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a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows. Syn. -- subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae. [WordNet 1.5]

One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidæ) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.

To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidæ.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidæ.

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.

Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.

Exemplary. [Obs.] The exemplar piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.

ing for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

inguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.