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the prominent characteristics which serve to distinguish one genus, species, etc., from another. -- Essential disease, Essential fever (Med.), one that is not dependent on another. -- Essential oils (Chem.), a class of volatile oils, extracted from plants, fruits, or flowers, having each its characteristic odor, and…

An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.

y estoppel. A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself. Abbott.

previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

ognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.

A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.

ess of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger.

re of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.…

The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to th…

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

rowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton.

One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift.

nce of a calamity or of a state of war. The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. J. S. Mill.

Not sheathed in another leaf.