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p. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] Hooker.

An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort. "Emulative zeal." Hoole.

e duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

mind is encumbered with useless learning. Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker.

destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

other; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44. The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but…

To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.

To join or unite. [Obs.] Hooker.

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.

ortion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

atives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.

The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

liar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon.

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate. Dr. H. More.

Watchful; alert. Vigilant and erect attention of mind. Hooker.