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

extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules lea…

of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.

r; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison.

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.

The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

erplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.

One versed in entomology.

One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

erature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function. The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. Clausius.

A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton.

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. Syd. Soc. Lex.