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To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public. Gibbon.

To guard as a churchwarden does. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

om the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. It was the epidemical sin of the nation. Bp. Burnet.

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

ochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under Confessional.

n or thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit How does my friend Celsus do

an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. [Recent] In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital "out of" anybody else. W. G. Sumner.

One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket.

To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.] Whoso fair thing does fain to see. Spencer.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

That which causes fever. Beddoes.

he process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret. Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.

Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.