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To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

tion of being elevated; height; exaltation. "Degrees of elevation above us." Locke. His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton.

Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

u will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.

ith pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

ing the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible. "Emphatical colors." Boyle. "Emphatical evils." Bp. Reynolds.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.…

Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

ess the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

aratory to final action on its passage. -- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

dified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail.…

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

The style of the epigram. Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. B. Cracroft.