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To supply with customers. [Obs.] Bacon.

ound the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

ommand devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank. His estate . . . devolved to Lord Somerville. Johnson.

le, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.

Dislocated. Montgomery.

One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

ccess or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. "The eclat of Homer's battles." Pope.

Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. Elaidic acid (Chem.), a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.

A solid isomeric modification of olein.

One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass. As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both. Bp. Warburton.

brew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.

enly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon.

ss methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

oops will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.

To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to…

r fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville.