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See Lucubration. [Obs.] Evelyn.

many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward.

d as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [Obs.] Evelyn.

High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.

A medicine that excites the flow of bile. [Obs.] Hoblyn.

Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn.

Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.

injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn.

See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.

in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps. "The year entering." Evelyn. No evil thing approach nor enter in. Milton. Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. Is. lix. 14. For we which have believed do enter into rest. Heb. iv. 3.

An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.

outerments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

His temple Xerxes evened with the soil. Sir. W. Raleigh. It will even all inequalities Evelyn.

To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] "Excorticate the tree." Evelyn.

Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra- uterine fetation. Hoblyn.

c plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.

t; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.