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ritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.

In passing; in the course of any procedure; -- said specif. (Chess),

Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

ation; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]

To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. -- To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.

Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.

"Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty. [Obs.] Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat. Hakewill. Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them. 1 Mac. x. 47.

zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err." Shak.