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The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. Deut. xxii. 19. The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign. Shak. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. E…

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet. Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.

Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.

Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

y or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.

ion or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.

the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or…

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender. Milton.

the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital "out of" anybody else. W. G. Sumner.

A discharge of saliva by spitting. [R.] E. Darwin.