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ight and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

al, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

nstruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

y that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. Shak.

dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

dings in my eager eyes. Shak. How eagerly ye follow my disgraces! Shak. When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

viating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

To form; to shape. [Obs.] Efforming their words within their lips. Jer. Taylor.

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.

o coefficient of resistance. -- Surface of elasticity (Geom.), the pedal surface of an ellipsoid (see Pedal); a surface used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction and their relation to the elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.

Lifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

e English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva. Elm beetle (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bor…

To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.