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One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

To inquire. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman.

One who makes an entrance or beginning. A. Seward.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. Syd. Soc. Lex.

Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

thetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. Milton.

Ethereality.

The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

In an ethereal manner.

Ethereality.

Formed of ether; ethereal. [Obs.] This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.

In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.

Ubiquity; omnipresence. [R.] Grew.

In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.