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of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice Preside…

Electoral. Burke.

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment. Milton. You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shak.

To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.

es most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

sue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

e, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

uous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

es of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.…

To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin. Do they not err that devise evil Prov. xiv. 22.

A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. Ps. xix. 12.

. Chaucer. Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe. A. W. Ward. At erst, at first; at the beginning. -- Now at erst, at this present time. Chaucer.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.