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The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh.

le. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.

n. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

pecially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.

To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh.

fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh.

e even or level; to level; to lay smooth. His temple Xerxes evened with the soil. Sir. W. Raleigh. It will even all inequalities Evelyn.

, exceeding white as snow. Mark ix. 3. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Sir W. Raleigh.

w. The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. Sir W. Raleigh.

d no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy. Sir W. Raleigh.

opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

ingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.

s, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

In time to come. [Obs.] Raleigh.

A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).

e all one can do. [Obs.] They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Sir. W. Raleigh.

Destitute of a chief or leader. Sir W. Raleigh.