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. the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.

solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.

To be equal to; equal; to match. [Obs.] It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller. Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. Macaulay.

One who equivocates. Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak.

tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. Bancroft.

A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.

s of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c). Shak.

emporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.

treaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.

ly in the plural. Adam was then no less glorious in his externals South. God in externals could not place content. Pope.

features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. We set the best faceon it we could. Dryden.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.

n society or church. Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me. Shak. Now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Gal. i. 23.

Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. -- To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To fetch headway or…

or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

To play on a fiddle. Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. Bacon.

ty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soaas, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. Byron. His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. Macaulay.

o shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.