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A case for one several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are carried.

A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.

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

A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

n efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.

A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.

The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] "Exiguous resources." Carlyle. -- Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]

Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

lls the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

Shak. And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes.

Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more obj…

A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.