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Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. Stuart.

To unwind, as a thread from a ball. [R.]

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Emaciation. [Obs.]

Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron. Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. -- Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of…

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

An emerald. [Obs.] Spenser.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Pain in the intestines; colic.

plied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

e by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. Enumerating the services he had done. Ludlow.

The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

Counting, or reckoning up, one by one. Enumerative of the variety of evils. Jer. Taylor.

One who enumerates.

A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

inning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.

One of the ephemeral flies.