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by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits. I love thy courage yet and bolt emprise; But here thy sword can do thee little stead. Milton.

finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being…

with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. Spenser. To join their dark encounter in mid-air. Milton .

, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.…

eictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

es, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field.

In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

insensible to present objects. Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden.

rrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.