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To practice the art of enameling.

The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway.

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

One who practices entomotomy.

The art or practice of writing epistles.

The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.

The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. De Quincey.

To practice etching; to make etchings.

The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

articular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. I. Taylor.…

A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.

To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways. South.

ass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

To practice exaction. [R.] The anemy shall not exact upon him. Ps. lxxxix. 22.

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.

ve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp. Sharp.