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The needlefish. [Ireland]

ith widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler. -- Cape elk (Zoöl.), the eland.

That which lengthens out; continuation. May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains Pinkerton.

Embassy. [Obs.] Leland.

-- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. -- Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. -- Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. -- Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.

A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

rom the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

general faced the park. He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland. Milton.

Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.

on, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.

Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. Sir J. Davies.

ers or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite.

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton.

ys, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid.