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or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.

To cling to; to cherish; to love. Shak.

splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

Poison. [Obs.] Remedy of Love.

deavor; adventure. Chaucer. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.

To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.

r, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

mpassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J. Smith. The love of all thy sons encompass thee. Tennyson.

To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak.

Making dear or beloved; causing love. -- En*dear"ing*ly, adv.

Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] "All loves are endless." Beau. & Fl.

enemy to truth, or to falsehood. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44. The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he…

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.

Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [Obs.] True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall.

To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.] If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. J. Fletcher.

entence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton.

ake equal return to; to recompense fully. Who answered all her cares, and equaled all her love. Dryden.

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.