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A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

See Emmenagogue.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

s and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play. A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. Shak.

A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

Euchology. [R.]

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.

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.

The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

To beat or whip; to drive. [Obs.] Otway.

To conjecture. [Obs.]

Speaking without reserve. Bp. Hall.

eappears. All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.

Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.

The permanent court of arbitration created by the "International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an…

See Hagbut.