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Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] Boyle.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

ndicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Having the edges truncated.

is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. -- Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder…

ven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.

aius Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.]

To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D. Brewster.

A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.

Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.

ession of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.

To run out or forth; to extend. [Obs.] Harvey.