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is epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

To clothe with, or as with, ermine. The snows that have ermined it in the winter. Lowell.

To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch. [R.] Howell.

A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. Cowell.

the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

To remove; to eject; to void; o discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

The act af disemboweling.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

A disemboweling.

Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.

be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example. She is exemplarily loyal. Howell. Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. Cowell.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] W. D. Howells.

r broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.