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jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

A beautiful variety of Brussels pillow lace made originally in Belgium and resembling Honiton guipure. It is worked with fine thread in large sprays, usually of the primrose pattern, with much raised work.

tter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying. "Why, this is above E-la!" Beau. & Fl.

Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. Some earthborn giant. Milton.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

d loaded at the other. (b) (Mech.) The figure assumed by the longitudinal axis of an originally straight bar under any system of bending forces. Rankine. -- Elastic fluids, those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors.…

Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

es; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. "A Being eternally energetic." Grew.

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium. [R.]