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To fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. Collier.

press; to weary; to sadden. Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. Hooker.

ticulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.

ont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.

variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

ics. Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

e acts, events, etc. Seen in life's early morning sky. Keble. The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in Eng…

Serious; important. [Obs.] They whom earnest lets do often hinder. Hooker.

ogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation. -- Eccentric hook or gab, a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap. -- Eccentric rod, the rod that connects as eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric. -- Eccentric sheave, or Eccen…

Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

ficient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. Hooker.

fficient cause; a prime mover. God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. Hooker.

time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.

Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason. -- n.

To pick out; to select; to choose. The deputy elected by the Lord. Shak.

One who has the power of choosing; an elector. [R.]

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.