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ort or meaning. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. South.

In an equal manner.

A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

he out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope.

Exhalation. [Obs.]

Exhalation. [R.]

Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.

A farthingale. [Obs.]

petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

s and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfæmina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

Close; termination; as:

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

See Galleass.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

uish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.