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See Skate, for the foot.

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

ted by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

To allure; to lay a bait for. [Obs.] To inescate and beguile young women! Burton.

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

f, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.

Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.

See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [Obs.]

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

One who confiscates. Burke.

th made us spend much good. Chaucer. Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice. Shak. Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary. -- Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.] -- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.] -- Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note und…

See Muscatel, n. Quaffed off the muscadel. Shak.

ompany stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

rformed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blac…