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adv. In a bold, impudent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + lard: cf. OF. enlarder to put on the spit, Pr. & Sp. enlardar to rub with grease, baste. ] To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enlarged p. pr. & vb. n. Enlarging ] [ OF. enlargier; pref. en- (L. in) + F. large wide. See Large. ] 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set at large or set free. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. --
To enlarge an order or
To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. --
To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. “They enlarged themselves on this subject.” Clarendon. --
To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

Syn. -- To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enlarge upon this theme. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give enlargement to the swain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who or that which enlarges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photography) an optical device for making copies of photographs larger than the original, having a head for holding the original, a source of illumination to project the image, and a bed for holding the sensitized photographic paper which will received the larger image. [ PJC ]

v. t. See Inlay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lengthen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Eleven. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + light. Cf. Enlighten. ] To illumine; to enlighten. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which from the first has shone on ages past,
Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + lighten: cf. AS. inlīhtan. Cf. Enlight. ] 1. To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
Syn. -- edifying. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as Aufklärung. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + limn. Cf. Enlumine, Illuminate. ] To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [ R. ] Palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enlisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enlisting. ] 1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. (Mil.) designating to those members of the armed forces not commissioned as an officer; as, an enlisted man. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. any new member of an organization or supporter of a cause.
Syn. -- recruit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an enlisted man or woman in the armed forces. [ PJC ]

3. a person who enlisted voluntarily in the armed forces; -- contrasted with draftee. [ PJC ]

n. the act of getting recruits; convincing people to join the army, take a job, support a cause etc.
Syn. -- recruitment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + live, a. ] To enliven. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enlivened p. pr. & vb. n. Enlivening ] [ Pref. en- + liven. ]. 1. To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

Syn. -- To animate; rouse; inspire; cheer; encourage; comfort; exhilarate; inspirit; invigorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lock; to inclose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. enluminer; pref. en- (L. in) + L. luminare to light up, illumine. See Illuminate, and cf. Limn. ] To illumine. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + L. lutum mud, clay. ] To coat with clay; to lute. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a garden. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a garden. [ R. ] W. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An island situated between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the largest island in the world; it is a Danish territory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native of Greenland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool, ) Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1400-1450 ] any spiny-finned food fish of the northern Pacific coasts, of the genus Hexagrammos. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a. Of a green color. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Heavenly. ] The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. heofonic. ] 1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. [ 1913 Webster ]

As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. “She was heavenly true.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the influence or agency of heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious. Milner. -- Heav"en*ly-mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]