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Pertaining to the last or final things.

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

Exchange. [Obs.]

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

t of giving thanks; thanksgiving. [Obs.] Led through the vale of tears to the region of eucharist and hallelujahs. South.

Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. [Obs.] The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. Ray.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor.

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

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall.

By way of exchange.

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.

The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.