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In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak.

s; to be by the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear…

A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox. Macaulay. They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths. Holland.

To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

hich it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

o elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obs.] In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.

To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. [Obs.] Shelton.

nt of the brightness of its verdure. -- Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. -- Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.

of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope.

To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.

The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.