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To inclose as in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl.

Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] "All loves are endless." Beau. & Fl.

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont.

n; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.

roll or record; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.

the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.

ssess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

und in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

Guard. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To establish. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A giant. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

nce. [Obs. or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." Hume. Their sorrows are most excellent. Beau. & Fl.

ustifies a fault. "It hath the excuse of youth." Shak. If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Emerson.

The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] Beau. & FL.

Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Experienced. [Obs.] The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau & Fl.

. [Obs.] Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau.