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An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

To enroot; to implant. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Interlace.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

Space. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.

To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

The act of heaping up. [Obs.] Bailey.

Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground. Gen. ii. 6. Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. Byron.