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ntrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.…

incerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats. Words are but empty thanks. Cibber.

To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.] The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak.

area or town inclosed by a line of fortification. The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte. S. W. Williams.

o Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

xpress mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoön has been found.

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

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

plied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.

values of the quantities sought, and the number of equations that may be found is greater than the number of unknown quantities. -- Equation of a curve (Math.), an equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of every point in the curve. -- Equation of equinoxes (Astron.), the difference between the…

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

Before; sooner than. [Archaic or Poetic] Myself was stirring ere the break of day. Shak. Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore. Dryden. Sir, come down ere my child die. John iv. 49.

A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

attainment of an object; indispensably necessary. Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage. Denham. How to live -- that is the essential question for us. H. Spencer.

ence. Bp. Gardiner. Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

this latter sense. "Esteem is the value we place upon some degree of worth. It is higher than simple approbation, which is a decision of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.] No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs. Milton.

r typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.

omic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether. Ethyl aldehyde. (Chem.) See Aldehyde.