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Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.

View. [Obs.] Spenser.

Coupled; paired. Bars gemel (Her.), two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.

A quotation mark. [R.]

Same as Hematemesis.

A vomiting of blood.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.

Of relating to the hemerobians.

A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

A term of six days. Good.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…