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Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expressio…

n; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.

The state of rising above others; a projection. Evelyn. Boyle.

sfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter (Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.

ilver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

To abound; to be in great abundance. [Obs.] Boyle.

Tinge; shade of color. [Obs.] Red with an eye of blue makes a purple. Boyle. By the eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande…

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

The style or cut of a type or font of type.

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.…

ng upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

or of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. ; workmanship; execution. The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak.

Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

Conciseness of style. [Obs.] Ascham.

at benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

nclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.