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High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont.

An applicant for admission. Stormonth.

cess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

t of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.

Well-born; of high birth. Atlantic Monthly.

One who exceeds. Bp. Montagu.

failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

inate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. W. Montagu. The expropriation of bad landlords. M. Arnold.

indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well 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…

Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.

To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu.

ding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

rarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.