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An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc. I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent.

That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically:

A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

isplay the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.

The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.

The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.

One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour…

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure. I made some figure there. Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. Blackstone.

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter.

A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.

A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.

substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.