E () The fifth letter of the
English alphabet.
E () E is the third tone of the
model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and
E.
E- () A Latin prefix meaning out,
out of, from; also, without. See Ex-.
Each (a. / a. pron.) Every
one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered
separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun;
as, each of you or each one of you.
Each (a. / a. pron.)
Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.
Eachwhere (adv.)
Everywhere.
Eadish (n.) See Eddish.
Eager (a.) Sharp; sour;
acid.
Eager (a.) Sharp; keen;
bitter; severe.
Eager (a.) Excited by
desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain;
keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the
hounds were eager in the chase.
Eager (a.) Brittle;
inflexible; not ductile.
Eager (n.) Same as Eagre.
Eagerly (adv.) In an eager
manner.
Eagerness (n.) The state
or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
Eagerness (n.) Tartness;
sourness.
Eagle (n.) Any large,
rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus.
The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision,
and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila
chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the
American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H.
albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the
eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also
for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.
Eagle (n.) A gold coin of
the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
Eagle (n.) A northern
constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
Eagle (n.) The figure of
an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used
upon the seal or standard of any people.
Eagle-eyed (a.)
Sharp-sighted as an eagle.
Eagle-sighted (a.)
Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted.
Eagless (n.) A female or
hen eagle.
Eaglestone (n.) A
concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so
called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to
her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites.
Eaglet (n.) A young eagle,
or a diminutive eagle.
Eagle-winged (a.) Having
the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.
Eaglewood (n.) A kind of
fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
Eagrass (n.) See Eddish.
Eagre (n.) A wave, or two
or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up
an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.
Ealderman (n.) Alt. of
Ealdorman
Ealdorman (n.) An
alderman.
Eale (n.) Ale.
Eame (n.) Uncle.
Ean (v. t. & i.) To bring
forth, as young; to yean.
Eanling (n.) A lamb just
brought forth; a yeanling.
Ear (n.) The organ of
hearing; the external ear.
Ear (n.) The sense of
hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different
tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
Ear (n.) That which
resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or
projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a
handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are
outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
Ear (n.) Same as
Acroterium.
Ear (n.) Same as Crossette.
Ear (n.) Privilege of
being kindly heard; favor; attention.
Eared (imp. & p. p.) of
Ear
Earing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ear
Ear (v. t.) To take in
with the ears; to hear.
Ear (n.) The spike or head
of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the
kernels.
Ear (v. i.) To put forth
ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
Ear (v. t.) To plow or
till; to cultivate.
Earable (a.) Arable;
tillable.
Earache (n.) Ache or pain
in the ear.
Earal (a.) Receiving by
the ear.
Ear-bored (a.) Having the
ear perforated.
Earcap (n.) A cap or cover
to protect the ear from cold.
Earcockle (n.) A disease
in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with
minute worms.
Eardrop (n.) A pendant for
the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.
Eardrop (n.) A species of
primrose. See Auricula.
Eardrum (n.) The tympanum.
See Illust. of Ear.
Eared (a.) Having (such or
so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared;
full-eared; ten-eared.
Eared (a.) Having external
ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
Eariness (n.) Fear or
timidity, especially of something supernatural.
Earing (n.) A line used to
fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head
earing.
Earing (n.) A line for
hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.
Earing (n.) A line
fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
Earing (n.) Coming into
ear, as corn.
Earing (n.) A plowing of
land.
Earl (n.) A nobleman of
England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl
corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the
wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
Earl (n.) The needlefish.
Earlap (n.) The lobe of
the ear.
Earldom (n.) The
jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
Earldom (n.) The status,
title, or dignity of an earl.
Earldorman (n.) Alderman.
Earlduck (n.) The
red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).
Earles penny () Earnest money.
Same as Arles penny.
Earless (a.) Without ears;
hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
Earlet (n.) An earring.
Earliness (n.) The state
of being early or forward; promptness.
Earl marshal () An officer of
state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance
of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation
of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and
he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.
Earlock (n.) A lock or
curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
Early (adv.) Soon; in good
season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.
Early (adv.) In advance of
the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the
first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.
Early (adv.) Coming in the
first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events,
etc.
Earmark (n.) A mark on the
ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.
Earmark (n.) A mark for
identification; a distinguishing mark.
Earmarked (imp. & p. p.)
of Earmark
Earmarking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Earmark
Earmark (v. t.) To mark,
as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.
Earn (n.) See Ern, n.
Earned (imp. & p. p.) of
Earn
Earning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Earn
Earn (v. t.) To merit or
deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward,
whether the reward is received or not).
Earn (v. t.) To acquire by
labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages;
as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.
Earn (v. t. & i.) To
grieve.
Earn (v. i.) To long; to
yearn.
Earn (v. i.) To curdle, as
milk.
Earnest (n.) Seriousness;
reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.
Earnest (a.) Ardent in the
pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty
endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest
prayers.
Earnest (a.) Intent; fixed
closely; as, earnest attention.
Earnest (a.) Serious;
important.
Earnest (v. t.) To use in
earnest.
Earnest (n.) Something
given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what
is to come.
Earnest (n.) Something of
value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the
bargain and prove the sale.
Earnestful (a.) Serious.
Earnestly (adv.) In an
earnest manner.
Earnestness (n.) The state
or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
Earnful (a.) Full of
anxiety or yearning.
Earnings (pl. ) of Earning
Earning (n.) That which is
earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the
plural.
Earpick (n.) An instrument
for removing wax from the ear.
Ear-piercer (n.) The
earwig.
Earreach (n.) Earshot.
Earring (n.) An ornament
consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a
pendant.
Earsh (n.) See Arrish.
Ear-shell (n.) A flattened
marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; -- called also sea-ear. See
Abalone.
Earshot (n.) Reach of the
ear; distance at which words may be heard.
Earshrift (n.) A nickname
for auricular confession; shrift.
Earsore (n.) An annoyance
to the ear.
Ear-splitting (a.)
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
Earst (adv.) See Erst.
Earth (n.) The globe or
planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars.
Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the
dwelling place of spirits.
Earth (n.) The solid
materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry
land.
Earth (n.) The softer
inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from
the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like;
sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the
globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.
Earth (n.) A part of this
globe; a region; a country; land.
Earth (n.) Worldly things,
as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this
life.
Earth (n.) The people on
the globe.
Earth (n.) Any
earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
Earth (n.) A similar
oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
Earth (n.) A hole in the
ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.
Earthed (imp. & p. p.) of
Earth
Earthing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Earth
Earth (v. t.) To hide, or
cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
Earth (v. t.) To cover
with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.
Earth (v. i.) To burrow.
Earth (n.) A plowing.
Earthbag (n.) A bag filled
with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.
Earthbank (n.) A bank or
mound of earth.
Earthboard (n.) The part
of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
Earthborn (a.) Born of the
earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human.
Earthborn (a.) Relating
to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.
Earthbred (a.) Low;
grovelling; vulgar.
Earthdin (n.) An
earthquake.
Earthdrake (n.) A mythical
monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
Earthen (a.) Made of
earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen
vessel or pipe.
Earthen-hearted (a.)
Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
Earthenware (n.) Vessels
and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery,
Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Earth flax () A variety of
asbestus. See Amianthus.
Earthfork (n.) A pronged
fork for turning up the earth.
Earthiness (n.) The
quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
Earthliness (n.) The
quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
Earthling (n.) An
inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Earthly (a.) Pertaining to
the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not
heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers;
earthly praise.
Earthly (a.) Of all things
on earth; possible; conceivable.
Earthly (a.) Made of
earth; earthy.
Earthly (adv.) In the
manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
Earthly-minded (a.) Having
a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to
spiritual-minded.
Earthmad (n.) The
earthworm.
Earthnut (n.) A name given
to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground
Earthnut (n.) The esculent
tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.
Earthnut (n.) The peanut.
See Peanut.
Earthpea (n.) A species of
pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy
underground pods.
Earthquake (n.) A shaking,
trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often
accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a
hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin,
earthquave, and earthshock.
Earthquake (a.) Like, or
characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling.
Earthquave (n.) An
earthquake.
Earth shine () See Earth light,
under Earth.
Earthshock (n.) An
earthquake.
Earthstar (n.) A curious
fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of
a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus
of the genus Geoglossum.
Earthward (adv.) Alt. of
Earthwards
Earthwards (adv.) Toward
the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
Earthwork (n.) Any
construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for
attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
Earthwork (n.) The
operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing
foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
Earthwork (n.) An
embankment or construction made of earth.
Earthworm (n.) Any worm of
the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest
and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others
are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
Earthworm (n.) A mean,
sordid person; a niggard.
Earthy (a.) Consisting of,
or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
Earthy (a.) Of or
pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.
Earthy (a.) Gross; low;
unrefined.
Earthy (a.) Without
luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.
Earwax (n.) See Cerumen.
Earwig (n.) Any insect of
the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.
Earwig (n.) In America,
any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.
Earwig (n.) A whisperer of
insinuations; a secret counselor.
Earwigged (imp. & p. p.)
of Earwig
Earwigging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Earwig
Earwig (v. t.) To
influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.
Earwitness (n.) A witness
by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.
Ease (n.) Satisfaction;
pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
Ease (n.) Freedom from
anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest;
quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
Ease (n.) Freedom from
care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace;
comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
Ease (n.) Freedom from
constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty;
naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of
address.
Eased (imp. & p. p.) of
Ease
Easing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ease
Ease (n.) To free from
anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to
give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain;
ease the body or mind.
Ease (n.) To render less
painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Ease (n.) To release from
pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as,
to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
Ease (n.) To entertain; to
furnish with accommodations.
Easeful (a.) Full of ease;
suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
Easel (n.) A frame
(commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the
painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Easeless (a.) Without
ease.
Easement (n.) That which
gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
Easement (n.) A liberty,
privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another
proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course,
etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
Easement (n.) A curved
member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail,
etc.
Easily (adv.) With ease;
without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that
event might have been easily foreseen.
Easily (adv.) Without
pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.
Easily (adv.) Readily;
without reluctance; willingly.
Easily (adv.) Smoothly;
quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.
Easily (adv.) Without
shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.
Easiness (n.) The state or
condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
Easiness (n.) Freedom from
difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
Easiness (n.) Freedom from
emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.
Easiness (n.) Freedom from
effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.
Easiness (n.) Freedom from
jolting, jerking, or straining.
East (n.) The point in the
heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point
on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a
direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the
right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
East (n.) The eastern
parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the
orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria,
Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds
and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
East (n.) Formerly, the
part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or
New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi
River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with
the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the
agriculture of the West.
East (a.) Toward the
rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as,
the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that
blows from the east.
East (adv.) Eastward.
East (v. i.) To move
toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
Easter (n.) An annual
church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday,
the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the
Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha,
pasque, paque, or pask.
Easter (n.) The day on
which the festival is observed; Easter day.
Easter (v. i.) To veer to
the east; -- said of the wind.
Easterling (n.) A native
of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others
from the coasts of the Baltic.
Easterling (n.) A piece of
money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
Easterling (n.) The smew.
Easterling (a.) Relating
to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.
Easterly (a.) Coming from
the east; as, it was easterly wind.
Easterly (a.) Situated,
directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an
easterly course or voyage.
Easterly (adv.) Toward, or
in the direction of, the east.
Eastern (a.) Situated or
dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
Eastern (a.) Going toward
the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
Easternmost (a.) Most
eastern.
East Indian () Belonging to, or
relating to, the East Indies.
East Indian (n.) A native
of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.
Easting (n.) The distance
measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of
a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
East-insular (a.) Relating
to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.
Eastward (adv.) Alt. of
Eastwards
Eastwards (adv.) Toward
the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies
eastward from New York.
Easy (v. t.) At ease; free
from pain, trouble, or constraint
Easy (v. t.) Free from
pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
Easy (v. t.) Free from
care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an
easy mind.
Easy (v. t.) Free from
constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an
easy style.
Easy (v. t.) Not causing,
or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest;
as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in
dancing.
Easy (v. t.) Not
difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy
task; an easy victory.
Easy (v. t.) Causing ease;
giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy
circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
Easy (v. t.) Not making
resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
Easy (v. t.) Moderate;
sparing; frugal.
Easy (v. t.) Not
straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
Easy-chair (n.) An
armchair for ease or repose.
Easy-going (a.) Moving
easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.
Ate (imp.) of Eat
Eat () of Eat
Eaten (p. p.) of Eat
Eat () of Eat
Eating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eat
Eat (v. t.) To chew and
swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat
bread.
Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as
metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to
destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
Eat (v. i.) To take food;
to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
Eat (v. i.) To taste or
relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
Eat (v. i.) To make one's
way slowly.
Eatable (a.) Capable of
being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
Eatable (n.) Something fit
to be eaten.
Eatage (n.) Eatable growth
of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
Eater (n.) One who, or
that which, eats.
Eath (a. & adv.) Easy or
easily.
Eating (n.) The act of
tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
Eating (n.) Something fit
to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Eau de Cologne () Same as
Cologne.
Eau de vie () French name for
brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua.
Eavedrop (n.) A drop from
the eaves; eavesdrop.
Eaves (n. pl.) The edges
or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast
off the water that falls on the roof.
Eaves (n. pl.) Brow;
ridge.
Eaves (n. pl.) Eyelids or
eyelashes.
Eavesdrop (v. i.) To stand
under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn
what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
Eavesdrop (n.) The water
which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
Eavesdropper (n.) One who
stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence,
a secret listener.
Eavesdropping (n.) The
habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro
private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it
abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.
Ebb (n.) The European
bunting.
Ebb (n.) The reflux or
flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; --
opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.
Ebb (n.) The state or time
of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or
condition; decline; decay.
Ebbed (imp. & p. p.) of
Ebb
Ebbing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ebb
Ebb (v. i.) To flow back;
to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
Ebb (v. i.) To return or
fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
Ebb (v. t.) To cause to
flow back.
Ebb (a.) Receding; going
out; falling; shallow; low.
Ebb tide () The reflux of tide
water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.
Ebionite (n.) One of a
sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a
mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ,
regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.
Ebionitism (n.) The system
or doctrine of the Ebionites.
Eblanin (n.) See
Pyroxanthin.
Eblis (n.) The prince of
the evil spirits; Satan.
Ebon (a.) Consisting of
ebony.
Ebon (a.) Like ebony,
especially in color; black; dark.
Ebon (n.) Ebony.
Ebonist (n.) One who works
in ebony.
Ebonite (n.) A hard, black
variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small
articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric
apparatus.
Ebonized (imp. & p. p.) of
Ebonize
Ebonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ebonize
Ebonize (v. t.) To make
black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.
Ebonies (pl. ) of Ebony
Ebony (n.) A hard, heavy,
and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is
black, but it also occurs red or green.
Ebony (a.) Made of ebony,
or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
Ebracteate (a.) Without
bracts.
Ebracteolate (a.) Without
bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.
Ebrauke (a.) Hebrew.
Ebrieties (pl. ) of
Ebriety
Ebriety (n.) Drunkenness;
intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
Ebrillade (n.) A bridle
check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
Ebriosity (n.) Addiction
to drink; habitual drunkenness.
Ebrious (a.) Inclined to
drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.
Ebulliate (v. i.) To boil
or bubble up.
Ebullience (n.) Alt. of
Ebulliency
Ebulliency (n.) A boiling
up or over; effervescence.
Ebullient (a.) Boiling up
or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling;
effervescing.
Ebullioscope (n.) An
instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for
determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it
boils.
Ebullition (n.) A boiling
or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid
conversion into vapor.
Ebullition (n.)
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes
the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with
a carbonated alkali.
Ebullition (n.) A sudden
burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
Eburin (n.) A composition
of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable
stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
Eburnation (n.) A
condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in
which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
Eburnean (a.) Made of or
relating to ivory.
Eburnification (n.) The
conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or
characteristics of ivory.
Eburnine (a.) Of or
pertaining to ivory.
Ecardines (n. pl.) An
order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.
Ecarte (n.) A game at
cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or
all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
Ecaudate (a.) Without a
tail or spur.
Ecaudate (a.) Tailless.
Ecballium (n.) A genus of
cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or
Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently
ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a
powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
Ecbasis (n.) A figure in
which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Ecbatic (a.) Denoting a
mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention
or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is
ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
Ecbole (n.) A digression
in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Ecbolic (n.) A drug, as
ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the
contents of the uterus.
Ecboline (n.) An alkaloid
constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of
producing abortion.
Eccaleobion (n.) A
contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Ecce homo () A picture which
represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown
of thorns.
Eccentric (a.) Deviating
or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or
elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular
motion.
Eccentric (a.) Not having
the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though
coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same
center; -- opposed to concentric.
Eccentric (a.) Pertaining
to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
Eccentric (a.) Not
coincident as to motive or end.
Eccentric (a.) Deviating
from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating
from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular;
anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
Eccentric (n.) A circle
not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the
first.
Eccentric (n.) One who, or
that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
Eccentric (n.) In the
Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but
with the earth not in its center.
Eccentric (n.) A circle
described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for
radius.
Eccentric (n.) A disk or
wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the
shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for
other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same
throw.
Eccentrical (a.) See
Eccentric.
Eccentrically (adv.) In an
eccentric manner.
Eccentricities (pl. ) of
Eccentricity
Eccentricity (n.) The
state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
Eccentricity (n.) The
ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or
hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
Eccentricity (n.) The
ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the
center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the
orbit.
Eccentricity (n.) The
distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis
about which it turns; the throw.
Ecchymose (v. t.) To
discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the
skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
Ecchymoses (pl. ) of
Ecchymosis
Ecchymosis (n.) A livid or
black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the
areolar tissue from a contusion.
Ecchymotic (a.) Pertaining
to ecchymosis.
Eccle (n.) The European
green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle.
Ecclesiae (pl. ) of
Ecclesia
Ecclesia (n.) The public
legislative assembly of the Athenians.
Ecclesia (n.) A church,
either as a body or as a building.
Ecclesial (a.)
Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiarch (n.) An
official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Ecclesiast (n.) An
ecclesiastic.
Ecclesiast (n.) The
Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.
Ecclesiastes (a.) One of
the canonical books of the Old Testament.
Ecclesiastic (v. t.) Of or
pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiastic (n.) A person
in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of
religion; a clergyman; a priest.
Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or
pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the
church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical
courts.
Ecclesiastically (adv.) In
an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Ecclesiasticism (n.)
Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.
Ecclesiasticus (n.) A book
of the Apocrypha.
Ecclesiological (a.)
Belonging to ecclesiology.
Ecclesiologist (n.) One
versed in ecclesiology.
Ecclesiology (n.) The
science or theory of church building and decoration.
Eccritic (n.) A remedy
which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
Ecderon (n.) See Ecteron.
Ecdyses (pl. ) of Ecdysis
Ecdysis (n.) The act of
shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents,
lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell;
exuviation.
Ecgonine (n.) A colorless,
crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
Echauguette (n.) A small
chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a
projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.
Eche (a. / a. pron.) Each.
Echelon (n.) An
arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel
lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps
of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon
distance.
Echelon (n.) An
arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
Echelon (v. t.) To place
in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
Echelon (v. i.) To take
position in echelon.
Echidna (n.) A monster,
half maid and half serpent.
Echidna (n.) A genus of
Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and
covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian
ant-eater.
Echidnine (n.) The clear,
viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a
nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous
principle of the virus.
Echinate (a.) Alt. of
Echinated
Echinated (a.) Set with
prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
Echinid (a. & n.) Same as
Echinoid.
Echinidan (n.) One the
Echinoidea.
Echinital (a.) Of, or
like, an echinite.
Echinite (n.) A fossil
echinoid.
Echinococcus (n.) A
parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or
tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and
lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia
echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.
Echinoderm (n.) One of the
Echinodermata.
Echinodermal (a.) Relating
or belonging to the echinoderms.
Echinodermata (n. pl.) One
of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly
included in the Radiata.
Echinodermatous (a.)
Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
Echinoid (a.) Of or
pertaining to the Echinoidea.
Echinoid (n.) One of the
Echinoidea.
Echinoidea (n. pl.) The
class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous,
usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates,
and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
Echinozoa (n. pl.) The
Echinodermata.
Echinulate (a.) Set with
small spines or prickles.
Echini (pl. ) of Echinus
Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.
Echinus (n.) A genus of
echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
Echinus (n.) The rounded
molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of
a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.
Echinus (n.) The
quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column
Echinus (n.) A name
sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that
ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes
to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.
Echiuroidea (n. pl.) A
division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are
often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.
Echoes (pl. ) of Echo
Echo (n.) A sound
reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener;
repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
Echo (n.) Fig.:
Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Echo (n.) A wood or
mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
Echo (n.) A nymph, the
daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing
was left of her but her voice.
Echoed (imp. & p. p.) of
Echo
Echoing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Echo
Echoes (3d pers. sing. pres.)
of Echo
Echo (v. t.) To send back
(a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
Echo (v. t.) To repeat
with assent; to respond; to adopt.
Echo (v. i.) To give an
echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
Echoer (n.) One who, or
that which, echoes.
Echoless (a.) Without echo
or response.
Echometer (n.) A graduated
scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and
the relation of their intervals.
Echometry (n.) The art of
measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.
Echometry (n.) The art of
constructing vaults to produce echoes.
Echon (pron.) Alt. of
Echoon
Echoon (pron.) Each one.
Echoscope (n.) An
instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
Eclair (n.) A kind of
frosted cake, containing flavored cream.
Eclaircise (v. t.) To make
clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.
Eclaircissement (v. t.)
The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an
explanation.
Eclampsia (n.) A fancied
perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself;
convulsions.
Eclampsy (n.) Same as
Eclampsia.
Eclat (n.) Brilliancy of
success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
Eclat (n.) Demonstration
of admiration and approbation; applause.
Eclectic (a.) Selecting;
choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various
sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.
Eclectic (a.) Consisting,
or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic
magazine.
Eclectic (n.) One who
follows an eclectic method.
Eclectically (adv.) In an
eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.
Eclecticism (n.) Theory or
practice of an eclectic.
Eclegm (n.) A medicine
made by mixing oils with sirups.
Eclipse (n.) An
interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous
body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or
between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused
by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon
coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the
shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a
planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The
eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of
the planet.
Eclipse (n.) The loss,
usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor,
consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
Eclipsed (imp. & p. p.) of
Eclipse
Eclipsing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eclipse
Eclipse (v. t.) To cause
the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon
eclipses the sun.
Eclipse (v. t.) To
obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to
cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
Eclipse (v. i.) To suffer
an eclipse.
Ecliptic (a.) A great
circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about
23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as
seen from the sun.
Ecliptic (a.) A great
circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the
equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
Ecliptic (a.) Pertaining
to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.
Ecliptic (a.) Pertaining
to an eclipse or to eclipses.
Eclogite (n.) A rock
consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common
hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.
Eclogue (n.) A pastoral
poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic;
an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has
been established.
Economic (a.) Alt. of
Economical
Economical (a.) Pertaining
to the household; domestic.
Economical (a.) Relating
to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
Economical (a.) Managing
with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and
frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
Economical (a.) Managed
with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts;
saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.
Economical (a.) Relating
to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to
political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.
Economical (a.)
Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
Economically (adv.) With
economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.
Economics (n.) The science
of household affairs, or of domestic management.
Economics (n.) Political
economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or
material resources. See Political economy, under Political.
Economist (n.) One who
economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who
expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Economist (n.) One who is
conversant with political economy; a student of economics.
Economization (n.) The act
or practice of using to the best effect.
Economized (imp. & p. p.)
of Economize
Economizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Economize
Economize (v. t.) To
manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to
economize one's income.
Economize (v. i.) To be
prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in
order to grow rich.
Economizer (n.) One who,
or that which, economizes.
Economizer (n.)
Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by
waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
Economies (pl. ) of
Economy
Economy (n.) The
management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household
matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful
economy.
Economy (n.) Orderly
arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any
establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as
directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.
Economy (n.) The system of
rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating
the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and
economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or
vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
Economy (n.) Thrifty and
frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure;
prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but
not to parsimony.
Ecorche (n.) A manikin, or
image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the
muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
Ecossaise (n.) A dancing
tune in the Scotch style.
Ecostate (a.) Having no
ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
Ecoute (n.) One of the
small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's
miners.
Ecphasis (n.) An explicit
declaration.
Ecphonema (n.) A breaking
out with some interjectional particle.
Ecphoneme (n.) A mark (!)
used to indicate an exclamation.
Ecphonesis (n.) An
animated or passionate exclamation.
Ecphractic (a.) Serving to
dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.
Ecphractic (n.) An
ecphractic medicine.
Ecrasement (n.) The
operation performed with an ecraseur.
Ecraseur (n.) An
instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated
on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a
steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
Ecru (a.) Having the color
or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
Ecstasies (pl. ) of
Ecstasy
Ecstasy (n.) The state of
being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is
elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of
overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the
soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly
mysteries.
Ecstasy (n.) Excessive and
overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
Ecstasy (n.) Violent
distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity;
madness.
Ecstasy (n.) A state which
consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of
mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are
not affected.
Ecstasy (v. t.) To fill
ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
Ecstatic (n.) Pertaining
to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of
ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
Ecstatic (n.) Delightful
beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
Ecstatic (n.) An
enthusiast.
Ecstatical (a.) Ecstatic.
Ecstatical (a.) Tending to
external objects.
Ecstatically (adv.)
Rapturously; ravishingly.
Ect- () Alt. of Ecto-
Ecto- () A combining form
signifying without, outside, external.
Ectad (adv.) Toward the
outside or surface; -- opposed to entad.
Ectal (a.) Pertaining to,
or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.
Ectasia (n.) A dilatation
of a hollow organ or of a canal.
Ectasis (n.) The
lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Ectental (a.) Relating to,
or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as,
the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of
the ovum.
Ecteron (n.) The external
layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
Ectethmoid (a.) External
to the ethmoid; prefrontal.
Ecthlipsis (n.) The
dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
Ecthlipsis (n.) The
elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a
vowel.
Ecthorea (pl. ) of
Ecthoreum
Ecthoreum (n.) The
slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell.
Ecthymata (pl. ) of
Ecthyma
Ecthyma (n.) A cutaneous
eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed
base.
Ecto- () See Ect-.
Ectoblast (n.) The outer
layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.
Ectoblast (n.) The outer
envelope of a cell; the cell wall.
Ectobronchia (pl. ) of
Ectobronchium
Ectobronchium (n.) One of
the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
Ectocuneriform (n.) Alt.
of Ectocuniform
Ectocuniform (n.) One of
the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
Ectocyst (n.) The outside
covering of the Bryozoa.
Ectoderm (n.) The outer
layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.
Ectoderm (n.) The external
skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from
the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.
Ectodermal (a.) Alt. of
Ectodermic
Ectodermic (a.) Of or
relating to the ectoderm.
Ectolecithal (a.) Having
the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position,
and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal
ova.
Ectomere (n.) The more
transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as
those of mammals.
Ectoparasite (n.) Any
parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.
Ectopia (n.) A morbid
displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the
heart, or of the bladder.
Ectopic (a.) Out of place;
congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
Ectoplasm (n.) The outer
transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
Ectoplasm (n.) The outer
hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell.
Ectoplasm (n.) The
ectosarc of protozoan.
Ectoplastic (a.)
Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
Ectoprocta (n. pl.) An
order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.
Ectopy (n.) Same as
Ectopia.
Ectorganism (n.) An
external parasitic organism.
Ectosarc (n.) The
semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the
amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
Ectosteal (a.) Of or
pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
Ectostosis (n.) A process
of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and
either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
Ectozoic (a.) See Epizoic.
Ectozoa (pl. ) of Ectozoon
Ectozoon (n.) See Epizoon.
Ectropion (n.) An
unnatural eversion of the eyelids.
Ectropium (n.) Same as
Ectropion.
Ectrotic (a.) Having a
tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
Ectypal (a.) Copied,
reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
Ectype (n.) A copy, as in
pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:
Ectype (n.) A work
sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
Ectype (n.) A copy from an
original; a type of something that has previously existed.
Ectypography (n.) A method
of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.
Ecumenic (a.) Alt. of
Ecumenical
Ecumenical (a.) General;
universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an
ecumenical council.
Ecurie (n.) A stable.
Eczema (n.) An
inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and
itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation,
which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also
tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Eczematous (a.) Pertaining
to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.
-ed () The termination of the
past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial
adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.
Edacious (a.) Given to
eating; voracious; devouring.
Edacity (n.) Greediness;
voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
Eddas (pl. ) of Edda
Edda (n.) The religious or
mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing
two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
Eddaic (a.) Alt. of Eddic
Eddic (a.) Relating to the
Eddas; resembling the Eddas.
Edder (n.) An adder or
serpent.
Edder (n.) Flexible wood
worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
Edder (v. t.) To bind the
top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge.
Eddish (n.) Aftermath;
also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.
Eddoes (n. pl.) The tubers
of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.
Eddies (pl. ) of Eddy
Eddy (n.) A current of air
or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
Eddy (n.) A current of
water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
Eddied (imp. & p. p.) of
Eddy
Eddying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eddy
Eddy (v. i.) To move as an
eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
Eddy (v. t.) To collect as
into an eddy.
Edelweiss (n.) A little,
perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high
elevations in the Alps.
Edema (n.) Same as oedema.
Edematous (a.) Alt. of
Edematose
Edematose (a.) Same as
oedematous.
Eden (n.) The garden where
Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
Edenic (a.) Of or
pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.
Edenite (n.) A variety of
amphibole. See Amphibole.
Edenized (a.) Admitted to
a state of paradisaic happiness.
Edental (a.) See Edentate,
a.
Edental (n.) One of the
Edentata.
Edentalous (a.) See
Edentate, a.
Edentata (n. pl.) An order
of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta.
The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are
lacking.
Edentate (a.) Destitute of
teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
Edentate (a.) Belonging to
the Edentata.
Edentate (n.) One of the
Edentata.
Edentated (a.) Same as
Edentate, a.
Edentation (n.) A
depriving of teeth.
Edentulous (a.) Toothless.
Edge (v. t.) The thin
cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword,
or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds
deeply, etc.
Edge (v. t.) Any sharp
terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a
precipice.
Edge (v. t.) Sharpness;
readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
Edge (v. t.) The border or
part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the
edge of evening.
Edged (imp. & p. p.) of
Edge
Edging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Edge
Edge (v. t.) To furnish
with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Edge (v. t.) To shape or
dress the edge of, as with a tool.
Edge (v. t.) To furnish
with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
Edge (v. t.) To make sharp
or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
Edge (v. t.) To move by
little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging
their chairs forwards.
Edge (v. i.) To move
sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
Edge (v. i.) To sail close
to the wind.
Edgebone (n.) Same as
Aitchbone.
Edgeless (a.) Without an
edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
Edgelong (adv.) In the
direction of the edge.
Edgeshot (a.) Having an
edge planed, -- said of a board.
Edgeways (adv.) Alt. of
Edgewise
Edgewise (adv.) With the
edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Edging (n.) That which
forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a
border in a garden.
Edging (n.) The operation
of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
Edgingly (adv.) Gradually;
gingerly.
Edgy (a.) Easily
irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
Edgy (a.) Having some of
the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
Edh (n.) The name of the
Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar
word: //er, other, d//, doth."
Edibility (n.)
Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.
Edible (a.) Fit to be
eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
Edible (n.) Anything
edible.
Edibleness (n.)
Suitableness for being eaten.
Edict (n.) A public
command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by
an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the
edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.
Edictal (a.) Relating to,
or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
Edificant (a.) Building;
constructing.
Edification (n.) The act
of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral
or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
Edification (n.) A
building or edifice.
Edificatory (a.) Tending
to edification.
Edifice (n.) A building; a
structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and
other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
Edificial (a.) Pertaining
to an edifice; structural.
Edifier (n.) One who
builds.
Edifier (n.) One who
edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.
Edified (imp. & p. p.) of
Edify
Edifying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Edify
Edify (v. i.) To build; to
construct.
Edify (v. i.) To instruct
and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
Edify (v. i.) To teach or
persuade.
Edify (v. i.) To improve.
Edifying (a.) Instructing;
improving; as, an edifying conversation.
Edile (n.) See Aedile.
Edileship (n.) The office
of aedile.
Edingtonite (n.) A grayish
white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of
alumina and baryta.
Edited (imp. & p. p.) of
Edit
Editing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Edit
Edit (v. t.) To
superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to
select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a
newspaper.
Edition (n.) A literary
work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a
good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.
Edition (n.) The whole
number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first
edition was soon sold.
Edition de luxe () See Luxe.
Editioner (n.) An editor.
Editor (n.) One who edits;
esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book,
magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
Editorial (a.) Of or
pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial
labors; editorial remarks.
Editorial (n.) A leading
article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published
as an expression of the views of the editor.
Editorially (adv.) In the
manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.
Editorship (n.) The office
or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.
Editress (n.) A female
editor.
Edituate (v. t.) To guard
as a churchwarden does.
Edomite (n.) One of the
descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.
Edriophthalma (n. pl.) A
group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca.
Edriophthalmous (a.)
Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.
Educability (n.)
Capability of being educated.
Educable (a.) Capable of
being educated.
Educated (imp. & p. p.) of
Educate
Educating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Educate
Educate (v. t.) To bring
/// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether
physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental
activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a
faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare
and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to
train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
Educated (a.) Formed or
developed by education; as, an educated man.
Education (n.) The act or
process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge
skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of
training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an
education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
Educational (a.) Of or
pertaining to education.
Educationist (n.) One who
is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
Educative (a.) Tending to
educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative
experience.
Educator (n.) One who
educates; a teacher.
Educed (imp. & p. p.) of
Educe
Educing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Educe
Educe (v. t.) To bring or
draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to
extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.
Educible (a.) Capable of
being educed.
Educt (n.) That which is
educed, as by analysis.
Eduction (n.) The act of
drawing out or bringing into view.
Eductive (a.) Tending to
draw out; extractive.
Eductor (n.) One who, or
that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
Edulcorant (a.) Having a
tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
Edulcorant (n.) An
edulcorant remedy.
Edulcorated (imp. & p. p.)
of Edulcorate
Edulcorating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Edulcorate
Edulcorate (v. t.) To
render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.
Edulcorate (v. t.) To free
from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.
Edulcoration (n.) The act
of sweetening or edulcorating.
Edulcoration (n.) The act
of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.
Edulcorative (a.) Tending
to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
Edulcorator (n.) A
contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to
any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
Edulious (a.) Edible.
-ee () A suffix used, chiefly in
law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object
of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred;
as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the
agent or doer.
Eek (v. t.) Alt. of Eeke
Eeke (v. t.) See Eke.
Eel (n.) An elongated fish
of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the
genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called
vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and
Gymnotus.
Eelbuck (n.) An eelpot or
eel basket.
Eelfare (n.) A brood of
eels.
Eelgrass (n.) A plant (Zostera
marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays
along the North Atlantic coast.
Eel-mother (n.) The
eelpout.
Eelpot (n.) A boxlike
structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.
Eelpout (n.) A European
fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also
greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z.
anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and
lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.
Eelpout (n.) A fresh-water
fish, the burbot.
Eelspear (n.) A spear with
barbed forks for spearing eels.
E'en (adv.) A contraction
for even. See Even.
Een (n.) The old plural of
Eye.
E'er (adv.) A contraction
for ever. See Ever.
Eerie (a.) Alt. of Eery
Eery (a.) Serving to
inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
Eery (a.) Affected with
fear; affrighted.
Eerily (adv.) In a
strange, unearthly way.
Eerisome (a.) Causing
fear; eerie.
Eet (obs. imp.) of Eat.
Effable (a.) Capable of
being uttered or explained; utterable.
Effaced (imp. & p. p.) of
Efface
Effacing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Efface
Efface (v. t.) To cause to
disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out,
striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to
efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
Efface (v. t.) To destroy,
as a mental impression; to wear away.
Effaceable (a.) Capable of
being effaced.
Effacement (n.) The act if
effacing; also, the result of the act.
Effascinate (v. t.) To
charm; to bewitch.
Effascination (n.) A
charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.
Effect (n.) Execution;
performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
Effect (n.) Manifestation;
expression; sign.
Effect (n.) In general:
That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately
from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as,
the effect of luxury.
Effect (n.) Impression
left on the mind; sensation produced.
Effect (n.) Power to
produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with
effect.
Effect (n.) Consequence
intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
Effect (n.) The purport;
the sum and substance.
Effect (n.) Reality;
actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
Effect (n.) Goods;
movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal
property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
Effected (imp. & p. p.) of
Effect
Effecting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effect
Effect (v. t.) To produce,
as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
Effect (v. t.) To bring to
pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
Effecter (n.) One who
effects.
Effectible (a.) Capable of
being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.
Effection (n.) Creation; a
doing.
Effective (a.) Having the
power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect;
efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the
effective men in a regiment.
Effective (n.) That which
produces a given effect; a cause.
Effective (n.) One who is
capable of active service.
Effective (n.) Specie or
coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of
Europe.
Effectively (adv.) With
effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.
Effectiveness (n.) The
quality of being effective.
Effectless (a.) Without
effect or advantage; useless; bootless.
Effector (n.) An effecter.
Effectual (n.) Producing,
or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate;
efficient; operative; decisive.
Effectually (adv.) With
effect; efficaciously.
Effectually (adv.)
Actually; in effect.
Effectualness (n.) The
quality of being effectual.
Effectuated (imp. & p. p.)
of Effectuate
Effectuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effectuate
Effectuate (v. t.) To
bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.
Effectuation (n.) Act of
effectuating.
Effectuose (a.) Alt. of
Effectuous
Effectuous (a.) Effective.
Effectuously (adv.)
Effectively.
Effeminacies (pl. ) of
Effeminacy
Effeminacy (n.)
Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or
weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used
reproachfully of men.
Effeminate (a.) Having
some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or
delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
Effeminate (a.) Womanlike;
womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
Effeminated (imp. & p. p.)
of Effeminate
Effeminating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effeminate
Effeminate (v. t.) To make
womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
Effeminate (v. i.) To grow
womanish or weak.
Effeminately (adv.) In an
effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.
Effeminately (adv.) By
means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman.
Effeminateness (n.) The
state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.
Effemination (n.)
Effeminacy; womanishness.
Effeminize (v. t.) To make
effeminate.
Effendi (n.) Master; sir;
-- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one
learned in the law.
Efferent (a.) Conveying
outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics,
nerves, etc.
Efferent (a.) Conveyed
outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or
efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.
Efferent (n.) An efferent
duct or stream.
Efferous (a.) Like a wild
beast; fierce.
Effervesced (imp. & p. p.)
of Effervesce
Effervescing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effervesce
Effervesce (v. i.) To be
in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or
any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.
Effervesce (v. i.) To
exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or
concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.
Effervescence (n.) Alt. of
Effervescency
Effervescency (n.) A kind
of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some
part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small
bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
Effervescent (a.) Gently
boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
Effervescible (a.) Capable
of effervescing.
Effervescive (a.) Tending
to produce effervescence.
Effet (n.) The common
newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.
Effete (a.) No longer
capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn
out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer
productive; barren; sterile.
Efficacious (n.)
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to
produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.
Efficacity (n.) Efficacy.
Efficacy (n.) Power to
produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the
effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the
efficacy of prayer.
Efficience (n.) Alt. of
Efficiency
Efficiency (n.) The
quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power;
effectual agency.
Efficiency (n.) The ratio
of useful work to energy expended.
Efficient (n.) Causing
effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively
operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and
useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
Efficient (n.) An
efficient cause; a prime mover.
Efficiently (adv.) With
effect; effectively.
Effierce (v. t.) To make
fierce.
Effigial (a.) Relating to
an effigy.
Effigiate (v. t.) To form
as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.
Effigiation (n.) The act
of forming in resemblance; an effigy.
Effigies (n.) See Effigy.
Effigies (pl. ) of Effigy
Effigy (n.) The image,
likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an
imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on
monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
applied to portraits.
Efflagitate (v. t.) To ask
urgently.
Efflate (v. t.) To fill
with breath; to puff up.
Efflation (n.) The act of
filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
Effloresced (imp. & p. p.)
of Effloresce
Efflorescing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effloresce
Effloresce (v. i.) To
blossom forth.
Effloresce (v. i.) To
change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline
powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple
exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
Effloresce (v. i.) To
become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow
chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an
acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone
caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the
action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
Efflorescence (n.)
Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
Efflorescence (n.) A
redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
Efflorescence (n.) The
formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies,
as salts, etc.
Efflorescence (n.) The
powder or crust thus formed.
Efflorescency (n.) The
state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
Efflorescent (v. i.) That
effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
Efflorescent (v. i.)
Covered with an efflorescence.
Efflower (v. t.) To remove
the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as
in making chamois leather.
Effluence (n.) A flowing
out, or emanation.
Effluence (n.) That which
flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.
Effluency (n.) Effluence.
Effluent (a.) Flowing out;
as, effluent beams.
Effluent (n.) A stream
that flows out of another stream or lake.
Effluviable (a.) Capable
of being given off as an effluvium.
Effluvial (a.) Belonging
to effluvia.
Effluviate (v. i.) To give
forth effluvium.
Effluvia (pl. ) of
Effluvium
Effluvium (a.) Subtile or
invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially,
noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying
bodies, or from ill drainage.
Efflux (n.) The act or
process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of
matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.
Efflux (n.) That which
flows out; emanation; effluence.
Efflux (v. i.) To run out;
to flow forth; to pass away.
Effluxion (n.) The act of
flowing out; effusion.
Effluxion (n.) That which
flows out; effluvium; emanation.
Effodient (a.) Digging up.
Efforced (imp. & p. p.) of
Efforce
Efforcing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Efforce
Efforce (v. t.) To force;
to constrain; to compel to yield.
Efform (v. t.) To form; to
shape.
Efformation (n.) The act
of giving shape or form.
Effort (n.) An exertion of
strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at
an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the
accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.
Effort (n.) A force acting
on a body in the direction of its motion.
Effort (v. t.) To
stimulate.
Effortless (a.) Making no
effort.
Effossion (n.) A digging
out or up.
Effranchise (v. t.) To
enfranchise.
Effray (v. t.) To
frighten; to scare.
Effrayable (a.) Frightful.
Effrenation (n.) Unbridled
license; unruliness.
Effront (v. t.) To give
assurance to.
Effronteries (pl. ) of
Effrontery
Effrontery (n.) Impudence
or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum;
insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Effrontit (a.) Marked by
impudence.
Effrontuously (adv.)
Impudently.
Effulged (imp. & p. p.) of
Effulge
Effulging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effulge
Effulge (v. t.) To cause
to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.
Effulge (v. i.) To shine
forth; to beam.
Effulgence (n.) The state
of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or
brightness; splendor.
Effulgent (a.) Diffusing a
flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
Effulgently (adv.) In an
effulgent manner.
Effumability (n.) The
capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.
Effume (v. t.) To breathe
or puff out.
Effund (v. t.) To pour
out.
Effuse (a.) Poured out
freely; profuse.
Effuse (a.) Disposed to
pour out freely; prodigal.
Effuse (a.) Spreading
loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.
Effuse (a.) Having the
lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.
Effuse (n.) Effusion;
loss.
Effused (imp. & p. p.) of
Effuse
Effusing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Effuse
Effuse (v. t.) To pour out
like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
Effuse (v. i.) To emanate;
to issue.
Effusion (n.) The act of
pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.
Effusion (n.) That which
is poured out, literally or figuratively.
Effusion (n.) The escape
of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by
exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or
issue upon a free surface.
Effusion (n.) The liquid
escaping or exuded.
Effusive (a.) Pouring out;
pouring forth freely.
Efreet (n.) See Afrit.
Eft (n.) A European lizard
of the genus Seps.
Eft (n.) A salamander,
esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).
Eft (adv.) Again;
afterwards; soon; quickly.
Eftsoon (adv.) Alt. of
Eftsoons
Eftsoons (adv.) Again;
anew; a second time; at once; speedily.
Egad (interj.) An
exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
Egal (a.) Equal;
impartial.
Egality (n.) Equality.
Egean (a.) See Aegean.
Egence (n.) The state of
needing, or of suffering a natural want.
Eger (a.) Alt. of Egre
Egre (a.) Sharp; bitter;
acid; sour.
Eger (n.) An impetuous
flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Egerminate (v. i.) To
germinate.
Egest (v. t.) To cast or
throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the
food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
Egesta (n. pl.) That which
is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels;
excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.
Egestion (n.) Act or
process of egesting; a voiding.
Egg (n.) The oval or
roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It
consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed
in a shell or strong membrane.
Egg (n.) A simple cell,
from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
Egg (n.) Anything
resembling an egg in form.
Egged (imp. & p. p.) of
Egg
Egging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Egg
Egg (v. t.) To urge on; to
instigate; to incite/
Eggar (n.) Any bombycid
moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of
Europe.
Egg-bird (n.) A species of
tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama
Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris.
Egg-cup (n.) A cup used
for holding an egg, at table.
Eggement (n.) Instigation;
incitement.
Egger (n.) One who gathers
eggs; an eggler.
Egger (v. t.) One who eggs
or incites.
Eggery (n.) A place where
eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.
Egg-glass (n.) A small
sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also,
a small glass for holding an egg, at table.
Egghot (n.) A kind of
posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
Eggler (n.) One who
gathers, or deals in, eggs.
Eggnog (n.) A drink
consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.
Eggplant (n.) A plant (Solanum
Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large,
smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
Egg-shaped (a.) Resembling
an egg in form; ovoid.
Eggshell (n.) The shell or
exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an
eggshell.
Eggshell (n.) A smooth,
white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.
Egg squash () A variety of squash
with small egg-shaped fruit.
Eghen (n. pl.) Eyes.
Egilopical (a.) Pertaining
to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumor in the corner of
the eye.
Egilops (n.) See Aegilops.
Eglandulose (a.) Alt. of
Eglandulous
Eglandulous (a.) Destitute
of glands.
Eglantine (n.) A species
of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.
Eglantine (n.) The
sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa).
Eglatere (n.) Eglantine.
Egling (n.) The European
perch when two years old.
Eglomerate (v. t.) To
unwind, as a thread from a ball.
Ego (n.) The conscious and
permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly
known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.
Egoical (a.) Pertaining to
egoism.
Egoism (n.) The doctrine
of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb
Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations
which it implies or provides for.
Egoism (n.) Excessive love
and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every
interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
Egoist (n.) One given
overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.
Egoist (n.) A believer in
egoism.
Egoistic (a.) Alt. of
Egoistical
Egoistical (a.) Pertaining
to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.
Egoistically (adv.) In an
egoistic manner.
Egoity (n.) Personality.
Egomism (n.) Egoism.
Egophonic (a.) Belonging
to, or resembling, egophony.
Egophony (n.) The sound of
a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on
applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in
pleurisy with effusion.
Egotheism (n.) The
deification of self.
Egotism (n.) The practice
of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of
one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying
one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of
egoism.
Egotist (n.) One addicted
to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or
affairs.
Egotistic (a.) Alt. of
Egotistical
Egotistical (a.) Addicted
to, or manifesting, egotism.
Egotistically (adv.) With
egotism.
Egotized (imp. & p. p.) of
Egotize
Egotizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Egotize
Egotize (v. i.) To talk or
write as an egotist.
Egranulose (a.) Having no
granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions.
Egre (a. & n.) See Eager,
and Eagre.
Egregious (a.) Surpassing;
extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words
importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an
egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
Egregiously (adv.)
Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated.
Egregiousness (n.) The
state of being egregious.
Egremoin (n.) Agrimony (Agrimonia
Eupatoria).
Egress (n.) The act of
going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
Egress (n.) The passing
off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
Egress (v. i.) To go out;
to depart; to leave.
Egression (n.) The act of
going; egress.
Egressor (n.) One who goes
out.
Egret (n.) The name of
several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally
white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias,
egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe;
and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima).
Egret (n.) A plume or tuft
of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an
ornament; an aigrette.
Egret (n.) The flying
feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
Egret (n.) A kind of ape.
Egrette (n.) Same as
Egret, n., 2.
Egrimony () The herb agrimony.
Egrimony (n.) Sorrow.
Egriot (n.) A kind of sour
cherry.
Egritude (n.) Sickness;
ailment; sorrow.
Egyptian (a.) Pertaining
to Egypt, in Africa.
Egyptian (n.) A native, or
one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.
Egyptian (n.) A gypsy.
Egyptized (imp. & p. p.)
of Egyptize
Egyptizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Egyptize
Egyptize (v. t.) To give
an Egyptian character or appearance to.
Egyptologer (n.) Alt. of
Egyptologist
Egyptologist (n.) One
skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.
Egyptological (a.) Of,
pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.
Egyptology (n.) The
science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.
Eh (interj.) An expression
of inquiry or slight surprise.
Ehlite (n.) A mineral of a
green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
Eider (n.) Any species of
sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the
northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken
from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck.
The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the
spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.
Eidograph (n.) An
instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the
pantograph.
Eidolon (n.) An image or
representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
Eigh (interj.) An
exclamation expressing delight.
Eight (n.) An island in a
river; an ait.
Eight (a.) Seven and one;
as, eight years.
Eight (n.) The number
greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
Eight (n.) A symbol
representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
Eighteen (a.) Eight and
ten; as, eighteen pounds.
Eighteen (n.) The number
greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
Eighteen (n.) A symbol
denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
Eighteenmo (a. & n.) See
Octodecimo.
Eighteenth (a.) Next in
order after the seventeenth.
Eighteenth (a.) Consisting
of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
Eighteenth (n.) The
quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or
divisions.
Eighteenth (n.) The eighth
after the tenth.
Eightetethe (a.)
Eighteenth.
Eightfold (a.) Eight times
a quantity.
Eighth (a.) Next in order
after the seventh.
Eighth (a.) Consisting of
one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
Eighth (n.) The quotient
of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
Eighth (n.) The interval
of an octave.
Eighthly (adv.) As the
eighth in order.
Eightieth (a.) The next in
order after seventy-ninth.
Eightieth (a.) Consisting
of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
Eightieth (n.) The
quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
Eightling (n.) A compound
or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight
times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Eighty (a.) Eight times
ten; fourscore.
Eighty (n.) The sum of
eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
Eighty (n.) A symbol
representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
Eigne (a.) Eldest;
firstborn.
Eigne (a.) Entailed;
belonging to the eldest son.
Eiking (n.) See Eking.
Eikon (n.) An image or
effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
Eikosane (n.) A solid
hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also
probably occurring in petroleum.
Eikosylene (n.) A liquid
hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
Eild (n.) Age.
Eire (n.) Air.
Eirenarch (n.) A justice
of the peace; irenarch.
Eirenic (a.) Pacific. See
Irenic.
Eirie (n.) See Aerie, and
Eyrie.
Eisel (n.) Vinegar;
verjuice.
Eisteddfod (n.) Am
assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels
and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
Either (a. & pron.) One of
two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a
larger number, for any one.
Either (a. & pron.) Each
of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.
Either (conj. Either)
precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an
alternative. It is correlative to or.
Ejaculated (imp. & p. p.)
of Ejaculate
Ejaculating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ejaculate
Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw
out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw
out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate
a prayer.
Ejaculate (v. i.) To utter
ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
Ejaculation (n.) The act
of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
Ejaculation (n.) The
uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer
uttered.
Ejaculation (n.) The act
of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
Ejaculator (n.) A muscle
which helps ejaculation.
Ejaculatory (a.) Casting
or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.
Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly
darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition.
Ejaculatory (a.) Sudden;
hasty.
Ejected (imp. & p. p.) of
Eject
Ejecting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eject
Eject (v. t.) To expel; to
dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a
person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the
language.
Eject (v. t.) To cast out;
to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Ejection (n.) The act of
ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
Ejection (n.) The act or
process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
Ejection (n.) The state of
being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Ejectment (n.) A casting
out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from
their homes.
Ejectment (n.) A species
of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and
damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it.
Ejector (n.) One who, or
that which, ejects or dispossesses.
Ejector (n.) A jet jump
for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Ejoo (n.) Gomuti fiber.
See Gomuti.
Ejulation (n.) A wailing;
lamentation.
Ekabor (n.) Alt. of
Ekaboron
Ekaboron (n.) The name
given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to
a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; --
so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.
Ekaluminium (n.) The name
given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See
Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
Ekasilicon (n.) The name
of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named
germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group.
See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor.
Eked (imp. & p. p.) of Eke
Eking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of
Eke
Eke (v. t.) To increase;
to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being
to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke
out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
Eke (adv.) In addition;
also; likewise.
Eke (n.) An addition.
Ekebergite (n.) A variety
of scapolite.
Ekename (n.) An additional
or epithet name; a nickname.
Eking (v. t.) A
lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Eking (v. t.) The carved
work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
E-la (n.) Originally, the
highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.
Elaborate (a.) Wrought
with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or
painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate
research.
Elaborated (imp. & p. p.)
of Elaborate
Elaborating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elaborate
Elaborate (v. t.) To
produce with labor
Elaborate (v. t.) To
perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by
successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
Elaboration (n.) The act
or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive
operations; refinement.
Elaboration (n.) The
natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in
animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of
a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of
chyle, or sap, or tissues.
Elaborative (a.) Serving
or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to
details.
Elaborator (n.) One who,
or that which, elaborates.
Elaboratory (a.) Tending
to elaborate.
Elaboratory (n.) A
laboratory.
Elaeagnus (n.) A genus of
shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales;
oleaster.
Elaeis (n.) A genus of
palms.
Elaeolite (n.) A variety
of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
Elaeoptene (n.) The more
liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from
stearoptene, the more solid parts.
Elaidate (n.) A salt of
elaidic acid.
Elaidic (a.) Relating to
oleic acid, or elaine.
Elaidin (n.) A solid
isomeric modification of olein.
Elaine (n.) Alt. of Elain
Elain (n.) Same as Olein.
Elaiodic (a.) Derived from
castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.
Elaiometer (n.) An
apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for
ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
Elamite (n.) A dweller in
Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a
province of Persia.
Elamping (a.) Shining.
Elan (b.) Ardor inspired
by passion or enthusiasm.
Elanced (imp. & p. p.) of
Elance
Elancing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elance
Elance (v. t.) To throw as
a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Eland (n.) A species of
large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and
flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape
elk.
Eland (n.) The elk or
moose.
Elanet (n.) A kite of the
genus Elanus.
Elaolite (n.) See
Elaeolite.
Elaoptene (n.) See
Elaeoptene.
Elaphine (a.) Pertaining
to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.
Elaphure (n.) A species of
deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the
shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
Elapidation (n.) A
clearing away of stones.
Elapine (a.) Like or
pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the
cobras. See Ophidia.
Elaps (n.) A genus of
venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known.
See Coral snake, under Coral.
Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of
Elapse
Elapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elapse
Elapse (v. i.) To slip or
glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to
time.
Elapsion (n.) The act of
elapsing.
Elaqueate (v. t.) To
disentangle.
Elasipoda (n. pl.) An
order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for
their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.
Elasmobranch (a.) Of or
pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.
Elasmobranch (n.) One of
the Elasmobranchii.
Elasmobranchiate (a.) Of
or pertaining to Elasmobranchii.
Elasmobranchiate (n.) One
of the Elasmobranchii.
Elasmobranchii (n. pl.) A
subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The
skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
Elasmosaurus (n.) An
extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to
Plesiosaurus.
Elastic (a.) Springing
back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a
substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of
rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
Elastic (a.) Able to
return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or
overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic
spirits; an elastic constitution.
Elastic (n.) An elastic
woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India
rubber.
Elastical (a.) Elastic.
Elastically (adv.) In an
elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
Elasticity (n.) The
quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover
their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or
altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of
caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.
Elasticity (n.) Power of
resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.
Elasticness (n.) The
quality of being elastic; elasticity.
Elastin (n.) A nitrogenous
substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of
elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved
when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.
Elate (a.) Lifted up;
raised; elevated.
Elate (a.) Having the
spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence;
elated; exultant.
Elated (imp. & p. p.) of
Elate
Elating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elate
Elate (v. t.) To raise; to
exalt.
Elate (v. t.) To exalt the
spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with
success; to puff up; to make proud.
Elatedly (adv.) With
elation.
Elatedness (n.) The state
of being elated.
Elater (n.) One who, or
that which, elates.
Elater (n.) An elastic
spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
Elater (n.) Any beetle of
the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a
sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the
abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping
beetle.
Elater (n.) The caudal
spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
Elater (n.) The active
principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting
cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related
species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a
violent purgative.
Elaterite (n.) A mineral
resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called
also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
Elaterium (n.) A cathartic
substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried
residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste,
formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
Elaterometer (n.) Same as
Elatrometer.
Elatery (n.) Acting force;
elasticity.
Elation (n.) A lifting up
by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.
Elative (a.) Raised;
lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative,
denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that
an equal degree may exist in other cases.
Elatrometer (n.) An
instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the
receiver of an air pump.
Elayl (n.) Olefiant gas or
ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with
chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.
Elbow (n.) The joint or
bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
Elbow (n.) Any turn or
bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in
a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any
structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting,
turning at an angle or bent.
Elbow (n.) A sharp angle
in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank
any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with
the window back.
Elbowed (imp. & p. p.) of
Elbow
Elbowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elbow
Elbow (v. t.) To push or
hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.
Elbow (v. i.) To jut into
an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.
Elbow (v. i.) To push
rudely along; to elbow one's way.
Elbowboard (n.) The base
of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.
Elbowchair (n.) A chair
with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
Elbowroom (n.) Room to
extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.
Elcaja (n.) An Arabian
tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in
the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.
Elcesaite (n.) One of a
sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.
Eld (a.) Old.
Eld (n.) Age; esp., old
age.
Eld (n.) Old times; former
days; antiquity.
Eld (v. i.) To age; to
grow old.
Eld (v. t.) To make old or
ancient.
Elder (a.) Older; more
aged, or existing longer.
Elder (a.) Born before
another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in
infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter,
child, brother, etc.
Elder (a.) One who is
older; a superior in age; a senior.
Elder (a.) An aged person;
one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
Elder (a.) A person who,
on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person
occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity
which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the
elders in the apostolic church.
Elder (a.) A clergyman
authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
Elder (n.) A genus of
shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red
berries.
Elderish (a.) Somewhat
old; elderly.
Elderly (a.) Somewhat old;
advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
Eldern (a.) Made of elder.
Eldership (n.) The state
of being older; seniority.
Eldership (n.) Office of
an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
Elderwort (n.) Danewort.
Eldest (a.) Oldest;
longest in duration.
Eldest (a.) Born or living
first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin.
See Elder.
Elding (n.) Fuel.
El Doradoes (pl. ) of El
Dorado
El Dorado () A name given by the
Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South
America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
El Dorado () Any region of
fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
Eldritch (a.) Hideous;
ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.
Eleatic (a.) Of or
pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only
certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
Eleatic (n.) A philosopher
of the Eleatic school.
Eleaticism (n.) The
Eleatic doctrine.
Elecampane (n.) A large,
coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has
a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a
stomachic.
Elecampane (n.) A
sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
Elect (a.) Chosen; taken
by preference from among two or more.
Elect (a.) Chosen as the
object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
Elect (a.) Chosen to an
office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or
mayor elect.
Elect (n.) One chosen or
set apart.
Elect (n.) Those who are
chosen for salvation.
Elected (imp. & p. p.) of
Elect
Electing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elect
Elect (v. t.) To pick out;
to select; to choose.
Elect (v. t.) To select or
take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a
president, or a governor.
Elect (v. t.) To
designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
Electant (n.) One who has
the power of choosing; an elector.
Electary (n.) See
Electuary.
Electic (a.) See Eclectic.
Electicism (n.) See
Eclecticism.
Election (a.) The act of
choosing; choice; selection.
Election (a.) The act of
choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by
ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a
mayor.
Election (a.) Power of
choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Election (a.)
Discriminating choice; discernment.
Election (a.) Divine
choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one
of the "five points" of Calvinism.
Election (a.) The choice,
made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is
excluded from the other.
Election (a.) Those who
are elected.
Electionered (imp. & p. p.)
of Electioneer
Electioneering (p. pr. & vb.
n.) of Electioneer
Electioneer (v. i.) To
make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the
election of a candidate.
Electioneerer (n.) One who
electioneers.
Elective (a.) Exerting the
power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Elective (a.) Pertaining
to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
Elective (a.) Dependent on
choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective
office.
Elective (n.) In an
American college, an optional study or course of study.
Electively (adv.) In an
elective manner; by choice.
Elector (n.) One who
elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an
election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
Elector (n.) Hence,
specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
Elector (n.) In the old
German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
Elector (n.) One of the
persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the
President and Vice President.
Elector (a.) Pertaining to
an election or to electors.
Electorality (n.) The
territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.
Electorate (n.) The
territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
Electorate (n.) The whole
body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or
any distinct class or division of them.
Electoress (n.) An
electress.
Electorial (a.) Electoral.
Electorship (n.) The
office or status of an elector.
Electre (n.) Alt. of
Electer
Electer (n.) Amber. See
Electrum.
Electer (n.) A metallic
substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy.
Electrepeter (n.) An
instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
Electress (n.) The wife or
widow of an elector in the old German empire.
Electric (a.) Alt. of
Electrical
Electrical (a.) Pertaining
to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by,
electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an
electric spark.
Electrical (a.) Capable of
occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine
or substance.
Electrical (a.)
Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic.
Electric (n.) A
nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or
accumulate electricity.
Electrically (adv.) In the
manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
Electricalness (a.) The
state or quality of being electrical.
Electrician (n.) An
investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
Electricities (pl. ) of
Electricity
Electricity (n.) A power
in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed
equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which
involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces
of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting
accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat,
light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between
the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is
generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium,
whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.
Electricity (n.) The
science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
Electricity (n.) Fig.:
Electrifying energy or characteristic.
Electrifiable (a.) Capable
of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.
Electrification (n.) The
act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
Electrified (imp. & p. p.)
of Electrify
Electrifying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Electrify
Electrify (v. t.) To
communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
Electrify (v. t.) To cause
electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock
to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.
Electrify (v. t.) To
excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or
inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
Electrify (v. i.) To
become electric.
Electrine (a.) Belonging
to, or made of, amber.
Electrine (a.) Made of
electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.
Electrition (n.) The
recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.
Electrization (n.) The act
of electrizing; electrification.
Electrized (imp. & p. p.)
of Electrize
Electrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Electrize
Electrize (v. t.) To
electricity.
Electrizer (n.) One who,
or that which, electrizes.
Electro- () A prefix or combining
form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or
employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic;
electro-magnet.
Electro (n.) An
electrotype.
Electro-ballistic (a.)
Pertaining to electro-ballistics.
Electro-ballistics (n.)
The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of
electricity.
Electro-biologist (n.) One
versed in electro-biology.
Electro-biology (n.) That
branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.
Electro-biology (n.) That
phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to
be produced by a form of electricity.
Electro-bioscopy (n.) A
method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with
a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular
contraction.
Electro-capillarity (n.)
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an
electrical current or charge.
Electro-capillary (a.)
Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
Electro-chemical (a.) Of
or pertaining to electro-chemistry.
Electro-chemistry (n.)
That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical
changes.
Electro-chronograph (n.)
An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed
phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register
connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
Electro-chronographic (a.)
Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.
Electrocute (v. t.) To
execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [Recent;
Newspaper words]
Electrode (n.) The path by
which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting
medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of
electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
Electro-dynamic (a.) Alt.
of Electro-dynamical
Electro-dynamical (a.)
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent
on electric force.
Electro-dynamics (n.) The
phenomena of electricity in motion.
Electro-dynamics (n.) The
branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical
electricity.
Electro-dynamometer (n.)
An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.
Electro-engraving (n.) The
art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
Electro-etching (n.) A
mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.
Electrogenesis (n.) Same
as Electrogeny.
Electrogenic (a.) Of or
pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.
Electrogeny (n.) A term
sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs,
when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.
Electro-gilding (n.) The
art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
Electro-gilt (a.) Gilded
by means of voltaic electricity.
Electrograph (n.) A mark,
record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.
Electro-kinetic (a.) Of or
pertaining to electro-kinetics.
Electro-kinetics (n.) That
branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.
Electrolier (n.) A
branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating
lamps.
Electrology (n.) That
branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its
properties.
Electrolysis (n.) The act
or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the
electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.
Electrolyte (n.) A
compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
Electrolytic (a.) Alt. of
Electrolytical
Electrolytical (a.)
Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.
Electrolyzable (a.)
Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
Electrolyzation (n.) The
act or the process of electrolyzing.
Electrolyzed (imp. & p. p.)
of Electrolyze
Electrolyzing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Electrolyze
Electrolyze (v. t.) To
decompose by the direct action of electricity.
Electro-magnet (n.) A
mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as
nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of
wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally
in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.
Electro-magnetic (a.) Of,
Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an
electric current.
Electro-magnetism (n.) The
magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the
development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties
or actions of the currents evolved.
Electro-metallurgy (n.)
The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating
is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping;
galvanoplasty.
Electrometer (n.) An
instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also,
sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the
presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope).
Electro-metric (a.) Alt.
of Electro-metrical
Electro-metrical (a.)
Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an
electrometrical experiment.
Elextrometry (n.) The art
or process of making electrical measurements.
Electro-motion (n.) The
motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic
circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
Electro-motive (a.)
Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an
electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Electromotor (n.) A mover
or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
Electromotor (n.) An
apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action
of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
Electro-muscular (a.)
Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their
sensibility to it.
Electron (n.) Amber; also,
the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Electro-negative (a.)
Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a
tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite
electricities attract each other.
Electro-negative (a.)
Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
Electro-negative (n.) A
body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
Electropathy (n.) The
treatment of disease by electricity.
Electrophone (n.) An
instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.
Electrophori (pl. ) of
Electrophorus
Electrophorus (n.) An
instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by
induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which
is placed a plate of metal.
Electro-physiological (a.)
Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by
change of action in a living organism.
Electro-physiology (n.)
That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through
physiological agencies.
Electroplating (imp. & p. p.)
of Electroplate
Electroplate (v. t.) To
plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by
means of electrolysis.
Electroplater (n.) One who
electroplates.
Electroplating (n.) The
art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on
an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
Electro-polar (a.)
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one
surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
Electro-positive (a.) Of
such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to
the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated
body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of
electro-negative.
Electro-positive (a.)
Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic,
or acid.
Electro-positive (n.) A
body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Electro-puncturation (n.)
Alt. of Electro-puncturing
Electro-puncturing (n.)
See Electropuncture.
Electro-puncture (n.) An
operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and
connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
Electroscope (n.) An
instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric
state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith
balls, and the like.
Electroscopic (a.)
Relating to, or made by means of, the electroscope.
Electrostatic (a.)
Pertaining to electrostatics.
Electrostatics (n.) That
branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a
state of rest.
Electro-stereotype (n.)
Same as Electrotype.
Electro-telegraphic (a.)
Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
Electro-telegraphy (n.)
The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the
transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
Electro-therapeutics (n.)
The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
Electro-thermancy (n.)
That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric
current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of
two different metals.
Electro-tint (n.) A style
of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a
metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so
that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a
deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this
is then the plate for printing.
Electrotonic (a.) Of or
pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a
conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting
circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain
stationary.
Electrotonic (a.) Relating
to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.
Electrotonize (v. t.) To
cause or produce electrotonus.
Electrotonous (a.)
Electrotonic.
Electrotonus (n.) The
modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes
through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
Electrotype (n.) A
facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or
print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
Electrotyped (imp. & p. p.)
of Electrotype
Electrotyping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Electrotype
Electrotype (v. t.) To
make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page
of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.
Electrotyper (n.) One who
electrotypes.
Electrotypic (a.)
Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.
Electrotyping (n.) The act
or the process of making electrotypes.
Electrotypy (n.) The
process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
Electro-vital (a.) Derived
from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents
supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
Electro-vitalism (n.) The
theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or
a kindred force.
Electrum (n.) Amber.
Electrum (n.) An alloy of
gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
Electrum (n.)
German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
Electuaries (pl. ) of
Electuary
Electuary (n.) A medicine
composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve,
honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.
Eleemosynarily (adv.) In
an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
Eleemosynary (a.) Relating
to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as,
an eleemosynary corporation.
Eleemosynary (a.) Given in
charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
Eleemosynary (a.)
Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
Eleemosynaries (pl. ) of
Eleemosynary
Eleemosynary (n.) One who
subsists on charity; a dependent.
Elegance (n.) Alt. of
Elegancy
Elegancy (n.) The state or
quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the
complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art
or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form,
architecture, etc.
Elegancy (n.) That which
is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
Elegant (a.) Very choice,
and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and
refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and
approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like;
graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of
composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
Elegant (a.) Exercising a
nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Elegantly (adv.) In a
manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
Elegiac (a.) Belonging to
elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as,
an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Elegiac (a.) Used in
elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a
dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Elegiac (n.) Elegiac
verse.
Elegiacal (a.) Elegiac.
Elegiast (n.) One who
composes elegies.
Elegiographer (n.) An
elegist.
Elegist (n.) A write of
elegies.
Elegit (n.) A judicial
writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to
the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are
delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until
the defendant's interest has expired.
Elegize (v. t.) To lament
in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
Elegies (pl. ) of Elegy
Elegy (n.) A mournful or
plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Eleidin (n.) Lifeless
matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living
cells.
Element (n.) One of the
simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon
which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Element (n.) One of the
ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
(Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by
any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and
hydrogen.
Element (n.) One of the
ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the
elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is
complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the
essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar,
and mica are the elements of granite.
Element (n.) One out of
several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of
the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.
Element (n.) One of the
smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular
fiber.
Element (n.) One of the
simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and
vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
Element (n.) An
infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude
considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between
any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the
calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
Element (n.) Sometimes a
curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or
curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the
former.
Element (n.) One of the
terms in an algebraic expression.
Element (n.) One of the
necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general
conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.
Element (n.) The simplest
or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art;
rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.
Element (n.) Any outline
or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing
in question; as, the elements of a plan.
Element (n.) One of the
simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary
principles of matter.
Element (n.) The four
elements were, air, earth, water, and fire
Element (n.) the
conditions and movements of the air.
Element (n.) The elements
of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.
Element (n.) The whole
material composing the world.
Element (n.) The bread and
wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.
Element (v. t.) To
compound of elements or first principles.
Element (v. t.) To
constitute; to make up with elements.
Elemental (a.) Pertaining
to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four
supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.
Elemental (a.) Pertaining
to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
Elementalism (a.) The
theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of
elemental powers.
Elementality (n.) The
condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
Elementally (adv.)
According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body,"
elementally understood.
Elementar (a.) Elementary.
Elementariness (n.) The
state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
Elementarity (n.)
Elementariness.
Elementary (a.) Having
only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple;
uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
Elementary (a.) Pertaining
to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything;
initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
Elementary (a.) Pertaining
to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
Elementation (n.)
Instruction in the elements or first principles.
Elementoid (a.) Resembling
an element.
Elemi (n.) A fragrant gum
resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A.
elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the
manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.
Elemin (n.) A transparent,
colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a
crystallizable extract from the resin.
Elenchs (pl. ) of Elench
Elench (n.) That part of
an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes
an antagonist; a refutation.
Elench (n.) A specious but
fallacious argument; a sophism.
Elenchical (a.) Pertaining
to an elench.
Elenchically (adv.) By
means of an elench.
Elenchize (v. i.) To
dispute.
Elenchtic (a.) Alt. of
Elenchtical
Elenchtical (a.) Same as
Elenctic.
Elenchus (n.) Same as
Elench.
Elenctic (a.) Alt. of
Elenctical
Elenctical (a.) Serving to
refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to
deictic.
Elenge (a.) Sorrowful;
wretched; full of trouble.
Elengeness (n.)
Loneliness; misery.
Elephansy (n.)
Elephantiasis.
Elephant (n.) A mammal of
the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E.
Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or
trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw,
and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds.
Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
Elephant (n.) Ivory; the
tusk of the elephant.
Elephantiac (a.) Affected
with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
Elephantiasis (n.) A
disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough,
hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
Elephantine (a.)
Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size);
hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step
or tread.
Elephantoid (a.) Alt. of
Elephantoidal
Elephantoidal (a.)
Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
Eleusinian (a.) Pertaining
to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated;
as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
Eleutheromania (n.) A
mania or frantic zeal for freedom.
Eleutheromaniac (a.) Mad
for freedom.
Eleuthero-petalous (a.)
Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of
both plant and flower.
Elevate (a.) Elevated;
raised aloft.
Elevated (imp. & p. p.) of
Elevate
Elevating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elevate
Elevate (v. t.) To bring
from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a
flagstaff, etc.
Elevate (v. t.) To raise
to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high
social position.
Elevate (v. t.) To raise
from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.
Elevate (v. t.) To exalt;
to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.
Elevate (v. t.) To raise
to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to
elevate the voice.
Elevate (v. t.) To
intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
Elevate (v. t.) To lessen;
to detract from; to disparage.
Elevated (a.) Uplifted;
high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.
Elevatedness (n.) The
quality of being elevated.
Elevation (n.) The act of
raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of
material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain;
elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
Elevation (n.) Condition
of being elevated; height; exaltation.
Elevation (n.) That which
is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the
ground; a hill.
Elevation (n.) The
distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical
circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of
the pole, or of a star.
Elevation (n.) The angle
which the style makes with the substylar line.
Elevation (n.) The
movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of
elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/
sight; -- distinguished from direction.
Elevation (n.) A
geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular
to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the
ancients the orthography.
Elevator (n.) One who, or
that which, raises or lifts up anything
Elevator (n.) A mechanical
contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or
buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.
Elevator (n.) A cage or
platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for
conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called
in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.
Elevator (n.) A building
for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
Elevator (n.) A muscle
which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
Elevator (n.) An
instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
Elevatory (a.) Tending to
raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
Elevatory (n.) See
Elevator, n. (e).
Eleve (n.) A pupil; a
student.
Eleven (a.) Ten and one
added; as, eleven men.
Eleven (n.) The sum of ten
and one; eleven units or objects.
Eleven (n.) A symbol
representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
Eleven (n.) The eleven men
selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a
locality; as, the all-England eleven.
Eleventh (a.) Next after
the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.
Eleventh (a.) Constituting
one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a
thing.
Eleventh (a.) Of or
pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
Eleventh (n.) The quotient
of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
Eleventh (n.) The interval
consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a
fourth.
Elves (pl. ) of Elf
Elf (n.) An imaginary
supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological
diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally
represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
Elf (n.) A very diminutive
person; a dwarf.
Elf (v. t.) To entangle
mischievously, as an elf might do.
Elfin (a.) Relating to
elves.
Elfin (n.) A little elf or
urchin.
Elfish (a.) Of or relating
to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though
caused by elves.
Elfishly (adv.) In an
elfish manner.
Elfishness (n.) The
quality of being elfish.
Elfkin (n.) A little elf.
Elfland (n.) Fairyland.
Elflock (n.) Hair matted,
or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
Elgin marbles () Greek sculptures
in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
Elicit (a.) Elicited;
drawn out; made real; open; evident.
Elicited (imp. & p. p.) of
Elicit
Eliciting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elicit
Elicit (v. t.) To draw out
or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by
reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
Elicitate (v. t.) To
elicit.
Elicitation (n.) The act
of eliciting.
Elided (imp. & p. p.) of
Elide
Eliding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elide
Elide (v. t.) To break or
dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
Elide (v. t.) To cut off,
as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
Eligibility (n.) The
quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the
eligibility of an offer of marriage.
Eligible (a.) That may be
selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and
to hold office.
Eligible (a.) Worthy to be
chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
Eligibleness (n.) The
quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
Eligibly (adv.) In an
eligible manner.
Elimate (v. t.) To render
smooth; to polish.
Eliminant (n.) The result
of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; --
called also resultant.
Eliminated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eliminate
Eliminating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eliminate
Eliminate (v. t.) To put
out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate (v. t.) To cause
to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
Eliminate (v. t.) To set
aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of
consideration.
Eliminate (v. t.) To
obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an
idea or a conclusion.
Eliminate (v. t.) To
separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea,
the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Elimination (n.) The act
of expelling or throwing off
Elimination (n.) the act
of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the
various emunctories.
Elimination (n.) Act of
causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation
of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less
number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
Elimination (n.) The act
of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See
Eliminate, 4.]
Eliminative (a.) Relating
to, or carrying on, elimination.
Elinguate (v. t.) To
deprive of the tongue.
Elinguation (n.)
Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
Elinguid (a.) Tongue-tied;
dumb.
Eliquament (n.) A liquid
obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
Eliquation (n.) The
process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a
degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of
copper and lead; liquation.
Elison (n.) Division;
separation.
Elison (n.) The cutting
off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony;
esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel
in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
Elisor (n.) An elector or
chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a
writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
Elite (n.) A choice or
select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
Elix (v. t.) To extract.
Elixate (v. t.) To boil;
to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
Elixation (n.) A seething;
digestion.
Elixir (n.) A tincture
with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various
substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
Elixir (n.) An imaginary
liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life
indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
Elixir (n.) The refined
spirit; the quintessence.
Elixir (n.) Any cordial or
substance which invigorates.
Elizabethan (a.)
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or
literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
Elizabethan (n.) One who
lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Elk (n.) A large deer, of
several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely
allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis),
is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.
Elk (n.) Alt. of Elke
Elke (n.) The European
wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
Elknut (n.) The buffalo
nut. See under Buffalo.
Elkwood (n.) The soft,
spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
Ell (n.) A measure for
cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries;
the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about
37.
Ell (n.) See L.
Ellachick (n.) A
fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.
Ellagic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
Ellebore (n.) Hellebore.
Elleborin (n.) See
Helleborin.
Elleck (n.) The red
gurnard or cuckoo fish.
Ellenge (n) Alt. of
Ellingeness
Ellinge (n) Alt. of
Ellingeness
Ellengeness (n) Alt. of
Ellingeness
Ellingeness (n) See
Elenge, Elengeness.
Elles (adv. & conj.) See
Else.
Ellipse (n.) An oval or
oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique
projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite
sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least
diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
Ellipse (n.) Omission. See
Ellipsis.
Ellipse (n.) The
elliptical orbit of a planet.
Ellipses (pl. ) of
Ellipsis
Ellipsis (n.) Omission; a
figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood,
are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
Ellipsis (n.) An ellipse.
Ellipsograph (n.) An
instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.
Ellipsoid (n.) A solid,
all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).
Ellipsoid (a.) Alt. of
Ellipsoidal
Ellipsoidal (a.)
Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
Elliptic (a.) Alt. of
Elliptical
Elliptical (a.) Of or
pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded
ends.
Elliptical (a.) Having a
part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Elliptically (adv.) In the
form of an ellipse.
Elliptically (adv.) With a
part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
Ellipticity (n.) Deviation
of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially,
in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial
and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the
earth is /.
Elliptic-lanceolate (a.)
Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
Elliptograph (n.) Same as
Ellipsograph.
Ellwand (n.) Formerly, a
measuring rod an ell long.
Elm (n.) A tree of the
genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in
America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm
is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.
Elmen (a.) Belonging to
elms.
Elmo's fire () See Corposant;
also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.
Elmy (a.) Abounding with
elms.
Elocation (n.) A removal
from the usual place of residence.
Elocation (n.) Departure
from the usual state; an ecstasy.
Elocular (a.) Having but
one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
Elocution (n.) Utterance
by speech.
Elocution (n.) Oratorical
or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style
or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
Elocution (n.) Suitable
and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.
Elocutionary (a.)
Pertaining to elocution.
Elocutionist (n.) One who
is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
Elocutive (a.) Pertaining
to oratorical expression.
Elodian (n.) One of a
tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck
can be withdrawn.
Eloge (n.) A panegyrical
funeral oration.
Elogist (n.) One who
pronounces an eloge.
Elogium (n.) Alt. of Elogy
Elogy (n.) The praise
bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.
Elohim (n.) One of the
principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Elohist (n.) The writer,
or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of
Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished
from Jehovist.
Elohistic (a.) Relating to
Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.
Eloigned (imp. & p. p.) of
Eloign
Eloigning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eloign
Eloign (v. t.) To remove
afar off; to withdraw.
Eloign (v. t.) To convey
to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to
distress.
Eloignate (v. t.) To
remove.
Eloignment (n.) Removal to
a distance; withdrawal.
Eloin (v. t.) See Eloign.
Eloinate (v. t.) See
Eloignate.
Eloinment (n.) See
Eloignment.
Elong (v. t.) To lengthen
out; to prolong.
Elong (v. t.) To put away;
to separate; to keep off.
Elongated (imp. & p. p.)
of Elongate
Elongating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elongate
Elongate (a.) To lengthen;
to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
Elongate (a.) To remove
further off.
Elongate (v. i.) To depart
to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet
in its orbit.
Elongate (a.) Drawn out at
length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.
Elongation (n.) The act of
lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
Elongation (n.) That which
lengthens out; continuation.
Elongation (n.) Removal to
a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
Elongation (n.) The
angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or
Mercury.
Eloped (imp. & p. p.) of
Elope
Eloping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elope
Elope (v. t.) To run away,
or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; --
said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away
with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Elopement (n.) The act of
eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run
away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.
Eloper (n.) One who
elopes.
Elops (n.) A genus of
fishes. See Saury.
Elops (n.) A mythical
serpent.
Eloquence (n.) Fluent,
forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing
strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written,
thereby producing conviction or persuasion.
Eloquence (n.) Fig.:
Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech.
Eloquence (n.) That which
is eloquently uttered or written.
Eloquent (a.) Having the
power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated,
impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.
Eloquent (a.) Adapted to
express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as,
an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.
Eloquently (adv.) In an
eloquent manner.
Elrich (a.) Alt. of
Elritch
Elritch (a.) Ghastly;
preternatural. Same as Eldritch.
Else (a. & pron.) Other;
one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you
expect anything else?
Else (adv. & conj.)
Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.
Else (adv. & conj.)
Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
Elsewhere (adv.) In any
other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.
Elsewhere (adv.) In some
other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and
elsewhere.
Elsewhither (adv.) To
some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it.
Elsewise (adv.) Otherwise.
Elsin (n.) A shoemaker's
awl.
Elucidated (imp. & p. p.)
of Elucidate
Elucidating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elucidate
Elucidate (v. t.) To make
clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example
will elucidate the subject.
Elucidation (n.) A making
clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an
exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation
of the subject.
Elucidative (a.) Making
clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.
Elucidator (n.) One who
explains or elucidates; an expositor.
Elucidatory (a.) Tending
to elucidate; elucidative.
Eluctate (v. i.) To
struggle out; -- with out.
Eluctation (n.) A
struggling out of any difficulty.
Elucubrate (v. i.) See
Lucubrate.
Elucubration (n.) See
Lucubration.
Eluded (imp. & p. p.) of
Elude
Eluding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elude
Elude (v. t.) To avoid
slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner;
to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude
detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or
a blow.
Eludible (a.) Capable of
being eluded; evadible.
Elul (n.) The sixth month
of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil
reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.
Elumbated (a.) Weak or
lame in the loins.
Elusion (n.) Act of
eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
Elusive (a.) Tending to
elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding
the grasp; fallacious.
Elusory (a.) Tending to
elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.
Elute (v. t.) To wash out.
Elutriated (imp. & p. p.)
of Elutriate
Elutriating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Elutriate
Elutriate (v. t.) To wash
or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through
the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier
particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.
Elutriation (n.) The
process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer
particles from heavier.
Eluxate (v. t.) To
dislocate; to luxate.
Eluxation (n.)
Dislocation; luxation.
Elvan (a.) Pertaining to
elves; elvish.
Elvan (a.) Of or
pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing
metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.
Elvan (n.) Alt. of
Elvanite
Elvanite (n.) The rock of
an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.
Elve (n.) An old form of
Elf.
Elver (n.) A young eel; a
young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
Elf (pl. ) of Elves
Elvish (a.) Pertaining to
elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See
Elfish.
Elvish (a.) Mysterious;
also, foolish.
Elvishly (adv.) In an
elvish manner.
Elwand (n.) See Ellwand.
Elysian (a.) Pertaining,
or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures;
exceedingly delightful; beatific.
Elysiums (pl. ) of Elysium
Elysia (pl. ) of Elysium
Elysium (n.) A dwelling
place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness;
Paradise.
Elysium (n.) Hence, any
delightful place.
Elytriform (a.) Having the
form, or structure, of an elytron.
Elytrin (n.) See Chitin.
Elytroid (a.) Resembling a
beetle's wing case.
Elytra (pl. ) of Elytrum
Elytron (n.) Alt. of
Elytrum
Elytrum (n.) One of the
anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are
thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.
Elytrum (n.) One of the
shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.
Elzevir (a.) Applied to
books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and
published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to
1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
'Em () An obsolete or colloquial
contraction of the old form hem, them.
Em (n.) The portion of a
line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by
which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body
of a type.
Em- () A prefix. See En-.
Emacerate (v. t. & i.) To
make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
Emaceration (n.)
Emaciation.
Emaciated (imp. & p. p.)
of Emaciate
Emaciating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emaciate
Emaciate (v. i.) To lose
flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Emaciate (v. t.) To cause
to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
Emaciate (a.) Emaciated.
Emaciation (n.) The act of
making very lean.
Emaciation (n.) The state
of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean
condition.
Emaculate (v. t.) To clear
from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
Emaculation (n.) The act
of clearing from spots.
Aemail ombrant () An art or
process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on
earthenware or porcelain.
Emanant (a.) Issuing or
flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent
by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
Emanated (imp. & p. p.) of
Emanate
Emanating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emanate
Emanate (v. i.) To issue
forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance
emanates from flowers.
Emanate (v. i.) To proceed
from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
Emanate (a.) Issuing
forth; emanant.
Emanation (n.) The act of
flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Emanation (n.) That which
issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence;
as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.
Emanative (a.) Issuing
forth; effluent.
Emanatively (adv.) By an
emanation.
Emanatory (a.) Emanative;
of the nature of an emanation.
Emancipated (imp. & p. p.)
of Emancipate
Emancipating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emancipate
Emancipate (v. t.) To set
free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor
from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from
bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a
country.
Emancipate (v. t.) To free
from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or
evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
Emancipate (a.) Set at
liberty.
Emancipation (n.) The act
of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence,
or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation;
as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of
a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the
emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
Emancipationist (n.) An
advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
Emancipator (n.) One who
emancipates.
Emancipatory (a.)
Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.
Emancipist (n.) A freed
convict.
Emarginate (v. t.) To take
away the margin of.
Emarginate (a.) Alt. of
Emarginated
Emarginated (a.) Having
the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
Emarginated (a.) Notched
at the summit.
Emarginated (a.) Having
the edges truncated.
Emarginately (adv.) In an
emarginate manner.
Emargination (n.) The act
of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a
notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
Emasculated (imp. & p. p.)
of Emasculate
Emasculating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emasculate
Emasculate (v. t.) To
deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Emasculate (v. t.) To
deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to
vitiate by unmanly softness.
Emasculate (a.) Deprived
of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
Emasculation (n.) The act
of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
Emasculation (n.) The act
of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly
weakness.
Emasculator (n.) One who,
or that which, emasculates.
Emasculatory (a.) Serving
or tending to emasculate.
Embace (v. t.) See Embase.
Embale (v. t.) To make up
into a bale or pack.
Embale (v. t.) To bind up;
to inclose.
Emball (v. t.) To encircle
or embrace.
Embalmed (imp. & p. p.) of
Embalm
Embalming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embalm
Embalm (v. t.) To anoint
all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other
aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics
and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
Embalm (v. t.) To fill or
imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
Embalm (v. t.) To preserve
from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
Embalmer (n.) One who
embalms.
Embalmment (n.) The act of
embalming.
Embanked (imp. & p. p.) of
Embank
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embank
Embank (v. t.) To throw up
a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Embankment (n.) The act of
surrounding or defending with a bank.
Embankment (n.) A
structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a
level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway,
etc.
Embarred (imp. & p. p.) of
Embar
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embar
Embar (v. t.) To bar or
shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
Embar (v. t.) To stop; to
hinder by prohibition; to block up.
Embarcation (n.) Same as
Embarkation.
Embarge (v. t.) To put in
a barge.
Embargoes (pl. ) of
Embargo
Embargo (n.) An edict or
order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some
or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Embargoed (imp. & p. p.)
of Embargo
Embargoing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embargo
Embargo (v. t.) To lay an
embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships,
also of commerce and goods.
Embarked (imp. & p. p.) of
Embark
Embarking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embark
Embark (v. t.) To cause to
go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Embark (v. t.) To engage,
enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his
fortune in trade.
Embark (v. i.) To go on
board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
Embark (v. i.) To engage
in any affair.
Embarkation (n.) The act
of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embarkation (n.) That
which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.
Embarkment (n.)
Embarkation.
Embarrassed (imp. & p. p.)
of Embarrass
Embarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embarrass
Embarrass (v. t.) To
hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or
confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter
may embarrass an orator.
Embarrass (v. t.) To
hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is
embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
Embarrass (v. t.) To
involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to
beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a
man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary
engagements.
Embarrass (v. t.)
Embarrassment.
Embarrassment (n.) A state
of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement;
hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or
to say; disconcertedness.
Embarrassment (n.)
Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
Embase (v. t.) To bring
down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to
deteriorate.
Embasement (v. t.) Act of
bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
Embassade (n.) An embassy.
See Ambassade.
Embassador (n.) Same as
Ambassador.
Embassadorial (a.) Same as
Ambassadorial.
Embassadress (n.) Same as
Ambassadress.
Embassadry (n.) Embassy.
Embassage (n.) An embassy.
Embassage (n.) Message;
errand.
Embassies (pl. ) of
Embassy
Embassy (n.) The public
function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or
to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence,
any solemn message.
Embassy (n.) The person or
persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
Embassy (n.) The residence
or office of an ambassador.
Embastardize (v. t.) To
bastardize.
Embathe (v. t.) To bathe;
to imbathe.
Embattail (v. t.) To
furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
Embattled (imp. & p. p.)
of Embattle
Embattling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embattle
Embattle (v. t.) To
arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for
battle; to equip as for battle.
Embattle (v. i.) To be
arrayed for battle.
Embattle (v. t.) To
furnish with battlements.
Embattled (a.) Having
indentations like a battlement.
Embattled (a.) Having the
edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the
like.
Embattled (a.) Having been
the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
Embattlement (n.) An
intended parapet; a battlement.
Embattlement (n.) The
fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
Embay (v. t.) To bathe; to
soothe or lull as by bathing.
Embayed (imp. & p. p.) of
Embay
Embaying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embay
Embay (v. t.) To shut in,
or shelter, as in a bay.
Embayment (n.) A bay.
Embeam (v. t.) To make
brilliant with beams.
Embedded (imp. & p. p.) of
Embed
Embedding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embed
Embed (v. t.) To lay as in
a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay,
mortar, or sand.
Embedment (n.) The act of
embedding, or the state of being embedded.
Embellished (imp. & p. p.)
of Embellish
Embellishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embellish
Embellish (v. t.) To make
beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a
book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking
anecdotes, or style with metaphors.
Embellisher (n.) One who
embellishes.
Embellishment (n.) The act
of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
Embellishment (n.) That
which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial
embellishments.
Ember (n.) A lighted coal,
smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals
and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
Ember (a.) Making a
circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as,
ember fasts.
Ember-goose (n.) The loon
or great northern diver. See Loon.
Emberings (n. pl.) Ember
days.
Embetter (v. t.) To make
better.
Embezzled (imp. & p. p.)
of Embezzle
Embezzling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embezzle
Embezzle (v. t.) To
appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care;
to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held
in trust.
Embezzle (v. t.) To
misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Embezzlement (n.) The
fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted;
as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds
by the public officer having them in charge.
Embezzler (n.) One who
embezzles.
Embillow (v. i.) To swell
or heave like a ///// of the sea.
Embiotocoid (a.) Belonging
to, or resembling, the Embiotocidae.
Embiotocoid (n.) One of a
family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable
for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See
Illust. in Append.
Embitter (v. t.) To make
bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Embitterment (n.) The act
of embittering; also, that which embitters.
Emblanch (v. t.) To
whiten. See Blanch.
Emblazed (imp. & p. p.) of
Emblaze
Emblazing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emblaze
Emblaze (v. t.) To adorn
with glittering embellishments.
Emblaze (v. t.) To paint
or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.
Emblazoned (imp. & p. p.)
of Emblazon
Emblazoning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emblazon
Emblazon (v. t.) To depict
or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
Emblazon (v. t.) To deck
in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
Emblazoner (n.) One who
emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
Emblazoning (n.) The act
or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
Emblazonment (n.) An
emblazoning.
Emblazonries (pl. ) of
Emblazonry
Emblazonry (n.) The act or
art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures
on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
Emblem (n.) Inlay; inlaid
or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Emblem (n.) A visible sign
of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting
another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative
representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of
justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of
eternity.
Emblem (n.) A picture
accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral
lesson or meditation.
Emblemed (imp. & p. p.) of
Emblem
Embleming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emblem
Emblem (v. t.) To
represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
Emblematic (a.) Alt. of
Emblematical
Emblematical (a.)
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically
representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments;
a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.
Emblematiccize (v. t.) To
render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.
Emblematist (n.) A writer
or inventor of emblems.
Emblematized (imp. & p. p.)
of Emblematize
Emblematizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emblematize
Emblematize (v. t.) To
represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
Emblement (n.) The growing
crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in
the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.
Emblemized (imp. & p. p.)
of Emblemize
Emblemizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emblemize
Emblemize (v. t.) To
represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
Embloom (v. t.) To
emblossom.
Emblossom (v. t.) To cover
or adorn with blossoms.
Embodier (n.) One who
embodies.
Embodiment (n.) The act of
embodying; the state of being embodied.
Embodiment (n.) That which
embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely
organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy;
the embodiment of true piety.
Embodied (imp. & p. p.) of
Embody
Embodying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embody
Embody (v. t.) To form
into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a
whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.
Embody (v. i.) To unite in
a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Embogue (v. i.) To
disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
Emboguing (n.) The mouth
of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
Emboil (v. i.) To boil
with anger; to effervesce.
Emboil (v. t.) To cause to
boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
Emboitement (n.) The
hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these
encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.
Emboldened (imp. & p. p.)
of Embolden
Emboldening (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embolden
Embolden (v. t.) To give
boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Emboldener (n.) One who
emboldens.
Embolic (a.) Embolismic.
Embolic (a.) Pertaining to
an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.
Embolic (a.) Pushing or
growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
Embolism (n.)
Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time,
to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
Embolism (n.) Intercalated
time.
Embolism (n.) The
occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces
sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
Embolismal (a.) Pertaining
to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
Embolismatic (a.) Alt. of
Embolismatical
Embolismatical (a.)
Embolismic.
Embolismic (a.) Alt. of
Embolismical
Embolismical (a.)
Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year,
i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
Embolite (n.) A mineral
consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
Emboli (pl. ) of Embolus
Embolus (n.) Something
inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
Embolus (n.) A plug of
some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood
current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a
morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
Emboly (n.) Embolic
invagination. See under Invagination.
Embonpoint (n.) Plumpness
of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
Emborder (v. t.) To
furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
Embosom (v. t.) To take
into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
Embosom (v. t.) To inclose
or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.
Embossed (imp. & p. p.) of
Emboss
Embossing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emboss
Emboss (v. t.) To arise
the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with
raised work.
Emboss (v. t.) To raise in
relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
Emboss (v. t.) To make to
foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
Emboss (v. t.) To hide or
conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
Emboss (v. t.) To
surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
Emboss (v. i.) To seek the
bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
Embossed (a.) Formed or
covered with bosses or raised figures.
Embossed (a.) Having a
part projecting like the boss of a shield.
Embossed (a.) Swollen;
protuberant.
Embosser (n.) One who
embosses.
Embossment (n.) The act of
forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
Embossment (n.) A bosslike
prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a
combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect.
Embottle (v. t.) To
bottle.
Embouchure (n.) The mouth
of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
Embouchure (n.) The
mouthpiece of a wind instrument.
Embouchure (n.) The
shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.
Embow (v. t.) To bend like
a bow; to curve.
Emboweled (imp. & p. p.)
of Embowel
Embowelled () of Embowel
Emboweling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embowel
Embowelling () of Embowel
Embowel (v. t.) To
disembowel.
Embowel (v. t.) To imbed;
to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
Emboweler (n.) One who
takes out the bowels.
Embowelment (n.)
Disembowelment.
Embower (v. t.) To cover
with a bower; to shelter with trees.
Embower (v. i.) To lodge
or rest in a bower.
Embowl (v. t.) To form
like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
Embox (v. t.) To inclose,
as in a box; to imbox.
Emboyssement (n.) An
ambush.
Embrace (v. t.) To fasten
on, as armor.
Embraced (imp. & p. p.) of
Embrace
Embracing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embrace
Embrace (n.) To clasp in
the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
Embrace (n.) To cling to;
to cherish; to love.
Embrace (n.) To seize
eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
Embrace (n.) To encircle;
to encompass; to inclose.
Embrace (n.) To include as
parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces
many sciences.
Embrace (n.) To accept; to
undergo; to submit to.
Embrace (n.) To attempt to
influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
Embrace (v. i.) To join in
an embrace.
Embrace (n.) Intimate or
close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
Embracement (n.) A clasp
in the arms; embrace.
Embracement (n.) State of
being contained; inclosure.
Embracement (n.) Willing
acceptance.
Embraceor (n.) One guilty
of embracery.
Embracer (n.) One who
embraces.
Embracery (n.) An attempt
to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money,
entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
Embracive (a.) Disposed to
embrace; fond of caressing.
Embraid (v. t.) To braid
up, as hair.
Embraid (v. t.) To
upbraid.
Embranchment (n.) The
branching forth, as of trees.
Embrangle (v. t.) To
confuse; to entangle.
Embrasure (n.) An embrace.
Embrasure (n.) A splay of
a door or window.
Embrasure (n.) An aperture
with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and
discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
Embrave (v. t.) To inspire
with bravery.
Embrave (v. t.) To
decorate; to make showy and fine.
Embrawn (v. t.) To harden.
Embread (v. t.) To braid.
Embreathement (n.) The act
of breathing in; inspiration.
Embrew (v. t.) To imbrue;
to stain with blood.
Embright (v. t.) To
brighten.
Embrocated (imp. & p. p.)
of Embrocate
Embrocating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embrocate
Embrocate (v. t.) To
moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil,
etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
Embrocation (n.) The act
of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
Embrocation (n.) The
liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
Embroglio (n.) See
Imbroglio.
Embroidered (imp. & p. p.)
of Embroider
Embroidering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embroider
Embroider (v. t.) To
ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
Embroiderer (n.) One who
embroiders.
Embroideries (pl. ) of
Embroidery
Embroidery (n.) Needlework
used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
Embroidery (n.)
Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated
decoration.
Embroiled (imp. & p. p.)
of Embroil
Embroiling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Embroil
Embroil (v. t.) To throw
into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or
quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension
or strife.
Embroil (v. t.) To
implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
Embroil (n.) See
Embroilment.
Embroiler (n.) One who
embroils.
Embroilment (n.) The act
of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.
Embronze (v. t.) To embody
in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.
Embronze (v. t.) To color
in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.
Embrothel (v. t.) To
inclose in a brothel.
Embroude (v. t.) Alt. of
Embroyde
Embrowde (v. t.) Alt. of
Embroyde
Embroyde (v. t.) To
embroider; to adorn.
Embrown (v. t.) To give a
brown color to; to imbrown.
Embrue (v. t.) See Imbrue,
Embrew.
Embrute (v. t.) To
brutify; to imbrute.
Embryos (pl. ) of Embryo
Embryo (n.) The first
rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
Embryo (n.) The young of
an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and
it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
Embryo (n.) The germ of
the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
Embryo (a.) Pertaining to
an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
Embryogenic (a.)
Pertaining to the development of an embryo.
Embryogeny (n.) The
production and development of an embryo.
Embryogony (n.) The
formation of an embryo.
Embryography (n.) The
general description of embryos.
Embryologic (a.) Alt. of
Embryological
Embryological (a.) Of or
pertaining to embryology.
Embryologist (n.) One
skilled in embryology.
Embryology (n.) The
science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals
and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the
adult stage.
Embryon (n. & a.) See
Embryo.
Embryonal (a.) Pertaining
to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
Embryonary (a.) Embryonic.
Embryonate (a.) Alt. of
Embryonated
Embryonated (a.) In the
state of, or having, an embryonal.
Embryonic (a.) Of or
pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
Embryoniferous (a.) Having
an embryo.
Embryoniform (a.) Like an
embryo in form.
Embryoplastic (n.)
Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
Embryo sac () See under
Embryonic.
Embryotic (a.) Embryonic.
Embryotomy (n.) The
cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
Embryotroph (n.) The
material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
Embryous (a.) Embryonic;
undeveloped.
Embulk (v. t.) To enlarge
in the way of bulk.
Emburse (v. t.) To furnish
with money; to imburse.
Embush (v. t.) To place or
hide in a thicket; to ambush.
Embushment (n.) An ambush.
Embusy (v. t.) To employ.
Eme (n.) An uncle.
Emeer (n.) Same as Emir.
Emenagogue (n.) See
Emmenagogue.
Emended (imp. & p. p.) of
Emend
Emending (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emend
Emend (v. t.) To purge of
faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary
work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.
Emendable (a.) Corrigible;
amendable.
Emendately (adv.) Without
fault; correctly.
Emendation (n.) The act of
altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction;
improvement.
Emendation (n.) Alteration
by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of
errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by
judicious emendations.
Emendator (n.) One who
emends or critically edits.
Emendatory (a.) Pertaining
to emendation; corrective.
Emender (n.) One who
emends.
Emendicate (v. t.) To beg.
Emerald (n.) A precious
stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
Emerald (n.) A kind of
type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers.
Emerald (a.) Of a rich
green color, like that of the emerald.
Emeraldine (n.) A green
compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.
Emeraud (n.) An emerald.
Emerged (imp. & p. p.) of
Emerge
Emerging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emerge
Emerge (v. i.) To rise out
of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged,
enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or
the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from
poverty or obscurity.
Emergences (pl. ) of
Emergence
Emergence (n.) The act of
rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of
rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.
Emergencies (pl. ) of
Emergency
Emergency (n.) Sudden or
unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.
Emergency (n.) An
unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate
action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency.
Emergent (a.) Rising or
emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to
light.
Emergent (a.) Suddenly
appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.
Emeril (n.) Emery.
Emeril (n.) A glazier's
diamond.
Emerited (a.) Considered
as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.
Emeritus (a.) Honorably
discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or
long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a
church.
Emeriti (pl. ) of Emeritus
Emeritus (n.) A veteran
who has honorably completed his service.
Emerods (n. pl.) Alt. of
Emeroids
Emeroids (n. pl.)
Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.
Emersed (a.) Standing out
of, or rising above, water.
Emersion (n.) The act of
emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from
obscurity or difficulties.
Emersion (n.) The
reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the
emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from
behind the moon.
Emery (n.) Corundum in the
form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard
substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note
under Corundum.
Emesis (n.) A vomiting.
Emetic (a.) Inducing to
vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
Emetic (n.) A medicine
which causes vomiting.
Emetical (a.) Inducing to
vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.
Emetine (n.) A white
crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its
peculiar emetic principle.
Emeto-cathartic (a.)
Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
Emeu (n.) Alt. of Emew
Emew (n.) See Emu.
Emeute (n.) A seditious
tumult; an outbreak.
Emforth (prep.) According
to; conformably to.
Emgalla (n.) The South
African wart hog. See Wart hog.
Emicant (a.) Beaming
forth; flashing.
Emication (n.) A flying
off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling;
scintillation.
Emiction (n.) The voiding
of urine.
Emiction (n.) What is
voided by the urinary passages; urine.
Emictory (a. & n.)
Diuretic.
Emigrant (v. i.) Removing
from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
Emigrant (v. i.)
Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.
Emigrant (n.) One who
emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
Emigrated (imp. & p. p.)
of Emigrate
Emigrating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emigrate
Emigrate (v. i.) To remove
from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate
from home.
Emigrate (a.) Migratory;
roving.
Emigration (n.) The act of
emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of
residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States
to the Western.
Emigration (n.) A body
emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
Emigrational (a.) Relating
to emigration.
Emigrationist (n.) An
advocate or promoter of emigration.
Emigrator (n.) One who
emigrates; am emigrant.
Emigre (n.) One of the
natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their
country in consequence.
Eminence (n.) That which
is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.
Eminence (n.) An elevated
condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank,
office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction;
preferment.
Eminence (n.) A title of
honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.
Eminences (pl. ) of
Eminency
Eminency (n.) State of
being eminent; eminence.
Eminent (a.) High; lofty;
towering; prominent.
Eminent (a.) Being,
metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue;
high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station;
an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint.
Eminently (adv.) In an
eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.
Emir (n.) Alt. of Emeer
Emeer (n.) An Arabian
military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an
honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter
Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high
officials.
Emirship (n.) Alt. of
Emeership
Emeership (n.) The rank or
office of an Emir.
Emissaries (pl. ) of
Emissary
Emissary (n.) An agent
employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one
sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction
among the people of the latter.
Emissary (a.) Exploring;
spying.
Emissary (a.) Applied to
the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Emissaryship (n.) The
office of an emissary.
Emission (n.) The act of
sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation;
issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire;
the emission of bank notes.
Emission (n.) That which
is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission
was mostly blood.
Emissitious (a.) Looking,
or narrowly examining; prying.
Emissive (a.) Sending out;
emitting; as, emissive powers.
Emissivity (n.) Tendency
to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes
place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.
Emissory (a.) Same as
Emissary, a., 2.
Emitted (imp. & p. p.) of
Emit
Emitting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emit
Emit (v. t.) To send
forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to
discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun
emits light.
Emit (v. t.) To issue
forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or
bills of credit.
Emittent (a.) Sending
forth; emissive.
Emmantle (v. t.) To cover
over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.
Emmanuel (n.) See
Immanuel.
Emmarble (v. t.) To turn
to marble; to harden.
Emmenagogue (n.) A
medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
Emmet (n.) An ant.
Emmetropia (n.) That
refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought
accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to
hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.
Emmetropic (a.) Pertaining
to, or characterized by, emmetropia.
Emmetropy (n.) Same as
Emmetropia.
Emmew (v. t.) To mew or
coop up.
Emmove (v. t.) To move; to
rouse; to excite.
Emodin (n.) An orange-red
crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and
regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of
rhubarb (Rheum emodei).
Emollescence (n.) That
degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first
or lowest degree of fusibility.
Emolliated (imp. & p. p.)
of Emolliate
Emolliating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emolliate
Emolliate (a.) To soften;
to render effeminate.
Emollient (a.) Softening;
making supple; acting as an emollient.
Emollient (n.) An external
something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
Emollition (n.) The act of
softening or relaxing; relaxation.
Emolument (n.) The profit
arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage;
perquisites, fees, or salary.
Emolumental (a.)
Pertaining to an emolument; profitable.
Emong (prep.) Alt. of
Emongst
Emongst (prep.) Among.
Emotion (n.) A moving of
the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful;
disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and
manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Emotioned (a.) Affected
with emotion.
Emotional (a.) Pertaining
to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an
emotional nature.
Emotionalism (n.) The
cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an
emotional manner.
Emotionalize (v. t.) To
give an emotional character to.
Emotive (a.) Attended by,
or having the character of, emotion.
Emotiveness (n.)
Susceptibility to emotion.
Emotivity (n.)
Emotiveness.
Emove (v. t.) To move.
Empair (v. t.) To impair.
Empaistic (a.) Having to
do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient
Greeks.
Empale (v. t.) To make
pale.
Empaled (imp. & p. p.) of
Empale
Empaling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Empale
Empale (v. t.) To fence or
fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.
Empale (v. t.) To inclose;
to surround. See Impale.
Empale (v. t.) To put to
death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Empale (v. t.) Same as
Impale.
Empalement (n.) A fencing,
inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.
Empalement (n.) A putting
to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Empalement (n.) Same as
Impalement.
Empanel (n.) A list of
jurors; a panel.
Empanel (v. t.) See
Impanel.
Empanoplied (a.)
Completely armed; panoplied.
Emparadise (v. t.) Same as
Imparadise.
Empark (v. t.) To make a
park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.
Emparlance (n.) Parley;
imparlance.
Empasm (n.) A perfumed
powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.
Empassion (v. t.) To move
with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion.
Empassionate (a.) Strongly
affected.
Empawn (v. t.) To put in
pawn; to pledge; to impawn.
Empeach (v. t.) To hinder.
See Impeach.
Empearl (v. t.) To form
like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.
Empeople (v. t.) To form
into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.
Emperess (n.) See Empress.
Emperice (n.) An empress.
Emperil (v. t.) To put in
peril. See Imperil.
Emperished (a.) Perished;
decayed.
Emperor (n.) The sovereign
or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king;
as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.
Emperorship (n.) The rank
or office of an emperor.
Empery (n.) Empire;
sovereignty; dominion.
Emphases (pl. ) of
Emphasis
Emphasis (n.) A particular
stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or
more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his
audience.
Emphasis (n.) A peculiar
impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation,
enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.
Emphasized (imp. & p. p.)
of Emphasize
Emphasizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emphasize
Emphasize (v. t.) To utter
or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to
emphasize a word or a phrase.
Emphatic (a.) Alt. of
Emphatical
Emphatical (a.) Uttered
with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice;
laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong;
as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone;
emphatic reasoning.
Emphatical (a.) Striking
the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible.
Emphatically (adv.) With
emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently.
Emphatically (adv.) Not
really, but apparently.
Emphaticalness (n.) The
quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
Emphractic (a.) Having the
quality of closing the pores of the skin.
Emphrensy (v. t.) To
madden.
Emphysema (n.) A swelling
produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
Emphysematous (a.)
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.
Emphyteusis (n.) A real
right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real
estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition
of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.
Emphyteutic (a.) Of or
pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands.
Emphyteuticary (n.) One
who holds lands by emphyteusis.
Empierce (v. t.) To
pierce; to impierce.
Empight (a.) Fixed;
settled; fastened.
Empire (n.) Supreme power;
sovereignty; sway; dominion.
Empire (n.) The dominion
of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of
an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always
comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in,
constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
Empire (n.) Any dominion;
supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of
reason.
Empiric (n.) One who
follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
Empiric (n.) One who
confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own
observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science
and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a
charlatan.
Empiric (a.) Alt. of
Empirical
Empirical (a.) Pertaining
to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of
phenomena; versed in experiments.
Empirical (a.) Depending
upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory;
-- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and
deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
Empirically (adv.) By
experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Empiricism (n.) The method
or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
Empiricism (n.)
Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid
of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice;
charlatanry; quackery.
Empiricism (n.) The
philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to
experience.
Empiricist (n.) An
empiric.
Empiristic (a.) Relating
to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical
methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.
Emplaster (n.) See
Plaster.
Emplaster (n.) To plaster
over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.
Emplastic (a.) Fit to be
applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
Emplastic (n.) A medicine
causing constipation.
Emplastration (n.) The act
or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
Emplastration (n.) The
application of a plaster or salve.
Emplead (v. t.) To accuse;
to indict. See Implead.
Emplection (n.) See
Emplecton.
Emplecton (n.) A kind of
masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being
filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as
binders.
Emplore (v. t.) See
Implore.
Employed (imp. & p. p.) of
Employ
Employing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Employ
Employ (v. t.) To inclose;
to infold.
Employ (v. t.) To use; to
have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by
in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an
instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to
employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to
employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
Employ (v. t.) To occupy;
as, to employ time in study.
Employ (v. t.) To have or
keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or
behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
Employ (n.) That which
engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
Employable (a.) Capable of
being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.
Employe (n.) One employed
by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
Employee (n.) One employed
by another.
Employer (n.) One who
employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Employment (n.) The act of
employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
Employment (n.) That which
engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of
business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public
employments; in the employment of government.
Emplumed (a.) Plumed.
Emplunge (v. t.) To
plunge; to implunge.
Empoison (v. t.) To
poison; to impoison.
Empoison (n.) Poison.
Empoisoner (n.) Poisoner.
Empoisonment (n.) The act
of poisoning.
Emporetic (a.) Alt. of
Emporetical
Emporetical (a.)
Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise.
Emporiums (pl. ) of
Emporium
Emporia (pl. ) of Emporium
Emporium (n.) A place of
trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the
commercial center of a country.
Emporium (n.) The brain.
Empoverish (v. t.) See
Impoverish.
Empowered (imp. & p. p.)
of Empower
Empowering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Empower
Empower (v. t.) To give
authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly
a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases,
civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and
discharge the debtor.
Empower (v. t.) To give
moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.
Empress (n.) The consort
of an emperor.
Empress (n.) A female
sovereign.
Empress (n.) A sovereign
mistress.
Emprint (v. t.) See
Imprint.
Emprise (n.) An
enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
Emprise (n.) The qualifies
which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.
Emprise (v. t.) To
undertake.
Emprising (v. t.) Full of
daring; adventurous.
Emprison (v. t.) See
Imprison.
Emprosthotonos (n.) A
drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of
the muscles.
Empte (v. t.) To empty.
Emptier (n.) One who, or
that which, empties.
Emptier (compar.) of
Empty.
Emptiness (n.) The state
of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a
vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
Emptiness (n.) Want of
solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity;
hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
Emptiness (n.) Want of
knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
Emption (n.) The act of
buying.
Emptional (a.) Capable of
being purchased.
Empty (superl.) Containing
nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate
contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as,
an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
Empty (superl.) Free;
clear; devoid; -- often with of.
Empty (superl.) Having
nothing to carry; unburdened.
Empty (superl.) Destitute
of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or
threats.
Empty (superl.) Unable to
satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
Empty (superl.) Producing
nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
Empty (superl.) Destitute
of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty
coxcomb.
Empty (superl.) Destitute
of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
Empties (pl. ) of Empty
Empty (n.) An empty box,
crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as,
"special rates for empties."
Emptied (imp. & p. p.) of
Empty
Emptying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Empty
Empty (v. t.) To deprive
of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour
out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
Empty (v. i.) To discharge
itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
Empty (v. i.) To become
empty.
Emptying (n.) The act of
making empty.
Emptying (n.) The lees of
beer, cider, etc.; yeast.
Empugn (v. t.) See Impugn.
Empurpled (imp. & p. p.)
of Empurple
Empurpling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Empurple
Empurple (v. t.) To tinge
or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.
Empuse (n.) A phantom or
specter.
Empuzzle (v. t.) To
puzzle.
Empyema (n.) A collection
of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of
the pleura.
Empyesis (n.) An eruption
of pustules.
Empyreal (a.) Formed of
pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest
and purest region of heaven.
Empyreal (n.) Empyrean.
Empyrean (n.) The highest
heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
Empyrean (a.) Empyreal.
Empyreuma (n.) The
peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or
vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
Empyreumatic (a.) Alt. of
Empyreumatical
Empyreumatical (a.) Of or
pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor.
Empyreumatize (v. t.) To
render empyreumatic.
Empyrical (a.) Containing
the combustible principle of coal.
Empyrosis (n.) A general
fire; a conflagration.
Emrods (n. pl.) See
Emerods.
Emu (n.) A large
Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus),
related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to
fly.
Emulable (a.) Capable of
being emulated.
Emulate (a.) Striving to
excel; ambitious; emulous.
Emulated (imp. & p. p.) of
Emulate
Emulating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Emulate
Emulate (v. t.) To strive
to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal
or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.
Emulation (n.) The
endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous
striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
Emulation (n.) Jea/ous
rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Emulative (a.) Inclined to
emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.
Emulatively (adv.) In an
emulative manner; with emulation.
Emulator (n.) One who
emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
Emulatory (a.) Pertaining
to emulation; connected with rivalry.
Emulatress (n.) A female
emulator.
Emule (v. t.) To emulate.
Emulge (v. t.) To milk
out; to drain.
Emulgent (a.) Pertaining
to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.
Emulgent (n.) An emulgent
vessel, as a renal artery or vein.
Emulgent (n.) A medicine
that excites the flow of bile.
Emulous (a.) Ambitiously
desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with
another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of
another's example or virtues.
Emulous (a.) Vying with;
rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
Emulously (adv.) In an
emulous manner.
Emulousness (n.) The
quality of being emulous.
Emulsic (a.) Pertaining
to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
Emulsify (v. t.) To
convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance
to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state,
giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the
oily part of food.
Emulsin (n.) The white
milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
Emulsin (n.) An
unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices),
which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.
Emulsion (n.) Any liquid
preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an
extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous
substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of
silver, used in the photographic process.
Emulsive (a.) Softening;
milklike.
Emulsive (a.) Yielding oil
by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
Emulsive (a.) Producing or
yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.
Emunctories (pl. ) of
Emunctory
Emunctory (n.) Any organ
or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off
excrementitious or waste matter.
Emuscation (n.) A freeing
from moss.
Emu wren () A small wrenlike
Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and
loosely barbed, like emu feathers.
Emyds (pl. ) of Emyd
Emyd// (pl. ) of Emyd
Emyd (n.) A fresh-water
tortoise of the family Emydidae.
Emydea (n. pl.) A group of
chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.
En- () A prefix signifying in or
into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some
English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of
pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ,
embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable,
enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely
gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.
En- () A prefix from Gr. / in,
meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.
-en () A suffix from AS. -an,
formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all
obs. except oxen. In some cases, such as children and brethren, it has been
added to older plural forms.
-en () A suffix corresponding to
AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen,
escapen.
-en () A suffix signifying to
make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen,
quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old
English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.
-en () An adjectival suffix,
meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden.
-en () The termination of the
past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.
En (n.) Half an em, that
is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.
Enabled (imp. & p. p.) of
Enable
Enabling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enable
Enable (v. t.) To give
strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Enable (v. t.) To make
able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish
with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to
endow.
Enablement (n.) The act of
enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
Enacted (imp. & p. p.) of
Enact
Enacting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enact
Enact (v. t.) To decree;
to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to
perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the
validity of law.
Enact (v. t.) To act; to
perform; to do; to effect.
Enact (v. t.) To act the
part of; to represent; to play.
Enact (n.) Purpose;
determination.
Enactive (a.) Having power
to enact or establish as a law.
Enactment (n.) The passing
of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval
to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
Enactment (n.) That which
is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed
requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.
Enactor (n.) One who
enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Enacture (n.) Enactment;
resolution.
Enaliosaur (n.) One of the
Enaliosauria.
Enaliosauria (n. pl.) An
extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the
Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
Enaliosaurian (a.)
Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
Enaliosaurian (n.) One of
the Enaliosauria.
Enallage (n.) A
substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case,
person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
Enambush (v. t.) To
ambush.
Enamel (v. t.) A variety
of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and
admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or
application in varied colors.
Enamel (v. t.) A glassy,
opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
Enamel (v. t.) That which
is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if
variegated.
Enamel (v. t.) The
intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It
merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is
intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.
Enameled (imp. & p. p.) of
Enamel
Enamelled () of Enamel
Enameling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enamel
Enamelling () of Enamel
Enamel (v. t.) To lay
enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
Enamel (v. t.) To
variegate with colors as if with enamel.
Enamel (v. t.) To form a
glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or
cloth.
Enamel (v. t.) To disguise
with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
Enamel (v. i.) To practice
the art of enameling.
Enamel (a.) Relating to
the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.
Enamelar (a.) Consisting
of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
Enameled (a.) Coated or
adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
Enameler (n.) Alt. of
Enamelist
Enamelist (n.) One who
enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.
Enamored (imp. & p. p.) of
Enamor
Enamoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enamor
Enamor (v. t.) To inflame
with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or
thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
Enamorment (n.) The state
of being enamored.
Enantiomorphous (a.)
Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to
a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.
Enantiopathic (a.) Serving
to palliate; palliative.
Enantiopathy (n.) An
opposite passion or affection.
Enantiopathy (n.)
Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.
Enantiosis (n.) A figure
of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively,
and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
Enarch (v. t.) To arch.
Enarched (a.) Bent into a
curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.
Enargite (n.) An
iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals,
also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
Enarmed (a.) Same as
Armed, 3.
Enarration (n.) A detailed
exposition; relation.
Enarthrodia (n.) See
Enarthrosis.
Enarthrosis (n.) A ball
and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See
Articulation.
Enascent (a.) Coming into
being; nascent.
Enatation (n.) A swimming
out.
Enate (a.) Growing out.
Enation (n.) Any unusual
outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act
of producing such an outgrowth.
Enaunter (adv.) Lest that.
Enavigate (v. t.) To sail
away or over.
Enbattled (a.) Embattled.
Enbibe (v. t.) To imbibe.
Enbroude (v. t.) See
Embroude.
Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of
Encage
Engaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encage
Encage (v. t.) To confine
in a cage; to coop up.
Encalendar (v. t.) To
register in a calendar; to calendar.
Encamped (imp. & p. p.) of
Encamp
Encamping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encamp
Encamp (v. i.) To form and
occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts;
to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a
longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
Encamp (v. t.) To form
into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
Encampment (n.) The act of
pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for
temporary lodging or rest.
Encampment (n.) The place
where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected
for temporary lodgings.
Encanker (v. t.) To
canker.
Encapsulation (n.) The act
of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to
inclose it in a capsule.
Encarnalize (v. t.) To
carnalize; to make gross.
Encarpus (n.) An ornament
on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
Encase (v. t.) To inclose
as in a case. See Incase.
Encasement (n.) The act of
encasing; also, that which encases.
Encasement (n.) An old
theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.
Encash (v. t.) To turn
into cash; to cash.
Encashment (n.) The
payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
Encauma (n.) An ulcer in
the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.
Encaustic (a.) Prepared by
means of heat; burned in.
Encaustic (a.) The method
of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
Encave (v. t.) To hide in,
or as in, a cave or recess.
-ence () A noun suffix signifying
action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as
in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See
-ance.
Enceinte (n.) The line of
works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body
of the place.
Enceinte (n.) The area or
town inclosed by a line of fortification.
Enceinte (a.) Pregnant;
with child.
Encenia (n. pl.) A
festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a
church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative
of founders or benefactors.
Encense (n.) To offer
incense to or upon; to burn incense.
Encephalic (a.) Pertaining
to the encephalon or brain.
Encephalitis (n.)
Inflammation of the brain.
Encephalocele (n.) Hernia
of the brain.
Encephaloid (a.)
Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
Encephaloid (n.) An
encephaloid cancer.
Encephalology (n.) The
science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.
Encephalon (n.) The
contents of the cranium; the brain.
Encephalopathy (n.) Any
disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead
encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
Encephalos (n.) The
encephalon.
Encephalotomy (n.) The act
or art of dissecting the brain.
Encephalous (a.) Having a
head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.
Enchafe (v. t.) To chafe;
to enrage; to heat.
Enchafing (n.) Heating;
burning.
Enchain (v. t.) To bind
with a chain; to hold in chains.
Enchain (v. t.) To hold
fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
Enchain (v. t.) To link
together; to connect.
Enchainment (n.) The act
of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
Enchair (v. t.) To seat in
a chair.
Enchannel (v. t.) To make
run in a channel.
Enchanted (imp. & p. p.)
of Enchant
Enchanting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enchant
Enchant (v. t.) To charm
by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and
rites.
Enchant (v. t.) To delight
in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.
Enchanted (a.) Under the
power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted
castle.
Enchanter (n.) One who
enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
Enchanting (a.) Having a
power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.
Enchantment (n.) The act
of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons,
or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms;
incantation.
Enchantment (n.) The
effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an
enchantment.
Enchantment (n.) That
which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or
highly delights.
Enchantress (n.) A woman
versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.
Encharged (imp. & p. p.)
of Encharge
Encharging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encharge
Encharge (v. t.) To charge
(with); to impose (a charge) upon.
Encharge (n.) A charge.
Enchased (imp. & p. p.) of
Enchase
Enchasing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enchase
Enchase (v. t.) To incase
or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem
with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.
Enchase (v. t.) To chase;
to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.
Enchase (v. t.) To
delineate or describe, as by writing.
Enchaser (n.) One who
enchases.
Enchasten (v. t.) To
chasten.
Encheson (n.) Alt. of
Encheason
Encheason (n.) Occasion,
cause, or reason.
Enchest (v. t.) To inclose
in a chest.
Enchiridion (n.) Handbook;
a manual of devotions.
Enchisel (v. t.) To cut
with a chisel.
Enchodus (n.) A genus of
extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were
allied to the pike (Esox).
Enchondroma (n.) A
cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.
Enchorial (a.) Alt. of
Enchoric
Enchoric (a.) Belonging
to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially
of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in
distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.
Enchylemma (n.) The basal
substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less
fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.
Enchyma (n.) The primitive
formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are
formed.
Encincture (n.) A
cincture.
Encindered (a.) Burnt to
cinders.
Encircled (imp. & p. p.)
of Encircle
Encircling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encircle
Encircle (v. t.) To form a
circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle
one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
Encirclet (n.) A small
circle; a ring.
Enclasp (v. t.) To clasp.
See Inclasp.
Enclave (n.) A tract of
land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is
independent. See Exclave.
Enclave (v. t.) To inclose
within an alien territory.
Enclavement (n.) The state
of being an enclave.
Enclitic (v. i.) Alt. of
Enclitical
Enclitical (v. i.)
Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the
preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent
accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.
Enclitic (n.) A word which
is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun
thee in prithee (pray thee).
Enclitically (adv.) In an
enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.
Enclitics (n.) The art of
declining and conjugating words.
Encloister (v. t.) To shut
up in a cloister; to cloister.
Enclose (v. t.) To
inclose. See Inclose.
Enclosure (n.) Inclosure.
See Inclosure.
Enclothe (v. t.) To
clothe.
Encloud (v. t.) To envelop
in clouds; to cloud.
Encoach (v. t.) To carry
in a coach.
Encoffin (v. t.) To put in
a coffin.
Encolden (v. t.) To render
cold.
Encollar (v. t.) To
furnish or surround with a collar.
Encolor (v. t.) To color.
Encolure (n.) The neck of
horse.
Encomber (v. t.) See
Encumber.
Encomberment (n.)
Hindrance; molestation.
Encomiast (n.) One who
praises; a panegyrist.
Encomiastic (a.) Alt. of
Encomiastical
Encomiastical (a.)
Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or
discourse.
Encomiastic (n.) A
panegyric.
Encomion (n.) Encomium;
panegyric.
Encomiums (pl. ) of
Encomium
Encomium (n.) Warm or high
praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Encompassed (imp. & p. p.)
of Encompass
Encompassing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encompass
Encompass (v. t.) To
circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to
environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage
encompassing the world.
Encompassment (n.) The act
of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.
Encore (adv. / interj.)
Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and
other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
Encore (n.) A call or
demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were
numerous.
Encored (imp. & p. p.) of
Encore
Encoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encore
Encore (v. t.) To call for
a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.
Encorporing (n.)
Incorporation.
Encoubert (n.) One of
several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five
toes both on the fore and hind feet.
Encountered (imp. & p. p.)
of Encounter
Encountering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encounter
Encounter (adv.) To come
against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or
deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to
engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend
in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or
difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
Encounter (v. i.) To meet
face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat;
to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
Encounter (v. t.) A
meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an
interview.
Encounter (v. t.) A
meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody
encounter.
Encounterer (n.) One who
encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.
Encouraged (imp. & p. p.)
of Encourage
Encouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encourage
Encourage (v. t.) To give
courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase,
the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the
opposite of discourage.
Encouragement (n.) The act
of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of
youth in generosity.
Encouragement (n.) That
which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance,
reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little
encouragement among a rude people.
Encourager (n.) One who
encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
Encouraging (a.)
Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
Encowl (v. t.) To make a
monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.
Encradle (v. t.) To lay in
a cradle.
Encratite (n.) One of a
sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; --
called also Continent.
Encrease (v. t. &) i.
[Obs.] See Increase.
Encrimson (v. t.) To give
a crimson or red color to; to crimson.
Encrinic (a.) Alt. of
Encrinital
Encrinal (a.) Alt. of
Encrinital
Encrinital (a.) Relating
to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.
Encrinite (n.) A fossil
crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes
used in a general sense for any crinoid.
Encrinitic (a.) Alt. of
Encrinitical
Encrinitical (a.)
Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.
Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That
order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms,
having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata
and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.
Encrini (pl. ) of Encrinus
Encrinus (n.) A genus of
fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.
Encrisped (a.) Curled.
Encroached (imp. & p. p.)
of Encroach
Encroaching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encroach
Encroach (v. i.) To enter
by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to
trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on
a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.
Encroach (n.)
Encroachment.
Encroacher (n.) One who by
gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
Encroachingly (adv.) By
way of encroachment.
Encroachment (n.) The act
of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another;
unlawful intrusion.
Encroachment (n.) That
which is taken by encroaching on another.
Encroachment (n.) An
unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
Encrust (v. t.) To
incrust. See Incrust.
Encrustment (n.) That
which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.
Encumbered (imp. & p. p.)
of Encumber
Encumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Encumber
Encumber (v. t.) To impede
the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous;
to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by
his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
Encumber (v. t.) To load
with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Encumberment (n.)
Encumbrance.
Encumbrance (n.) That
which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and
laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
Encumbrance (n.) Same as
Incumbrance.
Encumbrancer (n.) Same as
Incumbrancer.
Encurtain (v. t.) To
inclose with curtains.
-ency () A noun suffix having
much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or
state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.
Encyclic (a.) Alt. of
Encyclical
Encyclical (a.) Sent to
many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general;
circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
Encyclic (n.) Alt. of
Encyclical
Encyclical (n.) An
encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.
Encyclopedia (n.) Alt. of
Encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedia (n.) The
circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a
branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or
art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
Encyclopediacal (a.)
Encyclopedic.
Encyclopedian (a.)
Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
Encyclopedic (a.) Alt. of
Encyclopedical
Encyclopedical (a.)
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of
subjects.
Encyclopedism (n.) The art
of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of
knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
Encyclopedist (n.) The
compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one
whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.
Encyst (v. t.) To inclose
in a cyst.
Encystation (n.)
Encystment.
Encysted (a.) Inclosed in
a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.
Encystment (n.) A process
which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding,
fission, spore formation, etc.
Encystment (n.) A process
by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed
within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.
End (n.) The extreme or
last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of
breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part;
termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of
a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used
of anything having a first part.
End (n.) Point beyond
which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful
or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
End (n.) Termination of
being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
End (n.) The object aimed
at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose;
intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
End (n.) That which is
left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
End (n.) One of the yarns
of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
Ended (imp. & p. p.) of
End
Ending (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of End
End (v. t.) To bring to an
end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
End (v. t.) To form or be
at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
End (v. t.) To destroy; to
put to death.
End (v. i.) To come to the
ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as,
a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
Endable (a.) That may be
ended; terminable.
End-all (n.) Complete
termination.
Endamaged (imp. & p. p.)
of Endamage
Endamaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endamage
Endamage (v. t.) To bring
loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.
Endamageable (a.) Capable
of being damaged, or injured; damageable.
Endamagement (n.) Damage;
injury; harm.
Endamnify (v. t.) To
damnify; to injure.
Endangered (imp. & p. p.)
of Endanger
Endangering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endanger
Endanger (v. t.) To put to
hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to
endanger life or peace.
Endanger (v. t.) To incur
the hazard of; to risk.
Endangerment (n.) Hazard;
peril.
Endark (v. t.) To darken.
Endaspidean (a.) Having
the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of
certain birds.
Endazzle (v. t.) To
dazzle.
Endeared (imp. & p. p.) of
Endear
Endearing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endear
Endear (v. t.) To make
dear or beloved.
Endear (v. t.) To raise
the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
Endearedly (adv.) With
affection or endearment; dearly.
Endearedness (n.) State of
being endeared.
Endearing (a.) Making dear
or beloved; causing love.
Endearment (n.) The act of
endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites,
or increases, affection.
Endeavored (imp. & p. p.)
of Endeavor
Endeavoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endeavor
Endeavor (v. t.) To exert
physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to
effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
Endeavor (v. i.) To exert
one's self; to work for a certain end.
Endeavor (n.) An exertion
of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a
systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
Endeavorer (n.) One who
makes an effort or attempt.
Endeavorment (n.) Act of
endeavoring; endeavor.
Endecagon (n.) A plane
figure of eleven sides and angles.
Endecagynous (a.) Having
eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.
Endecane (n.) One of the
higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of
petroleum.
Endecaphyllous (a.)
Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.
Endeictic (a.) Serving to
show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one
which exhibits a specimen of skill.
Endeixis (n.) An
indication.
Endemial (a.) Endemic.
Endemic (a.) Alt. of
Endemical
Endemical (a.) Peculiar to
a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
Endemic (n.) An endemic
disease.
Endemically (adv.) In an
endemic manner.
Endemiology (n.) The
science which treats of endemic affections.
Endenization (n.) The act
of naturalizing.
Endenize (v. t.) To
endenizen.
Endenizen (v. t.) To admit
to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
Ender (n.) One who, or
that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
Endermatic (a.) Endermic.
Endermic (a.) Acting
through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.
Endermically (adv.) By the
endermic method; as, applied endermically.
Enderon (n.) The deep
sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
Endiademed (a.) Diademed.
Endiaper (v. t.) To
decorate with a diaper pattern.
Endict (v. t.) See Indict.
Endictment (n.) See
Indictment.
Ending (n.) Termination;
concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
Ending (n.) The final
syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.
Endite (v. t.) See Indite.
Endive (n.) A composite
herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when
blanched, are used for salad.
Endless (a.) Without end;
having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and
to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise;
endless clamor.
Endless (a.) Infinite;
excessive; unlimited.
Endless (a.) Without
profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
Endless (a.) Void of
design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
Endlessly (adv.) In an
endless manner.
Endlessness (n.) The
quality of being endless; perpetuity.
Endlong (adv. & prep.)
Lengthwise; along.
Endmost (a.) Farthest;
remotest; at the very end.
Endo- () Alt. of End-
End- () A combining form
signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.
Endoblast (n.) Entoblast;
endoplast. See Nucleus,
Endoblastic (a.) Relating
to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.
Endocardiac (a.) Alt. of
Endocardial
Endocardial (a.)
Pertaining to the endocardium.
Endocardial (a.) Seated or
generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.
Endocarditis (n.)
Inflammation of the endocardium.
Endocardium (n.) The
membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
Endocarp (n.) The inner
layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.
Endochondral (a.) Growing
or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.
Endochrome (n.) The
coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any
other color.
Endoctrine (v. t.) To
teach; to indoctrinate.
Endocyst (n.) The inner
layer of the cells of Bryozoa.
Endoderm (n.) The inner
layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
Endoderm (n.) The
innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the
hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Endodermal (a.) Alt. of
Endodermic
Endodermic (a.) Of or
pertaining to the endoderm.
Endodermis (n.) A layer of
cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or
surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
Endogamous (a.) Marrying
within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.
Endogamy (n.) Marriage
only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the
tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
Endogen (n.) A plant which
increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the
wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the
whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves
of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in
three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single
cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the
great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses,
rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.
Endogenesis (n.) Endogeny.
Endogenetic (a.)
Endogenous.
Endogenous (a.) Increasing
by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and
having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the
cornstalk.
Endogenous (a.)
Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.
Endogenously (adv.) By
endogenous growth.
Endogeny (n.) Growth from
within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of
one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
Endognath (n.) The inner
or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.
Endognathal (a.)
Pertaining to the endognath.
Endolymph (n.) The watery
fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
Endolymphangial (a.)
Within a lymphatic vessel.
Endolymphatic (a.)
Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.
Endolymphatic (a.) Within
a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.
Endome (v. t.) To cover as
with a dome.
Endometritis (n.)
Inflammation of the endometrium.
Endometrium (n.) The
membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.
Endomorph (n.) A crystal
of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in
quartz.
Endomysium (n.) The
delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.
Endoneurium (n.) The
delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.
Endoparasite (n.) Any
parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms,
Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon.
Endophloeum (n.) The inner
layer of the bark of trees.
Endophragma (n.) A
chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.
Endophragmal (a.) Of or
pertaining to the endophragma.
Endophyllous (a.) Wrapped
up within a leaf or sheath.
Endoplasm (n.) The
protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
Endoplasma (n.) Same as
Entoplasm and Endosarc.
Endoplast (n.) See
Nucleus.
Endoplastica (n. pl.) A
group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba.
Endoplastule (n.) See
Nucleolus.
Endopleura (n.) The inner
coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
Endopleurite (n.) The
portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain
crustaceans.
Endopodite (n.) The
internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See
Maxilliped.
Endorhizae (pl. ) of
Endorhiza
Endorhiza (n.) Any
monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an
endorhizal embryo.
Endorhizal (a.) Alt. of
Endorhizous
Endorhizous (a.) Having
the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo
bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.
Endorsed (imp. & p. p.) of
Endorse
Endorsing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endorse
Endorse (v. t.) Same as
Indorse.
Endorse (n.) A
subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some
writers, one eighth).
Endorsee (n.) Same as
Indorsee.
Endorsement (n.) Same as
Indorsement.
Endorser (n.) Same as
Indorser.
Endosarc (n.) The
semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner
layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
Endoscope (n.) An
instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the
bladder.
Endoscopy (n.) The art or
process of examining by means of the endoscope.
Endoskeletal (a.)
Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.
Endoskeleton (n.) The
bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished
from the exoskeleton.
Endosmometer (n.) An
instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.
Endosmometric (a.)
Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.
Endosmose (n.) Alt. of
Endosmosis
Endosmosis (n.) The
transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the
process, of osmose.
Endosmosmic (a.)
Endosmotic.
Endosmotic (a.) Pertaining
to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
Endosperm (n.) The albumen
of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Endospermic (a.) Relating
to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.
Endospore (n.) The thin
inner coat of certain spores.
Endosporous (a.) Having
the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.
Endoss (v. t.) To put upon
the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse.
Endosteal (a.) Relating to
endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.
Endosternite (n.) The part
of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
Endosteum (n.) The layer
of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
Endostoma (n.) A plate
which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.
Endostome (n.) The foramen
or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
Endostome (n.) And
endostoma.
Endostosis (n.) A process
of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the
cartilage.
Endostyle (n.) A fold of
the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
Endotheca (n.) The tissue
which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most
madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse
septa, one above another.
Endothecium (n.) The inner
lining of an anther cell.
Endothelial (a.) Of, or
relating to, endothelium.
Endothelia (pl. ) of
Endothelium
Endothelium (n.) The thin
epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See
Epithelium.
Endotheloid (a.) Like
endothelium.
Endothorax (n.) An
internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.
Endowed (imp. & p. p.) of
Endow
Endowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endow
Endow (v. t.) To furnish
with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary
provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as,
to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
Endow (v. t.) To enrich or
furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); --
followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to
endow with privileges or benefits.
Endower (v. t.) To endow.
Endower (n.) One who
endows.
Endowment (n.) The act of
bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
Endowment (n.) That which
is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue
permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a
hospital, or a college.
Endowment (n.) That which
is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment;
natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
Endozoa (n. pl.) See
Entozoa.
Endrudge (v. t.) To make a
drudge or slave of.
Endued (imp. & p. p.) of
Endue
Enduing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endue
Endue (v. t.) To invest.
Endue (v. t.) An older
spelling of Endow.
Enduement (n.) Act of
enduing; induement.
Endurable (a.) Capable of
being endured or borne; sufferable.
Endurably (adv.) In an
endurable manner.
Endurance (n.) A state or
quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Endurance (n.) The act of
bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or
without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
Endurant (a.) Capable of
enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
Endured (imp. & p. p.) of
Endure
Enduring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Endure
Endure (v. i.) To continue
in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Endure (v. i.) To remain
firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to
bear up under adversity; to hold out.
Endure (v. t.) To remain
firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as,
metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and
weather.
Endure (v. t.) To bear
with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the
pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
Endure (v. t.) To harden;
to toughen; to make hardy.
Endurement (n.) Endurance.
Endurer (n.) One who, or
that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.
Enduring (a.) Lasting;
durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.
Endways (adv.) Alt. of
Endwise
Endwise (adv.) On end;
erectly; in an upright position.
Endwise (adv.) With the
end forward.
Endyma (n.) See Ependyma.
Endyses (pl. ) of Endysis
Endysis (n.) The act of
developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed
to ecdysis.
Enecate (v. t.) To kill
off; to destroy.
Eneid (n.) Same as Aeneid.
Enemata (pl. ) of Enema
Enema (n.) An injection,
or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Enemies (pl. ) of Enemy
Enemy (n.) One hostile to
another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe;
an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to
falsehood.
Enemy (a.) Hostile;
inimical.
Enepidermic (a.) Applied
to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.
Energetic (a.) Alt. of
Energetical
Energetical (a.) Having
energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting
force; active.
Energetical (a.)
Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful;
efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.
Energetics (n.) That
branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical,
in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration
and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical
phenomena.
Energic (a.) Alt. of
Energical
Energical (a.) In a state
of action; acting; operating.
Energical (a.) Having
energy or great power; energetic.
Energized (imp. & p. p.)
of Energize
Energizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Energize
Energize (v. i.) To use
strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing
an effect.
Energize (v. t.) To give
strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
Energizer (n.) One who, or
that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.
Energizing (a.) Capable of
imparting or exercising energy.
Energumen (n.) One
possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.
Energies (pl. ) of Energy
Energy (n.) Internal or
inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether
exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
Energy (n.) Power
efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the
energy of a magistrate.
Energy (n.) Strength of
expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the
feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style
full of energy.
Energy (n.) Capacity for
performing work.
Enervated (imp. & p. p.)
of Enervate
Enervating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enervate
Enervate (v. t.) To
deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to
make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
Enervate (a.) Weakened;
weak; without strength of force.
Enervation (n.) The act of
weakening, or reducing strength.
Enervation (n.) The state
of being weakened; effeminacy.
Enervative (a.) Having
power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.
Enerve (v. t.) To weaken;
to enervate.
Enervous (a.) Lacking
nerve or force; enervated.
Enfamish (v. t.) To
famish; to starve.
Enfect (a.) Contaminated
with illegality.
Enfeebled (imp. & p. p.)
of Enfeeble
Enfeebling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enfeeble
Enfeeble (v. t.) To make
feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken;
to debilitate.
Enfeeblement (n.) The act
of weakening; enervation; weakness.
Enfeebler (n.) One who, or
that which, weakens or makes feeble.
Enfeeblish (v. i.) To
enfeeble.
Enfeloned (a.) Rendered
fierce or frantic.
Enfeoffed (imp. & p. p.)
of Enfeoff
Enfeoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enfeoff
Enfeoff (v. t.) To give a
feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one)
with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.
Enfeoff (v. t.) To give in
vassalage; to make subservient.
Enfeoffment (n.) The act
of enfeoffing.
Enfeoffment (n.) The
instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.
Enfester (v. t.) To
fester.
Enfetter (v. t.) To bind
in fetters; to enchain.
Enfever (v. t.) To excite
fever in.
Enfierced (imp. & p. p.)
of Enfierce
Enfiercing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enfierce
Enfierce (v. t.) To make
fierce.
Enfilade (n.) A line or
straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
Enfilade (n.) A firing in
the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a
raking fire.
Enfiladed (imp. & p. p.)
of Enfilade
Enfilading (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enfilade
Enfilade (v. t.) To
pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work,
or a line of troops.
Enfiled (p. a.) Having
some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which
is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.
Enfire (v. t.) To set on
fire.
Enflesh (v. t.) To clothe
with flesh.
Enflowered (imp. & p. p.)
of Enflower
Enflowering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enflower
Enflower (v. t.) To cover
or deck with flowers.
Enfold (v. t.) To infold.
See Infold.
Enfoldment (n.) The act of
infolding. See Infoldment.
Enforced (imp. & p. p.) of
Enforce
Enforcing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enforce
Enforce (v. t.) To put
force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to
commands.
Enforce (v. t.) To make or
gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
Enforce (v. t.) To put in
motion or action by violence; to drive.
Enforce (v. t.) To give
force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce
arguments or requests.
Enforce (v. t.) To put in
force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to
enforce the laws.
Enforce (v. t.) To urge;
to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
Enforce (v. i.) To attempt
by force.
Enforce (v. i.) To prove;
to evince.
Enforce (v. i.) To
strengthen; to grow strong.
Enforce (n.) Force;
strength; power.
Enforceable (a.) Capable
of being enforced.
Enforced (a.) Compelled;
forced; not voluntary.
Enforcement (n.) The act
of enforcing; compulsion.
Enforcement (n.) A giving
force to; a putting in execution.
Enforcement (n.) That
which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint;
force applied.
Enforcer (n.) One who
enforces.
Enforcible (a.) That may
be enforced.
Enforcive (a.) Serving to
enforce or constrain; compulsive.
Enforest (v. t.) To turn
into a forest.
Enform (v. t.) To form; to
fashion.
Enfouldred (a.) Mixed
with, or emitting, lightning.
Enframe (v. t.) To
inclose, as in a frame.
Enfranchised (imp. & p. p.)
of Enfranchise
Enfranchising (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enfranchise
Enfranchise (v. t.) To set
free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
Enfranchise (v. t.) To
endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest
with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
Enfranchise (v. t.) To
receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
Enfranchisement (n.)
Releasing from slavery or custody.
Enfranchisement (n.)
Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the
privileges of free citizens.
Enfranchiser (n.) One who
enfranchises.
Enfree (v. t.) To set
free.
Enfreedom (v. t.) To set
free.
Enfreeze (v. t.) To
freeze; to congeal.
Enfroward (v. t.) To make
froward, perverse, or ungovernable.
Engaged (imp. & p. p.) of
Engage
Engaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engage
Engage (v. t.) To put
under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing
something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
Engage (v. t.) To gain for
service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to
aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
Engage (v. t.) To gain
over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
Engage (v. t.) To employ
the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
Engage (v. t.) To enter
into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
Engage (v. t.) To come
into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one
part of a clutch engages the other part.
Engage (v. i.) To promise
or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
Engage (v. i.) To embark
in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote
attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
Engage (v. i.) To enter
into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
Engage (v. i.) To be in
gear, as two cogwheels working together.
Engaged (a.) Occupied;
employed; busy.
Engaged (a.) Pledged;
promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage;
affianced; betrothed.
Engaged (a.) Greatly
interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
Engaged (a.) Involved;
esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the
fight.
Engagedly (adv.) With
attachment; with interest; earnestly.
Engagedness (n.) The state
of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
Engagement (n.) The act of
engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
Engagement (n.) The state
of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as
husband or wife.
Engagement (n.) That which
engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by
pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements
prevented his acceptance of any office.
Engagement (n.) An action;
a fight; a battle.
Engagement (n.) The state
of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the
other part.
Engager (n.) One who
enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
Engaging (a.) Tending to
draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address.
Engallant (v. t.) To make
a gallant of.
Engaol (v. t.) To put in
jail; to imprison.
Engarboil (v. t.) To throw
into disorder; to disturb.
Engarland (v. t.) To
encircle with a garland, or with garlands.
Engarrison (v. t.) To
garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
Engastrimuth (n.) An
ventriloquist.
Engendered (imp. & p. p.)
of Engender
Engendering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engender
Engender (v. t.) To
produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
Engender (v. t.) To cause
to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words
engender strife.
Engender (v. i.) To assume
form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Engender (v. i.) To come
together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
Engender (n.) One who, or
that which, engenders.
Engendrure (n.) The act of
generation.
Engild (v. t.) To gild; to
make splendent.
Engine (n.) (Pronounced,
in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
Engine (n.) Anything used
to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Engine (n.) Any instrument
by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or
torture.
Engine (n.) A compound
machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical
effect.
Engine (v. t.) To assault
with an engine.
Engine (v. t.) To equip
with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built
by one firm and engined by another.
Engine (v. t.)
(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.
Engineer (n.) A person
skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under
Engineering, n.
Engineer (n.) One who
manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
Engineer (n.) One who
carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient
manager.
Engineered (imp. & p. p.)
of Engineer
Engineering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engineer
Engineer (v. t.) To lay
out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to
engineer a road.
Engineer (v. t.) To use
contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a
bill through Congress.
Engineering (n.)
Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the
art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to
man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
Enginemen (pl. ) of
Engineman
Engineman (n.) A man who
manages, or waits on, an engine.
Enginer (n.) A contriver;
an inventor; a contriver of engines.
Enginery (n.) The act or
art of managing engines, or artillery.
Enginery (n.) Engines, in
general; instruments of war.
Enginery (n.) Any device
or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
Engine-sized (a.) Sized by
a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper.
Enginous (a.) Pertaining
to an engine.
Enginous (a.) Contrived
with care; ingenious.
Engirded (imp. & p. p.) of
Engird
Engirt () of Engird
Engirding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engird
Engird (v. t.) To gird; to
encompass.
Engirdle (v. t.) To
surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
Engirt (v. t.) To engird.
Engiscope (n.) A kind of
reflecting microscope.
Englaimed (a.) Clammy.
Engle (n.) A favorite; a
paramour; an ingle.
Engle (v. t.) To cajole or
coax, as favorite.
English (a.) Of or
pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called
Anglo-Saxon race.
English (a.) See 1st Bond,
n., 8.
English (n.) Collectively,
the people of England; English people or persons.
English (n.) The language
of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India,
and other countries.
English (n.) A kind of
printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
English (n.) A twist or
spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it
will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
Englished (imp. & p. p.)
of English
Englishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of English
English (v. t.) To
translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to
explain.
English (v. t.) To strike
(the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion
a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or
the cushion.
Englishable (a.) Capable
of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
Englishism (n.) A quality
or characteristic peculiar to the English.
Englishism (n.) A form of
expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
Englishmen (pl. ) of
Englishman
Englishman (n.) A native
or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
Englishry (n.) The state
or privilege of being an Englishman.
Englishry (n.) A body of
English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in
Ireland.
Englishwomen (pl. ) of
Englishwoman
Englishwoman (n.) Fem. of
Englishman.
Engloom (v. t.) To make
gloomy.
Englue (v. t.) To join or
close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.
Englutted (imp. & p. p.)
of Englut
Englutting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Englut
Englut (v. t.) To swallow
or gulp down.
Englut (v. t.) To glut.
Engore (v. t.) To gore; to
pierce; to lacerate.
Engore (v. t.) To make
bloody.
Engorged (imp. & p. p.) of
Engorge
Engorging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engorge
Engorge (v. t.) To gorge;
to glut.
Engorge (v. t.) To swallow
with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
Engorge (v. i.) To feed
with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.
Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed
with greediness, or in large draughts.
Engorged (p. a.) Filled to
excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
Engorgement (n.) The act
of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
Engorgement (n.) An
overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system;
congestion.
Engorgement (n.) The
clogging of a blast furnace.
Engouled (a.) Partly
swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a
serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of
lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.
Engoulee (a.) Same as
Engouled.
Engraff (v. t.) To graft;
to fix deeply.
Engraffment (n.) See
Ingraftment.
Engraft (v. t.) See
Ingraft.
Engraftation (n.) Alt. of
Engraftment
Engraftment (n.) The act
of ingrafting; ingraftment.
Engrailed (imp. & p. p.)
of Engrail
Engrailing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engrail
Engrail (v. t.) To
variegate or spot, as with hail.
Engrail (v. t.) To indent
with small curves. See Engrailed.
Engrail (v. i.) To form an
edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
Engrailed (a.) Indented
with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
Engrailment (n.) The ring
of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.
Engrailment (n.)
Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an
ordinary.
Engrained (imp. & p. p.)
of Engrain
Engraining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engrain
Engrain (v. t.) To dye in
grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.
Engrain (v. t.) To
incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See
Ingrain.
Engrain (v. t.) To color
in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
Engrapple (v. t. & i.) To
grapple.
Engrasped (imp. & p. p.)
of Engrasp
Engrasping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engrasp
Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp;
to grip.
Engrave (v. t.) To deposit
in the grave; to bury.
Engraved (imp.) of Engrave
Engraved (p. p.) of
Engrave
Engraven () of Engrave
Engraving (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engrave
Engrave (v. t.) To cut in;
to make by incision.
Engrave (v. t.) To cut
with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial
representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
Engrave (v. t.) To form or
represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to
engrave an inscription.
Engrave (v. t.) To impress
deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Engraved (a.) Made by
engraving or ornamented with engraving.
Engraved (a.) Having the
surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
Engravement (n.)
Engraving.
Engravement (n.) Engraved
work.
Engraver (n.) One who
engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on
metal or wood.
Engravery (n.) The trade
or work of an engraver.
Engraving (n.) The act or
art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters,
lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the
surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or
design may be printed on paper.
Engraving (n.) That which
is engraved; an engraved plate.
Engraving (n.) An
impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.
Engregge (v. t.) To
aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.
Engrieve (v. t.) To
grieve.
Engrossed (imp. & p. p.)
of Engross
Engrossing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engross
Engross (v. t.) To make
gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
Engross (v. t.) To amass.
Engross (v. t.) To copy or
write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in
distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on
parchment.
Engross (v. t.) To seize
in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject
engrossed all his thoughts.
Engross (v. t.) To
purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing
the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity,
proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.
Engrosser (n.) One who
copies a writing in large, fair characters.
Engrosser (n.) One who
takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market
as to raise the price; a forestaller.
Engrossment (n.) The act
of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.
Engrossment (n.) That
which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.
Enguard (v. t.) To
surround as with a guard.
Engulfed (imp. & p. p.) of
Engulf
Engulfing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Engulf
Engulf (v. t.) To absorb
or swallow up as in a gulf.
Engulfment (n.) A
swallowing up as if in a gulf.
Engyn () Variant of Engine.
Enhalo (v. t.) To surround
with a halo.
Enhanced (imp. & p. p.) of
Enhance
Enhancing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enhance
Enhance (v. t.) To raise
or lift up; to exalt.
Enhance (v. t.) To
advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or
attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or
kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance
crime.
Enhance (v. i.) To be
raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Enhancement (n.) The act
of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the
enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
Enhancer (n.) One who
enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
Enharbor (v. t.) To find
harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.
Enharden (v. t.) To
harden; to embolden.
Enharmonic (a.) Alt. of
Enharmonical
Enharmonical (a.) Of or
pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic,
enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones
and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.
Enharmonical (a.)
Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used,
the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A/ for
G/.
Enharmonical (a.)
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and
intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their
transposition into other keys.
Enharmonically (adv.) In
the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.
Enhearten (v. t.) To give
heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.
Enhedge (v. t.) To
surround as with a hedge.
Enhort (v. t.) To
encourage.
Enhunger (v. t.) To make
hungry.
Enhydros (n.) A variety of
chalcedony containing water.
Enhydrous (a.) Having
water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.
Enigmas (pl. ) of Enigma
Enigma (n.) A dark,
obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of
which is to be discovered or guessed.
Enigma (n.) An action,
mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle;
as, his conduct is an enigma.
Enigmatic (a.) Alt. of
Enigmatical
Enigmatical (a.) Relating
to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly
expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
Enigmatically (adv.)
Darkly; obscurely.
Enigmatist (n.) One who
makes, or talks in, enigmas.
Enigmatized (imp. & p. p.)
of Enigmatize
Enigmatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enigmatize
Enigmatize (v. i.) To
make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.
Enigmatography (n.) Alt.
of Enigmatology
Enigmatology (n.) The art
of making or of solving enigmas.
Enisled (p. a.) Placed
alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.
Enjailed (imp. & p. p.) of
Enjall
Enjailing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enjall
Enjall (v. t.) To put into
jail; to imprison.
Enjoined (imp. & p. p.) of
Enjoin
Enjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enjoin
Enjoin (v. t.) To lay
upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with
authority; to order; to charge.
Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit
or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
Enjoin (v. t.) To join or
unite.
Enjoiner (n.) One who
enjoins.
Enjoinment (n.) Direction;
command; authoritative admonition.
Enjoyed (imp. & p. p.) of
Enjoy
Enjoying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enjoy
Enjoy (v. t.) To take
pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive
with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to
enjoy conversation.
Enjoy (v. t.) To have,
possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good
or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution
and religious liberty.
Enjoy (v. t.) To have
sexual intercourse with.
Enjoy (v. i.) To take
satisfaction; to live in happiness.
Enjoyable (a.) Capable of
being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.
Enjoyer (n.) One who
enjoys.
Enjoyment (n.) The
condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession
or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.
Enjoyment (n.) That which
gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.
Enkennel (v. t.) To put
into a kennel.
Enkerchiefed (a.) Bound
with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered.
Enkindled (imp. & p. p.)
of Enkindle
Enkindling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enkindle
Enkindle (v. t.) To set on
fire; to inflame; to kindle.
Enkindle (v. t.) To
excite; to rouse into action; to incite.
Enlace (v. t.) To bind or
encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to
entangle.
Enlacement (n.) The act of
enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.
Enlard (v. t.) To cover or
dress with lard or grease; to fatten.
Enlarged (imp. & p. p.) of
Enlarge
Enlarging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enlarge
Enlarge (v. t.) 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.
Enlarge (v. t.) 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.
Enlarge (v. t.) To set at
large or set free.
Enlarge (v. i.) 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.
Enlarge (v. i.) To speak
or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to
dilate.
Enlarge (v. i.) To get
more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the
wind.
Enlarged (a.) Made large
or larger; extended; swollen.
Enlargement (n.) The act
of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased;
augmentation; further extension; expansion.
Enlargement (n.) 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.
Enlargement (n.) A setting
at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or
distress; liberty.
Enlargement (n.)
Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or
argument.
Enlarger (n.) One that
enlarges.
Enlay (v. t.) See Inlay.
Enlengthen (v. t.) To
lengthen.
Enleven (n.) Eleven.
Enlight (v. t.) To
illumine; to enlighten.
Enlighten (v. t.) To
supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
Enlighten (v. t.) 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.
Enlightener (n.) One who
enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the
eye, or clear views to the mind.
Enlightenment (n.) Act of
enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Enlimn (v. t.) To adorn by
illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a
book or manuscript.
Enlink (v. t.) To chain
together; to connect, as by links.
Enlisted (imp. & p. p.) of
Enlist
Enlisting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enlist
Enlist (v. t.) To enter on
a list; to enroll; to register.
Enlist (v. t.) To engage
for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as,
to enlist men.
Enlist (v. t.) 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.
Enlist (v. i.) 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.
Enlist (v. i.) To enter
heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
Enlistment (n.) The act or
enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a
soldier or a sailor.
Enlistment (n.) The
writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
Enlive (v. t.) To enliven.
Enlivened (imp. & p. p.)
of Enliven
Enlivening (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enliven
Enliven (v. t.) To give
life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken;
as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
Enliven (v. t.) 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.
Enlivener (n.) One who, or
that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
Enlock (v. t.) To lock; to
inclose.
Enlumine (v. t.) To
illumine.
Enlute (v. t.) To coat
with clay; to lute.
Enmanche (a.) Resembling,
or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the
middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.
Enmarble (v. t.) To make
hard as marble; to harden.
Enmesh (v. t.) To catch or
entangle in, or as in, meshes.
Enmew (v. t.) See Emmew.
Enmist (v. t.) To infold,
as in a mist.
Enmities (pl. ) of Enmity
Enmity (n.) The quality of
being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
Enmity (n.) A state of
opposition; hostility.
Enmossed (a.) Covered with
moss; mossed.
Enmove (v. t.) See Emmove.
Enmuffle (v. t.) To muffle
up.
Enmure (v. t.) To immure.
Ennation (n.) The ninth
segment in insects.
Ennead (n.) The number
nine or a group of nine.
Enneagon (n.) A polygon or
plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
Enneagonal (a.) Belonging
to an enneagon; having nine angles.
Enneagynous (a.) Having or
producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.
Enheahedral (a.) Having
nine sides.
Enheahedria (n.) Alt. of
Enheahedron
Enheahedron (n.) A figure
having nine sides; a nonagon.
Enneandria (n.) A Linnaean
class of plants having nine stamens.
Enneandrian (a.) Alt. of
Enneandrous
Enneandrous (a.) Having
nine stamens.
Enneapetalous (a.) Having
nine petals, or flower leaves.
Enneaspermous (a.) Having
nine seeds; -- said of fruits.
Enneatic (a.) Alt. of
Enneatical
Enneatical (a.) Occurring
once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
Ennew (v. t.) To make new.
Enniche (v. t.) To place
in a niche.
Ennobled (imp. & p. p.) of
Ennoble
Ennobling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ennoble
Ennoble (v. t.) To make
noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
Ennoble (v. t.) To raise
to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Ennoblement (n.) The act
of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
Ennoblement (n.) That
which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
Ennobler (n.) One who
ennobles.
Ennui (n.) A feeling of
weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or
want of interest; tedium.
Ennuye (a.) Affected with
ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.
Ennuye (n.) One who is
affected with ennui.
Ennuyee (n.) A woman
affected with ennui.
Enodal (a.) Without a
node.
Enodation (n.) The act or
operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a
difficulty.
Enode (v. t.) To clear of
knots; to make clear.
Enoint (a.) Anointed.
Enomotarch (n.) The
commander of an enomoty.
Enomoty (n.) A band of
sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to
thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
Enopla (n. pl.) One of the
orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of
spines or plates in the proboscis.
Enoptomancy (n.)
Divination by the use of a mirror.
Enorm (a.) Enormous.
Enormities (pl. ) of
Enormity
Enormity (n.) The state or
quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or
outrageous.
Enormity (n.) That which
is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency;
an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.
Enormous (a.) Exceeding
the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
Enormous (a.) Exceedingly
wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
Enormously (adv.) In an
enormous degree.
Enormousness (n.) The
state of being enormous.
Enorthotrope (n.) An
optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which
form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See
Thaumatrope.
Enough (a.) Satisfying
desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and
more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
Enough (adv.) In a degree
or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
Enough (adv.) Fully;
quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and
sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
Enough (adv.) In a
tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and
implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well
enough.
Enough (n.) A sufficiency;
a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the
power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.
Enough (interj.) An
exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Enounced (imp. & p. p.) of
Enounce
Enouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enounce
Enounce (v. t.) To
announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
Enounce (v. t.) To utter;
to articulate.
Enouncement (n.) Act of
enouncing; that which is enounced.
Enow () A form of Enough.
Enpatron (v. t.) To act
the part of a patron towards; to patronize.
Enpierce (v. t.) To
pierce.
Enquere (v. i.) To
inquire.
Enquicken (v. t.) To
quicken; to make alive.
Enquire (v. i. & t.) See
Inquire.
Enquirer (n.) See
Inquirer.
Enquiry (n.) See Inquiry.
Enrace (v. t.) To enroot;
to implant.
Enraged (imp. & p. p.) of
Enrage
Enraging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enrage
Enrage (v. t.) To fill
with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
Enragement (n.) Act of
enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.
Enrange (v. t.) To range
in order; to put in rank; to arrange.
Enrange (v. t.) To rove
over; to range.
Enrank (v. t.) To place in
ranks or in order.
Enrapt (p. a.) Thrown into
ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
Enraptured (imp. & p. p.)
of Enrapture
Enrapturing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enrapture
Enrapture (v. t.) To
transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
Enravish (v. t.) To
transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.
Enravishingly (adv.) So as
to throw into ecstasy.
Enravishment (n.) The
state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.
Enregister (v. t.) To
register; to enroll or record; to inregister.
Enrheum (v. i.) To
contract a rheum.
Enriched (imp. & p. p.) of
Enrich
Enriching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enrich
Enrich (v. t.) To make
rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of;
as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
Enrich (v. t.) To supply
with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
Enrich (v. t.) To make
rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by
irrigation.
Enrich (v. t.) To supply
with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.
Enricher (n.) One who
enriches.
Enrichment (n.) The act of
making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements,
embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
Enridge (v. t.) To form
into ridges.
Enring (v. t.) To
encircle.
Enripen (v. t.) To ripen.
Enrive (v. t.) To rive; to
cleave.
Enrobe (v. t.) To invest
or adorn with a robe; to attire.
Enrockment (n.) A mass of
large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters,
etc.
Enrolled (imp. & p. p.) of
Enroll
Enrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enroll
Enroll (n.) To insert in a
roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence,
to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for
service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.
Enroll (n.) To envelop; to
inwrap; to involve.
Enroller (n.) One who
enrolls or registers.
Enrollment (n.) The act of
enrolling; registration.
Enrollment (n.) A writing
in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record.
Enroot (v. t.) To fix by
the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.
Enround (v. t.) To
surround.
En route () On the way or road.
Ens (n.) Entity, being, or
existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.
Ens (n.) Something
supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance
from which it is extracted; essence.
Ensafe (v. t.) To make
safe.
Ensample (n.) An example;
a pattern or model for imitation.
Ensample (v. t.) To
exemplify, to show by example.
Ensanguine (v. t.) To
stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an
ensanguined hue.
Ensate (a.) Having
sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.
Enscale (v. t.) To cover
with scales.
Enshedule (v. t.) To
insert in a schedule. See Schedule.
Ensconced (imp. & p. p.)
of Ensconce
Ensconcing (imp. & p. p.)
of Ensconce
Ensconce (v. t.) To cover
or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.
Enseal (v. t.) To impress
with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.
Enseam (v. t.) To sew up;
to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.
Enseam (v. t.) To cover
with grease; to defile; to pollute.
Ensear (v. t.) To sear; to
dry up.
Ensearch (v. i.) To make
search; to try to find something.
Ensearch (v. t. ) To
search for.
Enseel (v. t.) To close
eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk.
Enseint (a.) With child;
pregnant. See Enceinte.
Ensemble (n.) The whole;
all the parts taken together.
Ensemble (adv.) All at
once; together.
Enshelter (v. t.) To
shelter.
Enshield (v. t.) To
defend, as with a shield; to shield.
Enshield (a.) Shielded;
enshielded.
Enshrined (imp. & p. p.)
of Enshrine
Enshrining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enshrine
Enshrine (v. t.) To
inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred;
as, to enshrine something in memory.
Enshroud (v. t.) To cover
with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.
Ensiferous (a.) Bearing a
sword.
Ensiform (a.) Having the
form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.
Ensign (n.) A flag; a
banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality,
carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags
indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals,
and the like.
Ensign (n.) A signal
displayed like a standard, to give notice.
Ensign (n.) Sign; badge of
office, rank, or power; symbol.
Ensign (n.) Formerly, a
commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or
regiment.
Ensign (n.) A commissioned
officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second
lieutenant in the army.
Ensign (v. t.) To
designate as by an ensign.
Ensign (v. t.) To
distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge
which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Ensigncies (pl. ) of
Ensigncy
Ensigncy (n.) The rank or
office of an ensign.
Ensignship (n.) The state
or rank of an ensign.
Ensilage (n.) The process
of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by
compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is
kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.
Ensilage (n.) The fodder
preserved in a silo.
Ensilaged (imp. & p. p.)
of Ensilage
Ensilaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ensilage
Ensilage (v. t.) To
preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.
Ensky (v. t.) To place in
the sky or in heaven.
Enslaved (imp. & p. p.) of
Enslave
Enslaving (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enslave
Enslave (v. t.) To reduce
to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Enslavedness (n.) State of
being enslaved.
Enslavement (n.) The act
of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.
Enslaver (n.) One who
enslaves.
Ensnare (v. t.) To catch
in a snare. See Insnare.
Ensnarl (v. t.) To
entangle.
Ensober (v. t.) To make
sober.
Ensoul (v. t.) To indue or
imbue (a body) with soul.
Ensphere (v. t.) To place
in a sphere; to envelop.
Ensphere (v. t.) To form
into a sphere.
Enstamp (v. t.) To stamp;
to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.
Enstate (v. t.) See
Instate.
Enstatite (n.) A mineral
of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and
massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some
iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.
Enstatitic (a.) Relating
to enstatite.
Enstore (v. t.) To
restore.
Enstyle (v. t.) To style;
to name.
Ensuable (a.) Ensuing;
following.
Ensued (imp. & p. p.) of
Ensue
Ensuing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ensue
Ensue (v. t.) To follow;
to pursue; to follow and overtake.
Ensue (v. i.) To follow or
come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to
result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.
Ensure (v. t.) To make
sure. See Insure.
Ensure (v. t.) To betroth.
Ensurer (n.) See Insurer.
Enswathe (v. t.) To
swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.
Enswathement (n.) The act
of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
Ensweep (v. t.) To sweep
over or across; to pass over rapidly.
Ent- () A prefix signifying
within. See Ento-.
-ent () An adjective suffix
signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent,
quiescent. See -ant.
Entablature (n.) The
superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column,
Cornice.
Entablement (n.) See
Entablature.
Entackle (v. t.) To supply
with tackle.
Entad (adv.) Toward the
inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.
Entail (n.) That which is
entailed.
Entail (n.) An estate in
fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Entail (n.) The rule by
which the descent is fixed.
Entail (n.) Delicately
carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entailed (imp. & p. p.) of
Entail
Entailing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entail
Entail (n.) To settle or
fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a
certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an
heritage.
Entail (n.) To appoint
hereditary possessor.
Entail (n.) To cut or
carve in a ornamental way.
Entailment (n.) The act of
entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Entailment (n.) The
condition of being entailed.
Entailment (n.) A thing
entailed.
Ental (a.) Pertaining to,
or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.
Entame (v. t.) To tame.
Entangled (imp. & p. p.)
of Entangle
Entangling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entangle
Entangle (v. t.) To twist
or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled,
confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
Entangle (v. t.) To
involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty;
hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to
entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
Entanglement (n.) State of
being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles;
intricacy; perplexity.
Entangler (n.) One that
entangles.
Entasia (n.) Tonic spasm;
-- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as
tetanus, trismus, etc.
Entasis (n.) A slight
convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
Entasis (n.) Same as
Entasia.
Entassment (n.) A heap;
accumulation.
Entastic (a.) Relating to
any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
Entelechy (n.) An
actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere
potential existence.
Entellus (n.) An East
Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by
the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the
head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
Entend (v. i.) To attend
to; to apply one's self to.
Entender (v. t.) To make
tender.
Entender (v. t.) To treat
with tenderness.
Ententive (a.) Attentive;
zealous.
Enter- () A prefix signifying
between, among, part.
Entered (imp. & p. p.) of
Enter
Entering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enter
Enter (v. t.) To come or
go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell
of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door,
etc.; the river enters the sea.
Enter (v. t.) To unite in;
to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association,
a college, an army.
Enter (v. t.) To engage
in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade,
etc.
Enter (v. t.) To pass
within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's
teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
Enter (v. t.) To cause to
go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be
admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to
enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
Enter (v. t.) To inscribe;
to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a
catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a
ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
Enter (v. t.) To go into
or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
Enter (v. t.) To place in
regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper
from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
Enter (v. t.) To make
report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of
(imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the
customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.
Enter (v. t.) To file or
inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning
(a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf
preemption.
Enter (v. t.) To deposit
for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as,
"entered according to act of Congress."
Enter (v. t.) To initiate;
to introduce favorably.
Enter (v. i.) To go or
come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first
steps.
Enter (v. i.) To get
admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part;
to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into;
sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a
ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into
partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his
tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
Enter (v. i.) To penetrate
mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.
Enteradenography (n.) A
treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.
Enteradenology (n.) The
science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.
Enteralgia (n.) Pain in
the intestines; colic.
Enterdeal (n.) Mutual
dealings; intercourse.
Enterer (n.) One who makes
an entrance or beginning.
Enteric (a.) Of or
pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.
Enteritis (n.) An
inflammation of the intestines.
Enterlace (v. t.) See
Interlace.
Entermete (v. i.) To
interfere; to intermeddle.
Entermewer (n.) A hawk
gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
Entermise (n.) Mediation.
Enterocele (n.) A hernial
tumor whose contents are intestine.
Enterocoele (n.) A
perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the
digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting
of the mesoblast of the embryo.
Enterography (n.) A
treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.
Enterolith (n.) An
intestinal concretion.
Enterology (n.) The
science which treats of the viscera of the body.
Enteron (n.) The whole
alimentary, or enteric, canal.
Enteropathy (n.) Disease
of the intestines.
Enteropneusta (n. pl.) A
group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial
openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the
alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in
Appendix.
Enterorrhaphy (n.) The
operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.
Enterotome (n.) A kind of
scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
Enterotomy (n.) Incision
of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
Enterparlance (n.) Mutual
talk or conversation; conference.
Enterplead (v. i.) Same as
Interplead.
Enterprise (n.) That which
is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which
involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous
attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
Enterprise (n.)
Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness,
energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
Enterprise (v. t.) To
undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
Enterprise (v. t.) To
treat with hospitality; to entertain.
Enterprise (v. i.) To
undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
Enterpriser (n.) One who
undertakes enterprises.
Enterprising (a.) Having a
disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or
prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
Entertained (imp. & p. p.)
of Entertain
Entertaining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entertain
Entertain (v. t.) To be at
the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to
harbor; to keep.
Entertain (v. t.) To give
hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into
one's house; to receive as a guest.
Entertain (v. t.) To
engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass
pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
Entertain (v. t.) To give
reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to
admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
Entertain (v. t.) To meet
or encounter, as an enemy.
Entertain (v. t.) To keep,
hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to
cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
Entertain (v. t.) To lead
on; to bring along; to introduce.
Entertain (v. i.) To
receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
Entertain (n.)
Entertainment.
Entertainer (n.) One who
entertains.
Entertaining (a.)
Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.
Entertainment (n.) The act
of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable
reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
Entertainment (n.) That
which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality;
hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the
table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which
engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by
conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.
Entertainment (n.)
Admission into service; service.
Entertainment (n.) Payment
of soldiers or servants; wages.
Entertake (v. t.) To
entertain.
Entertissued (a.) Same as
Intertissued.
Entheal (a.) Alt. of
Enthean
Enthean (a.) Divinely
inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.
Entheasm (n.) Inspiration;
enthusiasm.
Entheastic (a.) Of godlike
energy; inspired.
Entheat (a.) Divinely
inspired.
Enthelmintha (n. pl.) Alt.
of Enthelminthes
Enthelminthes (n. pl.)
Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.
Entheic (a.) Caused by a
morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.
Enthrall (v. t.) To hold
in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.
Enthrallment (n.) The act
of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment.
Enthrill (v. t.) To
pierce; to thrill.
Enthrone (v. t.) To seat
on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to
invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
Enthrone (v. t.) To
induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
Enthronement (n.) The act
of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.
Enthronization (n.) The
act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in
his cathedral.
Enthronized (imp. & p. p.)
of Enthronize
Enthronizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enthronize
Enthronize (v. t.) To
place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.
Enthuse (v. t. & i.) To
make or become enthusiastic.
Enthusiasm (n.)
Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of
divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine
impulse.
Enthusiasm (n.) A state of
impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the
poetry of enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm (n.) Enkindled
and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause
or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his
profession with enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm (n.) Lively
manifestation of joy or zeal.
Enthusiast (n.) One moved
or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired,
or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One
whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is
influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.
Enthusiastic (a.) Alt. of
Enthusiastical
Enthusiastical (a.) Filled
with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover
of art.
Enthusiastic (n.) An
enthusiast; a zealot.
Enthymematic (a.) Alt. of
Enthymematical
Enthymematical (a.)
Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.
Enthymeme (n.) An argument
consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from
it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we
should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete
syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent
creatures; therefore we should be humble.
Enticed (imp. & p. p.) of
Entice
Enticing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entice
Entice (v. t.) To draw on,
by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the
fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as,
the sirens enticed them to listen.
Enticeable (a.) Capable of
being enticed.
Enticement (n.) The act or
practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
Enticement (n.) That which
entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an
enticement to sin.
Enticer (n.) One who
entices; one who incites or allures to evil.
Enticing (a.) That
entices; alluring.
Enticingly (adv.) In an
enticing manner; charmingly.
Entierty (n.) See
Entirety.
Entire (a.) Complete in
all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as,
the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.
Entire (a.) Without
mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
Entire (a.) Consisting of
a single piece, as a corolla.
Entire (a.) Having an
evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
Entire (a.) Not gelded; --
said of a horse.
Entire (a.) Internal;
interior.
Entire (n.) Entirely.
Entire (n.) A name
originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of
beer.
Entirely (adv.) In an
entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.
Entirely (adv.) Without
alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.
Entireness (n.) The state
or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the
entireness of an arch or a bridge.
Entireness (n.) Integrity;
wholeness of heart; honesty.
Entireness (n.) Oneness;
unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.
Entireness (pl. ) of
Entirety
Entirety (n.) The state of
being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.
Entirety (n.) That which
is entire; the whole.
Entitative (a.) Considered
as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
Entitled (imp. & p. p.) of
Entitle
Entitling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entitle
Entitle (v. t.) To give a
title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an
honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book
"Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."
Entitle (v. t.) To give a
claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote
object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with
success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.
Entitle (v. t.) To
attribute; to ascribe.
Entitule (v. t.) To
entitle.
Entities (pl. ) of Entity
Entity (n.) A real being,
whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence;
existence.
Ento- () A combining form
signifying within; as, entoblast.
Entoblast (n.) The inner
germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
Entobronchia (pl. ) of
Entobronchium
Entobronchium (n.) One of
the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
Entocuneiform (n.) Alt. of
Entocuniform
Entocuniform (n.) One of
the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
Entoderm (n.) See
Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.
Entodermal (a.) Alt. of
Entodermic
Entodermic (a.) Relating
to the entoderm.
Entogastric (a.)
Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from
the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
Entogenous (a.) See
Endogenous.
Entoglossal (a.) Within
the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
Entoiled (imp. & p. p.) of
Entoil
Entoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entoil
Entoil (v. t.) To take
with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.
Entombed (imp. & p. p.) of
Entomb
Entombing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entomb
Entomb (v. t.) To deposit
in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
Entombment (n.) The act of
entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.
Entomere (n.) The more
granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those
of mammals.
Entomic (a.) Alt. of
Entomical
Entomical (a.) Relating to
insects; entomological.
Entomoid (a.) Resembling
an insect.
Entomoid (n.) An object
resembling an insect.
Entomolin (n.) See Chitin.
Entomolite (n.) A fossil
insect.
Entomologic (a.) Alt. of
Entomological
Entomological (a.) Of or
relating to entomology.
Entomologist (n.) One
versed in entomology.
Entomologize (v. i.) To
collect specimens in the study of entomology.
Entomologies (pl. ) of
Entomology
Entomology (n.) That part
of zoology which treats of insects.
Entomology (n.) A treatise
on the science of entomology.
Entomophaga (n. pl.) One
of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living
insects. See Ichneumon, 2.
Entomophaga (n. pl.) A
group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.
Entomophaga (n. pl.) A
group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
Entomophagan (a.) Relating
to the Entomophaga.
Entomophagan (n.) One of
the Entomophaga.
Entomophagous (a.) Feeding
on insects; insectivorous.
Entomophilous (a.)
Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is
carried to the stigma by insects.
Entomostraca (n. pl.) One
of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of
them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda,
Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.
Entomostracan (a.)
Relating to the Entomostraca.
Entomostracan (n.) One of
the Entomostraca.
Entomostracous (a.)
Belonging to the Entomostracans.
Entomotomist (n.) One who
practices entomotomy.
Entomotomy (n.) The
science of the dissection of insects.
Entonic (a.) Having great
tension, or exaggerated action.
Entoperipheral (a.) Being,
or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially
applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed
to epiperipheral.
Entophyte (n.) A vegetable
parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Entophytic (a.) Of or
pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.
Entoplasm (n.) The inner
granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
Entoplasm (n.) Endosarc.
Entoplastic (a.)
Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some
Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a
nucleus is produced.
Entoplastra (pl. ) of
Entoplastron
Entoplastron (n.) The
median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.
Entoprocta (n. pl.) A
group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See
Pedicellina.
Entoptic (a.) Relating to
objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in
one's own eye.
Entorganism (n.) An
internal parasitic organism.
Entortilation (n.) A
turning into a circle; round figures.
Entosterna (pl. ) of
Entosternum
Entosternum (n.) See
Entoplastron.
Entosthoblast (n.) The
granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
Entothorax (n.) See
Endothorax.
Entotic (a.) Pertaining to
the interior of the ear.
Entozoa (n. pl.) A group
of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live
parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
Entozoa (n. pl.) An
artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
Entozoal (a.) Alt. of
Entozoic
Entozoic (a.) Pertaining
to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.
Entozoologist (n.) One
versed in the science of the Entozoa.
Entozoa (pl. ) of Entozoon
Entozoon (n.) One of the
Entozoa.
Entr'acte (n.) The
interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a
drama.
Entr'acte (n.) A dance,
piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.
Entrail (v. t.) To
interweave; to intertwine.
Entrail (n.) Entanglement;
fold.
Entrails (n. pl.) The
internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Entrails (n. pl.) The
internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
Entrain (v. t.) To draw
along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
Entrain (v. t.) To put
aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
Entrain (v. i.) To go
aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.
Entrammel (v. t.) To
trammel; to entangle.
Entrance (n.) The act of
entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an
apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office;
as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into
office.
Entrance (n.) Liberty,
power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
Entrance (n.) The passage,
door, or gate, for entering.
Entrance (n.) The entering
upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement;
initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
Entrance (n.) The causing
to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an
entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
Entrance (n.) The angle
which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
Entrance (n.) The bow, or
entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
Entranced (imp. & p. p.)
of Entrance
Entrancing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entrance
Entrance (v. t.) To put
into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
Entrance (v. t.) To put
into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
Entrancement (n.) The act
of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.
Entrant (n.) One who
enters; a beginner.
Entrant (n.) An applicant
for admission.
Entrapped (imp. & p. p.)
of Entrap
Entrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entrap
Entrap (v. t.) To catch in
a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in
difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be
entrapped by the devices of evil men.
Entreated (imp. & p. p.)
of Entreat
Entreating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Entreat
Entreat (v. t.) To treat,
or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Entreat (v. t.) To treat
with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to
petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
Entreat (v. t.) To beseech
or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to
persuade.
Entreat (v. t.) To invite;
to entertain.
Entreat (v. i.) To treat
or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Entreat (v. i.) To make an
earnest petition or request.
Entreat (n.) Entreaty.
Entreatable (a.) That may
be entreated.
Entreatance (n.) Entreaty.
Entreater (n.) One who
entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
Entreatful (a.) Full of
entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.
Entreatingly (adv.) In an
entreating manner.
Entreative (a.) Used in
entreaty; pleading.
Entreatment (n.) Entreaty;
invitation.
Entreaties (pl. ) of
Entreaty
Entreaty (n.) Treatment;
reception; entertainment.
Entreaty (n.) The act of
entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing
solicitation.
Entree (n.) A coming in,
or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have
the entree of a house.
Entree (n.) In French
usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in
English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a
cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.)
A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or
principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.)
Any small entertainment between two greater ones.
Entrench (v. t.) See
Intrench.
Entrepot (n.) A warehouse;
a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise
is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.
Entrepreneur (n.) One who
creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an
industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
Entresol (n.) A low story
between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story;
mezzanine.
Entrick (v. t.) To trick,
to perplex.
Entrochal (a.) Pertaining
to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a
kind of stone or marble.
Entrochite (n.) A fossil
joint of a crinoid stem.
Entropion (n.) Same as
Entropium.
Entropium (n.) The
inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Entropy (n.) A certain
property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is
no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or
leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of
heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the
entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured
from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic
function.
Entrust (v. t.) See
Intrust.
Entries (pl. ) of Entry
Entry (n.) The act of
entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first
attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river
into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
Entry (n.) The act of
making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a
transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
Entry (n.) That by which
entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a
room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
Entry (n.) The exhibition
or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land
goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs,
and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and
Entrance, n., 5.
Entry (n.) The actual
taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
Entry (n.) A putting upon
record in proper form and order.
Entry (n.) The act in
addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
Entryng (n.) Am entrance.
Entune (v. t.) To tune; to
intone.
Entwine (v. t.) To twine,
twist, or wreathe together or round.
Entwine (v. i.) To be
twisted or twined.
Entwinement (n.) A twining
or twisting together or round; union.
Entwist (v. t.) To twist
or wreathe round; to intwine.
Enubilate (v. t.) To clear
from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
Enubilous (a.) Free from
fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
Enucleated (imp. & p. p.)
of Enucleate
Enucleating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enucleate
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring
or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or
shell.
Enucleate (v. t.) To
remove without cutting (as a tumor).
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring
to light; to make clear.
Enucleation (n.) The act
of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Enumerated (imp. & p. p.)
of Enumerate
Enumerating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enumerate
Enumerate (v. t.) To
count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to
number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and
separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
Enumeration (n.) The act
of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
Enumeration (n.) A
detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Enumeration (n.) A
recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
Enumerative (a.) Counting,
or reckoning up, one by one.
Enumerator (n.) One who
enumerates.
Enunciable (a.) Capable of
being enunciated or expressed.
Enunciated (imp. & p. p.)
of Enunciate
Enunciating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enunciate
Enunciate (v. t.) To make
a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
Enunciate (v. t.) To make
distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word
distinctly.
Enunciate (v. i.) To utter
words or syllables articulately.
Enunciation (n.) The act
of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation;
declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
Enunciation (n.) Mode of
utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or
articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
Enunciation (n.) That
which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an
announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
Enunciative (a.)
Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
Enunciator (n.) One who
enunciates or proclaims.
Enunciatory (a.)
Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
Enure (v. t.) See Inure.
Enuresis (n.) An
involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
Envassal (v. t.) To make a
vassal of.
Envault (v. t.) To inclose
in a vault; to entomb.
Enveigle (v. t.) To
entice. See Inveigle.
Enveloped (imp. & p. p.)
of Envelop
Enveloping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Envelop
Envelop (v. t.) To put a
covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument
or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog
envelops a ship.
Envelope (n.) Alt. of
Envelop
Envelop (n.) That which
envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp.,
the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
Envelop (n.) The nebulous
covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
Envelop (n.) A work of
earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes
raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Envelop (n.) A curve or
surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the
form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according
to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
Envelop (n.) A set of
limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used
to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of
any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push
the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the
current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in
general, not a specific machine.
Envelopment (n.) The act
of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Envelopment (n.) That
which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
Envenime (v. t.) To
envenom.
Envenomed (imp. & p. p.)
of Envenom
Envenoming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Envenom
Envenom (v. t.) To taint
or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render
dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat,
wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
Envenom (v. t.) To taint
or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to
imbitter.
Envermeil (v. t.) To color
with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.
Enviable (a.) Fitted to
excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Envie (v. i.) To vie; to
emulate; to strive.
Envier (n.) One who
envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Envigor (v. t.) To
invigorate.
Envious (a.) Malignant;
mischievous; spiteful.
Envious (a.) Feeling or
exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a
person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or
good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and
against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
Envious (a.) Inspiring
envy.
Envious (a.) Excessively
careful; cautious.
Environed (imp. & p. p.)
of Environ
Environing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Environ
Environ (v. t.) To
surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or
envelop.
Environ (adv.) About;
around.
Environment (n.) Act of
environing; state of being environed.
Environment (n.) That
which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by
which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
Environs (n. pl.) The
parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood;
suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
Envisaged (imp. & p. p.)
of Envisage
Envisaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Envisage
Envisage (v. t.) To look
in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
Envisagement (n.) The act
of envisaging.
Envolume (v. t.) To form
into, or incorporate with, a volume.
Envolup (v. t.) To wrap
up; to envelop.
Envoy (n.) One dispatched
upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or
a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign
sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An
envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
Envoy (n.) An explanatory
or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French
from, l'envoi.
Envoyship (n.) The office
or position of an envoy.
Envies (pl. ) of Envy
Envy (n.) Malice; ill
will; spite.
Envy (n.) Chagrin,
mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or
good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess
equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did
this in envy of Caesar.
Envy (n.) Emulation;
rivalry.
Envy (n.) Public odium;
ill repute.
Envy (n.) An object of
envious notice or feeling.
Envied (imp. & p. p.) of
Envy
Envying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Envy
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy
at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or
mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's
excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy
on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess
(some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to
look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
Envy (v. t.) To long
after; to desire strongly; to covet.
Envy (v. t.) To do harm
to; to injure; to disparage.
Envy (v. t.) To hate.
Envy (v. t.) To emulate.
Envy (v. i.) To be filled
with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; --
used especially with at.
Envy (v. i.) To show
malice or ill will; to rail.
Envyned (a.) Stored or
furnished with wine.
Enwall (v. t.) See Inwall.
Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge
into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.
Enwheel (v. t.) To
encircle.
Enwiden (v. t.) To widen.
Enwind (v. t.) To wind
about; to encircle.
Enwoman (v. t.) To endow
with the qualities of a woman.
Enwombed (imp. & p. p.) of
Enwomb
Enwombing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Enwomb
Enwomb (v. t.) To conceive
in the womb.
Enwomb (v. t.) To bury, as
it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.
Enwrap (v. t.) To envelop.
See Inwrap.
Enwrapment (n.) Act of
enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.
Enwreathe (v. t.) See
Inwreathe.
Enzootic (a.) Afflicting
animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It
corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Enzyme (n.) An unorganized
or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a
soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good
examples of enzymes.
Eocene (a.) Pertaining to
the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is
divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of
the present era; as, Eocene deposits.
Eocene (n.) The Eocene
formation.
Eolian (a.) Aeolian.
Eolian (a.) Formed, or
deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.
Eolic (a. & n.) See
Aeolic.
Eolipile (n.) Same as
Aeolipile.
Eolis (n.) A genus of
nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See
Ceratobranchia.
Eon (n.) Alt. of Aeon
Aeon (n.) An immeasurable
or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
Aeon (n.) One of the
embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Eophyte (n.) A fossil
plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.
Eophytic (a.) Of or
pertaining to eophytes.
Eos (n.) Aurora, the
goddess of morn.
Eosaurus (n.) An extinct
marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because
supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
Eosin (n.) A yellow or
brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and
named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for
making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.
Eosphorite (n.) A hydrous
phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, --
whence the name.
Eozoic (a.) Of or
pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the
eozoon has been found.
Eozoons (pl. ) of Eozoon
Eozoa (pl. ) of Eozoon
Eozoon (n.) A peculiar
structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some
geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others
consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
Eozoonal (a.) Pertaining
to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.
Ep- () See Epi-.
Epacris (n.) A genus of
shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or
purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.
Epact (n.) The moon's age
at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last
new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.
Epagoge (n.) The adducing
of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by
induction.
Epagogic (a.) Inductive.
Epalate (a.) Without
palpi.
Epanadiplosis (n.) A
figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a
sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
Epanalepsis (n.) A figure
by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.
Epanaphora (n.) Same as
Anaphora.
Epanastrophe (n.) Same as
Anadiplosis.
Epanodos (n.) A figure of
speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order
Epanody (n.) The abnormal
change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists
to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.
Epanorthosis (n.) A figure
by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something
else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic
act!
Epanthous (a.) Growing
upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.
Eparch (n.) In ancient
Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an
eparchy.
Eparchy (n.) A province,
prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp.,
in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of
the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
Eparterial (a.) Situated
upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given
off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
Epaule (n.) The shoulder
of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle,
called the angle of the shoulder.
Epaulement (n.) A side
work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped
up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.
Epaulet (n.) Alt. of
Epaulette
Epaulette (n.) A shoulder
ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being
marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.
Epauleted (a.) Alt. of
Epauletted
Epauletted (a.) Wearing
epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
Epaxial (a.) Above, or on
the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.
Epeira (n.) A genus of
spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical
webs. See Garden spider.
Epen (n.) See
Epencephalon.
Epencephalic (a.)
Pertaining to the epencephalon.
Epencephalic (a.) Situated
on or over the brain.
Epencephalon (n.) The
segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and
pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.
Ependyma (n.) The
epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal
cord; endyma; ependymis.
Ependymis (n.) See
Ependyma.
Epenetic (a.) Bestowing
praise; eulogistic; laudatory.
Epentheses (pl. ) of
Epenthesis
Epenthesis (n.) The
insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble"
from AS. n/mol.
Epenthetic (a.) Inserted
in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.
Epergne (n.) A centerpiece
for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of
different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.
Eperlan (n.) The European
smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Epexegesis (n.) A full or
additional explanation; exegesis.
Epexegetical (a.) Relating
to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.
Ephah (n.) Alt. of Epha
Epha (n.) A Hebrew dry
measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one
homer.
Ephemera (n.) A fever of
one day's continuance only.
Ephemera (n.) A genus of
insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under
Ephemeral.
Ephemeral (a.) Beginning
and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an
ephemeral flower.
Ephemeral (a.)
Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
Ephemeral (n.) Anything
lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
Ephemeran (n.) One of the
ephemeral flies.
Ephemeric (a.) Ephemeral.
Ephemerides (pl. ) of
Ephemeris
Ephemeris (n.) A diary; a
journal.
Ephemeris (n.) A
publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of
the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and
navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical
Almanac."
Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular
statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on
several successive days.
Ephemeris (n.) A
collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.
Ephemerist (n.) One who
studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
Ephemerist (n.) One who
keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
Ephemera (pl. ) of
Ephemeron
Ephemeron (n.) One of the
ephemeral flies.
Ephemerous (a.) Ephemeral.
Ephesian (a.) Of or
pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
Ephesian (n.) A native of
Ephesus.
Ephesian (n.) A jolly
companion; a roisterer.
Ephialtes (n.) The
nightmare.
Ephippial (a.)
Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
Ephippium (n.) A
depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
Ephippium (n.) A
saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of
Cladocera.
Ephod (n.) A part of the
sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held
together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold,
and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the
priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in
colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.
Ephors (pl. ) of Ephor
Ephori (pl. ) of Ephor
Ephor (n.) A magistrate;
one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They
exercised control even over the king.
Ephoral (a.) Pertaining to
an ephor.
Ephoralty (n.) The office
of an ephor, or the body of ephors.
Ephraim (n.) A hunter's
name for the grizzly bear.
Ephyra (n.) A stage in the
development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after
being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.
Epi- () A prefix, meaning upon,
beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in
epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral.
Epiblast (n.) The outer
layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
Epiblastic (a.) Of or
relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
Epiblema (n.) The
epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
Epibolic (a.) Growing or
covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
Epiboly (n.) Epibolic
invagination. See under Invagination.
Epibranchial (a.)
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a
branchial arch.
Epibranchial (n.) An
epibranchial cartilage or bone.
Epic (a.) Narrated in a
grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually
called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the
achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
Epic (n.) An epic or
heroic poem. See Epic, a.
Epical (a.) Epic.
Epicardiac (a.) Of or
relating to the epicardium.
Epicardium (n.) That of
the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac
pericardium.
Epicarican (n.) An isopod
crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.
Epicarp () The external or
outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.
Epicede (n.) A funeral
song or discourse; an elegy.
Epicedial (a.) Elegiac;
funereal.
Epicedian (a.) Epicedial.
Epicedian (n.) An epicede.
Epicedium (n.) An epicede.
Epicene (a. & n.) Common
to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form
of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes;
as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and
hermaphrodites.
Epicene (a. & n.) Fig.:
Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
Epicentral (a.) Arising
from the centrum of a vertebra.
Epicerastic (a.) Lenient;
assuaging.
Epichiremata (pl. ) of
Epichirema
Epichirema (n.) A
syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is
introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the
ordinary manner.
Epichordal (a.) Upon or
above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon
the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column,
which develops around it.
Epichorial (a.) In or of
the country.
Epicleidium (n.) A
projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the
clavicle of many birds.
Epiclinal (a.) Situated on
the receptacle or disk of a flower.
Epicoele (n.) A cavity
formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an
amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.
Epicoene (a.) Epicene.
Epicolic (a.) Situated
upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the
colon.
Epicondylar (n.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.
Epicondyle (n.) A
projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal
condyle.
Epicoracoid (n.) A ventral
cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some
vertebrates.
Epicranial (a.) Pertaining
to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.
Epicranium (n.) The upper
and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
Epicranium (n.) The dorsal
wall of the head of insects.
Epictetain (a.) Pertaining
to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be
passionless under whatever circumstances.
Epicure (n.) A follower of
Epicurus; an Epicurean.
Epicure (n.) One devoted
to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Epicurean (a.) Pertaining
to Epicurus, or following his philosophy.
Epicurean (a.) Given to
luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating.
Epicurean (n.) A follower
or Epicurus.
Epicurean (n.) One given
to epicurean indulgence.
Epicureanism (n.)
Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
Epicurely (adv.)
Luxuriously.
Epicureous (a.) Epicurean.
Epicurism (n.) The
doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicurism (n.) Epicurean
habits of living; luxury.
Epicurize (v. i.) To
profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicurize (v. i.) To feed
or indulge like an epicure.
Epicycle (n.) A circle,
whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small
circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along
with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the
planet fastened to it round its proper center.
Epicycle (n.) A circle
which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or
internally.
Epicyclic (a.) Pertaining
to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.
Epicycloid (n.) A curve
traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex
side of a fixed circle.
Epicycloidal (a.)
Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
Epideictic (a.) Serving to
show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory,
which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
Epidemic (a.) Alt. of
Epidemical
Epidemical (a.) Common to,
or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a
disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an
epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
Epidemical (a.) Spreading
widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does;
as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
Epidemic (n.) An epidemic
disease.
Epidemic (n.) Anything
which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their
bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
Epidemically (adv.) In an
epidemic manner.
Epidemiography (n.) A
treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
Epidemiological (a.)
Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
Epidemiologist (n.) A
person skilled in epidemiology.
Epidemiology (n.) That
branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Epidemy (n.) An epidemic
disease.
Epiderm (n.) The
epidermis.
Epidermal (a.) Of or
pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
Epidermatic (a.)
Epidermal.
Epidermatoid (a.)
Epidermoid.
Epidermeous (a.)
Epidermal.
Epidermic (a.) Epidermal;
connected with the skin or the bark.
Epidermical (a.)
Epidermal.
Epidermidal (a.)
Epidermal.
Epidermis (v. t.) The
outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Epidermis (v. t.) The
outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the
surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is
lost, and never replaced.
Epidermoid (a.) Like
epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.
Epidermose (n.) Keratin.
Epidictic (a.) Alt. of
Epidictical
Epidictical (a.) Serving
to explain; demonstrative.
Epididymis (n.) An oblong
vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous
convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
Epididymitis (n.)
Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
Epidote (n.) A mineral,
commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive,
columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and
oxide of iron, or manganese.
Epidotic (a.) Related to,
resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.
Epigaea (n.) An American
genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing
arbutus.
Epigaeous (a.) Growing on,
or close to, the ground.
Epigastrial (a.)
Epigastric.
Epigastric (a.) Pertaining
to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
Epigastric (a.) Over the
stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs.
Epigastrium (n.) The upper
part of the abdomen.
Epigeal (a.) Epigaeous.
Epigee (n.) See Perigee.
Epigene (a.) Foreign;
unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances
in which they are found.
Epigene (a.) Formed
originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene
rocks.
Epigenesis (n.) The theory
of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely
expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory
of evolution, also to syngenesis.
Epigenesist (n.) One who
believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.
Epigenetic (a.) Of or
pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
Epigeous (a.) Same as
Epigaeous.
Epigeum (n.) See Perigee.
Epiglottic (a.) Pertaining
to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
Epiglottidean (a.) Same as
Epiglottic.
Epiglottis (n.) A
cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is
passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
Epignathous (a.)
Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.
Epigram (n.) A short poem
treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern
epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious
turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
Epigram (n.) An effusion
of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or
prose.
Epigram (n.) The style of
the epigram.
Epigrammatic () Alt. of
Epigrammatical
Epigrammatical () Writing
epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
Epigrammatical () Suitable to
epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as,
epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.
Epigrammatically (adv.) In
the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
Epigrammatist (n.) One who
composes epigrams, or makes use of them.
Epigrammatized (imp. & p. p.)
of Epigrammatize
Epigrammatizing (p. pr. & vb.
n.) of Epigrammatize
Epigrammatize (v. t.) To
represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.
Epigrammatizer (n.) One
who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
Epigrammist (n.) An
epigrammatist.
Epigraph (n.) Any
inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the
building itself, its founding or dedication.
Epigraph (n.) A citation
from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning
of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
Epigraphic (a.) Alt. of
Epigraphical
Epigraphical (a.) Of or
pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical
works or studies.
Epigraphics (n.) The
science or study of epigraphs.
Epigraphist (n.) A student
of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
Epigraphy (n.) The science
of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
Epigynous (a.) Adnate to
the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; --
said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.
Epihyal (n.) A segment
next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
Epilepsy (n.) The "falling
sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease
characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by
sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.
Epileptic (a.) Pertaining
to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) One
affected with epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) A medicine
for the cure of epilepsy.
Epileptical (a.)
Epileptic.
Epileptiform (a.)
Resembling epilepsy.
Epileptogenous (a.)
Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or
of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
Epileptoid (a.) Resembling
epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.
Epilogation (n.) A summing
up in a brief account.
Epilogic (a.) Alt. of
Epilogical
Epilogical (a.) Of or
pertaining to an epilogue.
Epilogism (n.)
Enumeration; computation.
Epilogistic (a.) Of or
pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
Epilogize (v. i. & t.) To
speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.
Epilogue (n.) A speech or
short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after
the conclusion of the play.
Epilogue (n.) The closing
part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a
conclusion.
Epiloguize (v. i. & t.)
Same as Epilogize.
Epimachus (n.) A genus of
highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of
Paradise.
Epimera (n. pl.) See
Epimeron.
Epimeral (a.) Pertaining
to the epimera.
Epimere (n.) One of the
segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for
example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one
of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.
Epimera (pl. ) of Epimeron
Epimeron (n.) In
crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of
each appendage.
Epimeron (n.) In insects:
The lateral piece behind the episternum.
Epinastic (a.) A term
applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly
on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.
Epineural (a.) Arising
from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
Epineurium (n.) The
connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve
bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.
Epinglette (n.) An iron
needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
Epinicial (a.) Relating to
victory.
Epinicion (n.) A song of
triumph.
Epinikian (a.) Epinicial.
Epiornis (n.) One of the
gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Aepiornis, only recently extinct. Its
remains have been found in Madagascar.
Epiotic (n.) The upper and
outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.
Epipedometry (n.) The
mensuration of figures standing on the same base.
Epiperipheral (a.)
Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; --
especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves
distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an
object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral.
Epipetalous (a.) Borne on
the petals or corolla.
Epiphany (n.) An
appearance, or a becoming manifest.
Epiphany (n.) A church
festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in
commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and
worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance
of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles;
Twelfthtide.
Epipharyngeal (a.)
Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of
fishes.
Epipharyngeal (n.) An
epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.
Epipharynx (n.) A
structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.
Epiphonema (n.) An
exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a
discourse.
Epiphoneme (n.)
Epiphonema.
Epiphora (n.) The watery
eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the
cheek.
Epiphora (n.) The emphatic
repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.
Epiphragm (n.) A
membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture
of the shell during the time of hibernation, or aestivation.
Epiphylospermous (a.)
Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns.
Epiphyllous (a.) Growing
upon, or inserted into, the leaf.
Epiphyllum (n.) A genus of
cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube.
The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.
Epiphyseal () Alt. of Epiphysial
Epiphysial () Pertaining to, or
having the nature of, an epiphysis.
Epiphyses (pl. ) of
Epiphysis
Epiphysis (n.) The end, or
other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central
portion, or diaphysis.
Epiphysis (n.) The
cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal.
Epiphytal (a.) Pertaining
to an epiphyte.
Epiphyte (n.) An air plant
which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See
Air plant.
Epiphyte (n.) A vegetable
parasite growing on the surface of the body.
Epiphytic (a.) Alt. of
Epiphytical
Epiphytical (a.)
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte.
Epiplastra (pl. ) of
Epiplastron
Epiplastron (n.) One of
the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.
Epipleural (a.) Arising
from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.
Epiplexis (n.) A figure by
which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.
Epiploce (n.) A figure by
which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax;
e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not
only continued, but advanced them."
Epiploic (a.) Relating to
the epiploon.
Epiploa (pl. ) of Epiploon
Epiploon (n.) See Omentum.
Epipodial (a.) Pertaining
to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Epipodial (a.) Pertaining
to the epipodium of Mollusca.
Epipodialia (pl. ) of
Epipodiale
Epipodiale (n.) One of the
bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna,
tibia, and fibula.
Epipodite (n.) The outer
branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.
Epipodia (pl. ) of
Epipodium
Epipodium (n.) One of the
lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.
Epipolic (a.) Producing,
or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence.
Epipolism (n.) See
Fluorescence.
Epipolized (a.) Changed to
the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is
presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light.
Epipteric (a.) Pertaining
to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the
parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.
Epipteric (n.) The
epipteric bone.
Epipterygoid (a.) Situated
upon or above the pterygoid bone.
Epipterygoid (n.) An
epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.
Epipubic (a.) Relating to
the epipubis.
Epipubes (pl. ) of
Epipubis
Epipubis (n.) A cartilage
or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.
Episcopacy (n.) Government
of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of
ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an
authority superior and of a different kind.
Episcopal (a.) Governed by
bishops; as, an episcopal church.
Episcopal (a.) Belonging
to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the
episcopal system.
Episcopalian (a.)
Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or
relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Episcopalian (n.) One who
belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church
government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Episcopalianism (n.) The
doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
Episcopally (adv.) By
episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.
Episcopant (n.) A bishop.
Episcoparian (a.)
Episcopal.
Episcopate (n.) A
bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.
Episcopate (n.) The
collective body of bishops.
Episcopate (n.) The time
of a bishop's rule.
Episcopated (imp. & p. p.)
of Episcopate
Episcopating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Episcopate
Episcopate (v. i.) To act
as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate.
Episcopicide (n.) The
killing of a bishop.
Episcopize (v. t.) To make
a bishop of by consecration.
Episcopize (v. i.) To
perform the duties of a bishop.
Episcopy (n.) Survey;
superintendence.
Episcopy (n.) Episcopacy.
Episepalous (a.) Growing
on the sepals or adnate to them.
Episkeletal (a.) Above or
outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.
Episodal (a.) Same as
Episodic.
Episode (n.) A separate
incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater
variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable
from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
Episodial (a.) Pertaining
to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.
Episodic (a.) Alt. of
Episodical
Episodical (a.) Of or
pertaining to an episode; adventitious.
Epispadias (n.) A
deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at
its extremity.
Epispastic (a.) Attracting
the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
Epispastic (n.) An
external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge
by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.
Episperm (n.) The skin or
coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.
Epispermic (a.)
Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.
Epispore (n.) The thickish
outer coat of certain spores.
Epistaxis (n.) Bleeding at
the nose.
Epistemology (n.) The
theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Episternal (a.) Of or
pertaining to the episternum.
Episterna (pl. ) of
Episternum
Episternum (n.) A median
bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.
Episternum (n.) Same as
Epiplastron.
Episternum (n.) One of the
lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects.
Epistilbite (n.) A
crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous
silicate of alumina and lime.
Epistle (n.) A writing
directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; --
applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
Epistle (n.) One of the
letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by
Apostles.
Epistle (v. t.) To write;
to communicate in a letter or by writing.
Epistler (n.) A writer of
epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.
Epistler (n.) The
ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
Epistolar (a.) Epistolary.
Epistolary (a.) Pertaining
to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an
epistolary style.
Epistolary (a.) Contained
in letters; carried on by letters.
Epistolean (n.) One who
writes epistles; a correspondent.
Epistoler (n.) One of the
clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
Epistolet (n.) A little
epistle.
Epistolic (a.) Alt. of
Epistolical
Epistolical (a.)
Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
Epistolize (v. i.) To
write epistles.
Epistolizer (n.) A writer
of epistles.
Epistolographic (a.)
Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.
Epistolography (n.) The
art or practice of writing epistles.
Epistoma (n.) Alt. of
Epistome
Epistome (n.) The region
between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea.
Epistome (n.) A liplike
organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.
Epistrophe (n.) A figure
in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are
they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I."
Epistyle (n.) A massive
piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column
or pillar; -- now called architrave.
Episyllogism (n.) A
syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the
conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the
prosyllogism.
Epitaph (n.) An
inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one
buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
Epitaph (n.) A brief
writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning
Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
Epitaph (v. t.) To
commemorate by an epitaph.
Epitaph (v. i.) To write
or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
Epitapher (n.) A writer of
epitaphs.
Epitaphial (a.) Alt. of
Epitaphian
Epitaphian (a.) Relating
to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
Epitaphic (a.) Pertaining
to an epitaph; epitaphian.
Epitaphic (n.) An epitaph.
Epitaphist (n.) An
epitapher.
Epitasis (n.) That part
which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to
the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
Epitasis (n.) The period
of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Epithalamic (a.) Belonging
to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
Epithalamiums (pl. ) of
Epithalamium
Epithalamia (pl. ) of
Epithalamium
Epithalamium (n.) A
nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
Epithalamies (pl. ) of
Epithalamy
Epithalamy (n.)
Epithalamium.
Epitheca (n.) A continuous
and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of
many corals.
Epithelial (a.) Of or
pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.
Epithelioid (a.) Like
epithelium; as, epithelioid cells.
Epithelioma (n.) A
malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.
Epitheliums (pl. ) of
Epithelium
Epithelia (pl. ) of
Epithelium
Epithelium (n.) The
superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages,
all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc.
It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and
it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their
appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the
blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.
Epitheloid (a.)
Epithelioid.
Epithem (n.) Any external
topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice,
lotion, etc.
Epithema (n.) A horny
excrescence upon the beak of birds.
Epithesis (n.) The
addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb
for num, whilst for whiles.
Epithet (n.) An adjective
expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially
appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Epithet (n.) Term;
expression; phrase.
Epithet (v. t.) To
describe by an epithet.
Epithetic (a.) Alt. of
Epithetical
Epithetical (a.)
Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets.
Epithite (n.) A lazy,
worthless fellow; a vagrant.
Epithumetic (a.)
Epithumetical.
Epithumetical (a.)
Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.
Epitithides (n.) The
uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.
Epitomator (n.) An
epitomist.
Epitomes (pl. ) of Epitome
Epitome (n.) A work in
which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by
curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
Epitome (n.) A compact or
condensed representation of anything.
Epitomist (n.) One who
makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer.
Epitomized (imp. & p. p.)
of Epitomize
Epitomizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Epitomize
Epitomize (v. t.) To make
an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce
within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.
Epitomize (v. t.) To
diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words.
Epitomizer (n.) An
epitomist.
Epitrite (n.) A foot
consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
Epitrochlea (n.) A
projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external
condyle.
Epitrochlear (a.) Relating
to the epitrochlea.
Epitrochoid (n.) A kind of
curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.
Epitrope (n.) A figure by
which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do
what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."
Epizeuxis (n.) A figure by
which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines:
-
Epozoan (n.) An epizoon.
Epozoic (a.) Living upon
the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.
Epizoa (pl. ) of Epizoon
Epizoon (n.) One of the
artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically
upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks,
many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.
Epizootic (a.) Of or
pertaining to an epizoon.
Epizootic (a.) Containing
fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like.
Epizootic (a.) Of the
nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; --
corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.
Epizooty (n.) Alt. of
Epizootic
Epizootic (n.) An
epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
Epoch (n.) A fixed point
of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable
event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the
epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the
Christian era.
Epoch (n.) A period of
time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a
memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
Epoch (n.) A division of
time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth;
commonly a minor division or part of a period.
Epoch (n.) The date at
which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
Epoch (n.) An arbitrary
fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or
other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar
elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.
Epocha (n.) See Epoch.
Epochal (a.) Belonging to
an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.
Epode (n.) The after song;
the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the
ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
Epode (n.) A species of
lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a
shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.
Epodic (a.) Pertaining to,
or resembling, an epode.
Eponym (n.) Alt. of
Eponyme
Eponyme (n.) The
hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city,
etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
Eponyme (n.) A name, as of
a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.
Eponymic (a.) Same as
Eponymous.
Eponymist (n.) One from
whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.
Eponymous (a.) Relating to
an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
Eponymy (n.) The
derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero,
progenitor, etc.
Epoophoron (n.) See
Parovarium.
Epopee (n.) Alt. of
Epopoeia
Epopoeia (n.) An epic
poem; epic poetry.
Epopt (n.) One instructed
in the mysteries of a secret system.
Epos (n.) An epic.
Epotation (n.) A drinking
up; a quaffing.
Eprouvette (n.) An
apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.
Epsomite (n.) Native
sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.
Epsom salts () Alt. of salt
salt () Sulphate of magnesia
having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral
waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea
water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.
Epulary (a.) Of or
pertaining to a feast or banquet.
Epulation (n.) A feasting
or feast; banquet.
Epulis (n.) A hard tumor
developed from the gums.
Epulose (a.) Feasting to
excess.
Epulosity (n.) A feasting
to excess.
Epulotic (a.) Promoting
the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment.
Epulotic (n.) An epulotic
agent.
Epuration (n.)
Purification.
Epure (n.) A draught or
model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be
done; a detailed drawing.
Equability (n.) The
quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of
temperature; the equability of the mind.
Equable (a.) Equal and
uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the
like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.
Equable (a.) Uniform in
action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or
temper.
Equableness (n.) Quality
or state of being equable.
Equably (adv.) In an
equable manner.
Equal (a.) Agreeing in
quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the
same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and
intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor
superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal
quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature
or talents; commodities of equal value.
Equal (a.) Bearing a
suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or
means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.
Equal (a.) Not variable;
equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.
Equal (a.) Evenly
balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness;
unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.
Equal (a.) Of the same
interest or concern; indifferent.
Equal (a.) Intended for
voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed.
Equal (a.) Exactly
agreeing with respect to quantity.
Equal (n.) One not
inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank,
station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal
quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are
equal."
Equal (n.) State of being
equal; equality.
Equaled (imp. & p. p.) of
Equal
Equalled () of Equal
Equaling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equal
Equalling () of Equal
Equal (v. t.) To be or
become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or
rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.
Equal (v. t.) To make
equal return to; to recompense fully.
Equal (v. t.) To make
equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on
equality.
Equalitarian (n.) One who
believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.
Equalities (pl. ) of
Equality
Equality (n.) The
condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as
compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of
two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.
Equality (n.) Sameness in
state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or
constitution.
Equality (n.) Evenness;
uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
Equality (n.) Exact
agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; --
denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number
and kind of units of measure that x does.
Equalization (n.) The act
of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
Equalized (imp. & p. p.)
of Equalize
Equalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equalize
Equalize (v. t.) To make
equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as,
to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
Equalize (v. t.) To
pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
Equalize (v. t.) To be
equal to; equal; to match.
Equalizer (n.) One who, or
that which, equalizes anything.
Equally (adv.) In an equal
manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial
justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed,
furnished, etc.
Equalness (n.) Equality;
evenness.
Equangular (a.) Having
equal angles; equiangular.
Equanimity (n.) Evenness
of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or
depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with
equanimity.
Equanimous (a.) Of an
even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or
depressed.
Equant (n.) A circle
around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived
to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.
Equated (imp. & p. p.) of
Equate
Equating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equate
Equate (v. t.) To make
equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as
will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or
motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or
curves; equated distances.
Equation (n.) A making
equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.
Equation (n.) An
expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets
of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a
quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an
exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.
Equation (n.) A quantity
to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body;
that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its
position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to
find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion.
Equator (n.) The imaginary
great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two
poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
Equator (n.) The great
circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's
equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of
equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the
equinoctial line.
Equatorial (a.) Of or
pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an
equatorial instrument.
Equatorial (n.) An
instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at
right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and
each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the
other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed,
even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and
declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated
by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope.
Called also an equatorial telescope.
Equatorially (adv.) So as
to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.
Equerries (pl. ) of
Equerry
Equerry (n.) A large
stable or lodge for horses.
Equerry (n.) An officer of
princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.
Equery (n.) Same as
Equerry.
Equestrian (a.) Of or
pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or
games.
Equestrian (a.) Being or
riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue.
Equestrian (a.) Belonging
to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian
order.
Equestrian (n.) One who
rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider.
Equestrianism (n.) The art
of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats
equestrianism.
Equestrienne (n.) A woman
skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.
Equi- () A prefix, meaning
equally; as, equidistant; equiangular.
Equiangled (a.)
Equiangular.
Equiangular (a.) Having
equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.
Equibalance (n.) Equal
weight; equiponderance.
Equibalanced (imp. & p. p.)
of Equibalance
Equibalancing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equibalance
Equibalance (v. t.) To
make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.
Equicrescent (a.)
Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.
Equicrural (a.) Having
equal legs or sides; isosceles.
Equicrure (a.) Equicrural.
Equidifferent (a.) Having
equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.
Equidistance (n.) Equal
distance.
Equidistant (a.) Being at
an equal distance from the same point or thing.
Equidiurnal (a.)
Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial
line.
Equiform (a.) Having the
same form; uniform.
Equilateral (a.) Having
all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
Equilateral (n.) A side
exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.
Equilibrated (imp. & p. p.)
of Equilibrate
Equilibrating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equilibrate
Equilibrate (v. t.) To
balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side;
to keep in equipoise.
Equilibration (n.) Act of
keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.
Equilibration (n.) The
process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological
balance.
Equilibrious (a.) Evenly
poised; balanced.
Equilibrist (n.) One who
balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
Equilibrity (n.) The state
of being balanced; equality of weight.
Equilibriums (pl. ) of
Equilibrium
Equilibria (pl. ) of
Equilibrium
Equilibrium (n.) Equality
of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual
counteraction of two or more forces.
Equilibrium (n.) A level
position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains
firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.
Equilibrium (n.) A
balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and
doubt.
Equimomental (a.) Having
equal moments of inertia.
Equimultiple (a.)
Multiplied by the same number or quantity.
Equimultiple (n.) One of
the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the
same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28,
are equimultiples of 2 and 4.
Equinal (a.) See Equine.
Equine (a.) Of, pertaining
to, or resembling, a horse.
Equinia (n.) Glanders.
Equinoctial (a.)
Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and
night; as, the equinoctial line.
Equinoctial (a.)
Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or
near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun.
Equinoctial (a.)
Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an
equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the
equinox, in any part of the world.
Equinoctial (n.) The
equinoctial line.
Equinoctially (adv.)
Towards the equinox.
Equinox (n.) The time when
the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and
September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal.
Equinox (n.) Equinoctial
wind or storm.
Equinumerant (a.) Equal as
to number.
Equipped (imp. & p. p.) of
Equip
Equipping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equip
Equip (v. t.) To furnish
for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever
is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an
armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops.
Equip (v. t.) To dress up;
to array; accouter.
Equipage (n.) Furniture or
outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of
a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and
necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including
whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments;
habiliments; attire.
Equipage (n.) Retinue;
train; suite.
Equipage (n.) A carriage
of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried
servants, etc., a showy turn-out.
Equipaged (a.) Furnished
with equipage.
Equiparable (a.)
Comparable.
Equiparate (v. t.) To
compare.
Equipedal (a.)
Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.
Equipendency (n.) The act
or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.
Equipensate (v. t.) To
weigh equally; to esteem alike.
Equipment (n.) The act of
equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
Equipment (n.) Whatever is
used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective
designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad
equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse
equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Equipoise (n.) Equality of
weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a
thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of
moral, political, or social interests or forces.
Equipoise (n.)
Counterpoise.
Equipollence (n.) Alt. of
Equipollency
Equipollency (n.) Equality
of power, force, signification, or application.
Equipollency (n.) Sameness
of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.
Equipollent (a.) Having
equal power or force; equivalent.
Equipollent (a.) Having
equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.
Equipollently (adv.) With
equal power.
Equiponderance (n.) Alt.
of Equiponderancy
Equiponderancy (n.)
Equality of weight; equipoise.
Equiponderant (a.) Being
of the same weight.
Equiponderate (v. i.) To
be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing.
Equiponderate (v. t.) To
make equal in weight; to counterbalance.
Equiponderous (a.) Having
equal weight.
Equipondious (a.) Of equal
weight on both sides; balanced.
Equipotential (a.) Having
the same potential.
Equiradical (a.) Equally
radical.
Equirotal (a.) Having
wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.
Equisetaceous (a.)
Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family.
Equisetiform (a.) Having
the form of the equisetum.
Equiseta (pl. ) of
Equisetum
Equisetum (n.) A genus of
vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.
Equisonance (n.) An equal
sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.
Equisonant (a.) Of the
same or like sound.
Equitable (a.) Possessing
or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a
due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an
equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men.
Equitable (a.) That can be
sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon
principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets,
assignment, mortgage, etc.
Equitableness (n.) The
quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a
judge, a decision, or distribution of property.
Equitably (adv.) In an
equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.
Equitancy (n.)
Horsemanship.
Equitant (a.) Mounted on,
or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
Equitant (a.) Overlapping
each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and
bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.
Equitation (n.) A riding,
or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship.
Equitemporaneous (a.)
Contemporaneous.
Equites (n. pl) An order
of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members
of the Roman equestrian order.
Equities (pl. ) of Equity
Equity (n.) Equality of
rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man
his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in
determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.
Equity (n.) An equitable
claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity,
etc.
Equity (n.) A system of
jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.
Equivalence (n.) The
condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification,
or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.
Equivalence (n.) Equal
power or force; equivalent amount.
Equivalence (n.) The
quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the
number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency. See
Valence.
Equivalence (n.) The
degree of combining power as determined by relative weight. See Equivalent, n.,
2.
Equivalence (v. t.) To be
equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
Equivalency (n.) Same as
Equivalence.
Equivalent (a.) Equal in
wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in
significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
Equivalent (a.) Equal in
measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a
square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Equivalent (a.)
Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
Equivalent (n.) Something
equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer
an equivalent for damage done.
Equivalent (n.) That
comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical
value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the
same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one
element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces
hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The
combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this
proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and
oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
Equivalent (n.) A
combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two
or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.
Equivalent (v. t.) To make
the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
Equivalently (adv.) In an
equal manner.
Equivalue (v. t.) To put
an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing.
Equivalve (a.) Alt. of
Equivalved
Equivalved (a.) Having the
valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
Equivalvular (a.) Same as
Equivalve or Equivalved.
Equivocacy (n.)
Equivocalness.
Equivocal (a.) (Literally,
called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally
applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous;
uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence.
Equivocal (a.) Capable of
being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings,
purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are
equivocal.
Equivocal (a.) Uncertain,
as an indication or sign; doubtful.
Equivocal (n.) A word or
expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
Equivocally (adv.) In an
equivocal manner.
Equivocalness (n.) The
state of being equivocal.
Equivocated (imp. & p. p.)
of Equivocate
Equivocating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Equivocate
Equivocate (a.) To use
words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms
which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous
expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
Equivocate (v. t.) To
render equivocal or ambiguous.
Equivocation (n.) The use
of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
Equivocator (n.) One who
equivocates.
Equivocatory (a.)
Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
Equivoque (n.) Alt. of
Equivoke
Equivoke (n.) An ambiguous
term; a word susceptible of different significations.
Equivoke (n.) An
equivocation; a guibble.
Equivorous (a.) Feeding on
horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.
Equus (n.) A genus of
mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.
-er () .
-er () The termination of many
English words, denoting the agent; -- applied either to men or things; as in
hater, farmer, heater, grater. At the end of names of places, -er signifies a
man of the place; as, Londoner, i. e., London man.
-er () A suffix used to form the
comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er,
earl(y)ier.
Eras (pl. ) of Era
Era (n.) A fixed point of
time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
Era (n.) A period of time
reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from
some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the
Christian era (see under Christian).
Era (n.) A period of time
in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Eradiated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eradiate
Eradiating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eradiate
Eradiate (v. i.) To shoot
forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.
Eradiation (n.) Emission
of radiance.
Eradicable (a.) Capable of
being eradicated.
Eradicated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eradicate
Eradicating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eradicate
Eradicate (v. t.) To pluck
up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
Eradicate (v. t.) To root
out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
Eradication (n.) The act
of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
Eradication (n.) The state
of being plucked up by the roots.
Eradicative (a.) Tending
or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any
evil.
Eradicative (n.) A
medicine that effects a radical cure.
Erasable (a.) Capable of
being erased.
Erased (imp. & p. p.) of
Erase
Erasing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Erase
Erase (v. t.) To rub or
scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface;
to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To
obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Erased (p. pr. & a.)
Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
Erased (p. pr. & a.)
Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the
head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.
Erasement (n.) The act of
erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
Eraser (n.) One who, or
that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase
writings, drawings, etc.
Erasion (n.) The act of
erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
Erastian (n.) One of the
followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th
century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the
civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an
Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of
the State.
Erastianism (n.) The
principles of the Erastains.
Erasure (n.) The act of
erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Erative (a.) Pertaining to
the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.
Erato (n.) The Muse who
presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
Erbium (n.) A rare
metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral
gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are
rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.
Ercedeken (n.) An
archdeacon.
Erd (n.) The earth.
Ere (adv.) Before; sooner
than.
Ere (adv.) Rather than.
Ere (v. t.) To plow.
[Obs.] See Ear, v. t.
Erebus (n.) A place of
nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades.
See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
Erebus (n.) The son of
Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.
Erect (a.) Upright, or
having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to
stand erect.
Erect (a.) Directed
upward; raised; uplifted.
Erect (a.) Bold;
confident; free from depression; undismayed.
Erect (a.) Watchful;
alert.
Erect (a.) Standing
upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is
attached.
Erect (a.) Elevated, as
the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Erected (imp. & p. p.) of
Erect
Erecting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Erect
Erect (v. t.) To raise and
place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to
erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
Erect (v. t.) To raise, as
a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up;
to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
Erect (v. t.) To lift up;
to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
Erect (v. t.) To animate;
to encourage; to cheer.
Erect (v. t.) To set up as
an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
Erect (v. t.) To set up or
establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Erect (v. i.) To rise
upright.
Erectable (a.) Capable of
being erected; as, an erectable feather.
Erecter (n.) An erector;
one who raises or builds.
Erectile (a.) Capable of
being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.
Erectility (n.) The
quality or state of being erectile.
Erection (n.) The act of
erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall,
or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or
establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to
excitement or courage.
Erection (n.) The state of
being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings
or purposes.
Erection (n.) State of
being stretched to stiffness; tension.
Erection (n.) Anything
erected; a building of any kind.
Erection (n.) The state of
a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the
accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.
Erective (a.) Making erect
or upright; raising; tending to erect.
Erectly (adv.) In an erect
manner or posture.
Erectness (n.) Uprightness
of posture or form.
Erecto-patent (a.) Having
a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
Erecto-patent (a.)
Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.
Erector (n.) One who, or
that which, erects.
Erector (n.) A muscle
which raises any part.
Erector (n.) An attachment
to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image
erect instead of inverted.
Erelong (adv.) Before the
/apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.
Eremacausis (n.) A gradual
oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of
dead animals.
Eremitage (n.) See
Hermitage.
Eremite (n.) A hermit.
Eremitic (a.) Alt. of
Eremitical
Eremitical (a.) Of or
pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.
Eremitish (a.) Eremitic.
Eremitism (n.) The state
of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
Eretation (n.) A creeping
forth.
Ereption (n.) A snatching
away.
Erethism (n.) A morbid
degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
Erethistic (a.) Relating
to erethism.
Erewhile (adv.) Alt. of
Erewhiles
Erewhiles (adv.) Some time
ago; a little while before; heretofore.
Erven (pl. ) of Erf
Erf (n.) A garden plot,
usually about half an acre.
Erg (n.) The unit of work
or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne
working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in
moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is
equal to 13,560,000 ergs.
Ergat (v. t.) To deduce
logically, as conclusions.
Ergo (conj. / adv.)
Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.
Ergot (n.) A diseased
condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often
spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
Ergot (n.) The mycelium or
spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful
remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening
childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
Ergot (n.) A stub, like
soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern
joint.
Ergot (n.) See 2d Calcar,
3 (b).
Ergotic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.
Ergotin (n.) An extract
made from ergot.
Ergotine () A powerful astringent
alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is
used to produce contraction of the uterus.
Ergotism (n.) A logical
deduction.
Ergotism (n.) A diseased
condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.
Ergotized (a.) Affected
with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.
Eriach (n.) Alt. of Eric
Eric (n.) A recompense
formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
Erica (n.) A genus of
shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
Ericaceous (a.) Belonging
to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.
Ericinol (n.) A colorless
oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the
decomposition of ericolin.
Ericius (n.) The Vulgate
rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is
translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.
Ericolin (n.) A glucoside
found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter,
yellow, amorphous mass.
Eridanus (n.) A long,
winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright
star Achernar.
Erigible (a.) Capable of
being erected.
Erin (n.) An early, and
now a poetic, name of Ireland.
Erinaceous (a.) Of the
Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
Eringo (n.) The sea holly.
See Eryngo.
Erinite (n.) A hydrous
arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or
Ireland, where it occurs.
Erinyes (pl. ) of Erinys
Erinys (n.) An avenging
deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.
Eriometer (n.) An
instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the
size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the
objects are viewed.
Eristalis (n.) A genus of
dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for
their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to
live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.
Eristic (a.) Alt. of
Eristical
Eristical (a.)
Controversial.
Erke (a.) ASlothful.
Erlking (n.) A
personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power
supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.
Erme (v. i.) To grieve; to
feel sad.
Ermelin (n.) Alt. of
Ermilin
Ermilin (n.) See Ermine.
Ermin (n.) An Armenian.
Ermine (n.) A valuable
fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the
stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer
it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which
is always black.
Ermine (n.) The fur of the
ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the
tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the
white.
Ermine (n.) By metonymy,
the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is
emblematical of purity and honor without stain.
Ermine (n.) One of the
furs. See Fur (Her.)
Ermine (v. t.) To clothe
with, or as with, ermine.
Ermined (a.) Clothed or
adorned with the fur of the ermine.
Ermines (n.) Alt. of
Erminois
Erminois (n.) See Note
under Ermine, n., 4.
Ermit (n.) A hermit.
Ern (n.) Alt. of Erne
Erne (n.) A sea eagle,
esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).
Ern (v. i.) To stir with
strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of
Shakespeare.]
Ernest (n.) See Earnest.
Ernestful (a.) Serious.
Eroded (imp. & p. p.) of
Erode
Eroding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Erode
Erode (v. t.) To eat into
or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.
Eroded (p. p. & a.) Eaten
away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.
Eroded (p. p. & a.) Having
the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.
Erodent (n.) A medicine
which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.
Erogated (imp. & p. p.) of
Erogate
Erogating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Erogate
Erogate (v. t.) To lay
out, as money; to deal out; to expend.
Erogation (n.) The act of
giving out or bestowing.
Eros (n.) Love; the god of
love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods,
by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
Erose (a.) Irregular or
uneven as if eaten or worn away.
Erose (a.) Jagged or
irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed.
Erosion (n.) The act or
operation of eroding or eating away.
Erosion (n.) The state of
being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Erosive (a.) That erodes
or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.
Erostrate (a.) Without a
beak.
Eroteme (n.) A mark
indicating a question; a note of interrogation.
Erotesis (n.) A figure o/
speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form
o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -
Erotic (a.) Alt. of
Erotical
Erotical (a.) Of or
pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.
Erotic (n.) An amorous
composition or poem.
Eroticism (n.) Erotic
quality.
Erpetologist (n.)
Herpetologist.
Erpetology (n.)
Herpetology.
Erred (imp. & p. p.) of
Err
Erring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Err
Err (v. i.) To wander; to
roam; to stray.
Err (v. i.) To deviate
from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
Err (v. i.) To miss
intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be
mistaken.
Err (v. i.) To deviate
morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to
sin.
Err (v. i.) To offend, as
by erring.
Errable (a.) Liable to
error; fallible.
Errableness (n.) Liability
to error.
Errabund (a.) Erratic.
Errancy (n.) A wandering;
state of being in error.
Errand (n.) A special
business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent
somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the
servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going
anywhere.
Errant (a.) Wandering;
deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
Errant (a.) Notorious;
notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
Errant (a.) Journeying;
itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at
large.
Errant (n.) One who
wanders about.
Errantia (n. pl.) A group
of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See
Chaetopoda.
Errantry (n.) A wandering;
a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
Errantry (n.) The
employment of a knight-errant.
Errata (n. pl.) See
Erratum.
Erratic (a.) Having no
certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; --
hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.
Erratic (a.) Deviating
from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange;
queer; as, erratic conduct.
Erratic (a.) Irregular;
changeable.
Erratic (n.) One who
deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in
his intellectual character.
Erratic (n.) A rogue.
Erratic (n.) Any stone or
material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies;
esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.
Erratical (a.) Erratic.
Erration (n.) A wandering;
a roving about.
Errata (pl. ) of Erratum
Erratum (n.) An error or
mistake in writing or printing.
Erthine (n.) A medicine
designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a
sternutatory.
Erthine (a.) Causing or
increasing secretion of nasal mucus.
Erroneous (a.) Wandering;
straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
Erroneous (a.) Misleading;
misled; mistaking.
Erroneous (a.) Containing
error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an
erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.
Error (n.) A wandering; a
roving or irregular course.
Error (n.) A wandering or
deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy;
something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a
clerical error.
Error (n.) A departing or
deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake;
misapprehension.
Error (n.) A moral
offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
Error (n.) The difference
between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the
rule of double position.
Error (n.) The difference
between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
Error (n.) The difference
between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to
be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error.
Error (n.) A mistake in
the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
Error (n.) A fault of a
player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on
the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
Errorful (a.) Full of
error; wrong.
Errorist (n.) One who
encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
Ers (n.) The bitter vetch
(Ervum Ervilia).
Erse (n.) A name sometimes
given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of
Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.
Erse (a.) Of or pertaining
to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.
Ersh (n.) See Arrish.
Erst (adv.) First.
Erst (adv.) Previously;
before; formerly; heretofore.
Erstwhile (adv.) Till then
or now; heretofore; formerly.
Erubescence (n.) Alt. of
Erubescency
Erubescency (n.) The act
of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.
Erubescent (a.) Red, or
reddish; blushing.
Erubescite (n.) See
Bornite.
Erucae (pl. ) of Eruca
Eruca (n.) An insect in
the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.
Erucic (a.) Pertaining to,
or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica);
as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil,
mustard oil, etc.
Erucifrom (a.) Having the
form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvae.
Eruct (v. t.) Alt. of
Eructate
Eructate (v. t.) To eject,
as wind, from the stomach; to belch.
Eructation (n.) The act of
belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
Eructation (n.) A violent
belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a
volcano, geyser, etc.
Erudiate (v. t.) To
instruct; to educate; to teach.
Erudite (a.) Characterized
by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.
Erudition (n.) The act of
instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or
learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly,
learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
Erugate (a.) Freed from
wrinkles; smooth.
Eruginous (a.) Partaking
of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the
trust of copper or verdigris; aeruginous.
Erumpent (a.) Breaking
out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.
Erupt (v. t.) To cause to
burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
Eruption (n.) The act of
breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava,
etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and
overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton.
(c) A violent commotion.
Eruption (n.) That which
bursts forth.
Eruption (n.) A violent
exclamation; ejaculation.
Eruption (n.) The breaking
out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
Eruptional (a.) Eruptive.
Eruptive (a.) Breaking out
or bursting forth.
Eruptive (a.) Attended
with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
Eruptive (a.) Produced by
eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.
Eruptive (n.) An eruptive
rock.
Eryngium (n.) A genus of
umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum,
or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being
formerly candied.
Eryngo (n.) A plant of the
genus Eryngium.
Erysipelas (n.) St.
Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of
the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over
its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs
epidemically.
Erysipelatoid (a.)
Resembling erysipelas.
Erysipelatous (a.)
Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature.
Erysipelous (a.)
Erysipelatous.
Erythema (n.) A disease of
the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of
variable size.
Erythematic (a.)
Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to
erythema.
Erythematous (a.) Relating
to, or causing, erythema.
Erythrean (a.) Alt. of
Erythraean
Erythraean (a.) Red in
color.
Erythric (a.) Pertaining
to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.
Erythrin (n.) Alt. of
Erythrine
Erythrine (n.) A colorless
crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various
species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of
certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.
Erythrine (n.) See
Erythrite, 2.
Erythrina (n.) A genus of
leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red
flowers.
Erythrism (n.) A condition
of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.
Erythrite (n.) A colorless
crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from
certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also
erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the
name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic
alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.
Erythrite (n.) A rose-red
mineral, crystallized and earthy, a hydrous arseniate of cobalt, known also as
cobalt bloom; -- called also erythrin or erythrine.
Erythrochroic (a.) Having,
or subject to, erythrochroism.
Erythrochroism (n.) An
unusual redness, esp. in the plumage of birds, or hair of mammals, independently
of age, sex, or season.
Erythrodextrin (n.) A
dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.
Erythrogen (n.) Carbon
disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in
combination with other substances.
Erythrogen (n.) A
substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers.
Erythrogen (n.) A
crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when
acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.
Erythrogranulose (n.) A
term applied by Brucke to a substance present in small amount in starch
granules, colored red by iodine.
Erythroid (a.) Of a red
color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle).
Erythroleic (a.) Having a
red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said
to be obtained from archil.
Erythrolein (n.) A red
substance obtained from litmus.
Erythrolitmin (n.)
Erythrolein.
Erythronium (n.) A name
originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium.
Erythrophleine (n.) A
white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).
Erythrophyll (n.) Alt. of
Erythrophyllin
Erythrophyllin (n.) The
red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from
chlorophyll.
Erythrosin (n.) A red
substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.
Erythrosin (n.) A red
dyestuff obtained from fluorescein by the action of iodine.
Erythroxylon (n.) A genus
of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E.
Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
Erythrozyme (n.) A ferment
extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic
fermentation in solutions of sugar.
Escalade (v. t.) A furious
attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a
ditch or mount a rampart.
Escaladed (imp. & p. p.)
of Escalade
Escalading (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Escalade
Escalade (v. t.) To mount
and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
Escallop (n.) See Escalop.
Escalloped (a.) See
Escaloped.
Escalop (n.) A bivalve
shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) A regular,
curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) The figure or
shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Escalop (n.) A bearing or
a charge consisting of an escalop shell.
Escaloped (a.) Cut or
marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
Escaloped (a.) Covered
with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from
between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales.
Escambio (n.) A license
formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
Escapable (a.) Avoidable.
Escapade (n.) The fling of
a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
Escapade (n.) Act by which
one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Escaped (imp. & p. p.) of
Escape
Escaping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Escape
Escape (v.) To flee from
and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to
escape danger.
Escape (v.) To avoid the
notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
Escape (v. i.) To flee,
and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
Escape (v. i.) To get
clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Escape (v. i.) To get free
from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape
from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes;
electricity escapes from its conductors.
Escape (n.) The act of
fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from
injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the
means of escape; as, a fire escape.
Escape (n.) That which
escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
Escape (n.) A sally.
Escape (n.) The unlawful
permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from
custody.
Escape (n.) An apophyge.
Escape (n.) Leakage or
outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
Escape (n.) Leakage or
loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Escapement (n.) The act of
escaping; escape.
Escapement (n.) Way of
escape; vent.
Escapement (n.) The
contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the
pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in
vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at
each vibration.
Escaper (n.) One who
escapes.
Escarbuncle (n.) See
Carbuncle, 3.
Escargatoire (n.) A
nursery of snails.
Escarp (n.) The side of
the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
Escarped (imp. & p. p.) of
Escarp
Escarping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Escarp
Escarp (v. t.) To make
into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
Escarpment (n.) A steep
descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified
place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
-escent () A suffix signifying
beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
Eschalot (n.) See Shallot.
Eschar (n.) A dry slough,
crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that
produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
Eschar (n.) In Ireland,
one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend
for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are
called kames or kams.
Eschara (n.) A genus of
Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but
sometimes branched.
Escharine (a.) Like, or
pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
Escharotic (a.) Serving or
tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
Escharotic (n.) A
substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
Eschatological (a.)
Pertaining to the last or final things.
Eschatology (n.) The
doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events
therewith connected.
Eschaunge (n.) Exchange.
Escheat (n.) The falling
back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the
fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may
happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of
blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
Escheat (n.) The reverting
of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of
a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
Escheat (n.) A writ, now
abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Escheat (n.) Lands which
fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
Escheat (n.) That which
falls to one; a reversion or return
Esheated (imp. & p. p.) of
Escheat
Escheating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Escheat
Escheat (v. i.) To revert,
or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the
failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
Escheat (v. t.) To
forfeit.
Escheatable (a.) Liable to
escheat.
Escheatage (n.) The right
of succeeding to an escheat.
Escheator (n.) An officer
whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge
of them.
Eschevin (n.) The alderman
or chief officer of an ancient guild.
Eshewed (imp. & p. p.) of
Eschew
Eshewing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eschew
Eschew (a.) To shun; to
avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self
clear of.
Eschew (a.) To escape
from; to avoid.
Eschewer (n.) One who
eschews.
Eschewment (n.) The act of
eschewing.
Eschscholtzia (n.) A genus
of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North
America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored,
or white flowers; the California poppy.
Eschynite (n.) A rare
mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so
called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time
of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.
Escocheon (n.) Escutcheon.
Escopet (n.) Alt. of
Escopette
Escopette (n.) A kind of
firearm; a carbine.
Escorial (n.) See
Escurial.
Escort (n.) A body of
armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety
when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of
prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or
honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
Escort (n.) Protection,
care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of
a friend.
Escorted (imp. & p. p.) of
Escort
Escorting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Escort
Escort (n.) To attend with
a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or
ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions
on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage
wagon.
Escot (n.) See Scot, a
tax.
Escot (v. t.) To pay the
reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Escouade (n.) See Squad,
Escout (n.) See Scout.
Escribed (a.) Drawn
outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a
given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
Escript (n.) A writing.
Escritoire (n.) A piece of
furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the
like; a secretary or writing desk.
Escritorial (a.) Of or
pertaining to an escritoire.
Escrod (n.) See Scrod, a
young cod.
Escrol (n.) Alt. of
Escroll
Escroll (n.) A scroll.
Escroll (n.) A long strip
or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently
placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.
Escroll (n.) In modern
heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.
Escrow (n.) A deed, bond,
or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till
some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered
to the grantee.
Escuage (n.) Service of
the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow
his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary
satisfaction. Called also scutage.
Esculapian (n.)
Aesculapian.
Esculapius (n.) Same as
Aesculapius.
Esculent (a.) Suitable to
be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
Esculent (n.) Anything
that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.
Esculic (a.) Pertaining
to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.
Esculin (n.) A glucoside
obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized
by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.
Escurial (n.) A palace and
mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about
twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.
Escutcheon (n.) The
surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The
surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the
chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the
escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his
arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.
Escutcheon (n.) A marking
upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by
the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index
of milking qualities.
Escutcheon (n.) That part
of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.
Escutcheon (n.) A thin
metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a
keyhole.
Escutcheon (n.) The
depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Escutcheoned (a.) Having
an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
Ese (n.) Ease; pleasure.
Esemplastic (a.) Shaped
into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
Eserine (n.) An alkaloid
found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine.
It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.
Esexual (a.) Sexless;
asexual.
Esguard (n.) Guard.
Eskar (n.) Alt. of Esker
Esker (n.) See Eschar.
Eskimos (pl. ) of Eskimo
Eskimo (n.) One of a
peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the
Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.
Esloin (v. t.) To remove;
to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign.
Esnecy (n.) A prerogative
given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.
Esodic (a.) Conveying
impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain
nerves. Opposed to exodic.
Esophagal (a.) Esophageal.
Esophageal (a.) Pertaining
to the esophagus.
Esophagean (a.)
Esophageal.
Esophagotomy (n.) The
operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing
any foreign substance that obstructs the passage.
Esophagus (n.) That part
of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See
Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Esopian (a.) Alt. of
Esopic
Esopic (a.) Same as
Aesopian, Aesopic.
Esoteric (a.) Designed
for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not
intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic;
-- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of
philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
Esoterical (a.) Esoteric.
Esoterically (adv.) In an
esoteric manner.
Esotericism (n.) Esoteric
doctrine or principles.
Esoterics (n.) Mysterious
or hidden doctrines; secret science.
Esotery (n.) Mystery;
esoterics; -- opposed to exotery.
Esox (n.) A genus of
fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
Espace (n.) Space.
Espadon (n.) A long,
heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers
and by executioners.
Espalier (n.) A railing or
trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or
row of trees so trained.
Espaliered (imp. & p. p.)
of Espalier
Espaliering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Espalier
Espalier (v. t.) To form
an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.
Esparcet (n.) The common
sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.
Esparto (n.) A species of
Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc.,
are made. It is also used for making paper.
Espauliere (n.) A defense
for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the
15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette.
Especial (a.)
Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a
species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or
degree.
Especially (adv.) In an
especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
Especialness (n.) The
state of being especial.
Esperance (n.) Hope.
Espiaille (n.) Espial.
Espial (n.) The act of
espying; notice; discovery.
Espial (n.) One who
espies; a spy; a scout.
Espier (n.) One who
espies.
Espinel (n.) A kind of
ruby. See Spinel.
Espionage (n.) The
practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct
of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Esplanade (n.) A clear
space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
Esplanade (n.) The glacis
of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the
country.
Esplanade (n.) A grass
plat; a lawn.
Esplanade (n.) Any clear,
level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.
Esplees (n. pl.) The full
profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the
feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the
like.
Espousage (n.) Espousal.
Espousal (n.) The act of
espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the
troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
Espousal (n.) The uniting
or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of
a quarrel.
Espoused (imp. & p. p.) of
Espouse
Espousing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Espouse
Espouse (v. t.) To
betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
Espouse (v. t.) To take as
spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
Espouse (v. t.) To take to
one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of;
to adopt; to embrace.
Espousement (n.) The act
of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
Espouser (n.) One who
espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
Espressivo (a.) With
expression.
Espringal (n.) An engine
of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
Esprit (n.) Spirit.
Espied (imp. & p. p.) of
Espy
Espying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Espy
Espy (v. t.) To catch
sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly
concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern
unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.
Espy (v. t.) To inspect
narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.
Espy (v. i.) To look or
search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy.
Espies (pl. ) of Espy
Espy (n.) A spy; a scout.
-esque () A suffix of certain
words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like;
as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.
Esquimaux (pl. ) of
Esquimau
Esquimau (n.) Same as
Eskimo.
Esquire (n.) Originally, a
shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a
title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title
of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.
Esquired (imp. & p. p.) of
Esquire
Esquiring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Esquire
Esquire (v. t.) To wait on
as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.
Esquisse (n.) The first
sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
-ess () A suffix used to form
feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.
Essays (pl. ) of Essay
Essay (n.) An effort made,
or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt;
as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
Essay (n.) A composition
treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than
a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an
essay on fossils, or on commerce.
Essay (n.) An assay. See
Assay, n.
Essayed (imp. & p. p.) of
Essay
Essaying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Essay
Essay (n.) To exert one's
power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor;
to make experiment or trial of; to try.
Essay (n.) To test the
value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
Essayer (n.) One who
essays.
Essayist (n.) A writer of
an essay, or of essays.
Essence (n.) The
constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be
enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
Essence (n.) The
constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of
objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real
essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which
constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence,
virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
Essence (n.) Constituent
substance.
Essence (n.) A being;
esp., a purely spiritual being.
Essence (n.) The
predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from
grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile
or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
Essence (n.) Perfume;
odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
Essenced (imp. & p. p.) of
Essence
Essencing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Essence
Essence (v. t.) To
perfume; to scent.
Essenes (pl. ) of Essene
Essene (n.) One of a sect
among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and
abstinence.
Essenism (n.) The doctrine
or the practices of the Essenes.
Essential (a.) Belonging
to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Essential (a.) Hence,
really existing; existent.
Essential (a.) Important
in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object;
indispensably necessary.
Essential (a.) Containing
the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly
rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
Essential (a.) Necessary;
indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction
from ornamental or passing tones.
Essential (a.) Idiopathic;
independent of other diseases.
Esential (n.) Existence;
being.
Esential (n.) That which
is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion.
Essentiality (n.) The
quality of being essential; the essential part.
Esentially (adv.) In an
essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially
different.
Esentialness (n.)
Essentiality.
Essentiated (imp. & p. p.)
of Essentiate
Essentiating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Essentiate
Essentiate (v. t.) To form
or constitute the essence or being of.
Essentiate (v. i.) To
become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.
Essoin (n.) Alt. of
Essoign
Essoign (n.) An excuse for
not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to
the court.
Essoign (n.) Excuse;
exemption.
Essoin (n.) To excuse for
nonappearance in court.
Essoiner (n.) An attorney
who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
Essonite (n.) Cinnamon
stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.
Essorant (a.) Standing,
but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a
charge on an escutcheon.
Est (n. & adv.) East.
-est () A suffix used to form the
superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
Established (imp. & p. p.)
of Establish
Establishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Establish
Establish (a.) To make
stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make
it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
Establish (a.) To appoint
or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to
ordain.
Establish (a.) To
originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to
create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
Establish (a.) To secure
public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as,
to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
Establish (a.) To set up
in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively;
as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the
citadel.
Establisher (n.) One who
establishes.
Establishment (n.) The act
of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Establishment (n.) The
state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.
Establishment (n.) That
which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical;
especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the
Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or
commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently
fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture,
equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of
business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a
business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment.
Establishmentarian (n.)
One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State,
and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.
Estacade (n.) A dike of
piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
Estafet (n.) Alt. of
Estafette
Estafette (n.) A courier
who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part
of an army to another.
Estancia (n.) A grazing; a
country house.
Estate (n.) Settled
condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of
any person; situation.
Estate (n.) Social
standing or rank; quality; dignity.
Estate (n.) A person of
high rank.
Estate (n.) A property
which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also,
property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
Estate (n.) The state; the
general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Estate (n.) The great
classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the
commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government;
as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2)
the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
Estate (n.) The degree,
quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands,
tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
Estate (v. t.) To
establish.
Estate (v. t.) Tom settle
as a fortune.
Estate (v. t.) To endow
with an estate.
Estatlich (a.) Alt. of
Estatly
Estatly (a.) Stately;
dignified.
Esteemed (imp. & p. p.) of
Esteem
Esteeming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Esteem
Esteem (v. t.) To set a
value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.
Esteem (v. t.) To set a
high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.
Esteem (v. i.) To form an
estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.
Esteem (v. t.) Estimation;
opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.
Esteem (v. t.) High
estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.
Esteemable (a.) Worthy of
esteem; estimable.
Esteemer (n.) One who
esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.
Ester (n.) An ethereal
salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the
residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are
esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.
Esthesiometer (n.) Same as
Aesthesiometer.
Esthete (n.) Alt. of
Esthetics
Esthetic (n.) Alt. of
Esthetics
Esthetical (n.) Alt. of
Esthetics
Esthetics (n.) Same as
Aesthete, Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Aesthetics, etc.
Estiferous (a.) Producing
heat.
Estimable (a.) Capable of
being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage.
Estimable (a.) Valuable;
worth a great price.
Estimable (a.) Worth of
esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
Estimable (n.) A thing
worthy of regard.
Estimableness (n.) The
quality of deserving esteem or regard.
Estimably (adv.) In an
estimable manner.
Estimated (imp. & p. p.)
of Estimate
Estimating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Estimate
Estimate (v. t.) To judge
and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the
extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or
in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the
worth or talents of a person.
Estimate (v. t.) To from
an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or
experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to
estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.
Estimate (n.) A valuing or
rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or
approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the
quantity of water in a pond.
Estimation (v. t.) The act
of estimating.
Estimation (v. t.) An
opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed
without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude,
amount, or moral qualities.
Estimation (v. t.)
Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.
Estimation (v. t.)
Supposition; conjecture.
Estimative (a.) Inclined,
or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.
Estimative (a.) Pertaining
to an estimate.
Estimator (n.) One who
estimates or values; a valuer.
Estival (n.) Alt. of
Estivation
Estivate (n.) Alt. of
Estivation
Estivation (n.) Same as
Aestival, Aestivate, etc.
Estoile (n.) A six-pointed
star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.
Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of
Estop
Estopping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Estop
Estop (v. t.) To impede or
bar by estoppel.
Estoppel (n.) A stop; an
obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own
previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which
induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such
admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.
Estoppel (n.) The agency
by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the
policy of the law treats as indisputable.
Estovers (n. pl.)
Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing
for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man
confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her
husband's estate.
Estrade (n.) A portion of
the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a
throne; a platform; a dais.
Estramacon (n.) A
straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Estramacon (n.) A blow
with edge of a sword.
Estranged (imp. & p. p.)
of Estrange
Estranging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Estrange
Estrange (v. t.) To
withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be
familiar and friendly with.
Estrange (v. t.) To divert
from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.
Estrange (v. t.) To
alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or
indifference.
Estrangedness (n.) State
of being estranged; estrangement.
Estrangement (n.) The act
of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.
Estranger (n.) One who
estranges.
Estrangle (v. t.) To
strangle.
Estrapade (n.) The action
of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks
furiously.
Estray (v. i.) To stray.
Estray (n.) Any valuable
animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.
Estre (n.) The inward part
of a building; the interior.
Estreat (n.) A true copy,
duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or
penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other
officer.
Estreated (imp. & p. p.)
of Estreat
Estreating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Estreat
Estreat (v. t.) To extract
or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer
to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.
Estreat (v. t.) To bring
in to the exchequer, as a fine.
Estrepe (v. t.) To strip
or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.
Estrepement (n.) A
destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or
houses.
Estrich (n.) Ostrich.
Estrich (n.) The down of
the ostrich.
Estuance (n.) Heat.
Estuarine (a.) Pertaining
to an estuary; estuary.
Estuaries (pl. ) of
Estuary
Estuary (n.) A place where
water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
Estuary (n.) A passage, as
the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the
sea; a frith.
Estuary (a.) Belonging to,
or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.
Estuated (imp. & p. p.) of
Estuate
Estuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Estuate
Estuate (v. i.) To boil
up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Estuation (n.) The act of
estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
Estufas (pl. ) of Estufa
Estufa (n.) An assembly
room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.
Esture (n.) Commotion.
Esurient (a.) Inclined to
eat; hungry; voracious.
Esurient (n.) One who is
hungry or greedy.
Esurine (a.) Causing
hunger; eating; corroding.
Esurine (n.) A medicine
which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.
-et () A noun suffix with a
diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
Etaac (n.) The blue buck.
Etacism (n.) The
pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in
the English word ate. See Itacism.
Etacist (n.) One who
favors etacism.
Etagere (n.) A piece of
furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another,
for receiving articles of elegance or use.
Etat Major () The staff of an
army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants,
inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers,
paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the
noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.
Et cetera () Alt. of Et caetera
Et caetera () Others of the like
kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which
could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c.
(&c).
Etch (n.) A variant of
Eddish.
Etched (imp. & p. p.) of
Etch
Etching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Etch
Etch (v. t.) To produce,
as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or
strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
Etch (v. t.) To subject to
etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
Etch (v. t.) To sketch; to
delineate.
Etch (v. i.) To practice
etching; to make etchings.
Etcher (n.) One who
etches.
Etching (n.) The act, art,
or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left
unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.
Etching (v. t.) A design
carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc.,
produced by etching.
Etching (v. t.) An
impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched
plate.
Eteostic (n.) A kind of
chronogram.
Eterminable (a.)
Interminable.
Etern (a.) Alt. of Eterne
Eterne (a.) Eternal.
Eternal (a.) Without
beginning or end of existence; always existing.
Eternal (a.) Without end
of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
Eternal (a.) Continued
without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
Eternal (a.) Existing at
all times without change; immutable.
Eternal (a.) Exceedingly
great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.
Eternal (n.) One of the
appellations of God.
Eternal (n.) That which is
endless and immortal.
Eternalist (n.) One who
holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
Eternalize (v. t.) To make
eternal.
Eternally (adv.) In an
eternal manner.
Eterne (a.) See Etern.
Eternify (v. t.) To make
eternal.
Eternities (pl. ) of
Eternity
Eternity (n.) Infinite
duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration
without end in the future; endless time.
Eternity (n.) Condition
which begins at death; immortality.
Eternization (n.) The act
of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.
Eternized (imp. & p. p.)
of Eternize
Eterniziing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eternize
Eternize (v. t.) To make
eternal or endless.
Eternize (v. t.) To make
forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits.
Etesian (a.) Periodical;
annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the
Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and
August.
Ethal (n.) A white waxy
solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under
Cetylic.
Ethane (n.) A gaseous
hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the
second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are
common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.
Ethe (a.) Easy.
Ethel (a.) Noble.
Ethene (n.) Ethylene;
olefiant gas.
Ethenic (a.) Pertaining
to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.
Ethenyl (n.) A trivalent
hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C.
Ethenyl (n.) A univalent
hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See
Vinyl.
Etheostomoid (a.)
Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.
Etheostomoid (n.) Any fish
of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also
called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes
inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known.
See Darter.
Ether (n.) A medium of
great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the
interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of
light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
Ether (n.) Supposed matter
above the air; the air itself.
Ether (n.) A light,
volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic
odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence
called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and
pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
Ether (n.) Any similar
oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
Ethereal (a.) Pertaining
to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth
or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
Ethereal (a.) Consisting
of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized
by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
Ethereal (a.) Pertaining
to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
Etherealism (n.)
Ethereality.
Ethereality (n.) The state
of being ethereal; etherealness.
Etherealization (n.) An
ethereal or spiritlike state.
Etherealize (v. t.) To
convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
Etherealize (v. t.) To
render ethereal or spiritlike.
Ethereally (adv.) In an
ethereal manner.
Etherealness (n.)
Ethereality.
Ethereous (a.) Formed of
ether; ethereal.
Ethereous (a.) Pertaining
to, or resembling, ether.
Etherification (n.) The
act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large
quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of
sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
Etheriform (a.) Having the
form of ether.
Etherin (n.) A white,
crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained
in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called
also concrete oil of wine.
Etherization (n.) The
administration of ether to produce insensibility.
Etherization (n.) The
state of the system under the influence of ether.
Etherized (imp. & p. p.)
of Etherize
Etherizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Etherize
Etherize (v. t.) To
convert into ether.
Etherize (v. t.) To render
insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.
Etherol (n.) An oily
hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
Ethic (a.) Alt. of Ethical
Ethical (a.) Of, or
belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing
percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical
system; ethical philosophy.
Ethically (adv.) According
to, in harmony with, moral principles or character.
Ethicist (n.) One who is
versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
Ethics (n.) The science of
human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular
system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of
practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social
ethics; medical ethics.
Ethide (n.) Any compound
of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.
Ethidene (n.) Ethylidene.
Ethine (n.) Acetylene.
Ethionic (a.) Pertaining
to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.
Ethiop (n.) Alt. of
Ethiopian
Ethiopian (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.
Ethiopian (a.) Alt. of
Ethiopic
Ethiopic (a.) Of or
relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
Ethiopic (n.) The language
of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in
Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and
is also called Geez.
Ethiops (n.) A black
substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark
color.
Ethmoid (a.) Alt. of
Ethmoidal
Ethmoidal (a.) Like a
sieve; cribriform.
Ethmoidal (a.) Pertaining
to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
Ethmoid (n.) The ethmoid
bone.
Ethmotrubinal (a.) See
Turbinal.
Ethmotrubinal (n.) An
ethmoturbinal bone.
Ethmovomerine (n.)
Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.
Ethnarch (n.) The governor
of a province or people.
Ethnarchy (n.) The
dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
Ethnic (a.) Alt. of
Ethnical
Ethnical (a.) Belonging to
races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
Ethnical (a.) Pertaining
to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; --
opposed to Jewish and Christian.
Ethnic (n.) A heathen; a
pagan.
Ethnically (adv.) In an
ethnical manner.
Ethnicism (n.) Heathenism;
paganism; idolatry.
Ethnographer (n.) One who
investigates ethnography.
Ethnographic (a.) Alt. of
Ethnographical
Ethnographical (a.)
pertaining to ethnography.
Ethnographically (adv.) In
an ethnographical manner.
Ethnography (n.) That
branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human
family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science
deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Ethnologic (a) Alt. of
Ethnological
Ethnological (a) Of or
pertaining to ethnology.
Ethnologically (adv.) In
an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging
ethnologically to an African race.
Ethnologist (n.) One
versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.
Ethnology (n.) The science
which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution,
and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
Ethologic (a) Alt. of
Ethological
Ethological (a) treating
of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
Ethologist (n.) One who
studies or writes upon ethology.
Ethology (n.) A treatise
on morality; ethics.
Ethology (n.) The science
of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.
Ethopoetic () Expressing
character.
Ethule () Ethyl.
Ethyl (n.) A monatomic,
hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical
of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
Ethylamine (n.) A
colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an
ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called
also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.
Ethylate (n.) A compound
derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after
the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.
Ethylene (n.) A colorless,
gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas,
and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is
an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form
oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene,
elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.
Ethylic () Pertaining to, derived
from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.
Ethylidene () An unsymmetrical,
divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus,
CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds
are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.
Ethylin () Any one of the several
complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
Ethylsulphuric (a.)
Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.
Etiolated (imp. & p. p.)
of Etiolate
Etiolating (p. pr. & vb. n)
of Etiolate
Etiolate (v. i.) To become
white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun,
as, plants.
Etiolate (v. i.) To become
pale through disease or absence of light.
Etiolate (v. t.) To
blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
Etiolate (v. t.) To cause
to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
Etiolate (a.) Alt. of
Etiolated
Etiolated (a.) Having a
blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
Etiolation (n.) The
operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition
of a blanched plant.
Etiolation (n.) Paleness
produced by absence of light, or by disease.
Etoolin (n.) A yellowish
coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an
antecedent condition of chlorophyll.
Etiological (a.)
Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
Etiology (n.) The science
of causes. Same as /tiology.
Etiquette (n.) The forms
required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social
or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion;
conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
Etna (n.) A kind of small,
portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
Etnean (a.) Pertaining to
Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.
Etoile (n.) See Estoile.
Etrurian (a.) Of or
relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy.
Etrurian (n.) A native or
inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
Etruscan (n.) Of or
relating to Etruria.
Etruscan (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Etruria.
Etter pike (n.) The
stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).
Ettin (n.) A giant.
Ettle (v. t.) To earn.
[Obs.] See Addle, to earn.
Etude (n.) A composition
in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
Etude (n.) A study; an
exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.
Etui (n.) A case for one
or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other
articles of toilet or of daily use are carried.
Etwee (n.) See Etui.
Etym (n.) See Etymon.
Etymic (a.) Relating to
the etymon; as, an etymic word.
Etymologer (n.) An
etymologist.
Etymological (a.)
Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
Etymologicon (n.) An
etymological dictionary or manual.
Etymologist (n.) One who
investigates the derivation of words.
Etymologize (v. t.) To
give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
Etymologize (v. t.) To
search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
Etymologies (pl. ) of
Etymology
Etymology (n.) That branch
of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their
origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
Etymology (n.) That part
of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language;
inflection.
Etymons (pl. ) of Etymon
Etyma (pl. ) of Etymon
Etymon (n.) An original
form; primitive word; root.
Etymon (n.) Original or
fundamental signification.
Etypical (a.) Diverging
from, or lacking conformity to, a type.
Eu () A prefix used frequently in
composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.
Eucairite (n.) A metallic
mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account
of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.
Eucalyn (n.) An
unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition
of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.
Eucalyptol (n.) A
volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely
of cymene.
Eucalyptus (n.) A
myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense
height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.
Eucharis (n.) A genus of
South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.
Eucharist (n.) The act of
giving thanks; thanksgiving.
Eucharist (n.) The
sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the
death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the
communion.
Eucharistic (a.) Alt. of
Eucharistical
Eucharistical (a.) Giving
thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
Eucharistical (a.)
Pertaining to the Lord's Supper.
Euchite (n.) One who
resolves religion into prayer.
Euchloric (a.) Relating
to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric /.
Euchlorine (n.) A yellow
or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate
and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some
free chlorine.
Euchologion (n.) Alt. of
Euchology
Euchology (n.) A formulary
of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy,
sacraments, and forms of prayers.
Euchologue (n.) Euchology.
Euchre (n.) A game at
cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card
(except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same
suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven,
or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.
Euchre (v. t.) To defeat,
in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
Euchre (v. t.) To defeat
or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Euchroic (a.) Having a
fine color.
Euchroite (n.) A mineral
occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of
copper.
Euchrone (n.) A substance
obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.
Euchymy (n.) A good state
of the blood and other fluids of the body.
Euclase (n.) A brittle gem
occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant
clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.
Euclid (n.) A Greek
geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the
principles of geometry, in general.
Euclidian (n.) Related to
Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.
Eucopepoda (n. pl.) A
group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.
Eucrasy () Such a due mixture of
qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.
Euctical () Expecting a wish;
supplicatory.
Eudemon (n.) Alt. of
Eudaemon
Eudaemon (n.) A good
angel.
Eudemonics (n.) Alt. of
Eudaemonics
Eudaemonics (n.) That part
of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; --
contrasted with aretaics.
Eudemonism (n.) Alt. of
Eudaemonism
Eudaemonism (n.) That
system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to
happiness or personal well-being.
Eudemonist (n.) Alt. of
Eudaemonist
Eudaemonist (n.) One who
believes in eudemonism.
Eudemonistic (a.) Alt. of
Eudaemonistic
Eudaemonistic (a.) Of or
pertaining to eudemonism.
Eudemonistical (a.) Alt.
of Eudaemonistical
Eudaemonistical (a.)
Eudemonistic.
Eudialyte (n.) A mineral
of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates
of iron, zirconia, and lime.
Eudiometer (n.) An
instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because
frequently used to determine the purity of the air.
Eudiometric (a.) Alt. of
Eudiometrical
Eudiometrical (a.) Of or
pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.
Eudiometry (n.) The art or
process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the
eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in
it.
Eudipleura (n. pl.) The
fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and
symmetrical halves.
Eudoxian (n.) A follower
of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a
celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
Euganoidei (n. pl.) A
group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.
Euge (n.) Applause.
Eugenia (n.) A genus of
myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic
trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of
commerce.
Eugenic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
Eugenic (a.) Well-born; of
high birth.
Eugenics (n.) The science
of improving stock, whether human or animal.
Eugenin (n.) A colorless,
crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove
camphor.
Eugenol (n.) A colorless,
aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also
called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.
Eugeny () Nobleness of birth.
Eugetic (a.) Alt. of
Eugetinic
Eugetinic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.
Eugh (n.) The yew.
Eugubian (a.) Alt. of
Eugubine
Eugubine (a.) Of or
pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine
tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.
Euharmonic (a.) Producing
mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.
Euhemerism (n.) The
theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals,
and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
Euhemerist (n.) One who
advocates euhemerism.
Euhemeristic (a.) Of or
pertaining to euhemerism.
Euhemerize (v. t.) To
interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.
Euisopoda () A group which
includes the typical Isopoda.
Eulachon (n.) The
candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish.
Eulerian (a.) Pertaining
to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century.
Eulogic (a.) Alt. of
Eulogical
Eulogical (a.) Bestowing
praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic.
Eulogist (n.) One who
eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast.
Eulogistic (a.) Alt. of
Eulogistical
Eulogistical (a.) Of or
pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical;
commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse.
Eulogiums (pl. ) of
Eulogium
Eulogium (n.) A formal
eulogy.
Eulogized (imp. & p. p.)
of Eulogize
Eulogizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eulogize
Eulogize (v. t.) To speak
or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.
Eulogies (pl. ) of Eulogy
Eulogy (n.) A speech or
writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting
eulogy to worth.
Eulytite (n.) A mineral,
consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also
culytine.
Eumenides (n. pl.) A
euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.
Eumolpus (n.) A genus of
small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in
the wine countries of Europe.
Eunomian (n.) A follower
of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not
God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father.
Eunomian (a.) Of or
pertaining to Eunomius or his doctrine.
Eunomy (n.) Equal law, or
a well-adjusted constitution of government.
Eunuch (n.) A male of the
human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental
countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former
times, gained high official rank.
Eunuch (v. t.) Alt. of
Eunuchate
Eunuchate (v. t.) To make
a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.
Eunuchism (n.) The state
of being eunuch.
Euonymin (n.) A principle
or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.
Euonymus (n.) A genus of
small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a
cathartic.
Euornithes (n. pl.) The
division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds
except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.
Euosmitte (n.) A fossil
resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.
Eupathy (n.) Right
feeling.
Eupatorin Eupatorine (n.)
A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of
Eupatorium.
Eupatorium (n.) A genus of
perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.
Eupatrid (n.) One well
born, or of noble birth.
Eupepsia (n.) Alt. of
Eupepsy
Eupepsy (n.) Soundness of
the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to
dyspepsia.
Eupeptic (a.) Of or
pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as,
eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.
Euphemism (n.) A figure in
which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing
an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something
disagreeable.
Euphemistic (a.) Alt. of
Euphemistical
Euphemistical (a.)
Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression.
Euphemized (imp. & p. p.)
of Euphemize
Euphemizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Euphemize
Euphemize (v. t. & i.) To
express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic
expressions.
Euphoniad (n.) An
instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and
various other instruments.
Euphonic (a.) Alt. of
Euphonical
Euphonical (a.) Pertaining
to, or exhibiting, euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious;
as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography.
Euphonicon (n.) A kind of
upright piano.
Euphonious (a.) Pleasing
or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
Euphonism (n.) An
agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
Euphonium (n.) A bass
instrument of the saxhorn family.
Euphonize (v. t.) To make
euphonic.
Euphonon (n.) An
instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is
characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.
Euphonous (n.) Euphonious.
Euphonies (pl. ) of
Euphony
Euphony (n.) A pleasing or
sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters
and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or
bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous
succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns.
Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
Euphorbiaceous (a.) Alt.
of Euphorbial
Euphorbial (a.) Of,
relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.
Euphorbin Euphorbine (n.)
A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of
Euphorbia.
Euphorbium (n.) An
inodorous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by
the African Euphorbia resinifrea. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was
found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.
Euphotide (n.) A rock
occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes
called gabbro.
Euphrasy (n.) The plant
eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders
of the eyes.
Euphroe (n.) A block or
long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which
an awning is held up.
Euphuism (n.) An
affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown
diction.
Euphuist (n.) One who
affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a
class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by
affected conceits and high-flown diction.
Euphuistic (a.) Belonging
to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.
Euphuize (v. t.) To affect
excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.
Eupione (n.) A limpid,
oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and
animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher
hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.
Eupittone (n.) A yellow,
crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of
pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
Eupittonic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, eupittone.
Euplastic (a.) Having the
capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the
false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy
person.
Euplastic (n.) Organizable
substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.
Euplectella (n.) A genus
of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and
growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.
Euplexoptera (n. pl.) An
order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the
form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.
Eupnaea (n.) Normal
breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from
dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.
Eupryion (n.) A
contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match.
Eurasian (n.) A child of a
European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
Eurasian (n.) One born of
European parents in Asia.
Eurasian (a.) Of European
and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great
Eurasian plain.
Eurasiatio (a.) Of or
pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.
Eureka () The exclamation
attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I
have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding
out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an
expression of triumph concerning a discovery.
Eurhipidurous (a.) Having
a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes
all living birds.
Euripize (v. t.) To whirl
hither and thither.
Euripus (n.) A strait; a
narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with
violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence,
a flux and reflux.
Euritte (n.) A compact
feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.
Euritic (a.) Of or
pelating to eurite.
Euroclydon (n.) A
tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.
European (a.) Of or
pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
European (n.) A native or
an inhabitant of Europe.
Europeanize (v. t.) To
cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or
accustom to European usages.
Eurus (n.) The east wind.
Euryale (n.) A genus of
water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very
prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.
Euryale (n.) A genus of
ophiurans with much-branched arms.
Euryalida (n. pl.) A tribe
of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally
have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.
Eurycerous (a.) Having
broad horns.
Eurypteroid (a.) Like, or
pertaining to, the genus Euryperus.
Eurypteroidea (n. pl.) An
extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They
are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
Eurypterus (n.) A genus of
extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than
three feet long.
Eurythmy (n.) Just or
harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice,
a painting, or a statue.
Eurythmy (n.) Regularly of
the pulse.
Eusebian (n.) A follower
of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.
Eustachian (a.) Discovered
by Eustachius.
Eustachian (a.) Pertaining
to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter.
Eustyle (n.) See
Intercolumnlation.
Eutaxy (n.) Good or
established order or arrangement.
Euterpe () The Muse who presided
over music.
Euterpe () A genus of palms, some
species of which are elegant trees.
Euterpean (a.) Of or
pertaining to Euterpe or to music.
Euthanasia (n.) An easy
death; a mode of dying to be desired.
Euthanasy (n.) Same as
Euthanasia.
Euthiochroic (a.)
Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called.
Euthyneura (n. pl.) A
large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and
Opisthobranchiata.
Eutrophy (n.) Healthy
nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
Eutychian (n.) A follower
of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person
of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite;
-- opposed to Nestorian.
Eutychianism (n.) The
doctrine of Eutyches and his followers.
Euxanthic (a.) Having a
yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin.
Euxanthin (n.) A yellow
pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be
obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It
consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and
Indian yellow.
Euxenite (n.) A brownish
black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium,
titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.
Evacate (v. t.) To empty.
Evacuant (a.) Emptying;
evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
Evacuant (n.) A purgative
or cathartic.
Evacuated (imp. & p. p.)
of Evacuate
Evacuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evacuate
Evacuate (v. t.) To make
empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or
dish.
Evacuate (v. t.) Fig.: To
make empty; to deprive.
Evacuate (v. t.) To
remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the
bowels.
Evacuate (v. t.) To
withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or
fortress.
Evacuate (v. t.) To make
void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.
Evacuate (v. i.) To let
blood
Evacuation (n.) The act of
emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
Evacuation (n.) Withdrawal
of troops from a town, fortress, etc.
Evacuation (n.) Voidance
of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening;
defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics,
venesection, or other means.
Evacuation (n.) That which
is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural
means.
Evacuation (n.) Abolition;
nullification.
Evacuative (a.) Serving of
tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
Evacuator (n.) One who
evacuates; a nullifier.
Evacuatory (n.) A
purgative.
Evaded (imp. & p. p.) of
Evade
Evading (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evade
Evade (v. t.) To get away
from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to
elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to
evade the force of an argument.
Evade (v. t.) To escape;
to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Evade (v. t.) To attempt
to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Evadible (a.) Capable of
being evaded.
Evagation (n.) A wandering
about; excursion; a roving.
Evagination (n.) The act
of unsheathing.
Eval (a.) Relating to time
or duration.
Evaluate (v. t.) To fix
the value of; to rate; to appraise.
Evaluation (n.) Valuation;
appraisement.
Evanesced (imp. & p. p.)
of Evanesce
Evanescing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evanesce
Evanesce (v. i.) To vanish
away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
Evanescence (n.) The act
or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a
dream, of earthly plants or hopes.
Evanescent (a.) Liable to
vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
Evanescent (a.) Vanishing
from notice; imperceptible.
Evanescently (adv. In a
vanishing manner) ; imperceptibly.
Evangel (n.) Good news;
announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.
Evangelian (a.) Rendering
thanks for favors.
Evangelic (a.) Belonging
to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
Evangelical (a.) Contained
in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
Evangelical (a.) Belonging
to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught
in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
Evangelical (a.) Earnest
for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine;
preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of
England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of
"Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied
to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox.
Evangelical (n.) One of
evangelical principles.
Evangelicalism (n.)
Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.
Evangelically (adv.) In an
evangelical manner.
Evangelicalness (n.) State
of being evangelical.
Evangelicism (n.)
Evangelical principles; evangelism.
Evangelicity (n.)
Evangelicism.
Evangelism (n.) The
preaching or promulgation of the gospel.
Evangelist (n.) A bringer
of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary
preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant
missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite
article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A
traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate
repentance.
Evangelistary (n.) A
selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.
Evangelistic (a.)
Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize;
evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.
Evangelization (n.) The
act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
Evangelized (imp. & p. p.)
of Evangelize
Evangelizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evangelize
Evangelize (v. t.) To
instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as,
to evangelize the world.
Evangelize (v. i.) To
preach the gospel.
Evangely (n.) Evangel.
Evangile (n.) Good
tidings; evangel.
Evanid (a.) Liable to
vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.
Evanish (v. i.) To vanish.
Evanishment (n.) A
vanishing; disappearance.
Evaporable (a.) Capable of
being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.
Evaporated (imp. & p. p.)
of Evaporate
Evaporating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evaporate
Evaporate (v. t.) To pass
off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor,
or in practice too minute to be visible.
Evaporate (v. t.) To
escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the
spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation.
Evaporate (v. t.) To
convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat;
to dissipate in vapor or fumes.
Evaporate (v. t.) To expel
moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion;
to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.
Evaporate (v. t.) To give
vent to; to dissipate.
Evaporate (a.) Dispersed
in vapors.
Evaporation (n.) The
process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and
carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
Evaporation (n.) The
transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed
matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.
Evaporation (n.) That
which is evaporated; vapor.
Evaporation (n.) See
Vaporization.
Evaporaive (a.) Pertaining
to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
Evaporator (n.) An
apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
Evaporometer (n.) An
instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time;
an atmometer.
Evasible (a.) That may be
evaded.
Evasion (n.) The act of
eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation,
charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Evasive (a.) Tending to
evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
Eve (n.) Evening.
Eve (n.) The evening
before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at
sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas;
also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
Evectics (n.) The branch
of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.
Evection () The act of carrying
up or away; exaltation.
Evection () An inequality of the
moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation
of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by
about 1¡ 20'.
Evection () The libration of the
moon.
Even (n.) Evening. See
Eve, n. 1.
Even (a.) Level, smooth,
or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate
of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.
Even (a.) Equable; not
easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.
Even (a.) Parallel; on a
level; reaching the same limit.
Even (a.) Balanced;
adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either
side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are
even; an even bargain.
Even (a.) Without an
irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
Even (a.) Associate;
fellow; of the same condition.
Even (a.) Not odd; capable
of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are
even numbers.
Evened (imp. & p. p.) of
Even
Evening (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Even
Even (v. t.) To make even
or level; to level; to lay smooth.
Even (v. t.) To equal
Even (v. t.) To place in
an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on
either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
Even (v. t.) To set right;
to complete.
Even (v. t.) To act up to;
to keep pace with.
Even (v. i.) To be equal.
Even (a.) In an equal or
precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.
Even (a.) Up to, or down
to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.
Even (a.) As might not be
expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.
Even (a.) At the very
time; in the very case.
Evene (v. i.) To happen.
Evener (n.) One who, or
that which makes even.
Evener (n.) In vehicles, a
swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are
hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
Evenfall (n.) Beginning of
evening.
Evenhand (n.) Equality.
Evenhanded (a.) Fair or
impartial; unbiased.
Evening (n.) The latter
part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the
decline of the day, or of the sum.
Evening (n.) The latter
portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Evenly (adv.) With an
even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression;
uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
Evenminded (a.) Having
equanimity.
Evenness (n.) The state of
being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity;
impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of
surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.
Evensong (n.) A song for
the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England
including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.
Event (n.) That which
comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
Event (n.) An affair in
hand; business; enterprise.
Event (n.) The consequence
of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation,
or series of operations, terminates.
Event (v. t.) To break
forth.
Eventerate (v. t.) To rip
open; todisembowel.
Eventful (a.) Full of, or
rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of
history; an eventful period of life.
Eventide (n.) The time of
evening; evening.
Eventilate (v. t.) To
winnow out; to fan.
Eventilate (v. t.) To
discuss; to ventilate.
Eventilation (n.) The act
of eventilating; discussion.
Eventless (a.) Without
events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
Eventognathi (n. pl.) An
order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp,
loach, chub, etc.
Eventration (n.) A tumor
containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of
the walls of the abdomen.
Eventration (n.) A wound,
of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the
intestines protrude.
Eventration (n.) The act
af disemboweling.
Eventtual (a.) Coming or
happening as a consequence or result; consequential.
Eventtual (a.) Final;
ultimate.
Eventtual (a.) Dependent
on events; contingent.
Eventualities (pl. ) of
Eventuality
Eventuality (n.) The
coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a
consequence.
Eventuality (n.)
Disposition to take cognizance of events.
Eventually (adv.) In an
eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
Eventuated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eventuate
Eventuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eventuate
Eventuate (v. i.) To come
out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.
Eventuation (n.) The act
of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
Ever (adv.) At any time;
at any period or point of time.
Ever (adv.) At all times;
through all time; always; forever.
Ever (adv.) Without
cessation; continually.
Everduring (a.)
Everlasting.
Everglade (n.) A swamp or
low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small
islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida.
Evergreen (a.) Remaining
unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves
of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
Evergreen (n.) An
evergreen plant.
Evergreen (n.) Twigs and
branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
Everich (a.) Alt. of
Everych
Everych (a.) each one;
every one; each of two. See Every.
Everichon (pron.) Alt. of
Everychon
Everychon (pron.) Every
one.
Everlasting (a.) Lasting
or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.
Everlasting (a.)
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used,
colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
Enerlasting (n.) Eternal
duration, past of future; eternity.
Enerlasting (n.) (With the
definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
Enerlasting (n.) A plant
whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly
everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the
cudweeds, etc.
Enerlasting (n.) A cloth
fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
Everlastingly (adv.) In an
everlasting manner.
Everlastingness (n.) The
state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.
Everliving (a.) Living
always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.
Everliving (a.) Continual;
incessant; unintermitted.
Evermore (adv.) During
eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used
substantively with for.
Evernic (a.) Pertaining to
Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid.
Everse (v. t.) To
overthrow or subvert.
Eversion (n.) The act of
eversing; destruction.
Eversion (n.) The state of
being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.
Eversive (a.) Tending to
evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.
Everted (imp. & p. p.) of
Evert
Everting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evert
Evert (v. t.) To
overthrow; to subvert.
Evert (v. t.) To turn
outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.
Every (a. & a. pron.) All
the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in
their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite
bumber.
Every (a. & a. pron.)
Every one. Cf.
Everybody (n.) Every
person.
Everyday (a.) Used or fit
for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.
Everyone (n.) Everybody;
-- commonly separated, every one.
Everything (n.) Whatever
pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.
Everywhen (adv.) At any or
all times; every instant.
Everywhere (adv.) In every
place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
Everywhereness (n.)
Ubiquity; omnipresence.
Evesdrop (v. i.) See
Eavesdrop.
Evesdropper (n.) See
Eavesdropper.
Evestigate (v. t.) To
investigate.
Evet (n.) The common newt
or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.
Evibrate (v. t. & i.) To
vibrate.
Evicted (imp. & p. p.) of
Evict
Evicting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evict
Evict (v. t.) To
dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of
such right; to eject; to oust.
Evict (v. t.) To evince;
to prove.
Eviction (n.) The act or
process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands,
tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession
by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.
Eviction (n.) Conclusive
evidence; proof.
Evidence (n.) That which
makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any
mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our
senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
Evidence (n.) One who
bears witness.
Evidence (n.) That which
is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth
of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making
proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but
rather the effect of it.
Evidenced (imp. & p. p.)
of Evidence
Evidencing (p, pr. & vb. n.)
of Evidence
Evidence (v. t.) To render
evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of
an offender.
Evidencer (n.) One whi
gives evidence.
Evident (a.) Clear to the
vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the
judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt
of an offender can not always be made evident.
Evidential (a.) Relating
to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of
Christianity.
Evidentiary (a.)
Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.
Evidently (adv.) In an
evident manner; clearly; plainly.
Evidentness (n.) State of
being evident.
Evigilation (n.) A waking
up or awakening.
Evil (a.) Having qualities
tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to
badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil
beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
Evil (a.) Having or
exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as,
evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
Evil (a.) Producing or
threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as,
evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
Evil (n.) Anything which
impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which
causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; --
opposed to good.
Evil (n.) Moral badness,
or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by
conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a
lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness;
depravity.
Evil (n.) malady or
disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
Evil (adv.) In an evil
manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Evil eye () See Evil eye under
Evil, a.
Evil-eyed (a.) Possessed
of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design;
malicious.
Evil-favored (a.) Having a
bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.
Evilly (adv.) In an evil
manner; not well; ill.
Evil-minded (a.) Having
evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious;
malignant; wicked.
Evilness (n.) The
condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness;
as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
Evinced (imp. & p. p.) of
Evince
Evincing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evince
Evince (v. t.) To conquer;
to subdue.
Evince (v. t.) To show in
a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make
evident; to bring to light; to evidence.
Evincement (n.) The act of
evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.
Evincible (a.) Capable of
being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.
Evincive (a.) Tending to
prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
Evirate (v. t.) To
emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
Eviration (n.) Castration.
Eviscerated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eviscerate
Eviscerating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eviscerate
Eviscerate (v. t.) To take
out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Evisceration (a.) A
disemboweling.
Evitable (a.) Avoidable.
Evitate (v. t.) To shun;
to avoid.
Evitation (n.) A shunning;
avoidance.
Evite (v. t.) To shun.
Eviternal (a.) Eternal;
everlasting.
Eviternity (n.) Eternity.
Evocate (v. t.) To call
out or forth; to summon; to evoke.
Evocation (n.) The act of
calling out or forth.
Evocative (a.) Calling
forth; serving to evoke; developing.
Evocator (n.) One who
calls forth.
Evoked (imp. & p. p.) of
Evoke
Evoking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evoke
Evoke (v. t.) To call out;
to summon forth.
Evoke (v. t.) To call
away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
Evolatic (a.) Alt. of
Evolatical
Evolatical (a.) Apt to fly
away.
Evolation (n.) A flying
out or up.
Evolute (n.) A curve from
which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of
a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It
is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given
curve or evolvent.
Evolutility (n.) The
faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting
the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.
Evolution (n.) The act of
unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the
evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.
Evolution (n.) A series of
things unrolled or unfolded.
Evolution (n.) The
formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
Evolution (n.) The
extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
Evolution (n.) A
prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement
designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.
Evolution (n.) A general
name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the
morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual
unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
Evolution (n.) That theory
of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts
to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to
epigenesis.
Evolution (n.) That series
of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the
homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to
the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited
to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical.
It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners,
language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and
laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.
Evolutional (a.) Relating
to evolution.
Evolutionary (a.) Relating
to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
Evolutionism (n.) The
theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
Evolutionist (n.) One
skilled in evolutions.
Evolutionist (n.) one who
holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.
Evolved (imp. & p. p.) of
Evolve
Evolving (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Evolve
Evolve (v. t.) To unfold
or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and
satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
Evolve (v. t.) To throw
out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
Evolve (v. i.) To become
open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.
Evolvement (n.) The act of
evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.
Evolvent (n.) The involute
of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
Evomit (v. t.) To vomit.
Evomition (n.) The act of
vomiting.
Evulgate (v. t.) To
publish abroad.
Evulgation (n.) A
divulging.
Evulsion (n.) The act of
plucking out; a rooting out.
Ew (n.) A yew.
Ewe (n.) The female of the
sheep, and of sheeplike animals.
Ewe-necked (a.) Having a
neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent,
being somewhat hollowed out.
Ewer (n.) A kind of
widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.
Ewery (n.) Alt. of Ewry
Ewry (n.) An office or
place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
Ewt (n.) The newt.
Ex- () A prefix from the latin
preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from.
Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from,
or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a
privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it
intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification.
It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before
b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words
from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape,
scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition,
denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or
condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek
form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.
Exacerrated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exacerbate
Exacerrating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exacerbate
Exacerbate (v. t.) To
render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as
passions or disease.
Exacerbation (n.) The act
rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified
in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
Exacerbation (n.) A
periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious
fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
Exacerbescence (n.)
Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or
disease.
Exacervation (n.) The act
of heaping up.
Exacinate (v. t.) To
remove the kernel form.
Exacination (n.) Removal
of the kernel.
Exact (a.) Precisely
agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither
exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the
clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact
accounts.
Exact (a.) Habitually
careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical;
punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
Exact (a.) Precisely or
definitely conceived or stated; strict.
Exacted (imp. & p. p.) of
Exact
Exacting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exact
Exact (a.) To demand or
require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of,
or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or
reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to
exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
Exact (v. i.) To practice
exaction.
Exacter (n.) An exactor.
Exacting (a.) Oppressive
or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of
obligations; harsh; severe.
Exaction (n.) The act of
demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or
furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to
tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.
Exaction (n.) That which
is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied
with severity or injustice.
Exacritude (n.) The
quality of being exact; exactness.
Exactly (adv.) In an exact
manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly;
correctly; nicely.
Exactness (n.) The
condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness
of jurgement or deportment.
Exactness (n.) Careful
observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or
business.
Exactor (n.) One who
exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one
unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.
Exactress (n.) A woman who
is an exactor.
Exacuate (v. t.) To whet
or sharpen.
Exaeresis (n.) In old
writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
Exaggerated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exaggerate
Exaggerating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exaggerate
Exaggerate (v. t.) To heap
up; to accumulate.
Exaggerate (v. t.) To
amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate
extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
Exaggerated (a.) Enlarged
beyond bounds or the truth.
Exaggerating (a.) That
exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.
Exaggeration (n.) The act
of heaping or piling up.
Exaggeration (n.) The act
of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a
going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical
representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
Exaggeration (n.) A
representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power,
vigor.
Exaggerative (a.) Tending
to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.
Exaggerator (n.) One who
exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.
Exaggeratory (a.)
Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.
Exagitate (v. t.) To stir
up; to agitate.
Exagitate (v. t.) To
satirize; to censure severely.
Exagitation (n.)
Agitation.
Exalbuminous (a.) Having
no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.
Exalted (imp. & p. p.) of
Exalt
Exalting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exalt
Exalt (v. t.) To raise
high; to elevate; to lift up.
Exalt (v. t.) To elevate
in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote;
as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
Exalt (v. t.) To elevate
by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
Exalt (v. t.) To lift up
with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
Exalt (v. t.) To elevate
the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
Exalt (v. t.) To render
pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
Exaltate (a.) Exercising
its highest influence; -- said of a planet.
Exaltation (n.) The act of
exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
Exaltation (n.) The
refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or
principal property.
Exaltation (n.) That place
of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest
influence.
Exalted (a.) Raised to
lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.
Exalter (n.) One who
exalts or raises to dignity.
Exaltment (n.) Exaltation.
Examen (a.) Examination;
inquiry.
Exametron (n.) An
hexameter.
Examinable (a.) Capable of
being examined or inquired into.
Examinant (n.) One who
examines; an examiner.
Examinant (n.) One who is
to be examined.
Examinate (n.) A person
subjected to examination.
Examination (n.) The act
of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or
inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
Examination (n.) A process
prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a
student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
Examinator (n.) An
examiner.
Examined (imp. & p. p.) of
Examine
Examining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Examine
Examine (v. t.) To test by
any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real
character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for
the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a
material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to
inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship
to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.
Examine (v. t.) To
interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to
examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his
qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
Examinee (n.) A person
examined.
Examiner (n.) One who
examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged
with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a
degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.
Examinership (n.) The
office or rank of an examiner.
Examining (a.) Having
power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
Examplary (a.) Serving for
example or pattern; exemplary.
Example (n.) One or a
portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a
specimen.
Example (n.) That which is
to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
Example (n.) That which
resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
Example (n.) That which is
to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
Example (n.) An instance
serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be
solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the
rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the
principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
Exampled (imp. & p. p.) of
Example
Exampling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Example
Example (v. t.) To set an
example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to
instance.
Exampleless (a.) Without
or above example.
Exampler (n.) A pattern;
an exemplar.
Exampless (a.)
Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.]
Exanguious (a.) Bloodless.
[Obs.] See Exsanguious.
Exangulous (a.) Having no
corners; without angles.
Exanimate (a.) Lifeless;
dead.
Exanimate (a.) Destitute
of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
Exanimate (v. t.) To
deprive of animation or of life.
Exanimation (n.)
Deprivation of life or of spirits.
Exanimous (a.) Lifeless;
dead.
Exannulate (a.) Having the
sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.
Exanthem (n.) Same as
Exanthema.
Exanthemata (pl. ) of
Exanthema
Exanthema (n.) An
efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in
measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to
eruptions attended with fever.
Exanthematic (a.) Alt. of
Exanthematous
Exanthematous (a.) Of,
relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous
eruption.
Exanthesis (n.) An
eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
Exantlate (v. t.) To
exhaust or wear out.
Exantlation (n.) Act of
drawing out ; exhaustion.
Exarate (v. t.) To plow
up; also, to engrave; to write.
Exaration (n.) Act of
plowing; also, act of writing.
Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in
Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern
Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a
deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical
cases, etc.
Exarchate (n.) The office
or the province of an exarch.
Exarillate (a.) Having no
aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
Exarticulate (a.) Having
but one joint; -- said of certain insects.
Exarticulation (n.)
Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.
Exasperate (a.)
Exasperated; imbittered.
Exsasperated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exasperate
Exasperating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exasperate
Exasperate (v. t.) To
irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the
anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
Exasperate (v. t.) To make
grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to
exasperate enmity.
Exasperater (n.) One who
exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
Exasperation (n.) The act
of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter
anger.
Exasperation (n.) Increase
of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
Exaspidean (a.) Having the
anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner
side naked; -- said of certain birds.
Exauctorate (v. t.) See
Exauthorate.
Exauctoration (n.) See
Exauthoration.
Exaugurate (v. t.) To
annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.
Exauguration (n.) The act
of exaugurating; desecration.
Exauthorate (v. t.) To
deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.
Exauthoration (n.)
Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.
Exauthorize (v. t.) To
deprive of uthority.
Exauthorize (v. t.) To
deprive of authority.
Excalceate (v. t.) To
deprive of shoes.
Excalceation (n.) The act
of depriving or divesting of shoes.
Excalfaction (n.) A
heating or warming; calefaction.
Excalfactive (a.) Serving
to heat; warming.
Excalfactory (a.) Heating;
warming.
Excalibur (n.) The name of
King Arthur's mythical sword.
Excamb (v. t.) Alt. of
Excambie
Excambie (v. t.) To
exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.
Excambion (n.) Alt. of
Excambium
Excambium (n.) Exchange;
barter; -- used commonly of lands.
Excandescence (n.) A
growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.
Excandescence (n.) Violent
anger; a growing angry.
Excandescent (a.) White or
glowing with heat.
Excantation (n.)
Disenchantment by a countercharm.
Excarnate (v. t.) To
deprive or clear of flesh.
Excarnation (n.) The act
of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.
Excarnificate (v. t.) To
clear of flesh; to excarnate.
Excarnification (n.) The
act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
Excavated (imp. & p. p.)
of Excavate
Excavating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excavate
Excavate (v. t.) To hollow
out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging;
as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
Excavate (v. t.) To form
by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate
a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
Excavate (v. t.) To dig
out and remove, as earth.
Excavation (n.) The act of
excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of
a solid mass.
Excavation (n.) A cavity
formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
Excavation (n.) An
uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
Excavation (n.) The
material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Excavator (n.) One who, or
that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a
tool, for excavating.
Excave (v. t.) To
excavate.
Excecate (v. t.) To blind.
Excecation (n.) The act of
making blind.
Excedent (v. t.) Excess.
Exceeded (imp. & p. p.) of
Exceed
Exceeding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exceed
Exceed (v. t.) To go
beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo;
to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another
in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in
villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
Exceed (v. i.) To go too
far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
Exceed (v. i.) To be more
or greater; to be paramount.
Exceedable (a.) Capable of
exceeding or surpassing.
Exceeder (n.) One who
exceeds.
Exceeding (a.) More than
usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless.
Exceeding (adv.) In a very
great degree; extremely; exceedingly.
Exceedingly (adv.) To a
very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than
very.
Excelled (imp. & p. p.) of
Excel
Excelling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excel
Excel (v. t.) To go beyond
or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good
sense.
Excel (v. t.) To exceed or
go beyond; to surpass.
Excel (v. i.) To surpass
others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished
by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
Excellence (n.) The
quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent
degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Excellence (n.) An
excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a
virtue.
Excellence (n.) A title of
honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
Excellencies (pl. ) of
Excellency
Excellency (n.)
Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
Excellency (n.) A title of
honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and
ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given
to kings and princes.
Excellent (a.) Excelling;
surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth;
eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen,
husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
action.
Excellent (a.) Superior in
kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad
significance.
Excellent (adv.)
Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.
Excellently (adv.) In an
excellent manner; well in a high degree.
Excellently (adv.) In a
high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness.
Excelsior (v. t.) More
lofty; still higher; ever upward.
Excelsior (n.) A kind of
stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of
wood are substituted for curled hair.
Excentral (a.) Out of the
center.
Excentric (a.) Alt. of
Excentrical
Excentrical (a.) Same as
Eccentric, Eccentrical.
Excentrical (a.)
One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
Excentricity () Same as
Eccentricity.
Excepted (imp. & p. p.) of
Except
Excepting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Except
Except (v. t.) To take or
leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to
exclude; to omit.
Except (v. t.) To object
to; to protest against.
Except (v. i.) To take
exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to
except to a witness or his testimony.
Except (prep.) With
exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
Except (conj.) Unless; if
it be not so that.
Exceptant (a.) Making
exception.
Excepting (prep. & conj., but
properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.
Exception (n.) The act of
excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which
would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
Exception (n.) That which
is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as
distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Exception (n.) An
objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or
security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his
charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or
insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the
grantor excepts something before granted.
Exception (n.) An
objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually
followed by to or against.
Exceptionable (a.) Liable
to exception or objection; objectionable.
Exceptional (a.) Forming
an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average;
superior.
Exceptioner (n.) One who
takes exceptions or makes objections.
Exceptionless (a.) Without
exception.
Exceptious (a.) Disposed
or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
Exceptive (a.) That
excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
Exceptless (a.) Not
exceptional; usual.
Exceptor (n.) One who
takes exceptions.
Excerebration (n.) The act
of removing or beating out the brains.
Excerebrose (a.)
Brainless.
Excern (v. t.) To excrete;
to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
Excernent (a.) Connected
with, or pertaining to, excretion.
Excerp (a.) To pick out.
Excerpted (imp. & p. p.)
of Excerpt
Excerpting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excerpt
Excerpt (v. t.) To select;
to extract; to cite; to quote.
Excerpt (n.) An extract; a
passage selected or copied from a book or record.
Excerption (n.) The act of
excerpting or selecting.
Excerption (n.) That which
is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Excerptive (a.) That
excerpts, selects, or chooses.
Excerptor (n.) One who
makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
Excess (n.) The state of
surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency,
necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of
light.
Excess (n.) An undue
indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural
gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
Excess (n.) The degree or
amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the
difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
Excessive (a.)
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
Exchange (n.) The act of
giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an
equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
Exchange (n.) The act of
substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for
joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and
receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.
Exchange (n.) The thing
given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.
Exchange (n.) The process
of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each
other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called
bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in
which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable
in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill
of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
Exchange (n.) A mutual
grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates
exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
Exchange (n.) The place
where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to
transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.
Exchanged (imp. & p. p.)
of Exchange
Exchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exchange
Exchange (n.) To part with
give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an
equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.
Exchange (n.) To part with
for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in
place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.
Exchange (n.) To give and
receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to
exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.
Exchange (v. i.) To be
changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges
for ten dimes.
Exchangeability (n.) The
quality or state of being exchangeable.
Exchangeable (a.) Capable
of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
Exchangeable (a.)
Available for making exchanges; ratable.
Exchangeably (adv.) By way
of exchange.
Exchanger (n.) One who
exchanges; one who practices exchange.
Excheat (n.) See Escheat.
Excheator (n.) See
Escheator.
Exchequer (n.) One of the
superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or
formerly covered, the table.
Exchequer (n.) The
department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal
revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in
general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
Exchequered (imp. & p. p.)
of Exchequer
Exchequering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exchequer
Exchequer (v. t.) To
institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Excide (v. t.) To cut off.
Excipient (v. t.) Taking
an exception.
Excipient (n.) An
exceptor.
Excipient (n.) An inert or
slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of
administration for the medicinal agents.
Exciple (n.) Alt. of
Excipulum
Excipulum (n.) The outer
part of the fructification of most lichens.
Excisable (a.) Liable or
subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
Excise (n.) In inland duty
or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain
specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in
the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain
commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants,
plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used
adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
Excise (n.) That
department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the
excise taxes.
Excised (imp. & p. p.) of
Excise
Excising (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excise
Excise (v. t.) To lay or
impose an excise upon.
Excise (v. t.) To impose
upon; to overcharge.
Excise (v. t.) To cut out
or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
Excisemen (pl. ) of
Exciseman
Exciseman (n.) An officer
who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
Excision (n.) The act of
excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
Excision (n.) The act of
cutting off from the church; excommunication.
Excision (n.) The removal,
especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
Excitability (n.) The
quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
Excitability (n.) The
property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which
they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability;
as, nervous excitability.
Excitable (a.) Capable of
being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred
up, or stimulated.
Excitant (a.) Tending to
excite; exciting.
Excitant (n.) An agent or
influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a
living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
Excitate (v. t.) To
excite.
Excitation (n.) The act of
exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Excitation (n.) The act of
producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
Excitative (a.) Having
power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Excitator (n.) A kind of
discarder.
Excitatory (a.) Tending to
excite; containing excitement; excitative.
Excited (imp. & p. p.) of
Excite
exciting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excite
Excite (v. t.) To call to
activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to
stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits,
the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
Excite (v. t.) To call
forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
Exciteful (n.) Full of
exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
Excitement (n.) The act of
exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased
action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
Excitement (n.) That which
excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
Excitement (n.) A state of
aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or
tissues.
Exciter (n.) One who, or
that which, excites.
Exciting (a.) Calling or
rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting
story.
Excitive (a.) Serving or
tending to excite; excitative.
Excitive (n.) That which
excites; an excitant.
Excito-motion (n.) Motion
excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
Excito-motor (a.)
Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
Excito-motory (a.)
Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in
reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then
reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or
volition.
Excito-nutrient (a)
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional
processes are either excited or modified.
Excito-secretory (a.)
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the
function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
Exclaimed (imp. & p. p.)
of Exclaim
Exclaiming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exclaim
Exclaim (v. t. & i.) To
cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or
declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim
against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he
exclaimed.
Exclaim (n.) Outcry;
clamor.
Exclaimer (n.) One who
exclaims.
Exclamation (n.) A loud
calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement
vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling;
sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain,
grief, joy, anger, etc.
Exclamation (n.) A word
expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear,
or grief.
Exclamation (n.) A mark or
sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also
exclamation point.
Exclamative (a.)
Exclamatory.
Exclamatory (a.)
Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or
speaker.
Exclave (n.) A portion of
a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically
alien territory.
Excluded (imp. & p. p.) of
Exclude
Excluding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exclude
Exclude (v. t.) To shut
out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or
enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a
crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the
ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
Exclude (v. t.) To thrust
out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
Exclusion (n.) The act of
excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing
admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
Exclusion (n.) The act of
expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
Exclusion (n.) Thing
emitted.
Exclusionary (a.) Tending
to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
Exclusionism (n.) The
character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
Exclusionist (n.) One who
would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish
politicians of the time of Charles II.
Exclusive (a.) Having the
power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment;
possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive
privilege; exclusive circles of society.
Exclusive (a.) Not taking
into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as,
five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
Exclusive (n.) One of a
coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits
his acquaintance to a select few.
Exclusiveness (n.) Quality
of being exclusive.
Exclusivism (n.) The act
or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
Exclusivist (n.) One who
favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.
Exclusory (a.) Able to
exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
Excoct (v. t.) To boil
out; to produce by boiling.
Excoction () The act of excocting
or boiling out.
Excogitated (imp. & p. p.)
of Excogitate
Excogitating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excogitate
Excogitate (v. t.) To
think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
Excogitate (v. i.) To
cogitate.
Excogitation (n.) The act
of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
Excommune (v. t.) To
exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.
Excommunicable (a.) Liable
or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
Excommunicant (n.) One who
has been excommunicated.
Excommunicate (a.)
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Excommunicate (n.) One
excommunicated.
Excommunicated (imp. & p. p.)
of Excommunicate
Excommunicating (p. pr. & vb.
n.) of Excommunicate
Excommunicate (v. t.) To
put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with
the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
Excommunicate (v. t.) To
lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Excommunication (n.) The
act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the
person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the
communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
Excommunicator (n.) One
who excommunicates.
Excommunion () A shutting out
from communion; excommunication.
Excoriable () Capable of being
excoriated.
Excoriated (imp. & p. p.)
of Eccoriate
excoriating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eccoriate
Eccoriate (v. t.) To strip
or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of,
in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
Excoriation (n.) The act
of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the
skin; abrasion.
Excoriation (n.) Stripping
of possession; spoliation.
Excorticate (v. t.) To
strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
Excortication (n.) The act
of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
Excreable (a.) Capable of
being discharged by spitting.
Excreate (v. t.) To spit
out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
Excreation (n.) Act of
spitting out.
Excrement (n.) Matter
excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by
any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
Excrement (n.) An
excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
Excremental (a.) Of or
pertaining to excrement.
Excrementitial (a.) Alt.
of Excrementitious
Excrementitious (a.)
Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
Excrementive (a.) Serving
to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
Excrementize (v. i.) To
void excrement.
Excrescence (n.) An
excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from
anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome
superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
Excrescency (n.)
Excrescence.
Excrescent (a.) Growing
out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
Excrescential (a.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
Excreta (n. pl.) Matters
to be excreted.
Excreted (imp. & p. p.) of
Excrete
Excreting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excrete
Excrete (v. t.) To
separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
Excretin (n.) A
nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces.
Excretion (n.) The act of
excreting.
Excretion (n.) That which
is excreted; excrement.
Excretive (a.) Having the
power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
Excretory (a.) Having the
quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
Excruciable (a.) Liable to
torment.
Excruciate (a.)
Excruciated; tortured.
Excruciated (imp. & p. p.)
of Excruciate
Excruciating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excruciate
Excruciate (v. t.) To
inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to
excruciate the heart or the body.
Excruciating () Torturing;
racking.
Excruciation (n.) The act
of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which
excruciates; torture.
Excubation (n.) A keeping
watch.
Excubitorium (n.) A
gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
Exculpable () Capable of being
exculpated; deserving exculpation.
Exculpated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exculpate
Exculpating () of Exculpate
Exculpate (v. t.) To clear
from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to
acquit.
Exculpation (n.) The act
of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.
Exculpatory () Clearing, or
tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.
Excur (i.) To run out or
forth; to extend.
Excurrent (a.) Running or
flowing out
Excurrent (a.) Running or
extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a
leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.
Excurrent (a.)
Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or
tube.
Excurse (v. t.) To journey
or pass thought.
Excursion () A running or going
out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Excursion () A journey chiefly
for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the
country.
Excursion () A wandering from a
subject; digression.
Excursion () Length of stroke, as
of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Excursionist (n.) One who
goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.
Excursive (a.) Prone to
make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
Excursus (n.) A
dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended
exposition of some important point or topic.
Excusable (a.) That may be
excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is
excusable; an excusable action.
Excusation (n.) Excuse;
apology.
Excusator (n.) One who
makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
Excusatory (a.) Making or
containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
Excused (imp. & p. p.) of
Excuse
Excusing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Excuse
Excuse (v. t.) To free
from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to
release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to
absolve; to acquit.
Excuse (v. t.) To pardon,
as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to
overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances
appear to justify it.
Excuse (v. t.) To regard
with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
Excuse (v. t.) To free
from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to
release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a
forfeiture.
Excuse (v. t.) To relieve
of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously
evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
Excuse (v. t.) The act of
excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like;
acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
Excuse (v. t.) That which
is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a
fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty;
excuses for delay of payment.
Excuse (v. t.) That which
excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
Excuseless (a.) Having no
excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.
Excusement (n.) Excuse.
Excuser (n.) One who
offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
Excuser (n.) One who
excuses or forgives another.
Excuss (v. t.) To shake
off; to discard.
Excuss (v. t.) To inspect;
to investigate; to decipher.
Excuss (v. t.) To seize
and detain by law, as goods.
Excussion (n.) The act of
excusing; seizure by law.
Exeat (n.) A license for
absence from a college or a religious house.
Exeat (n.) A permission
which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
Execrable (a.) Deserving
to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable
wretch.
Execrated (imp. & p. p.)
of Execrate
Execrating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Execrate
Execrate (v. t.) To
denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against
as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Execration (n.) The act of
cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter
detestation expressed.
Execration (n.) That which
is execrated; a detested thing.
Execrative (a.) Cursing;
imprecatory; vilifying.
Execrative (n.) A word
used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
Execratory (a.) Of the
nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.
Execratory (n.) A
formulary of execrations.
Exect (v. t.) To cut off
or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.
Exection (n.) See
Exsection.
Executable (a.) Capable of
being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
Executant (n.) One who
executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.
Executed (imp. & p. p.) of
Execute
Executing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Execute
Execute (v. t.) To follow
out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to
finish; to effect; to perform.
Execute (v. t.) To
complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity
to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed,
lease, mortgage, will, etc.
Execute (v. t.) To give
effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or
stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.
Execute (v. t.) To infect
capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to
execute a traitor.
Execute (v. t.) Too put to
death illegally; to kill.
Execute (v. t.) To
perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to
execute a difficult part brilliantly.
Execute (v. i.) To do
one's work; to act one's part of purpose.
Execute (v. i.) To perform
musically.
Executer (n.) One who
performs or carries into effect. See Executor.
Execution (n.) The act of
executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement;
consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
Execution (n.) A putting
to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a
murderer.
Execution (n.) The act of
the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of
engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
Execution (n.) The
carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
Execution (n.) A judicial
writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final
process.
Execution (n.) The act of
signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to
render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
Execution (n.) That which
is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.
Execution (n.) The act of
sacking a town.
Executioner (n.) One who
executes; an executer.
Executioner (n.) One who
puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
Executive (a.) Designed or
fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying
for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct
of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer,
department, etc.
Executive (n.) An
impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the
government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.
Executively (adv.) In the
way of executing or performing.
Executor (n.) One who
executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
Executor (n.) An
executioner.
Executor (n.) The person
appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried
into effect, after his decease.
Executorial (a.) Of or
pertaining to an executive.
Executorship (n.) The
office of an executor.
Executory (a.) Pertaining
to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.
Executory (a.) Designed to
be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a
future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory
contract.
Executress (n.) An
executrix.
Executrix (n.) A woman
exercising the functions of an executor.
Exedent (a.) Eating out;
consuming.
Exedrae (pl. ) of Exedra
Exedra (n.) A room in a
public building, furnished with seats.
Exedra (n.) The projection
of any part of a building in a rounded form.
Exedra (n.) Any
out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved
form.
Exegeses (pl. ) of
Exegesis
Exegesis (n.) Exposition;
explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of
Scripture.
Exegesis (n.) The process
of finding the roots of an equation.
Exegete (n.) An exegetist.
Exegetic (a.) Alt. of
Exegetical
Exegetical (a.) Pertaining
to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.
Exegetics (n.) The science
of interpretation or exegesis.
Exegetist (n.) One versed
in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.
Exemplar (n.) A model,
original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal
model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Exemplar (n.) A copy of a
book or writing.
Exemplar (a.) Exemplary.
Exemplarily (adv.) In a
manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way
of example.
Exemplariness (n.) The
state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.
Exemplarity (n.)
Exemplariness.
Exemplary (a.) Serving as
a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary
person; exemplary conduct.
Exemplary (a.) Serving as
a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
Exemplary (a.)
Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
Exemplary (n.) An
exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
Exemplifiable (a.) That
can be exemplified.
Exemplification (n.) The
act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
Exemplification (n.) That
which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
Exemplification (n.) A
copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having
custody of the original.
Exemplifier (n.) One who
exemplifies by following a pattern.
Exemplified (imp. & p. p.)
of Exemplify
Exemplifying (p. pr. &. vb. n.)
of Exemplify
Exemplify (v. t.) To show
or illustrate by example.
Exemplify (v. t.) To copy;
to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a
record.
Exemplify (v. t.) To prove
or show by an attested copy.
Exempt (a.) Cut off; set
apart.
Exempt (a.) Extraordinary;
exceptional.
Exempt (a.) Free, or
released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the
operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with
from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person
exempt from jury service.
Exempt (n.) One exempted
or freed from duty; one not subject.
Exempt (n.) One of four
officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
Exempted (imp. & p. p.) of
Exempt
Exempting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exempt
Exempt (a.) To remove; to
set apart.
Exempt (a.) To release or
deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse
from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to
release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from
fear or pain.
Exemptible (a.) That may
be exempted.
Exemption (n.) The act of
exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil,
etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain
articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety,
suffering, etc.
Exemptitious (a.)
Separable.
Exenterate (v. t.) To take
out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated
fishes.
Exenteration (n.) Act of
exenterating.
Exequatur (n.) A written
official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government
to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the
place to which he is assigned.
Exequatur (n.) Official
recognition or permission.
Exequial (a.) Of or
pertaining to funerals; funereal.
Exequious (a.) Funereal.
Exequies (pl. ) of Exequy
Exequy (n.) A funeral rite
(usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral
procession.
Exercent (a.) Practicing;
professional.
Exercisable (a.) That may
be exercised, used, or exerted.
Exercise (n.) The act of
exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of
activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general;
practice.
Exercise (n.) Exertion for
the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral;
practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
Exercise (n.) Bodily
exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state;
hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
Exercise (n.) The
performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
Exercise (n.) That which
is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill,
health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or
prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military
or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
Exercise (n.) That which
gives practice; a trial; a test.
Exercised (imp. & p. p.)
of Exercise
Exercising (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exercise
Exercise (v. t.) To set in
action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put
in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to
busy.
Exercise (v. t.) To exert
for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence,
also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of
training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise
troops.
Exercise (v. t.) To occupy
the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or
vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to
discipline; as, exercised with pain.
Exercise (v. t.) To put in
practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ;
to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
Exercise (v. i.) To
exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to
use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or
amusement.
Exerciser (n.) One who
exercises.
Exercisible (a.) Capable
of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is
exercisible within his jurisdiction.
Exercitation (n.)
exercise; practice; use.
Exergue (n.) The small
space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually
contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
Exerted (imp. & p. p.) of
Exert
Exerting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exert
Exert (v. t.) To thrust
forth; to emit; to push out.
Exert (v. t.) To put
force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in
vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of
the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
Exert (v. t.) To put
forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
Exertion (n.) The act of
exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or
faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of
strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion
for him to move, to-day.
Exertive (a.) Having power
or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
Exertment (n.) Exertion.
Exesion (n.) The act of
eating out or through.
Exestuate (v. i.) To be
agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
Exestuation (n.) A boiling
up; effervescence.
Exeunt () They go out, or retire
from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.
Exfetation (n) Imperfect
fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
Exfoliated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exfoliate
Exfoliating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exfoliate
Exfoliate (v. i.) To
separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of
bark.
Exfoliate (v. i.) To split
into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or
decomposition.
Exfoliate (v. t.) To
remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
Exfoliation (n.) The
scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being
exfoliated.
Exfoliative (a.) Having
the power of causing exfoliation.
Exfoliative (n.) An
exfoliative agent.
Exhalable (a.) Capable of
being exhaled or evaporated.
Exhalant (a.) Having the
quality of exhaling or evaporating.
Exhalation (n.) The act or
process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor;
evaporation.
Exhalation (n.) That which
is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium;
emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
Exhalation (n.) A bright
phenomenon; a meteor.
Exaled (imp. & p. p.) of
Exhale
Exaling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhale
Exhale (v. t.) To breathe
out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the
earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
Exhale (v. t.) To draw
out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the
earth.
Exhale (v. i.) To rise or
be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
Exhalement (n.)
Exhalation.
Exhalence (n.) Exhalation.
Exhausted (imp. & p. p.)
of Exhaust
Exhausting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhaust
Exhaust (v. t.) To draw or
let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the
moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Exhaust (v. t.) To empty
by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
Exhaust (v. t.) To drain,
metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to
deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to
exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
Exhaust (v. t.) To bring
out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
Exhaust (v. t.) To subject
to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or
extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
Exhaust (a.) Drained;
exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
Exhaust (a.) Pertaining to
steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after
having preformed its work.
Exhaust (n.) The steam let
out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
Exhaust (n.) The foul air
let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
Exhauster (n.) One who, or
that which, exhausts or draws out.
Exhaustibility (n.)
Capability of being exhausted.
Exhaustible (a.) Capable
of being exhausted, drained off, or expended.
Exhausting (a.) Producing
exhaustion; as, exhausting labors.
Exhaustion (n.) The act of
draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
Exhaustion (n.) The state
of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or
spirits.
Exhaustion (n.) An ancient
geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly
equivalent to the modern method of limits.
Exhaustive (a.) Serving or
tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive
method.
Exhaustless (a.) Not be
exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
Exhaustment (n.)
Exhaustion; drain.
Exhausture (n.)
Exhaustion.
Exhedra (n.) See Exedra.
Exheredate (v. t.) To
disinherit.
Exheredation (n.) A
disinheriting; disherisor.
Exhereditation (n.) A
disinheriting; disherison.
Exhibited (imp. & p. p.)
of Exhibit
Exhibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhibit
Exhibit (v. t.) To hold
forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show,
especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to
exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.
Exhibit (v. t.) To submit,
as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present
or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.
Exhibit (v. t.) To
administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.
Exhibit (n.) Any article,
or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a
display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
Exhibit (n.) A document
produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
Exhibiter (n.) One who
exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill.
Exhibition (n.) The act of
exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.
Exhibition (n.) That which
is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of
works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an
exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial
exhibition.
Exhibition (n.)
Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension.
Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars.
Exhibition (n.) The act of
administering a remedy.
Exhibitioner (n.) One who
has a pension or allowance granted for support.
Exhibitive (a.) Serving
for exhibition; representative; exhibitory.
Exhibitor (n.) One who
exhibits.
Exhibitory (a.)
Exhibiting; publicly showing.
Exhilarant (a.) Exciting
joy, mirth, or pleasure.
Exhilarant (n.) That which
exhilarates.
Exhilarated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exhilarate
Exilarating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhilarate
Exhilarate (v. t.) To make
merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good
news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.
Exhilarate (v. i.) To
become joyous.
Exhilarating (a.) That
exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.
Exhilaration (n.) The act
of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
Exhilaration (n.) The
state of being enlivened or cheerful.
Exhorted (imp. & p. p.) of
Exhort
Exhorting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhort
Exhort (v. t.) To incite
by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or
laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise,
warn, or caution.
Exhort (v. i.) To deliver
exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
Exhort (n.) Exhortation.
Exhortation (n.) The act
of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to
that which is good or commendable.
Exhortation (n.) Language
intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
Exhortative (a.) Serving
to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.
Exhortatory (a.) Of or
pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.
Exhorter (n.) One who
exhorts or incites.
Exhumated (a.)
Disinterred.
Exhumation (n.) The act of
exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
Exhumed (imp. & p. p.) of
Exhume
Exhuming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exhume
Exhume (v. t.) To dig out
of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Exiccate (v. t.) See
Exsiccate.
Exiccation (n.) See
Exsiccation.
Exigence (n.) Exigency.
Exigencies (pl. ) of
Exigency
Exigency (n.) The state of
being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a
case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.
Exigendary (n.) See
Exigenter.
Exigent (a.) Exacting or
requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
Exigent (n.) Exigency;
pressing necessity; decisive moment.
Exigent (n.) The name of a
writ in proceedings before outlawry.
Exigenter (n.) An officer
in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out
exigents. The office in now abolished.
Exigible (a.) That may be
exacted; repairable.
Exiguity (n.) Scantiness;
smallness; thinness.
Exiguous (a.) Scanty;
small; slender; diminutive.
Exile (n.) Forced
separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil
authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native
country.
Exile (n.) The person
expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his
home.
Exiled (imp. & p. p.) of
Exile
Exiling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exile
Exile (v. t.) To banish or
expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
Exile (a.) Small; slender;
thin; fine.
Exilement (n.) Banishment.
Exilic (a.) Pertaining to
exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.
Exilition (n.) A sudden
springing or leaping out.
Exility (a.) Smallness;
meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
Eximious (a.) Select;
choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.
Exinanite (v. t.) To make
empty; to render of no effect; to humble.
Exinanition (n.) An
emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
Existed (imp. & p. p.) of
Exist
Existing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exist
Exist (v. i.) To be as a
fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or
spiritual.
Exist (v. i.) To be
manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
Exist (v. i.) To live; to
have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes
on land.
Existence (n.) The state
of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the
existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul;
immortal existence.
Existence (n.) Continued
or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the
existence of a calamity or of a state of war.
Existence (n.) That which
exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
Existency (n.) Existence.
Existent (a.) Having being
or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.
Existential (a.) Having
existence.
Exister (n.) One who
exists.
Existible (a.) Capable of
existence.
Existimation (n.) Esteem;
opinion; reputation.
Exit () He (or she ) goes out, or
retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
Exit (n.) The departure of
a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
Exit (n.) Any departure;
the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's
exit.
Exit (n.) A way of
departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
Exitial (a.) Alt. of
Exitious
Exitious (a.) Destructive;
fatal.
Exo () A prefix signifying out
of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
Exocardiac (a.) Alt. of
Exocardial
Exocardial (a.) Situated
or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to
endocardiac.
Exocarp (n.) The outer
portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See
Illust. of Drupe.
Exoccipital (a.)
Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.
Exoccipital (n.) The
exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is
usually distinct in the young.
Exocetus (n.) Alt. of
Exocoetus
Exocoetus (n.) A genus of
fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.
Exoculate (v. t.) To
deprive of eyes.
Exode (n.) Departure;
exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Exode (n.) The final
chorus; the catastrophe.
Exode (n.) An afterpiece
of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
Exodic (a.) Conducting
influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent
nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Exogium (n.) See Exode.
Exodus (n.) A going out;
particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt
under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
Exodus (n.) The second of
the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the
Israelites from Egypt.
Exody (n.) Exodus;
withdrawal.
Ex-official (a.)
Proceeding from office or authority.
Ex officiis (pl. ) of Ex
officio
Ex officio () From office; by
virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Exogamous (a.) Relating to
exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to
endogenous.
Exogamy (n.) The custom,
or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe;
marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
Exogen (n.) A plant
belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the
plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a
layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition
of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly
netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in
a whorl. Cf. Endogen.
Exogenetic (a.) Arising or
growing from without; exogenous.
Exogenous (a.) Pertaining
to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
Exogenous (a.) Growing by
addition to the exterior.
Exogenous (a.) Growing
from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
Exogyra (n.) A genus of
Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.
Exolete (a.) Obsolete; out
of use; state; insipid.
Exolution (n.) See
Exsolution.
Exolve (v. t.) To loose;
to pay.
Exon (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Exeter, in England.
Exon (n.) An officer of
the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.
Exonerated (imp. & p. p.)
of Exonerate
Exonerating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exonerate
Exonerate (v. t.) To
unload; to disburden; to discharge.
Exonerate (v. t.) To
relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting
on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or
imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of
avarice.
Exonerate (v. t.) To
discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Exoneration (n.) The act
of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation;
also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
Exonerative (a.) Freeing
from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
Exonerator (n.) One who
exonerates or frees from obligation.
Exophthalmia (n.) The
protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence
of disease.
Exophthalmic (a.) Of or
pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.
Exophthalmos (n.) Alt. of
Exophthalmus
Exophthalmus (n.) Same as
Exophthalmia.
Exophthalmy (n.)
Exophthalmia.
Exophyllous (a.) Not
sheathed in another leaf.
Exoplasm (n.) See
Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.
Exopodite (n.) The
external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.
Exoptable (a.) Very
desirable.
Exoptile (n.) A name given
by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.
Exrable (a.) Capable of
being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.
Exorate (v. t.) To
persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.
Exoration (n.) Entreaty.
Exorbitance (n.) Alt. of
Exorbitancy
Exorbitancy (n.) A going
out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross
deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or
of deportment; exorbitance of demands.
Exorbitant (a.) Departing
from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course;
going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety;
excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and
passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
Exorbitant (a.) Not
comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Exorbitantly (adv.) In an
exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
Exorbitate (v. i.) To go
out of the track; to deviate.
Exorcised (imp. & p. p.)
of Exorcise
Exorcising (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exorcise
Exorcise (v. t.) To cast
out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name,
or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart
out of a person possessed by one.
Exorcise (v. t.) To
deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Exorciser (n.) An
exorcist.
Exorcism (n.) The act of
exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by
conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
Exorcism (n.) Conjuration
for raising spirits.
Exorcist (n.) One who
expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
Exorcist (n.) A conjurer
who can raise spirits.
Exordial (a.) Pertaining
to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.
Exordiums (pl. ) of
Exordium
Exordia (pl. ) of Exordium
Exordium (n.) A beginning;
an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written
composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part
of an oration.
Exorhizae (pl. ) of
Exorhiza
Exorhiza (n.) A plant
Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.
Exorhizal (a.) Alt. of
Exorhizous
Exorhizous (a.) Having a
radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an
exorhiza.
Exornation (n.) Ornament;
decoration; embellishment.
Exortive (a.) Rising;
relating to the east.
Exosculate (v. t.) To
kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.
Exoskeletal (a.)
Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.
Exoskeleton (n.) The
hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair,
feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many
reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates;
external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
Exosmose (n.) The passage
of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within
outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.
Exosmosis (n.) See
Exosmose.
Exosmotic (a.) Pertaining
to exosmose.
Exospore (n.) The extreme
outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
Exosstate (v. t.) To
deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.
Exossation (n.) A
depriving of bone or of fruit stones.
Exosse-ous (a.) Boneless.
Exostome (n.) The small
aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
Exostosis (n.) Any
protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid
enlargement of a bone.
Exostosis (n.) A knot
formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.
Exoteric (a.) Alt. of
Exoterical
Exoterical (a.) External;
public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily
or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.
Exoterics (n. pl.) The
public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.
Exoteries (pl. ) of
Exotery
Exotery (n.) That which is
obvious, public, or common.
Exotheca (n.) The tissue
which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals,
usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
Exothecium (n.) The outer
coat of the anther.
Exotic (a.) Introduced
from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an
exotic term or word.
Exotic (n.) Anything of
foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
Exotical (a.) Foreign; not
native; exotic.
Exoticism (n.) The state
of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
Expanded (imp. & p. p.) of
Expand
Expanding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expand
Expand (v. t.) To lay open
by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its
leaves.
Expand (v. t.) To cause
the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing
bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to
distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand
the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
Expand (v. t.) To state in
enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
Expand (v. i.) To become
widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand
in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
Expander (n.) Anything
which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a
tube, etc.
Expanding (a.) That
expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.
Expanse (n.) That which is
expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of
the sky.
Expanse (v. t.) To expand.
Expansibility (n.) The
capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.
Expansible (a.) Capable of
being expanded or spread out widely.
Expansile (a.) Expansible.
Expansion (n.) The act of
expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation;
enlargement.
Expansion (n.) That which
is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake;
the expansion was formed of metal.
Expansion (n.) Space
through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
Expansion (n.) Enlargement
or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank
notes.
Expansion (n.) The
developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2
+ 2ab + b2.
Expansion (n.) The
operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has
been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
Expansion (n.) The
enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or
building size, in the process of construction.
Expansive (a.) Having a
capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse;
wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
Expansure (n.) Expanse.
Ex parte () Upon or from one side
only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement.
Expatiated (imp. & p. p.)
of Expatiate
Expariating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expatiate
Expatiate (v. i.) To range
at large, or without restraint.
Expatiate (v. i.) To
enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to
descant.
Expatiate (v. t.) To
expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Expatiation (n.) Act of
expatiating.
Expatiatory (a.)
Expansive; diffusive.
Expatriated (imp. & p. p.)
of Expatriate
Expatriating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expatriate
Expatriate (v. t.) To
banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
Expatriate (v. t.)
Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country;
to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and
become a citizen of another country.
Expatriation (n.) The act
of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own
country with a renunciation of allegiance.
Expected (imp. & p. p.) of
Expect
Expecting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expect
Expect (v. t.) To wait
for; to await.
Expect (v. t.) To look for
(mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to
happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to
look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an
infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to
receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
Expect (v. t.) To wait; to
stay.
Expect (n.) Expectation.
Expectable (a.) That may
be expected or looked for.
Expectance (n.) Alt. of
Expectancy
Expectancy (n.) The act of
expecting ; expectation.
Expectancy (n.) That which
is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or
hope.
Expectant (a.) Waiting in
expectation; looking for
Expectant (a.) waiting for
the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.
Expectant (n.) One who
waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.
Expectation (n.) The act
or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
Expectation (n.) That
which is expected or looked for.
Expectation (n.) The
prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to
happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.
Expectation (n.) The value
of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some
contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the
event.
Expectation (n.) The
leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Expectative (a.)
Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.
Expectative (n.) Something
in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.
Expectedly (adv.) In
conformity with expectation.
Expecter (n.) One who
expects.
Expectingly (adv.) In a
state of expectation.
Expective (a.)
Expectative.
Expectorant (a.) Tending
to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the
lungs or throat.
Expectorant (n.) An
expectorant medicine.
Expectorated (imp. & p. p.)
of Expectorate
Expectorating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expectorate
Expectorate (v. t.) To
eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by
coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
Expectorate (v. i.) To
discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.
Expectoration (n.) The act
of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and
spitting.
Expectoration (n.) That
which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
Expectorative (a. & n.)
Same as Expectorant.
Expede (v. t.) To
expedite; to hasten.
Expediate (v. t.) To
hasten; to expedite.
Expedience (n.) Alt. of
Expediency
Expediency (n.) The
quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a
purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage;
advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Expediency (n.)
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
Expediency (n.) An
expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Expedient (a.) Hastening
or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or
proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable;
advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.
Expedient (a.) Quick;
expeditious.
Expedient (n.) That which
serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
Expedient (n.) Means
devised in an exigency; shift.
Expediential () Governed by
expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.
Expediently (adv.) In an
expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
Expediently (adv.) With
expedition; quickly.
Expediment (n.) An
expedient.
Expeditate (v. t.) To
deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that
he may not chase deer.
Expedite (a.) Free of
impediment; unimpeded.
Expedite (a.) Expeditious;
quick; speedily; prompt.
Expedited (imp. & p. p.)
of Expedite
Expediting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expedite
Expedite (v. t.) To
relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of;
to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.
Expedite (v. t.) To
despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
Expeditely (adv.) In
expedite manner; expeditiously.
Expediteness (n.) Quality
of being expedite.
Expedition (n.) The
quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed;
quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
Expedition (n.) A sending
forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
Expedition (n.) An
important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike
enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body
of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific
expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
Expeditionary (a.) Of or
pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
Expeditionist (n.) One who
goes upon an expedition. [R].
Expeditious (a.) Possessed
of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action;
performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily;
as, an expeditious march or messenger.
Expeditive (a.) Performing
with speed.
Expelled (imp. & p. p.) of
Expel
Expelling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expel
Expel (v. t.) To drive or
force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated;
to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
Expel (v. t.) To drive
away from one's country; to banish.
Expel (v. t.) To cut off
from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the
like; as, to expel a student or member.
Expel (v. t.) To keep out,
off, or away; to exclude.
Expel (v. t.) To
discharge; to shoot.
Expellable (a.) Capable of
being expelled or driven out.
Expeller (n.) One who, or
that which, expels.
Expended (imp. & p. p.) of
Expend
Expending (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expend
Expend (v. t.) To lay out,
apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either
in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in
charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil
in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
Expend (v. i.) To be laid
out, used, or consumed.
Expend (v. i.) To pay out
or disburse money.
Expenitor (n.) A
disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.
Expenditure (n.) The act
of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
Expenditure (n.) That
which is expended or paid out; expense.
Expense (n.) A spending or
consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Expense (n.) That which is
expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the
notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of
war; an expense of time.
Expense (n.) Loss.
Expensefull (a.) Full of
expense; costly; chargeable.
Expenseless (a.) Without
cost or expense.
Expensive (a.) Occasioning
expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress;
an expensive house or family.
Expensive (a.) Free in
expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
Experience (n.) Trial, as
a test or experiment.
Experience (n.) The effect
upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or
participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description
or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
Experience (n.) An act of
knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained;
experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or
practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king
without experience of war.
Experienced (imp. & p. p.)
of Exrerience
Experiencing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Exrerience
Exrerience (v. t.) To make
practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to
have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected
by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to
experience a change of views.
Exrerience (v. t.) To
exercise; to train by practice.
Experienced (p. p. & a.)
Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of
trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an
experienced eye.
Experiencer (n.) One who
experiences.
Experiencer (n.) An
experimenter.
Experient (a.)
Experienced.
Experiential (a.) Derived
from, or pertaining to, experience.
Experientialism (n.) The
doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or
criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists.
Experientiallist (n.) One
who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.
Experiment (n.) Atrial or
special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one
under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken
in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or
illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
Experiment (n.)
Experience.
Experimented (imp. & p. p.)
of Experiment
Experinenting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Experiment
Experiment (v. t.) To make
experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in,
referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument;
and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he
experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
Experiment (v. t.) To try;
to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
Experimental (a.)
Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as,
experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental
philosopher.
Experimental (a.) Known
by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
Experimetalist (n.) One
who makes experiments; an experimenter.
Experimentalize (v. i.) To
make experiments (upon); to experiment.
Experimentally (adv.) By
experiment; by experience or trial.
Experimentarian (a.)
Relying on experiment or experience.
Experimentarian (n.) One
who relies on experiment or experience.
Experimentation (n.) The
act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
Experimentative (a.)
Experimental; of the nature of experiment.
Experimentator (n.) An
experimenter.
Experimenter (n.) One who
makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
Experimentist (n.) An
experimenter.
Experrection (n.) A waking
up or arousing.
Expert (a.) Taught by use,
practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or
performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever;
skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
Expert (n.) An expert or
experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience,
or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
Expert (n.) A specialist
in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery
peculiar culture and erudition.
Expert (n.) A sworn
appraiser.
Expert (v. t.) To
experience.
Expertly (adv.) In a
skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.
Expertness (n.) Skill
derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.
Expetible (a.) Worthy of
being wished for; desirable.
Expiable (a.) Capable of
being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.
Expiated (imp. & p. p.) of
Expiate
Expiating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Expiate
Expiate (v. t.) To
extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make
complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation
for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.
Expiate (v. t.) To purify
with sacred rites.
Expiate (a.) Terminated.
Expiation (n.) The act of
making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of
guilt by suffering or penalty.
Expiation (n.) The means
by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory
sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
Expiation (n.) An act by
which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
Expiatist (n.) An
expiator.
Expiator (n.) One who
makes expiation or atonement.
Expiatorious (a.) Of an
expiatory nature; expiatory.
Expiatory (a.) Having
power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
Expilation (n.) The act of
expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
Expilator (n.) One who
pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.
Expirable (a.) That may
expire; capable of being brought to an end.
Expirant (n.) One who
expires or is expiring.
Expiration (n.) The act of
expiring
Expiration (n.) The act or
process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or
mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to
inspiration.
Expiration (n.) Emission
of volatile matter; exhalation.
Expiration (n.) The last
emission of breath; death.
Expiration (n.) A coming
to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
Expiration (n.) That which
is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a
sound.
Expiratory (a.) Pertaining
to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the
expiratory muscles.
Expired (imp. & p. p.) of
Expire
Expiring (p. pr & vb. n.)
of Expire
Expire (v. t.) To breathe
out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the
process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
Expire (v. t.) To give
forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to
exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.
Expire (v. t.) To emit; to
give out.
Expire (v. t.) To bring to
a close; to terminate.
Expire (v. i.) To emit the
breath.
Expire (v. i.) To emit the
last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in
agony.
Expire (v. i.) To come to
an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame
expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
Expire (v. i.) To burst
forth; to fly out with a blast.
Expiring (a.) Breathing
out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing
the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
Expiring (a.) Pertaining
to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.
Expiry (n.) Expiration.
Expiscate (v. t.) To fish
out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
Expiscation (n.) The act
of expiscating; a fishing.
Expiscatory (a.) Tending
to fish out; searching out
Explained (imp. & p. p.)
of Explain
Explaining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Explain
Explain (a.) To flatten;
to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
Explain (a.) To make
plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold
and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
Explain (v. i.) To give an
explanation.
Explainable (a.) Capable
of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being
interpreted.
Explainer (n.) One who
explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Explanate (a.) Spreading
or extending outwardly in a flat form.
Explanation (n.) The act
of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity
and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a
contract or treaty.
Explanation (n.) That
which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
Explanation (n.) The
meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition;
interpretation; sense.
Explanation (n.) A mutual
exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a
misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to
come to an explanation.
Explanative (a.)
Explanatory.
Explanatoriness (n.) The
quality of being explanatory.
Explanatory (a.) Serving
to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
Explat (v. t.) Alt. of
Explate
Explate (v. t.) To
explain; to unfold.
Expletion (n.)
Accomplishment; fulfillment.
Expletive (a.) Filling up;
hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
Expletive (n.) A word,
letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy;
an oath.
Expletively (adv.) In the
manner of an expletive.
Expletory (a.) Serving to
fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.
Explicable (a.) Capable of
being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.
Explicableness (n.)
Quality of being explicable.
Explicate (a.) Evolved;
unfolded.
Explicated (imp. & p. p.)
of Explicate
Explicating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Explicate
Explicate (v. t.) To
unfold; to expand; to lay open.
Explicate (v. t.) To
unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or
obscurity; to interpret.
Explication (n.) The act
of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
Explication (n.) The sense
given by an expositor.
Explicative (a.) Serving
to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
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