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of envious notice or feeling. This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. Macaulay.

e or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the meridian passing through the equinoctial points. -- Equinoctial line (Astron.), the celestial equator; -- so called because when the sun is on it, the nights and days are of equal length i…

Directed upward; raised; uplifted. His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. Pope.

Before the ere long. A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.

applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

en indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him. W. Irving.

thereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

ke vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations. Milton.

function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.

tual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

od to come, esp. of c or rank. His magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe. Prescott. By all men's eyes a youth of expectations. Otway.

xpress messenger or train. Also used adverbially. A messenger sent express from the other world. Atterbury. Express color. (Law) See the Note under Color, n., 8.

Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp. Warburton.

Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. Gower.

showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

s, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

p in woe doth woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson.