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species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

ss of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

o edges making a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Car…

ction of the edge. [Obs.] Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson.

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

oth is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.

ated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

at which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.

Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends. The planets move in elliptic orbits. Cheyne.

he Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Brande & C.

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

tled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.

To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

drogeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.