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To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.…

To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what…

mmon to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving.

To render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. Sir G. Buck.

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qipod, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).

o espy land; to espy a man in a crowd. As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money. Gen. xlii. 27. A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad. Wordsworth.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.

Rendering thanks for favors.

To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender. Milton.

judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak. And in our faces evident the sings Of foul concupiscence. Milton.

To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope.

nt to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc. The offenders that are to be examined. Shak.

sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.

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