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authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

ich relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.

hbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

ange of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A for G#.

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

nterpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. The schoolmen were like a…

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

shops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

Of the same interest or concern; indifferent. They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me. Cheyne.

ner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

quation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.

Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.

Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.