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A material used for dyeing.

Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.

, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.

Serious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In an earnest manner.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale.

Oldest; longest in duration. Shak.

Missouri; -- a nickname.

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).

To turn into a forest.

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

See Earnest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Serious. [Obs.] Chaucer.