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Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

tly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.

y; as, he had enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a feast." And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Gen. xxxiii. 9.

To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. Allowing them to entail their estates. Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. Shak.

Not gelded; -- said of a horse.

Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.