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To dumfound; to confound. [Written also dumbfounder.]

sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

o twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12º.

e; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]

of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). [Written also douroucouli.]

Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural. [Written also eiryness.] The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.

The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [Written also Eblees.]

as or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]

ivisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

ed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

n ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also .] Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

Eglantine. [Obs. or R.] [Written also eglantere.] Tennyson.

The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]

tion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]