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ening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. -- Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Fatigue party, a party of soldier…

lessed after death. Unto the God of love, high heaven's King. Spenser. It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak. New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble.

pirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish. "Within him hell." Milton. It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak.

A official summons or citation. Ayliffe.

A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court.

t." Gen. xliv. 12. To leave off, to cease; to desist; to stop. Leave off, and for another summons wait. Roscommon.

A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

of his looks with a reluctance to the action." Dryden. He had some reluctance to obey the summons. Sir W. Scott. Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. Dryden.

A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting. [Eng.]

te, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

er of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.

A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

d; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.