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An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

Destitute of glands.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

See Ellwand.

To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.

A Linnæan class of plants having nine stamens.

Having nine stamens.

for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33. mission.

Equality. [Obs.] Bacon.

Fair or impartial; unbiased. "Evenhanded justice." Shak. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]

White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. Milton.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or…

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. Raymond.

Same as Tetrahedrite.