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Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer. I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. Shak. Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. Shak.

To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.

To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.

A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden.

To bring to light; to make clear. Sclater (1654).

ich the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light. [R.] Stokes.

To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate. Dr. H. More.

articles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

ular; unnatural. [Obs.] "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman.

rom danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.

the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. Bp. Gardiner. Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteeme…

A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting.

space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.

A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match. Brande & C.