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Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin. Euxanthic acid (Chem.), a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin.

To blind. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.

n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. [Obs.] Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.

ueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

A blinder on a horse's bridle.

Without eyes; blind. "Eyeless rage." Shak.

n ; to write or utter what is not true. "He Fables not." Shak. Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. Prior. He fables, yet speaks truth. M. Arnold.

klore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. Milton.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.

-- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane. -- False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, ect., for the purpose of deceiving. -- False passage (Surg.), an unnatu…

To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron. Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.

Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.