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One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. Enumerating the services he had done. Ludlow.

The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

Counting, or reckoning up, one by one. Enumerative of the variety of evils. Jer. Taylor.

One who enumerates.

Purification.

To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise. H. Spenser.

eing balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.

To compare. [R.]

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

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

Without a beak.

See Erratum.

hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.

A wandering; a roving about. [Obs.] Cockeram.

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

s off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation. To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way. Bacon.