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Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [Archaic] I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.

Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic]

ed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. [Written also étoile.] Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and four wavy rays. -- Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoilé, under Cross.

See Estoile.

od tidings; evangel. [R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.

etimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Expansible. Ether and alcohol are more expansile than water. Brande & C.

Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

fficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn.

or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

y; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

itful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

In a fertile or fruitful manner.

Fertility. Sir P. Sidney.