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Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne. Young.

a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

ail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight. -- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge. -- Edge stone, a curbstone. -- Edge tool. (a) Any tool instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging t…

Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

read of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

ions, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.

elights as by an enchantment. Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Shelley. Enchanter's nightshade (Bot.), a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.

To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

ammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon…

begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. [R.] The business must be enterprised this night. Dryden. What would I not renounce or enterprise for you! T. Otway.

The nightmare. Brande & C.

equilibrium. Again the golden day resumed its right, And ruled in just equation with the night. Rowe.

he plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the bod…

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line.

pments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.