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d short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.

To entertain; to furnish with accommodations. [Obs.] Chaucer. To ease off, To ease away (Naut.), to slacken a rope gradually. -- To ease a ship (Naut.), to put the helm hard, or regulate the sail, to prevent pitching when closehauled. -- To ease the helm (Naut.), to put the helm more nearly amidships, to lessen the e…

Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.

To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

cidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

To furnish with money; to imburse. [Obs.]

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison.

To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.

The clogging of a blast furnace.

To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

e clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding. The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trench.