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Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

To scatter over.

ted by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

One who confiscates. Burke.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.

A freeing from moss. [Obs.]

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

To allure; to lay a bait for. [Obs.] To inescate and beguile young women! Burton.

The act of baiting; allurement. [Obs.] Hallywell.

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.