & Poems 155 A carbuncled face Saves a tedious race, For the Indies about us we carry. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 66 ⁋4 Our Friend is to drink till he is carbuncled and Tun-bellied. 1845Miall Nonconf. V. 181 Look at that carbuncled nose, and those trembling hands.
3. transf.
1805Naval Chron. XIV. 368 The carbuncled appendages [in a cuttle-fish] might be tentacles.
†4. (Cf. carbuncle 5.) Obs.
1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 24 Carbunckled [land], that is burnt with the sonne, rotten, and mossie. |