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presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.

: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor…

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

Same as Eclampsia.

ble objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.

In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.

g to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.

Elephantiasis. [Obs.] Holland.

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.

To employ. [Obs.] Skelton.

To madden. [Obs.]

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism.

Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy.

Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

onalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.

Same as Euthanasia.

See Ecstasy, n. & v. t.