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To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.

To amass. [Obs.] To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. Shak.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- Ep`i*did"y*mal, a.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceæ), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." Harvey. Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes. -- Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.…

Ostrich. [Obs.] Massinger.

st From grateful souls exact reward at last Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger.

f excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

d, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities. 11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.

ve out with violence and noise, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch…

To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.

An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

-- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- Fa…