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

ter, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

The style of the epigram. Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. B. Cracroft.

enon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light. [R.] Stokes.

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

A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.

t from the sciences; scholarship. The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded. Steele. The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. Macaulay.

two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped.

evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger. [Obs.]

To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

One of the appellations of God. Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. Hooker.

al dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit How does my friend Celsus do

d by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] Hooker. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.

e. Cf. Each. [Obs.] "Every of your wishes." Shak. Daily occasions given to every of us. Hooker. Every each, every one. [Obs.] "Every each of them hath some vices." Burton.. -- Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]

A voidable. [R.] Hooker.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.

To satirize; to censure severely. [Obs.] Hooker.