Search the Dictionary

Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.

of Misspend.

been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

Same as Nepenthe. Milton.

See Perpender.

Porcupine. [Obs.] Shak.

for what one has done or omitted to do. First she relents With pity; of that pity then repents. Dryden.

The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. Hammond. Repentance is the relinquishment of any p…

Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton.

In a repentant manner.

One who repents.

With repentance; penitently.

Unrepentant. [R.]

Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

An imperfect or diminished fifth. Busby.

A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.