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Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. [Obs.] Smart.

A feasting or feast; banquet. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Feasting to excess. [Obs.]

A feasting to excess. [Obs.]

nted with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.

East. [Obs.] Chaucer.

; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter. A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon. Acts xxvii. 14.

The east wind.

, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

hich tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. Matt. vii. 18.

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [Obs.] At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.

Rising; relating to the east. [R.]

Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.

e to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

an tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.

ed to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

ing rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.