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her, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. Spenser.

ones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Æpiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar. [Written also Æpyornis.]

See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Well-born; of high birth. Atlantic Monthly.

a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak.…

One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.

ckle to which the power is applied in hoisting. Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); -- also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. -- To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.

d soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

re, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. "Pedantic fescue.' Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. Milton.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.

A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

e (Phys.), a vacuum tube for Roentgen rays in which the cathode rays are focused upon the anticathode, for intensifying the effect. -- Principal, or Solar, focus (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays.

Foolishly. [Archaic] Verstegan (1673). Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. Shak.

p; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.

Done beforehand; anticipative. And so extenuate the forehand sin. Shak.

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton.

A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.