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That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.

ystem of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents. push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refer…

lously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. My soul is envious of mine eye. Keble. Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Prov. xxiv. 19.

e of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar. Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed b…

ge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

nt associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart Keble.

of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed. -- E*rose"ly, adv.

To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble.

A café, or room in a café, in which smoking is allowed.

Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.

In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] "Good deeds evilly bestowed." Shak.

e a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.