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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." Harvey. Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes. -- Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.…

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

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

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

An expeller. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A swelling or rising. [R.] Cotgrave.

tinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.

pe; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. -- To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy c…

e for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle.

The act of flowing. Cotgrave.

The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.

rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column. Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. Milton.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.