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with every. Shak. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton. In short each man's happiness depends upon himself. Sterne.

remata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.

less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

Set with small spines or prickles.

A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generall…

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne.

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

To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.] Milton.

One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal.

which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).

That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics. J. Grote.

That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.

ieves in eudemonism. I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.

winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to Ant: good. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton. The evil that men do lives after them. Shak.

xecution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.

utsailed by another. -- To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luke viii. 13.