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Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.

-- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it…

Eye agate. See under Eye.

Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.

d; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.

mally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate.

untry of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.] He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. Lydgate.

s jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

evice for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. -- Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the…

A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a.

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

To aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. Pope.

To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

e functions of the latter. -- Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock. -- Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc. -- Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock. -- Floating harbor, a breakwater…

To aggregate into small lumps.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.