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A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n.,

Arable; tillable. [Archaic]

Ache or pain in the ear.

Receiving by the ear. [Obs.] Hewyt.

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.

Same as Imparadise.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

Comparable. [Obs. or R.]

To compare. [R.]

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.

Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.

That which exhilarates.

merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive for…

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far"a*diz`er (#), n.