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A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.

Epithumetical. [Obs.]

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual. Sir T. Browne.

The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

An epitomist. Sir W. Hamilton.

n a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

An epitomist. Burton.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

Relating to the epitrochlea.

A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.

A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid. [Written also eupitton.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.

The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

uests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.