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h in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton.

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Growing on, or close to, the ground.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf.

A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition (Math.), equation…

To dress up; to array; accouter. The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.

Before the ere long. A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.

The act of giving out or bestowing. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh streng…

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

pon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.