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ss or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.

t of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.

The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.

With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. --…

Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A heaven of beauty." Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." Shak. O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Hood.

A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.

who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.

f the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.

Prosperity; happiness; joy; felicity. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily. Is. lviii. 8.

oluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington.

gar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (Larix). [Written also melicitose.]

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. The earth Shall be all paradise. Milton. Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. Beaconsfield.

Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser.

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell.

r money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. But pump not me for politics. Otway.

To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.