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Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Same as Engouled.

To insert in a schedule. See Schedule. [R.] Shak.

To entitle. B. Jonson.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.

Ethyl. [Obs.]

Pertaining Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century. Eulerian integrals, certain definite integrals whose properties were first investigated by Euler.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

A fall or falling band. [Obs.] These laces, ribbons, and these faules. Herrick.

The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

Feculence.

h sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

To punish with a ferule.

A fistula.