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r in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

ting. The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. Fairholt.

s care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power Prior.

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. Pope.

Everywhere. [Obs.] The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.

e lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

Easy or easily. [Obs.] "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.

lating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to…

Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies.

The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.

The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

; to incite Adam and Eve he egged to ill. Piers Plowman. [She] did egg him on to tell How fair she was. Warner.

ddicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

To give an Egyptian character or appearance to. Fairbairn.

Age. [Obs.] Fairfax.

An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.