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Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n.

Absolute. -- Equation box, or Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines 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 u…

An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified. [Written also Erinnys.]

claimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe. A. W. Ward. At erst, at first; at the beginning. -- Now at erst, at this present time. Chaucer.

A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.

to espy a man in a crowd. As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money. Gen. xlii. 27. A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad. Wordsworth.

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

ng; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.

Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut. xxxiii. 27. To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. Locke.

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15.

The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- cal…

Beginning of evening. "At the quiet evenfall." Tennyson.

The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.

To winnow out; to fan. [Obs.] Cockeram.

xasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

nded to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.