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In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. Where didst thou buy this buff let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster.

The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

To last; to continue; to endure. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while. Matt. xiii. 21.

Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not lasting. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

lding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

ief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

Acting force; elasticity. [Obs.] Ray.

ting is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

une, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.

ing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Gen. xli. 27.

ncy of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning…

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

rtain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.