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Variant of Engine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] Spenser.

Variant of Felon. [Obs.] Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. Spenser.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

A variant of Flute. [Obs.]

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

A variant of -hood.

Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

Variant of Huke. [Obs.]

A variant of Height.

Variant of Height. [Obs.]

t.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. -- Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. -- Horse railroad, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; -- in E…

Dialect; a variant form of a language.

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.

. J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.