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annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

d to be universal, devised by Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym "Dr. Esperanto" in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in 1887. The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common to the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any one language are eliminated. The spelling is phonetic…

Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure. -- n.

An expectorant medicine.

One who expires or is expiring.

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

uperabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. "Exuberant spring." Thomson. -- Ex*u"ber*ant*ly, adv.

Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. [Obs.]

Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

enser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

In a flagrant manner.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon C

Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.

[fragrans. -antis, p.pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.