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The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

To kill off; to destroy. [Obs.] Harvey.

Same as Æneid.

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

ne who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44. The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb…

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. "A Being eternally energetic." Grew.

That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena. [R.]

Having energy or great power; energetic. The energic faculty that we call will. Blackw. Mag.

To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards. J. C. Shairp.

One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.