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A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

rument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.

of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.

ment or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

s exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. )

To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.

In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [Archaic. It is not joined to verbs.] "The voice exceeding loud." Keble. His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow. Mark ix. 3. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Sir W. Raleigh.

To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.

ities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense. Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii. 13.

qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton.

Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton.…

To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. -- n.

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-…

That which is expected or looked for. Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman. Milton.