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Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. My soul…

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

dnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like. [Obs.] Epizoötic mountains are of secondary formation. Kirwan.

Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

ion in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

ds or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow…

Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.

new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch. Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture. J. A. Symonds.

Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.

Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvæ.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Q…

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.