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Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming What else shall I give Do you expect anything else "Bastards and else." Shak.

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.…

Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. The mountains huge appear emergent. Milton.

Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

de into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original cell wall is ruptured and the new cells are liberated (see Segmentation, and Illust. of Cell Division, under Division). This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, bo…

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

An appearance, or a becoming manifest. Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.

Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential. Burke.

The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

To wait for; to await. [Obs.] Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak.

A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end. Before the expiration of thy time. Shak.

Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.

The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] Baxter.

Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

To appear; to look. [Obs.] My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you. Shak.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.