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iving lose. Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge.

on of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench.

lare, as a truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge.

ho writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

Equally radical. [R.] Coleridge.

An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge.

al. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

staste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge.

Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. [R.] Coleridge.

or fundamental signification. [R.] Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word. Coleridge.

tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

ence is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge. When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preac…

Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.