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One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

The art of making or of solving enigmas.

To excite; to rouse into action; to incite. To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist. Talfourd.

To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.

illed with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.

To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.

To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.

Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.

Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

The art or practice of writing epistles.

One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipm…

A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

An artificial language, intended 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 elimi…

Hence, really existing; existent. Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing Webster (1623).

rniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.