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The inward part of a building; the interior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ies set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

Ostrich. [Obs.] Massinger.

Heat. [Obs.]

Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.

e meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.

To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.

The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.

An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. L. H. Morgan.

Commotion. [Obs.] Chapman.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

Acquisition; the thing gained. [R.] Bacon.

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anæsthesia.

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.