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A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.

ing place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous. The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.

f receiving some good. An expectant of future glory. South. Those who had employments, or were expectants. Swift.

ion. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

eclaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will. With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy. Prescott.

f possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.

Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor.

rbauld. -- Eye of a ship, the foremost part in the bows of a ship, where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Half an eye, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see a thing with half an eye; often figuratively. "Those who have but half an eye. " B. Jonson. -- To catch o…

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley.

e bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

imagine (something which is unreal). He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. Thackeray.

Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Eph. ii. 13. -- Far other, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. Pope. -- Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. -- Far and wi…

ar gives shape to anything. [R.] The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.

e the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

ject of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. There were they in great fear, where no fear was. Ps. liii. 5. The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise. Shak. For fear, in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more." Shak.…