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and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

erly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of…

Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.

ication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

ts; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.

Of or pertaining to education. "His educational establishment." J. H. Newman.

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

rts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).

Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

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of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.

Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Br…

a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows. Syn. -- subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae. [WordNet 1.5]

efracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.