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ed not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.

; amusement. Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement. Prescott.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

uxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

ving competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task. The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild. Emerson.…

A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.

andy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

al code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

rans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.

One who bears witness. [R.] "Infamous and perjured evidences." Sir W. Scott.

One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott.

Official recognition or permission. Prescott.

l exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.

more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace. His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott. -- Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.

magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe. Prescott. By all men's eyes a youth of expectations. Otway.

ion; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Drummond.