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A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engr…

To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. To enlarge upon this theme. M. Arnold.

roned. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] Milton.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

To write epistles.

A writer of epistles.

To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. [R.] The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog." Bp. Hall.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

See Erythrite, 2.

Spirit. Esprit de corps (, a French phrase much used by English writers to denote the common spirit pervading the members of a body or association of persons. It implies sympathy, enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the body as a whole.

A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.

To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.