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acher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.

blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

ous. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.

as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance. Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope.

. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

; fixed or regular service or business; employment. The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. In one's employ, in one's service.

Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc. Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise. Pope.

g to the highest and purest region of heaven. Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope. Empyreal air, oxygen gas.

a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope.

One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.

der of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.

ination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

ert one's self; to work for a certain end. And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope.

Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.

forts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on. Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.

scovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope.

ich from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.