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age to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor.

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person. En…

To remove without cutting (as a tumor).

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. The schoolmen were like a…

A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement. "An equal temper." Dryden.

circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

tion of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition (Math.), equations formed for deducing the true values of certain quantities from others on which they depend, when different sets of th…

One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer. When the equilibrist balances a rod upon his finger. Stewart.

Counterpoise. The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

s from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.

To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

To remove the kernel form.

To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.