EXHAUSTED WORLDS ...  Dr. Johnson, in the prologue spoken by Garrick at the opening of Drury Lane, in 1747, says of Shakespeare: 

  Each change of many-colored life he drew? 
  Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.

EXTERMINATOR (The), Montbars, chief of a set of filibusters in the seventeenth century.  He was a native of Languedoc, and conceived an intense hatred against the Spaniards on reading of their cruelties in the New World.  Embarking at Havre, in 1667, Montbars attacked the Spaniards in the Antilles and in Honduras, took from them Vera Cruz and Carthagena, and slew them most mercilessly wherever he encountered them (1645-1707).

EYE. Terrible as the eye of Vathek.  One of the eyes of this caliph was so terrible in anger that those died who ventured to look thereon, and had he given way to his wrath, he would have depopulated his whole dominion.—­W.  Beckford, Vathek (1784).

EYED (One-) people.  The Arimaspians of Scythia were a one-eyed people.

The Cyclops were giants with only one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead.

Tartaro, in Basque legends, was a one-eyed giant.  Sindbad the sailor, in his third voyage, was cast on an island inhabited by one-eyed giants.

EYRE (Jane), a governess, who stoutly copes with adverse circumstances, and ultimately marries a used-up man of fortune, in whom the germs of good feeling and sound sense were only exhausted, and not destroyed.—­Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847).

EZ’ZELIN (Sir), the gentleman who recognizes Lara at the table of Lord Otho, and charges him with being Conrad the Corsair.  A duel ensues, and Ezzelin is never heard of more.  A serf used to say that he saw a huntsman one evening cast a dead body into the river which divided the lands of Otho and Lara, and that there was a star of knighthood on the breast of the corpse.—­Byron, Lara (1814).

FAA (Gabriel), nephew of Meg Merrilees.  One of the huntsman at Liddesdale.—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

FAB’ILA, a king devoted to the chase.  One day he encountered a wild boar, and commanded those who rode with him not to interfere, but the boar overthrew him and gored him to death.—­Chronica Antiqua de Espana, 121.

FA’BIUS (The American), George Washington (1732-1799).

Fa’bius (The French), Anne, duc de Montmorency, grand-constable of France (1493-1567).

FABRICIUS [Fa.brish’.e.us], an old Roman, like Cincinnatus and Curius Dentatus, a type of the rigid purity, frugality, and honesty of the “good old times.”  Pyrrhus used every effort to corrupt him by bribes, or to terrify him, but in vain.  “Excellent Fabricius,” cried the Greek, “one might hope to turn the sun from its course as soon as turn Fabricius from the path of duty.”

Fabric’ius, an author, whose composition was so obscure that Gil Blas could not comprehend the meaning of a single line of his writings.  His poetry was verbose fustian, and his prose a maze of far-fetched expressions and perplexed phrases.