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drous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat til…

Same as Eskimo. It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. McClintock.

To impede or bar by estoppel. A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself. Abbott.

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.

the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day.

One of the appellations of God. Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. Hooker.

od or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so. South. Where western gales eternally reside. Addison.

Formed of ether; ethereal. [Obs.] This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.

Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnæa, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized. Foster.

A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubæa and Bæotia. Hence, a flux and reflux. Burke.

At any or all times; every instant. [R.] "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.

moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.

The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. -- Bill of exchange. See under Bill. -- Exchange broker. See under Broker. -- Par of exchange, the established value of…

The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

ass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end. Milton.

withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.