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enlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

gation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

The inner layer of the bark of trees.

Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.

To set at large or set free. [Archaic] It will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give f…

To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall. The bars survive the captive they enthrall. Byron.

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine (Med.), the application of medicine to the skin by friction.

equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller. Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

rse. The shoulders, body, things, and mane are equine; the head completely bovine. Sir J. Barrow.

With equal power. Barrow.

ncourage; to cheer. It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. Barrow.

A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

To impede or bar by estoppel. A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself. Abbott.

A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.…

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color. [Obs.] They are very transistory and evanid. Barrow.

uitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain. To make the even truth in pleasure flow. Shak.