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To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate. [Obs.] Feeding the flock episcopating. Milton.

An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.

plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession. But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen. Shak.

The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable. [Obs.] "Eyeful trophies." Chapman.

undle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation. Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. Ezra iv. 22. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. Shak.

With joy; gladly; -- with wold. He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16. Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.

recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. -- To fall back upon. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). -…

genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion. -- False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack. -- False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucki…

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.