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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.

Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition. "A better and enduring substance." Heb. x. 34. -- En*dur"ing*ly, adv. T. Arnold. -- En*dur"ing*ness, n.

That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.

Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 2 Tim. ii. 10.

Everlasting. Shak.

Eternal; everlasting. [Obs.] -- Ev`i*ter"nal*ly, adv. Bp. Hall.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

g filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

us of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

n intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.

y white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers."

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.