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Resembling a beetle's wing case.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

al figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.

The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

(Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris).…

ul; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Gen. xli. 27.

One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

eaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.

To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. Good nature engages everybody to him. Addison.

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

n; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it! Shak.

Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To wind about; to encircle. In the circle of his arms Enwound us both. Tennyson.

Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes. Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See Æolian.

sects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly.

A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera.

mall Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n.

ernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.