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round with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.

y what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

A general fire; a conflagration. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

cess of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.] [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity. Shak.

; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like. Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still. Shak.…

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.

A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.

n an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.