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re of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

la (Geom.), one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually equilateral, applied to two figures, when every side of the one has its equal among the sides of the…

ilton. - Equinoctial points (Astron.), the two points where the celestial and ecliptic intersect each other; the one being in the first point of Aries, the other in the first point of Libra. -- Equinoctial time (Astron.) reckoned in any year from the instant when the mean sun is at the mean vernal equinoctial point.…

One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

Dispersed in vapors. Thomson.

less expected. I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning. Addison.

A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

rspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

ps will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.

g or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.

ndicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell.

; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.

-- correlative of intension. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. Abp. Thomson.

se; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.

Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson.