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Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Equal as to number. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

Contemporaneous. [Obs.] Boyle.

A wandering; state of being in error.

for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33. mission.

ng; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne.

annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

A term applied by Brücke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.

Hope. [Obs.] Shak.

d to be universal, devised by Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym "Dr. Esperanto" in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in 1887. The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common to the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any one language are eliminated. The spelling is phonetic…

Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

One who estranges.