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A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.

Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton. On either side . . . was there the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

ldhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

ng the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.

a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

s; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

ishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

the like. Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.

To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.

A medicine that excites the flow of bile. [Obs.] Hoblyn.

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.