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Eternal. [Poetic] Shak. Built up to eterne significance. Mrs. Browning.

A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll. Encyc. Brit.

A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

t!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

ntial evidence, Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantial, Conclusive, etc. -- Crown's, King's, or Queen's evidence, evidence for the crown. [Eng.] -- State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [U. S. ] -- To turn King's, Queen's or State's evidence, to confess a crime and give evidence agai…

The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.

An examiner. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious. Sir T. Browne.

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

bittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

n the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in…

ction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

d. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

excoriated. The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne.

exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.