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The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.

Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition.

historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

Perished; decayed. [Obs.] I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.

the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

nt among a rude people. To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. Byron.

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.

Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

es or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves…

The inner layer of the bark of trees.

The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

power from on high. Luke xxiv. 49. Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts. Book of Common Prayer.