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chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en- or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em- before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble;…

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

ing the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

The lyre bird.

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

Sucked out of marches. "Fen-sucked fogs." Shak.

Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

ceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.

Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts. "Green-eyed jealousy." Shak.

An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.