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he profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

An opposite passion or affection. Sir W. Hamilton.

ncrease, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6.

A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes. Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See Æolian.

A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

he tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. "Equivocal repentances." Milton.

Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.

A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.

n in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

is made of a witness by a party calling him. -- Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party. -- Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination, that made by a party calling a witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross- examination.

admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton…

Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.