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Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. And shall lay thee even with the ground. Luke xix. 44.

witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc. The offenders that are to be examined. Shak.

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.

ylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. -- Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. -- Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. -- E…

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

e force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.

piration. He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb. The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.

Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

sed to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

e historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.