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others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

ith any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

ing a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

Figuratively, a worthless thing. And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. Shak.

I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

s an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.

A cincture. [Poetic] The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.

otive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.

Epic. -- Ep"ic*al*ly, adv. Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Cudworth.

rson or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable. Hallam.

A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.

s, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers. Whately.