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One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. Burton.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Elegiac; funereal.

Epicedial. -- n.

An epicede.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Lenient; assuaging. [Obs.]

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

A splice formed by bending a rope's and back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [R.] Rymer.

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

aintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]

A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.