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Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.] All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.

Subjected to a duty. Ames.

Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

g a material thing.] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. Tyndale.

The peanut. See Peanut.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

uffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

Mad for freedom. [R.]

The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.

Utterance by speech. [R.] [Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton.

Pertaining to elocution.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

Pertaining to oratorical expression. [Obs.] Feltham.

To wash out. [R.] Arbuthnot.

To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.