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To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.

speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. Eulogies turn into elegies. Spenser.

a mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

s, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.

A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father. -- a.

Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. [R.] Mitford.

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

The state of being eunuch. Bp. Hall.

A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.

A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.

Right feeling. [R.] Harris.

A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

One well born, or of noble birth.

Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat. Carlyle.