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Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.] While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing),…

s steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.

ce or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior.

a good sense. Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii. 13.

ter what is not true. "He Fables not." Shak. Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. Prior. He fables, yet speaks truth. M. Arnold.

direction. To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior. -- To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." Shak

eather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

A gooseberry. [Prov. Eng.] Prior.

Fictitious. [R.] Prior.

rm; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. prior.

ming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior.

To be exosed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior.

Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. "Fleecy flocks." Prior.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. A foolish figure he must make. Prior.