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A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chætopoda.

Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

specially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.

of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

Ethylidene. [Obs.]

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- cal…

The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

ct of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

igning, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

he eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.