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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.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

e (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.

Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day.

f the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Written also uphroe and uvrou.] Knight.

a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night chur…

The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.

g under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. "Desire of knightly exercise." Spenser. An exercise of the eyes and memory. Locke.