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igation; to become bound; to warrant. How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not. Fuller.

To feed or indulge like an epicure. Fuller.

taining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

One who wanders about. [Obs.] Fuller.

To equal [Obs.] "To even him in valor." Fuller.

ate of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she i…

to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.

That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.] His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

Illustrating as the proof of a thing. Fuller. Exemplary damages. (Law) See under Damage.

hoice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.] The eximious and arcane science of physic. Fuller.

riving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.

dgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller.

Extemporaneous. "In extemporary prayer." Fuller.

nse; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. Evelyn.

ointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

n. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. Fuller.

A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] Fuller.

To make up in fardels. [Obs.] Fuller.