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Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. -- n.

A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimæra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

The branching forth, as of trees.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

h impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

Same as Incumbrancer.

lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.

om of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

One who enfranchises.

To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [Obs.] Spenser.

To place in ranks or in order. [R.] Shak.

= Advancing edge.

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.

One of the ephemeral flies.