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A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.] No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs. Milton.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

Heathenism; paganism; idolatry. [Obs.] "Taint of ethnicism." B. Jonson.

A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.

em.), an organic, imide acid, obtained as a colorless crystalline substance, C12H4N2O8 by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.

rly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The act of unsheathing.

To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

A heating or warming; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]

White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.

excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

Not sheathed in another leaf.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. Gray.