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), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

el standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

In a lump; as a whole; all together. "Movement of the ossicles en bloc." Nature.

To link together; to connect. Howell.

To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. Gower.

To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.

diers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

The whole; all the parts taken together.

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

oration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered i…

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

s a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

ng, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

h century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

en separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.