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The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.

o quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.

eedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

re or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

ther the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

ake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. Cowell.

A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

r penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

Examination; inquiry. [R.] "A critical examen of the two pieces." Cowper.

. Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cowper.

bject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.

table; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.

te by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper.