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ic; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. Hare.

Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.

"He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

d of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

ut; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.

ry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.

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

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

endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.

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

Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [Obs.] "With foul enfouldred smoke." Spenser.

To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.

To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.] I 'll presently go and engle some broker. B. Jonson.

A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.

To join or unite. [Obs.] Hooker.

To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

on; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one. So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued. Pope. Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor.

iginally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.