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Feeding. [R.]

especially, hostile invasion from sea; - - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.

Red, or reddish; blushing. Johnson.

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

; imperceptibly. Chalmers.

White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.

t in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

Growing hot.

Turning yellow; yellowish.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Having the property of fluorescence.

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.

Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.