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To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke.

Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.

on, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

One that enlarges.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

Epistolary. Dr. H. More.

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. [Obs.] Smart.

Having equal angles; equiangular. [R.] Johnson.

Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. (Math.) See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.

Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.

Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.

en; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.

or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example. She is exemplarily loyal. Howell. Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.

The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.

Exemplariness. [R.] The exemplarity of Christ's life. Abp. Sharp.

Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct. [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. Bacon.

That which exhilarates.

e merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.