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To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer. [Rebecca] insisted upon encoring one of the duets. Thackeray.

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

ething sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

Ostrich. [Obs.] Massinger.

From grateful souls exact reward at last Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger.

aling; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

A dog keeper. [Obs.] Massinger.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

A parasite. [Obs.] Massinger.

ost curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. Massinger.

ly reported. [Obs.] 'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci. Massinger.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

Prepossessing; well-favored. [Obs.] Massinger.

To be glad; to rejoice. [Obs.] Massinger.

eristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

To coöperate. [Obs.] Massinger.

One who horns or cuckolds. [Obs.] Massinger.

e in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.

y scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue. [Obs.] This is but an induction: I will dMassinger.

ivate thoughts and feelings. Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. Massinger.