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or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.

terized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.

on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

fall out. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. Addison.

To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

or social comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19.

Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

leasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate. Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. W. Howitt.

to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.

To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. Seek, and ye shall find. Matt. vii. 7. Every mountain now hath found a tongue. Byron.

To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other. Shak. To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett.

l bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak. The wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent. Shak.

To become fledged; to fledge. [Obs.] Every day build their nests, every hour flidge. R. Greene.

To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope.

nization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society. J. R. Green.

ound for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. In ascent, every stfooting and help to the next. Holder.

. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.