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Loss. [Obs.] Shak. And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

g to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations. Burke.

al acts or appearances; regard for externals. This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides. E. Eggleston.

way (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.

The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. His bosom swelled with exultation. Prescott.

tention; regard. "Keep eyes upon her." Shak. Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage. Addison.

That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. Shak.

To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

atch made by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught. He must not then be interfered with.

affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him [God]. Heb. xi. 6. The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised toward the moral character of God,…

ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton.

Not observant of promises or covenants.

now To be thy lord and master. Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. Sir J. Davies.

ne house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.