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or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

That which falls to one; a reversion or return To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser.

An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.

To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay.

ndation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. Eulogies turn into elegies. Spenser.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

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

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

wn. [Eng.] -- State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [U. S. ] -- To turn King's, Queen's or State's evidence, to confess a crime and give evidence against one's accomplices.

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

To carry away; to remove. [Obs.] [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. Bacon.

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

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

n, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the teles…

l phrases. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. Num. vi. 25. My face [favor] will I turn also from them. Ezek. vii. 22.

; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl. Facing brick, front or pressed brick.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

ay, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a me…