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A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

er lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.

To give forth effluvium. [R.] "An effluviating power." Boyle.

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] Boyle.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

fusion, and I shall be whiter than sow. Eikon Basilike. The light effusions of a heedless boy. Byron.

Made of elder. [Obs.] He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

ty or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance. "Eleemosynary cures." Boyle.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

iking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible. "Emphatical colors." Boyle. "Emphatical evils." Bp. Reynolds.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

Equiangular. [Obs.] Boyle.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

Contemporaneous. [Obs.] Boyle.

To form or constitute the essence or being of. [Obs.] Boyle.

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.

To exhaust or wear out. [Obs.] "Seeds . . . wearied or exantlated." Boyle.