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absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.…

Fixed; settled; fastened. [Obs.] Spenser.

eaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.

supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench.

The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone.

The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.

ld together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus…

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 astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon.

e for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

f being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

gree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. Abbott. The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.

single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. I. Taylor.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.