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Pertaining to the eozoön; containing eozoöns; as, eozoönal limestone.

for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon…

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

See Ermine. Shenstone.

lar; changeable. "Erratic fever." Harvey. Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes. -- Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.…

A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone.

done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee. Blackstone.

harge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.

he first general return day of the term, on which the court sits to receive essoins. Blackstone.

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

or felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

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ously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.

he other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple. Blackstone.

mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.

re contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.

Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.

have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.