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as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

f a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

ral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined.

Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.

ially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to i…

A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.

To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

e course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.

es or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.

A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.…

Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. One midnight Fated to the purpose. Shak.

Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups.

The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.