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Sorrowful. [Obs.] Ford.

Plaintively. See Doloroso.

Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.

With equal power. Barrow.

rt or meaning. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. South.

In an equal manner.

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.

or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton.

In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

les abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.

In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. Gray.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton.

In a fraudulent manner.

Abounding in fragments. [R.]

See Glint.

Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

Having a rank smell. [R.] Boyle.