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force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

ded not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.

d; amusement. Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement. Prescott.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

luxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

ial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

Official recognition or permission. Prescott.

al exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

r be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.

more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace. His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott. -- Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.

magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe. Prescott. By all men's eyes a youth of expectations. Otway.

tion; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

of the public will. With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy. Prescott.

ope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.

at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. His bosom swelled with exultation. Prescott.

preadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott.

itation. His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.

. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; verloren, p.p. of verliezen to lose + hoop band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.]…

dy passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

on a horse or horses; in the saddle. The long journey was to be performed on horseback. Prescott.