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To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

One who electroplates.

Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.

To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.] Hales.

it; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [Obs.] "A most emulate pride." Shak.

To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity. [R.] Bailey.

Without palpi.

Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola (Geom.), one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually e…

y the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.

To discuss; to ventilate. [Obs.] Johnson.

Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

To exhaust or wear out. [Obs.] "Seeds . . . wearied or exantlated." Boyle.

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

To deprive of eyes. [R.] W. C. Hazlitt.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [Obs.]

To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.