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nt emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elemental of a plan.

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

ibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

with, or without, that); as I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.

f the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. We set the best faceon it we could. Dryden.

A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. [Collog.] I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. Spectator.

Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.