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To range at large, or without restraint. Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies. Pope.

To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.

A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.

One who is confined to no general rule. L'Estrange.

The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

copes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. Dryden.

omething offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish. Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange.

ually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

r words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange.

befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. -- To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another.

Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.

ed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. -- Hard a…

three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Addison. Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy f…

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

ap. An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L'Estrange.

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

r wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.