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A cincture. [Poetic] The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.

a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.] [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity. Shak.

ence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation. "So vast an epoch of time." F. Harrison. The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. A. W. Ward.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death. See what a vast estate he left his son. Dryden.

y; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

tem or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.

hools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

nto an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation. Wh…

Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.

tuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money. Burrill.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soi…