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One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

f acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

er and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

An evergreen plant.

Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.

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.

essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.

The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch.

A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs." Latimer.

Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. Chaucer.

See Habergeon.

Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A harbinger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Homoplast.

A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.