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oöl.), a large sawfly (Cimbex Americana). The larva, which is white with a black dorsal stripe, feeds on the leaves of the elm.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

The general description of embryos.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

To grasp; to grip. [R.] Spenser.

To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11.

inating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.

abiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.

ce; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.