ppl. a. [f. prec.]

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  1.  Set or adorned with carbuncles.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. viii. 28. Carbunkled Like holy Phoebus Carre.

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  2.  Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; spotted, pimpled; red or shining like a carbuncle.

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1664.  Brome, Good fellow, in Songs & Poems, 155. A carbuncled face Saves a tedious race, For the Indies about us we carry.

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1709.  Steele & Swift, Tatler, No. 66, ¶ 4. Our Friend is to drink till he is carbuncled and Tun-bellied.

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1845.  Miall, Nonconf., V. 181. Look at that carbuncled nose, and those trembling hands.

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  3.  transf.

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1805.  Naval Chron., XIV. 368. The carbuncled appendages [in a cuttle fish] might not be tails, but tentacles or arms.

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  † 4.  (Cf. CARBUNCLE 5.) Obs.

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1577.  Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 24. Carbunckled [land], that is burnt with the sonne, rotten, and mossie.

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