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g out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.

ee talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.

An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms. [Written also Elasmopoda.]

Elephantiasis. [Obs.] Holland.

may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

spiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.

One who holds lands by emphyteusis.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.]

united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

lity to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor.

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

t; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

e state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.

To enfeeble. [Obs.] Holland.

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).