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Epithalamium. [R.] Donne.

To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

lace, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- a trade term.

Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. Boyle.

Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

xhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.

viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Same as Galactometer.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

See Galoche. Spenser.