etape (etap)

[F. étape: see staple.] 1. A public store-house for goods; a staple-town. E. Phillips, 1706.-2. An allowance of provisions and forage for soldiers during the time of their march through a country to or from winter quarters. Bailey, 1727.-3. In Ru ia, a prison like building with a stockaded yard, used to confine and shelter at night parties of exiles proceeding under guard from one place to another. Our convict party spent Tuesday night in the first regular étape at Khaldeyeva, Half the prisoners slept on the floor under the nares [sleeping-platforms) and in the corridors... The sleeping-platforms and the walls of every Siberian étape bear countle inscriptions, left there by the exiles of one party for the information. of their comrades in the next. Kennan, The Century, XXXVIL. 43. etapiert, n. [F. étapier, through a country. E. Phillips, 1706. état-major (ā-tä'ma-zhôr'), n. [F.] Milit., the staff of an army or a regiment. See staff. etc. A common abbreviation of etcetera. et cetera, etcetera (et-set'e-rä). [L.: et, and; cetera, neut. pl. of ceterus, fem. cetera, neut. ceterum, other, another, rare in sing., usually pl. ceteri, ceteræ, cetera, the others, the other things, the rest, the remainder (the L. spelling cetera, etc., is preferred, but cætera is in good use); prob. And is indeed the selfsame case With theirs that swore et cæteras. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 650. I have by me an elaborate treatise on the aposiopesis called an et cætera. Add is on, Tatler, No. 133. I called the pangs of disappointed love And all the sad etcetera of the wrong, To help him to his grave. Words worth, Prelude, viii. An oath imposed on the clergy by the Anglican bishops in 1640, "binding them to attempt no alteration in the government of the Church by bishops, deans, archdeacons, ." Hallam , Const. Hist., ix. etch1 (ech), r. [ point, to draw in free-hand upon bare copper with a sharp tool ground to a cutting edge. II. in trans. To practise etching. etch2 (ech), n. A contracted form of eddish . Lay dung upon the etch , and sow it with barley. Mortimer , Husbandry.