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A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

ternal art educing good from ill. Pope. They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. M. Arnold.

h to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

r, and mica are the elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

eveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

ther in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

y of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights. A footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay.

An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.

ce; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

al position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. Gibbon.

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow.

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

The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

Noble. [Obs.]