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

a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.…

One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.

Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.

character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

ificant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.

g; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.

-- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch.), the circle in the center of volute. -- Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of heaven, the sun. "So gently shuts the eye day." Mrs. Barbauld. -- Eye of a ship, the foremost part in the bows of a…

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

The tenets of the Familists. Milton.

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.

Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist. Federal Congress. See under Congress.

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. -- Fever blister (Med.), a blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes. -- Fever bush (Bot.), the wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood. -- Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder. -- Fever root…

A roll or list. "A file of all the gentry." Shak.

Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.