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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share.
T. Gray.

4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.]

If I make a lie
To gain your love and envy my best mistress,
Put me against a wall.
J. Fletcher.

5. To hate. [Obs.] Marlowe.

6. To emulate. [Obs.] Spenser.

En"vy (?), v. i.

1. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
Jer. Taylor.

2. To show malice or ill will; to rail. [Obs.] "He has . . . envied against the people." Shak.

En·vyned" (?), a. [OF. enviner to store with wine; pref. en- (L. in) + vin wine. See Vine.] Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En·wall" (?), v. t. See Inwall. Sir P. Sidney.

En·wal"low (?), v. t. To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.

So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore.
Spenser.

En·wheel" (?), v. t. To encircle. Shak.


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