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l or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exer…

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

See Hermitage.

The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.

his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

Pertaining to the esophagus. [Written also .]

Esophageal.

The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.

Espousal. [Obs.] Latimer.

A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

The charge for carrying a parcel by express.

Belonging to another race or kind.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

See Dunnage.

The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

cal sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.