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In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

t to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

Eglantine. [Obs. or R.] [Written also eglantere.] Tennyson.

s, to emancipate one from prejudices or error. From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward.

or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment. Milton. You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shak.

liated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.

parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.

t in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

hose animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.

Pain in the intestines; colic.

An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

Disease of the intestines.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.