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A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]

Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

Turning yellow; yellowish.

imp. of Forgive.

To leave off wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. of Give.

A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

Same as Gavelock.

A spear or dart. [R. & Obs.]

The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [Prov. Eng.]

See Glaive.

To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.] Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.