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A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.

tal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

One versed in entomology.

One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

perature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function. The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. Clausius.

A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton.

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. Syd. Soc. Lex.

ure of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

ola (Geom.), one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually equilateral, applied to two figures, when every side of the one has its equal among the sides of the…

One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

r less expected. I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning. Addison.

The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

erspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

ng or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.