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To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.] Entoiled in woofed phantasies. Keats.

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats. From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh.

-- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat.

ed distances. Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[rench] rolle. Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ). Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent. -- Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature.…

A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

s; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.

In the manner of a fairy. Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain. Keats.

ped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats.

Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

time, but one of the finest scholars. Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. Leigh Hunt.

ing virgin's cheek. Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

The twilight; gloaming. [R.] Keats.

th, or affects, one. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak. He had a fever late. Keats.

To shelter, as in a haven. Keats.

Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.

the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.

, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.

To spread through; to permeate; to pervade. [R.] Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.