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Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.

, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek. Here you have one half of our dual truth. Tyndall.

ep of a castle, these being used as prisons. Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.

rial thing.] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. Tyndale.

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

rmata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

red likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

duces; -- called also coefficient of resistance. -- Surface of elasticity (Geom.), the pedal surface of an ellipsoid (see Pedal); a surface used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction and their relation to the elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.

The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. 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.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. Goodale.

A summing up in a brief account. [Obs.] Udall.

An epitaph. Udall.

lative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

dge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill.

A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Udall.