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To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.

r beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

Occupied; employed; busy.

The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

ress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. [Obs.] This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.

o pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.…

To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.

Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.

A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. [Written also epimerum.]

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

by a perfect clock going uniformly all the year round. -- Equation clock or watch, a timepiece made to exhibit the differences between mean solar and apparent solar time. Knight. -- Normal equation. See under Normal. -- Personal equation (Astron.), the difference between an observed result and the true qualities or…

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

Directed upward; raised; uplifted. His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. Pope.