Dictionary E

• E Dictionary 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- Dictionary E - A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-.
• Each Dictionary E - adjective / a. pronoun 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.
• Eachwhere Dictionary E - adverb Everywhere.
• Eadish Dictionary E - noun See Eddish.
• Eager Dictionary E - adjective Sharp; sour; acid.
• Eagerly Dictionary E - adverb In an eager manner.
• Eagerness Dictionary E - noun The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
• Eagle Dictionary E - noun 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-eyed Dictionary E - adjective Sharp-sighted as an eagle.
• Eagle-sighted Dictionary E - adjective Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted.
• Eagless Dictionary E - noun A female or hen eagle.
• Eaglestone Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.
• Eagle-winged Dictionary E - adjective Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.
• Eaglewood Dictionary E - noun A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• Eagrass Dictionary E - noun See Eddish.
• Eagre Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ealdorman.
• Ealdorman Dictionary E - noun An alderman.
• Eale Dictionary E - noun Ale.
• Eame Dictionary E - noun Uncle.
• Ean Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To bring forth, as young; to yean.
• Eanling Dictionary E - noun A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.
• Ear Dictionary E - noun The organ of hearing; the external ear.
• Eared Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ear.
• Earing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ear.
• Earable Dictionary E - adjective Arable; tillable.
• Earache Dictionary E - noun Ache or pain in the ear.
• Earal Dictionary E - adjective Receiving by the ear.
• Ear-bored Dictionary E - adjective Having the ear perforated.
• Earcap Dictionary E - noun A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.
• Earcockle Dictionary E - noun A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.
• Eardrop Dictionary E - noun A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.
• Eardrum Dictionary E - noun The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
• Eariness Dictionary E - noun Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.
• Earl Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Earlap Dictionary E - noun The lobe of the ear.
• Earldom Dictionary E - noun The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
• Earldorman Dictionary E - noun Alderman.
• Earlduck Dictionary E - noun The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).
• Earles penny Dictionary E - Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
• Earless Dictionary E - adjective Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
• Earlet Dictionary E - noun An earring.
• Earliness Dictionary E - noun The state of being early or forward; promptness.
• Earl marshal Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
• Early Dictionary E - adverb Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.
• Earmark Dictionary E - noun A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.
• Earmarked Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Earmark.
• Earmarking Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Earmark.
• Earn Dictionary E - noun See Ern, n.
• Earned Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Earn.
• Earning Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Earn.
• Earnest Dictionary E - noun Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.
• Earnestful Dictionary E - adjective Serious.
• Earnestly Dictionary E - adverb In an earnest manner.
• Earnestness Dictionary E - noun The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
• Earnful Dictionary E - adjective Full of anxiety or yearning.
• Earnings Dictionary E - pleural of Earning.
• Earpick Dictionary E - noun An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
• Ear-piercer Dictionary E - noun The earwig.
• Earreach Dictionary E - noun Earshot.
• Earring Dictionary E - noun An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.
• Earsh Dictionary E - noun See Arrish.
• Ear-shell Dictionary E - noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; - called also sea-ear. See Abalone.
• Earshot Dictionary E - noun Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.
• Earshrift Dictionary E - noun A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
• Earsore Dictionary E - noun An annoyance to the ear.
• Ear-splitting Dictionary E - adjective Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
• Earst Dictionary E - adverb See Erst.
• Earth Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Earthed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Earth.
• Earthing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Earth.
• Earthbag Dictionary E - noun A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.
• Earthbank Dictionary E - noun A bank or mound of earth.
• Earthboard Dictionary E - noun The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
• Earthborn Dictionary E - adjective Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human.
• Earthbred Dictionary E - adjective Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• Earthdin Dictionary E - noun An earthquake.
• Earthdrake Dictionary E - noun A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
• Earthen Dictionary E - adjective Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• Earthen-hearted Dictionary E - adjective Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
• Earthenware Dictionary E - noun Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
• Earth flax Dictionary E - A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Earthfork Dictionary E - noun A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthiness Dictionary E - noun The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• Earthliness Dictionary E - noun The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• Earthling Dictionary E - noun An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• Earthly Dictionary E - adjective 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-minded Dictionary E - adjective Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; - opposed to spiritual-minded.
• Earthmad Dictionary E - noun The earthworm.
• Earthnut Dictionary E - noun A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground.
• Earthpea Dictionary E - noun A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.
• Earthquake Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Earthquave Dictionary E - noun An earthquake.
• Earth shine Dictionary E - See Earth light, under Earth.
• Earthshock Dictionary E - noun An earthquake.
• Earthstar Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• Earthward Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Earthwards.
• Earthwards Dictionary E - adverb Toward the earth; - opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Earthwork Dictionary E - noun Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Earthworm Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Earthy Dictionary E - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
• Earwax Dictionary E - noun See Cerumen.
• Earwig Dictionary E - noun Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.
• Earwigged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Earwig.
• Earwigging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Earwig.
• Earwitness Dictionary E - noun A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.
• Ease Dictionary E - noun Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
• Eased Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ease.
• Easing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ease.
• Easeful Dictionary E - adjective Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
• Easel Dictionary E - noun A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
• Easeless Dictionary E - adjective Without ease.
• Easement Dictionary E - noun That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
• Easily Dictionary E - adverb With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
• Easiness Dictionary E - noun The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
• East Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Easter Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Easterling Dictionary E - noun A native of a country eastward of another; - used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
• Easterly Dictionary E - adjective Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
• Eastern Dictionary E - adjective Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
• Easternmost Dictionary E - adjective Most eastern.
• East Indian Dictionary E - Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies.
• Easting Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.
• Eastward Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Eastwards.
• Eastwards Dictionary E - adverb Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.
• Easy Dictionary E - verb transitive At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint.
• Easy-chair Dictionary E - noun An armchair for ease or repose.
• Easy-going Dictionary E - adjective Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.
• Eat Dictionary E - of Eat.
• Eaten Dictionary E - past participle of Eat.
• Eating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eat.
• Eatable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
• Eatage Dictionary E - noun Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
• Eater Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, eats.
• Eath Dictionary E - adjective & adverb Easy or easily.
• Eau de Cologne Dictionary E - Same as Cologne.
• Eau de vie Dictionary E - French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua.
• Eavedrop Dictionary E - noun A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.
• Eaves Dictionary E - noun plural 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.
• Eavesdrop Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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.
• Eavesdropper Dictionary E - noun One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
• Eavesdropping Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The European bunting.
• Ebbed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ebb.
• Ebbing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ebb.
• Ebb tide Dictionary E - The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; - opposed to flood tide.
• Ebionite Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
• Eblanin Dictionary E - noun See Pyroxanthin.
• Eblis Dictionary E - noun The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.
• Ebon Dictionary E - adjective Consisting of ebony.
• Ebonist Dictionary E - noun One who works in ebony.
• Ebonite Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ebonize.
• Ebonizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ebonize.
• Ebonize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.
• Ebonies Dictionary E - pleural of Ebony.
• Ebony Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ebracteate Dictionary E - adjective Without bracts.
• Ebracteolate Dictionary E - adjective Without bracteoles, or little bracts; - said of a pedicel or flower stalk.
• Ebrauke Dictionary E - adjective Hebrew.
• Ebrieties Dictionary E - pleural of Ebriety.
• Ebriety Dictionary E - noun Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
• Ebrillade Dictionary E - noun A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
• Ebriosity Dictionary E - noun Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
• Ebrious Dictionary E - adjective Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.
• Ebulliate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To boil or bubble up.
• Ebullience Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ebulliency.
• Ebulliency Dictionary E - noun A boiling up or over; effervescence.
• Ebullient Dictionary E - adjective Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
• Ebullioscope Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
• Eburin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Made of or relating to ivory.
• Eburnification Dictionary E - noun The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
• Eburnine Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to ivory.
• Ecardines Dictionary E - noun plural An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.
• Ecarte Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Without a tail or spur.
• Ecballium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
• Ecbatic Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
• Ecbolic Dictionary E - noun A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
• Ecboline Dictionary E - noun An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; - so named from its power of producing abortion.
• Eccaleobion Dictionary E - noun A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
• Ecce homo Dictionary E - A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
• Eccentric Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Eccentrical Dictionary E - adjective See Eccentric.
• Eccentrically Dictionary E - adverb In an eccentric manner.
• Eccentricities Dictionary E - pleural of Eccentricity.
• Eccentricity Dictionary E - noun The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• Ecchymose Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Ecchymosis.
• Ecchymosis Dictionary E - noun A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
• Ecchymotic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to ecchymosis.
• Eccle Dictionary E - noun The European green woodpecker; - also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle.
• Ecclesiae Dictionary E - pleural of Ecclesia.
• Ecclesia Dictionary E - noun The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
• Ecclesial Dictionary E - adjective Ecclesiastical.
• Ecclesiarch Dictionary E - noun An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
• Ecclesiast Dictionary E - noun An ecclesiastic.
• Ecclesiastes Dictionary E - adjective One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.
• Ecclesiastic Dictionary E - verb transitive Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
• Ecclesiastical Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adverb In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• Ecclesiasticism Dictionary E - noun Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.
• Ecclesiasticus Dictionary E - noun A book of the Apocrypha.
• Ecclesiological Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to ecclesiology.
• Ecclesiologist Dictionary E - noun One versed in ecclesiology.
• Ecclesiology Dictionary E - noun The science or theory of church building and decoration.
• Eccritic Dictionary E - noun A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
• Ecderon Dictionary E - noun See Ecteron.
• Ecdyses Dictionary E - pleural of Ecdysis.
• Ecdysis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
• Echauguette Dictionary E - noun A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.
• Eche Dictionary E - adjective / a. pronoun Each.
• Echelon Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Echidna Dictionary E - noun A monster, half maid and half serpent.
• Echidnine Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Echinated.
• Echinated Dictionary E - adjective Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
• Echinid Dictionary E - adjective & noun Same as Echinoid.
• Echinidan Dictionary E - noun One the Echinoidea.
• Echinital Dictionary E - adjective Of, or like, an echinite.
• Echinite Dictionary E - noun A fossil echinoid.
• Echinococcus Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One of the Echinodermata.
• Echinodermal Dictionary E - adjective Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
• Echinodermata Dictionary E - noun plural One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.
• Echinodermatous Dictionary E - adjective Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
• Echinoid Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.
• Echinoidea Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun plural The Echinodermata.
• Echinulate Dictionary E - adjective Set with small spines or prickles.
• Echini Dictionary E - pleural of Echinus.
• Echinus Dictionary E - noun A hedgehog.
• Echiuroidea Dictionary E - noun plural A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.
• Echoes Dictionary E - pleural of Echo.
• Echo Dictionary E - noun A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
• Echoed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Echo.
• Echoing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Echo.
• Echoer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, echoes.
• Echoless Dictionary E - adjective Without echo or response.
• Echometer Dictionary E - noun A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.
• Echometry Dictionary E - noun The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.
• Echon Dictionary E - pronoun Alt. of Echoon.
• Echoon Dictionary E - pronoun Each one.
• Echoscope Dictionary E - noun An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
• Eclair Dictionary E - noun A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.
• Eclaircise Dictionary E - verb transitive To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.
• Eclaircissement Dictionary E - verb transitive The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.
• Eclampsia Dictionary E - noun A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
• Eclampsy Dictionary E - noun Same as Eclampsia.
• Eclat Dictionary E - noun Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
• Eclectic Dictionary E - adjective Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.
• Eclectically Dictionary E - adverb In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.
• Eclecticism Dictionary E - noun Theory or practice of an eclectic.
• Eclegm Dictionary E - noun A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups.
• Eclipse Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eclipsed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eclipse.
• Eclipsing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eclipse.
• Ecliptic Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Eclogite Dictionary E - noun A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; - so called in reference to its beauty.
• Eclogue Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Economical.
• Economical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the household; domestic.
• Economically Dictionary E - adverb With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.
• Economics Dictionary E - noun The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.
• Economist Dictionary E - noun One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
• Economization Dictionary E - noun The act or practice of using to the best effect.
• Economized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Economize.
• Economizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Economize.
• Economize Dictionary E - verb transitive To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.
• Economizer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, economizes.
• Economies Dictionary E - pleural of Economy.
• Economy Dictionary E - noun The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
• Ecorche Dictionary E - noun A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
• Ecossaise Dictionary E - noun A dancing tune in the Scotch style.
• Ecostate Dictionary E - adjective Having no ribs or nerves; - said of a leaf.
• Ecoute Dictionary E - noun One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
• Ecphasis Dictionary E - noun An explicit declaration.
• Ecphonema Dictionary E - noun A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
• Ecphoneme Dictionary E - noun A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.
• Ecphonesis Dictionary E - noun An animated or passionate exclamation.
• Ecphractic Dictionary E - adjective Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.
• Ecrasement Dictionary E - noun The operation performed with an ecraseur.
• Ecraseur Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
• Ecstasies Dictionary E - pleural of Ecstasy.
• Ecstasy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ecstatic Dictionary E - noun Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
• Ecstatical Dictionary E - adjective Ecstatic.
• Ecstatically Dictionary E - adverb Rapturously; ravishingly.
• Ect- Dictionary E - Alt. of Ecto-.
• Ecto- Dictionary E - A combining form signifying without, outside, external.
• Ectad Dictionary E - adverb Toward the outside or surface; - opposed to entad.
• Ectal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; - opposed to ental.
• Ectasia Dictionary E - noun A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.
• Ectasis Dictionary E - noun The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
• Ectental Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
• Ectethmoid Dictionary E - adjective External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.
• Ecthlipsis Dictionary E - noun The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
• Ecthorea Dictionary E - pleural of Ecthoreum.
• Ecthoreum Dictionary E - noun The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell.
• Ecthymata Dictionary E - pleural of Ecthyma.
• Ecthyma Dictionary E - noun A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
• Ectoblast Dictionary E - noun The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.
• Ectobronchia Dictionary E - pleural of Ectobronchium.
• Ectobronchium Dictionary E - noun One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
• Ectocuneriform Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ectocuniform.
• Ectocuniform Dictionary E - noun One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
• Ectocyst Dictionary E - noun The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
• Ectoderm Dictionary E - noun The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.
• Ectodermal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ectodermic.
• Ectodermic Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to the ectoderm.
• Ectolecithal Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
• Ectoparasite Dictionary E - noun Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; - opposed to endoparasite.
• Ectopia Dictionary E - noun A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.
• Ectopic Dictionary E - adjective Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
• Ectoplasm Dictionary E - noun The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
• Ectoplastic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
• Ectoprocta Dictionary E - noun plural An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.
• Ectopy Dictionary E - noun Same as Ectopia.
• Ectorganism Dictionary E - noun An external parasitic organism.
• Ectosarc Dictionary E - noun The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
• Ectosteal Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
• Ectostosis Dictionary E - noun A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
• Ectozoic Dictionary E - adjective See Epizoic.
• Ectozoa Dictionary E - pleural of Ectozoon.
• Ectozoon Dictionary E - noun See Epizoon.
• Ectropion Dictionary E - noun An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.
• Ectropium Dictionary E - noun Same as Ectropion.
• Ectrotic Dictionary E - adjective Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
• Ectypal Dictionary E - adjective Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
• Ectype Dictionary E - noun A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:.
• Ectypography Dictionary E - noun A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.
• Ecumenic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ecumenical.
• Ecumenical Dictionary E - adjective General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
• Ecurie Dictionary E - noun A stable.
• Eczema Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.
• -ed Dictionary E - The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.
• Edacious Dictionary E - adjective Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
• Edacity Dictionary E - noun Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
• Eddas Dictionary E - pleural of Edda.
• Edda Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eddic.
• Eddic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.
• Edder Dictionary E - noun An adder or serpent.
• Eddish Dictionary E - noun Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.
• Eddoes Dictionary E - noun plural The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.
• Eddies Dictionary E - pleural of Eddy.
• Eddy Dictionary E - noun A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
• Eddied Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eddy.
• Eddying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eddy.
• Edelweiss Dictionary E - noun A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.
• Edema Dictionary E - noun Same as oedema.
• Edematous Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Edematose.
• Edematose Dictionary E - adjective Same as oedematous.
• Eden Dictionary E - noun The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
• Edenic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.
• Edenite Dictionary E - noun A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.
• Edenized Dictionary E - adjective Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness.
• Edental Dictionary E - adjective See Edentate, a.
• Edentalous Dictionary E - adjective See Edentate, a.
• Edentata Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - adjective Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
• Edentated Dictionary E - adjective Same as Edentate, a.
• Edentation Dictionary E - noun A depriving of teeth.
• Edentulous Dictionary E - adjective Toothless.
• Edge Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Edged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Edge.
• Edging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Edge.
• Edgebone Dictionary E - noun Same as Aitchbone.
• Edgeless Dictionary E - adjective Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• Edgelong Dictionary E - adverb In the direction of the edge.
• Edgeshot Dictionary E - adjective Having an edge planed, - said of a board.
• Edgeways Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Edgewise.
• Edgewise Dictionary E - adverb With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
• Edgingly Dictionary E - adverb Gradually; gingerly.
• Edgy Dictionary E - adjective Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
• Edh Dictionary E - noun The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth.".
• Edibility Dictionary E - noun Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.
• Edible Dictionary E - adjective Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
• Edibleness Dictionary E - noun Suitableness for being eaten.
• Edict Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
• Edificant Dictionary E - adjective Building; constructing.
• Edification Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Edificatory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to edification.
• Edifice Dictionary E - noun A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; - chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
• Edificial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an edifice; structural.
• Edifier Dictionary E - noun One who builds.
• Edified Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Edify.
• Edifying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Edify.
• Edify Dictionary E - intransitive verb To build; to construct.
• Edile Dictionary E - noun See Aedile.
• Edileship Dictionary E - noun The office of aedile.
• Edingtonite Dictionary E - noun A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
• Edited Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Edit.
• Editing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Edit.
• Edit Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 de luxe Dictionary E - See Luxe.
• Editioner Dictionary E - noun An editor.
• Editor Dictionary E - noun One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
• Editorial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.
• Editorially Dictionary E - adverb In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.
• Editorship Dictionary E - noun The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.
• Editress Dictionary E - noun A female editor.
• Edituate Dictionary E - verb transitive To guard as a churchwarden does.
• Edomite Dictionary E - noun One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.
• Edriophthalma Dictionary E - noun plural A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca.
• Edriophthalmous Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.
• Educability Dictionary E - noun Capability of being educated.
• Educable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being educated.
• Educated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Educate.
• Educating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Educate.
• Educate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Education Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to education.
• Educationist Dictionary E - noun One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• Educative Dictionary E - adjective Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
• Educator Dictionary E - noun One who educates; a teacher.
• Educed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Educe.
• Educing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Educe.
• Educe Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being educed.
• Educt Dictionary E - noun That which is educed, as by analysis.
• Eduction Dictionary E - noun The act of drawing out or bringing into view.
• Eductive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to draw out; extractive.
• Eductor Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
• Edulcorant Dictionary E - adjective Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
• Edulcorated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Edulcorate.
• Edulcorating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Edulcorate.
• Edulcorate Dictionary E - verb transitive To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.
• Edulcoration Dictionary E - noun The act of sweetening or edulcorating.
• Edulcorative Dictionary E - adjective Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
• Edulcorator Dictionary E - noun A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
• Edulious Dictionary E - adjective Edible.
• -ee Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive Alt. of Eeke.
• Eeke Dictionary E - verb transitive See Eke.
• Eel Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An eelpot or eel basket.
• Eelfare Dictionary E - noun A brood of eels.
• Eelgrass Dictionary E - noun A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.
• Eel-mother Dictionary E - noun The eelpout.
• Eelpot Dictionary E - noun A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.
• Eelpout Dictionary E - noun A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; - called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), #NAME?.
• Eelspear Dictionary E - noun A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.
• E'en Dictionary E - adverb A contraction for even. See Even.
• Een Dictionary E - noun The old plural of Eye.
• E'er Dictionary E - adverb A contraction for ever. See Ever.
• Eerie Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eery.
• Eery Dictionary E - adjective Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
• Eerily Dictionary E - adverb In a strange, unearthly way.
• Eerisome Dictionary E - adjective Causing fear; eerie.
• Eet Dictionary E - [[obs. imperative of Eat.
• Effable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
• Effaced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Efface.
• Effacing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Efface.
• Efface Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Effaceable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being effaced.
• Effacement Dictionary E - noun The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
• Effascinate Dictionary E - verb transitive To charm; to bewitch.
• Effascination Dictionary E - noun A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.
• Effect Dictionary E - noun Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
• Effected Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effect.
• Effecting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effect.
• Effecter Dictionary E - noun One who effects.
• Effectible Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.
• Effection Dictionary E - noun Creation; a doing.
• Effective Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Effectively Dictionary E - adverb With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.
• Effectiveness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being effective.
• Effectless Dictionary E - adjective Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.
• Effector Dictionary E - noun An effecter.
• Effectual Dictionary E - noun Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.
• Effectually Dictionary E - adverb With effect; efficaciously.
• Effectualness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being effectual.
• Effectuated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effectuate.
• Effectuating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effectuate.
• Effectuate Dictionary E - verb transitive To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.
• Effectuation Dictionary E - noun Act of effectuating.
• Effectuose Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Effectuous.
• Effectuous Dictionary E - adjective Effective.
• Effectuously Dictionary E - adverb Effectively.
• Effeminacies Dictionary E - pleural of Effeminacy.
• Effeminacy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
• Effeminated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effeminate.
• Effeminating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effeminate.
• Effeminately Dictionary E - adverb In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.
• Effeminateness Dictionary E - noun The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.
• Effemination Dictionary E - noun Effeminacy; womanishness.
• Effeminize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make effeminate.
• Effendi Dictionary E - noun Master; sir; - a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.
• Efferent Dictionary E - adjective Conveying outward, or discharging; - applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
• Efferous Dictionary E - adjective Like a wild beast; fierce.
• Effervesced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effervesce.
• Effervescing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effervesce.
• Effervesce Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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.
• Effervescence Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Effervescency.
• Effervescency Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas.
• Effervescible Dictionary E - adjective Capable of effervescing.
• Effervescive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to produce effervescence.
• Effet Dictionary E - noun The common newt; - called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.
• Effete Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.
• Efficacity Dictionary E - noun Efficacy.
• Efficacy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Efficiency.
• Efficiency Dictionary E - noun The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
• Efficient Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Efficiently Dictionary E - adverb With effect; effectively.
• Effierce Dictionary E - verb transitive To make fierce.
• Effigial Dictionary E - adjective Relating to an effigy.
• Effigiate Dictionary E - verb transitive To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.
• Effigiation Dictionary E - noun The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.
• Effigies Dictionary E - noun See Effigy.
• Effigy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To ask urgently.
• Efflate Dictionary E - verb transitive To fill with breath; to puff up.
• Efflation Dictionary E - noun The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
• Effloresced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effloresce.
• Efflorescing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effloresce.
• Effloresce Dictionary E - intransitive verb To blossom forth.
• Efflorescence Dictionary E - noun Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
• Efflorescency Dictionary E - noun The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
• Efflorescent Dictionary E - intransitive verb That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
• Efflower Dictionary E - verb transitive To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, - as in making chamois leather.
• Effluence Dictionary E - noun A flowing out, or emanation.
• Effluency Dictionary E - noun Effluence.
• Effluent Dictionary E - adjective Flowing out; as, effluent beams.
• Effluviable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being given off as an effluvium.
• Effluvial Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to effluvia.
• Effluviate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To give forth effluvium.
• Effluvia Dictionary E - pleural of Effluvium.
• Effluvium Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Effluxion Dictionary E - noun The act of flowing out; effusion.
• Effodient Dictionary E - adjective Digging up.
• Efforced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Efforce.
• Efforcing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Efforce.
• Efforce Dictionary E - verb transitive To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
• Efform Dictionary E - verb transitive To form; to shape.
• Efformation Dictionary E - noun The act of giving shape or form.
• Effort Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Effortless Dictionary E - adjective Making no effort.
• Effossion Dictionary E - noun A digging out or up.
• Effranchise Dictionary E - verb transitive To enfranchise.
• Effray Dictionary E - verb transitive To frighten; to scare.
• Effrayable Dictionary E - adjective Frightful.
• Effrenation Dictionary E - noun Unbridled license; unruliness.
• Effront Dictionary E - verb transitive To give assurance to.
• Effronteries Dictionary E - pleural of Effrontery.
• Effrontery Dictionary E - noun Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
• Effrontit Dictionary E - adjective Marked by impudence.
• Effrontuously Dictionary E - adverb Impudently.
• Effulged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effulge.
• Effulging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effulge.
• Effulge Dictionary E - verb transitive To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.
• Effulgence Dictionary E - noun The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
• Effulgent Dictionary E - adjective Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
• Effulgently Dictionary E - adverb In an effulgent manner.
• Effumability Dictionary E - noun The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.
• Effume Dictionary E - verb transitive To breathe or puff out.
• Effund Dictionary E - verb transitive To pour out.
• Effuse Dictionary E - adjective Poured out freely; profuse.
• Effused Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Effuse.
• Effusing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Effuse.
• Effusion Dictionary E - noun The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.
• Effusive Dictionary E - adjective Pouring out; pouring forth freely.
• Efreet Dictionary E - noun See Afrit.
• Eft Dictionary E - noun A European lizard of the genus Seps.
• Eftsoon Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Eftsoons.
• Eftsoons Dictionary E - adverb Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.
• Egad Dictionary E - interjection An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
• Egal Dictionary E - adjective Equal; impartial.
• Egality Dictionary E - noun Equality.
• Egean Dictionary E - adjective See Aegean.
• Egence Dictionary E - noun The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.
• Eger Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Egre.
• Egre Dictionary E - adjective Sharp; bitter; acid; sour.
• Egerminate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To germinate.
• Egest Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun plural That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; - opposed to ingesta.
• Egestion Dictionary E - noun Act or process of egesting; a voiding.
• Egg Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Egged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Egg.
• Egging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Egg.
• Eggar Dictionary E - noun Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.
• Egg-bird Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A cup used for holding an egg, at table.
• Eggement Dictionary E - noun Instigation; incitement.
• Egger Dictionary E - noun One who gathers eggs; an eggler.
• Eggery Dictionary E - noun A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.
• Egg-glass Dictionary E - noun A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.
• Egghot Dictionary E - noun A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
• Eggler Dictionary E - noun One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.
• Eggnog Dictionary E - noun A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.
• Eggplant Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.
• Eggshell Dictionary E - noun The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
• Egg squash Dictionary E - A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.
• Eghen Dictionary E - noun plural Eyes.
• Egilopical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.
• Egilops Dictionary E - noun See Aegilops.
• Eglandulose Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eglandulous.
• Eglandulous Dictionary E - adjective Destitute of glands.
• Eglantine Dictionary E - noun A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.
• Eglatere Dictionary E - noun Eglantine.
• Egling Dictionary E - noun The European perch when two years old.
• Eglomerate Dictionary E - verb transitive To unwind, as a thread from a ball.
• Ego Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to egoism.
• Egoism Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Egoist Dictionary E - noun One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.
• Egoistic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Egoistical.
• Egoistical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.
• Egoistically Dictionary E - adverb In an egoistic manner.
• Egoity Dictionary E - noun Personality.
• Egomism Dictionary E - noun Egoism.
• Egophonic Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.
• Egophony Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The deification of self.
• Egotism Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.
• Egotistic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Egotistical.
• Egotistical Dictionary E - adjective Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.
• Egotistically Dictionary E - adverb With egotism.
• Egotized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Egotize.
• Egotizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Egotize.
• Egotize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To talk or write as an egotist.
• Egranulose Dictionary E - adjective Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions.
• Egregious Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adverb Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated.
• Egregiousness Dictionary E - noun The state of being egregious.
• Egremoin Dictionary E - noun Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria).
• Egress Dictionary E - noun The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
• Egression Dictionary E - noun The act of going; egress.
• Egressor Dictionary E - noun One who goes out.
• Egret Dictionary E - noun 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).
• Egrette Dictionary E - noun Same as Egret, n., 2.
• Egrimony Dictionary E - The herb agrimony.
• Egriot Dictionary E - noun A kind of sour cherry.
• Egritude Dictionary E - noun Sickness; ailment; sorrow.
• Egyptian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa.
• Egyptized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Egyptize.
• Egyptizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Egyptize.
• Egyptize Dictionary E - verb transitive To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.
• Egyptologer Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Egyptologist.
• Egyptologist Dictionary E - noun One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.
• Egyptological Dictionary E - adjective Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.
• Egyptology Dictionary E - noun The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.
• Eh Dictionary E - interjection An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.
• Ehlite Dictionary E - noun A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
• Eider Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.
• Eidolon Dictionary E - noun An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
• Eigh Dictionary E - interjection An exclamation expressing delight.
• Eight Dictionary E - noun An island in a river; an ait.
• Eighteen Dictionary E - adjective Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• Eighteenmo Dictionary E - adjective & noun See Octodecimo.
• Eighteenth Dictionary E - adjective Next in order after the seventeenth.
• Eightetethe Dictionary E - adjective Eighteenth.
• Eightfold Dictionary E - adjective Eight times a quantity.
• Eighth Dictionary E - adjective Next in order after the seventh.
• Eighthly Dictionary E - adverb As the eighth in order.
• Eightieth Dictionary E - adjective The next in order after seventy-ninth.
• Eightling Dictionary E - noun A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
• Eightscore Dictionary E - adjective & noun Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• Eighty Dictionary E - adjective Eight times ten; fourscore.
• Eigne Dictionary E - adjective Eldest; firstborn.
• Eiking Dictionary E - noun See Eking.
• Eikon Dictionary E - noun An image or effigy; - used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
• Eikosane Dictionary E - noun A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
• Eikosylene Dictionary E - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
• Eild Dictionary E - noun Age.
• Eire Dictionary E - noun Air.
• Eirenarch Dictionary E - noun A justice of the peace; irenarch.
• Eirenic Dictionary E - adjective Pacific. See Irenic.
• Eirie Dictionary E - noun See Aerie, and Eyrie.
• Eisel Dictionary E - noun Vinegar; verjuice.
• Eisteddfod Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective & pronoun One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
• Ejaculated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ejaculate.
• Ejaculating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ejaculate.
• Ejaculate Dictionary E - verb transitive To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
• Ejaculation Dictionary E - noun The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
• Ejaculator Dictionary E - noun A muscle which helps ejaculation.
• Ejaculatory Dictionary E - adjective Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.
• Ejected Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eject.
• Ejecting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eject.
• Eject Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Ejection Dictionary E - noun The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
• Ejectment Dictionary E - noun A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
• Ejector Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• Ejoo Dictionary E - noun Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.
• Ejulation Dictionary E - noun A wailing; lamentation.
• Ekabor Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ekaboron.
• Ekaboron Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The name given to a hypothetical element, - later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
• Ekasilicon Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eke.
• Eking Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eke.
• Eke Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Ekebergite Dictionary E - noun A variety of scapolite.
• Ekename Dictionary E - noun An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
• E-la Dictionary E - noun Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.
• Elaborate Dictionary E - adjective Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
• Elaborated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elaborate.
• Elaborating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elaborate.
• Elaboration Dictionary E - noun The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• Elaborative Dictionary E - adjective Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
• Elaborator Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, elaborates.
• Elaboratory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to elaborate.
• Elaeagnus Dictionary E - noun A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.
• Elaeis Dictionary E - noun A genus of palms.
• Elaeolite Dictionary E - noun A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
• Elaeoptene Dictionary E - noun The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.
• Elaidate Dictionary E - noun A salt of elaidic acid.
• Elaidic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.
• Elaidin Dictionary E - noun A solid isomeric modification of olein.
• Elaine Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Elain.
• Elain Dictionary E - noun Same as Olein.
• Elaiodic Dictionary E - adjective Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.
• Elaiometer Dictionary E - noun An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
• Elamite Dictionary E - noun A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.
• Elamping Dictionary E - adjective Shining.
• Elan Dictionary E - b. Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
• Elanced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elance.
• Elancing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elance.
• Elance Dictionary E - verb transitive To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
• Eland Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elanet Dictionary E - noun A kite of the genus Elanus.
• Elaolite Dictionary E - noun See Elaeolite.
• Elaoptene Dictionary E - noun See Elaeoptene.
• Elaphine Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.
• Elaphure Dictionary E - noun A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
• Elapidation Dictionary E - noun A clearing away of stones.
• Elapine Dictionary E - adjective Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.
• Elaps Dictionary E - noun A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
• Elapsed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elapse.
• Elapsing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elapse.
• Elapse Dictionary E - intransitive verb To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; - used chiefly in reference to time.
• Elapsion Dictionary E - noun The act of elapsing.
• Elaqueate Dictionary E - verb transitive To disentangle.
• Elasipoda Dictionary E - noun plural An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.
• Elasmobranch Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.
• Elasmobranchiate Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii.
• Elasmobranchii Dictionary E - noun plural A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
• Elasmosaurus Dictionary E - noun An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.
• Elastic Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Elastical Dictionary E - adjective Elastic.
• Elastically Dictionary E - adverb In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• Elasticity Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elasticness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
• Elastin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Lifted up; raised; elevated.
• Elated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elate.
• Elating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elate.
• Elatedly Dictionary E - adverb With elation.
• Elatedness Dictionary E - noun The state of being elated.
• Elater Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, elates.
• Elaterite Dictionary E - noun A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; - called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
• Elaterium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Same as Elatrometer.
• Elatery Dictionary E - noun Acting force; elasticity.
• Elation Dictionary E - noun A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.
• Elative Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.
• Elayl Dictionary E - noun Olefiant gas or ethylene; - so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. Written also elayle. See Ethylene.
• Elbow Dictionary E - noun The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
• Elbowed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elbow.
• Elbowing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elbow.
• Elbowboard Dictionary E - noun The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.
• Elbowchair Dictionary E - noun A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
• Elbowroom Dictionary E - noun Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.
• Elcaja Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.
• Eld Dictionary E - adjective Old.
• Elder Dictionary E - adjective Older; more aged, or existing longer.
• Elderish Dictionary E - adjective Somewhat old; elderly.
• Elderly Dictionary E - adjective Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• Eldern Dictionary E - adjective Made of elder.
• Eldership Dictionary E - noun The state of being older; seniority.
• Elderwort Dictionary E - noun Danewort.
• Eldest Dictionary E - adjective Oldest; longest in duration.
• Elding Dictionary E - noun Fuel.
• El Doradoes Dictionary E - pleural of El Dorado.
• El Dorado Dictionary E - 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.
• Eldritch Dictionary E - adjective Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.
• Eleatic Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Eleaticism Dictionary E - noun The Eleatic doctrine.
• Elecampane Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elect Dictionary E - adjective Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
• Elected Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elect.
• Electing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elect.
• Electant Dictionary E - noun One who has the power of choosing; an elector.
• Electary Dictionary E - noun See Electuary.
• Electic Dictionary E - adjective See Eclectic.
• Electicism Dictionary E - noun See Eclecticism.
• Election Dictionary E - adjective The act of choosing; choice; selection.
• Electionered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electioneer.
• Electioneering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Electioneer.
• Electioneer Dictionary E - intransitive verb To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.
• Electioneerer Dictionary E - noun One who electioneers.
• Elective Dictionary E - adjective Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
• Electively Dictionary E - adverb In an elective manner; by choice.
• Elector Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Electorality Dictionary E - noun The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.
• Electorate Dictionary E - noun The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
• Electoress Dictionary E - noun An electress.
• Electorial Dictionary E - adjective Electoral.
• Electorship Dictionary E - noun The office or status of an elector.
• Electre Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Electer.
• Electer Dictionary E - noun Amber. See Electrum.
• Electrepeter Dictionary E - noun An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• Electress Dictionary E - noun The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
• Electric Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Electrical.
• Electrical Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Electrically Dictionary E - adverb In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• Electricalness Dictionary E - adjective The state or quality of being electrical.
• Electrician Dictionary E - noun An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• Electricities Dictionary E - pleural of Electricity.
• Electricity Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Electrifiable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.
• Electrification Dictionary E - noun The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
• Electrified Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electrify.
• Electrifying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Electrify.
• Electrify Dictionary E - verb transitive To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
• Electrine Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to, or made of, amber.
• Electrition Dictionary E - noun The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.
• Electrization Dictionary E - noun The act of electrizing; electrification.
• Electrized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electrize.
• Electrizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Electrize.
• Electrize Dictionary E - verb transitive To electricity.
• Electrizer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, electrizes.
• Electro- Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun An electrotype.
• Electro-ballistic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to electro-ballistics.
• Electro-ballistics Dictionary E - noun The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.
• Electro-biologist Dictionary E - noun One versed in electro-biology.
• Electro-biology Dictionary E - noun That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.
• Electro-bioscopy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• Electro-capillary Dictionary E - adjective Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
• Electro-chemical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry.
• Electro-chemistry Dictionary E - noun That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
• Electro-chronograph Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.
• Electrocute Dictionary E - verb transitive To execute or put to death by electricity. - E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. Recent; Newspaper words.
• Electrode Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Electro-dynamical.
• Electro-dynamical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• Electro-dynamics Dictionary E - noun The phenomena of electricity in motion.
• Electro-dynamometer Dictionary E - noun An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.
• Electro-engraving Dictionary E - noun The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
• Electro-etching Dictionary E - noun A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.
• Electrogenesis Dictionary E - noun Same as Electrogeny.
• Electrogenic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.
• Electrogeny Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• Electro-gilt Dictionary E - adjective Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
• Electrograph Dictionary E - noun A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.
• Electro-kinetic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics.
• Electro-kinetics Dictionary E - noun That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.
• Electrolier Dictionary E - noun A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.
• Electrology Dictionary E - noun That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• Electrolysis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
• Electrolytic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Electrolytical.
• Electrolytical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.
• Electrolyzable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
• Electrolyzation Dictionary E - noun The act or the process of electrolyzing.
• Electrolyzed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electrolyze.
• Electrolyzing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Electrolyze.
• Electrolyze Dictionary E - verb transitive To decompose by the direct action of electricity.
• Electro-magnet Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current.
• Electro-magnetism Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Electro-metrical.
• Electro-metrical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.
• Elextrometry Dictionary E - noun The art or process of making electrical measurements.
• Electro-motion Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
• Electromotor Dictionary E - noun A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
• Electro-muscular Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• Electron Dictionary E - noun Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
• Electro-negative Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Electropathy Dictionary E - noun The treatment of disease by electricity.
• Electrophone Dictionary E - noun An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.
• Electrophori Dictionary E - pleural of Electrophorus.
• Electrophorus Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
• Electro-physiology Dictionary E - noun That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.
• Electroplating Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electroplate.
• Electroplate Dictionary E - verb transitive To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.
• Electroplater Dictionary E - noun One who electroplates.
• Electro-polar Dictionary E - adjective Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; - said of a conductor.
• Electro-positive Dictionary E - adjective 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-puncturation Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Electro-puncturing.
• Electro-puncturing Dictionary E - noun See Electropuncture.
• Electro-puncture Dictionary E - noun An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
• Electroscope Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or made by means of, the electroscope.
• Electrostatic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to electrostatics.
• Electrostatics Dictionary E - noun That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
• Electro-stereotype Dictionary E - noun Same as Electrotype.
• Electro-telegraphic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
• Electro-telegraphy Dictionary E - noun The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
• Electro-therapeutics Dictionary E - noun The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
• Electro-thermancy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Electrotonize Dictionary E - verb transitive To cause or produce electrotonus.
• Electrotonous Dictionary E - adjective Electrotonic.
• Electrotonus Dictionary E - noun The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
• Electrotype Dictionary E - noun A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
• Electrotyped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Electrotype.
• Electrotyping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Electrotype.
• Electrotyper Dictionary E - noun One who electrotypes.
• Electrotypic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.
• Electrotypy Dictionary E - noun The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
• Electro-vital Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
• Electrum Dictionary E - noun Amber.
• Electuaries Dictionary E - pleural of Electuary.
• Electuary Dictionary E - noun A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.
• Eleemosynarily Dictionary E - adverb In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
• Eleemosynary Dictionary E - adjective Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
• Eleemosynaries Dictionary E - pleural of Eleemosynary.
• Elegance Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Elegancy.
• Elegancy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elegant Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Elegantly Dictionary E - adverb In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
• Elegiac Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
• Elegiacal Dictionary E - adjective Elegiac.
• Elegiast Dictionary E - noun One who composes elegies.
• Elegiographer Dictionary E - noun An elegist.
• Elegist Dictionary E - noun A write of elegies.
• Elegit Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
• Elegies Dictionary E - pleural of Elegy.
• Elegy Dictionary E - noun A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
• Eleidin Dictionary E - noun Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
• Element Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elemental Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.
• Elementalism Dictionary E - adjective The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• Elementality Dictionary E - noun The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• Elementally Dictionary E - adverb According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.
• Elementar Dictionary E - adjective Elementary.
• Elementariness Dictionary E - noun The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• Elementarity Dictionary E - noun Elementariness.
• Elementary Dictionary E - adjective Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
• Elementation Dictionary E - noun Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• Elementoid Dictionary E - adjective Resembling an element.
• Elemi Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.
• Elenchs Dictionary E - pleural of Elench.
• Elench Dictionary E - noun That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
• Elenchical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an elench.
• Elenchically Dictionary E - adverb By means of an elench.
• Elenchize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To dispute.
• Elenchtic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Elenchtical.
• Elenchtical Dictionary E - adjective Same as Elenctic.
• Elenchus Dictionary E - noun Same as Elench.
• Elenctic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Elenctical.
• Elenctical Dictionary E - adjective Serving to refute; refutative; - applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
• Elenge Dictionary E - adjective Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.
• Elengeness Dictionary E - noun Loneliness; misery.
• Elephansy Dictionary E - noun Elephantiasis.
• Elephant Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elephantiac Dictionary E - adjective Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
• Elephantiasis Dictionary E - noun A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
• Elephantine Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Elephantoidal.
• Elephantoidal Dictionary E - adjective Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
• Eleusinian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
• Eleutheromania Dictionary E - noun A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.
• Eleutheromaniac Dictionary E - adjective Mad for freedom.
• Eleuthero-petalous Dictionary E - adjective Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; - said of both plant and flower.
• Elevate Dictionary E - adjective Elevated; raised aloft.
• Elevated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elevate.
• Elevating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elevate.
• Elevatedness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being elevated.
• Elevation Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elevator Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
• Elevatory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
• Eleve Dictionary E - noun A pupil; a student.
• Eleven Dictionary E - adjective Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
• Eleventh Dictionary E - adjective Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.
• Elves Dictionary E - pleural of Elf.
• Elf Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elfin Dictionary E - adjective Relating to elves.
• Elfish Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.
• Elfishly Dictionary E - adverb In an elfish manner.
• Elfishness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being elfish.
• Elfkin Dictionary E - noun A little elf.
• Elfland Dictionary E - noun Fairyland.
• Elflock Dictionary E - noun Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
• Elgin marbles Dictionary E - Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
• Elicit Dictionary E - adjective Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
• Elicited Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elicit.
• Eliciting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elicit.
• Elicitate Dictionary E - verb transitive To elicit.
• Elicitation Dictionary E - noun The act of eliciting.
• Elided Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elide.
• Eliding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elide.
• Elide Dictionary E - verb transitive To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
• Eligibility Dictionary E - noun The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
• Eligible Dictionary E - adjective That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
• Eligibleness Dictionary E - noun The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
• Eligibly Dictionary E - adverb In an eligible manner.
• Elimate Dictionary E - verb transitive To render smooth; to polish.
• Eliminant Dictionary E - noun The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; - called also resultant.
• Eliminated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eliminate.
• Eliminating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eliminate.
• Eliminate Dictionary E - verb transitive To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
• Elimination Dictionary E - noun The act of expelling or throwing off.
• Eliminative Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• Elinguate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of the tongue.
• Elinguation Dictionary E - noun Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
• Elinguid Dictionary E - adjective Tongue-tied; dumb.
• Eliquament Dictionary E - noun A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
• Eliquation Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Division; separation.
• Elisor Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
• Elix Dictionary E - verb transitive To extract.
• Elixate Dictionary E - verb transitive To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
• Elixation Dictionary E - noun A seething; digestion.
• Elixir Dictionary E - noun A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
• Elizabethan Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
• Elk Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elke Dictionary E - noun The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
• Elknut Dictionary E - noun The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.
• Elkwood Dictionary E - noun The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
• Ell Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ellachick Dictionary E - noun A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; - used as food.
• Ellagic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
• Ellebore Dictionary E - noun Hellebore.
• Elleborin Dictionary E - noun See Helleborin.
• Elleck Dictionary E - noun The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.
• Ellenge Dictionary E - n Alt. of Ellingeness.
• Ellinge Dictionary E - n Alt. of Ellingeness.
• Ellengeness Dictionary E - n Alt. of Ellingeness.
• Ellingeness Dictionary E - n See Elenge, Elengeness.
• Elles Dictionary E - adverb & conjecture See Else.
• Ellipse Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ellipses Dictionary E - pleural of Ellipsis.
• Ellipsis Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ellipsograph Dictionary E - noun An instrument for describing ellipses; - called also trammel.
• Ellipsoid Dictionary E - noun A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).
• Ellipsoidal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
• Elliptic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Elliptical.
• Elliptical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
• Elliptically Dictionary E - adverb In the form of an ellipse.
• Ellipticity Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
• Elliptograph Dictionary E - noun Same as Ellipsograph.
• Ellwand Dictionary E - noun Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.
• Elm Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to elms.
• Elmo's fire Dictionary E - See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.
• Elmy Dictionary E - adjective Abounding with elms.
• Elocation Dictionary E - noun A removal from the usual place of residence.
• Elocular Dictionary E - adjective Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
• Elocution Dictionary E - noun Utterance by speech.
• Elocutionary Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to elocution.
• Elocutionist Dictionary E - noun One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
• Elocutive Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to oratorical expression.
• Elodian Dictionary E - noun One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.
• Eloge Dictionary E - noun A panegyrical funeral oration.
• Elogist Dictionary E - noun One who pronounces an eloge.
• Elogium Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Elogy.
• Elogy Dictionary E - noun The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.
• Elohim Dictionary E - noun One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.
• Elohist Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to Elohim as a name of God; - said of passages in the Old Testament.
• Eloigned Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eloign.
• Eloigning Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eloign.
• Eloign Dictionary E - verb transitive To remove afar off; to withdraw.
• Eloignate Dictionary E - verb transitive To remove.
• Eloignment Dictionary E - noun Removal to a distance; withdrawal.
• Eloin Dictionary E - verb transitive See Eloign.
• Eloinate Dictionary E - verb transitive See Eloignate.
• Eloinment Dictionary E - noun See Eloignment.
• Elong Dictionary E - verb transitive To lengthen out; to prolong.
• Elongated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elongate.
• Elongating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elongate.
• Elongate Dictionary E - adjective To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
• Elongation Dictionary E - noun The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
• Eloped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elope.
• Eloping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elope.
• Elope Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who elopes.
• Elops Dictionary E - noun A genus of fishes. See Saury.
• Eloquence Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eloquent Dictionary E - adjective Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.
• Eloquently Dictionary E - adverb In an eloquent manner.
• Elrich Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Elritch.
• Elritch Dictionary E - adjective Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.
• Else Dictionary E - adjective & pronoun Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?.
• Elsewhere Dictionary E - adverb In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.
• Elsewhither Dictionary E - adverb To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it.
• Elsewise Dictionary E - adverb Otherwise.
• Elsin Dictionary E - noun A shoemaker's awl.
• Elucidated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elucidate.
• Elucidating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elucidate.
• Elucidate Dictionary E - verb transitive To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
• Elucidation Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.
• Elucidator Dictionary E - noun One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
• Elucidatory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
• Eluctate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To struggle out; - with out.
• Eluctation Dictionary E - noun A struggling out of any difficulty.
• Elucubrate Dictionary E - intransitive verb See Lucubrate.
• Elucubration Dictionary E - noun See Lucubration.
• Eluded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elude.
• Eluding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elude.
• Elude Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being eluded; evadible.
• Elul Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Weak or lame in the loins.
• Elusion Dictionary E - noun Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
• Elusive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
• Elusory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.
• Elute Dictionary E - verb transitive To wash out.
• Elutriated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Elutriate.
• Elutriating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Elutriate.
• Elutriate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
• Eluxate Dictionary E - verb transitive To dislocate; to luxate.
• Eluxation Dictionary E - noun Dislocation; luxation.
• Elvan Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to elves; elvish.
• Elvanite Dictionary E - noun The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.
• Elve Dictionary E - noun An old form of Elf.
• Elver Dictionary E - noun A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; - called also elvene.
• Elvish Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.
• Elvishly Dictionary E - adverb In an elvish manner.
• Elwand Dictionary E - noun See Ellwand.
• Elysian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.
• Elysiums Dictionary E - pleural of Elysium.
• Elysia Dictionary E - pleural of Elysium.
• Elysium Dictionary E - noun A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.
• Elytriform Dictionary E - adjective Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.
• Elytrin Dictionary E - noun See Chitin.
• Elytroid Dictionary E - adjective Resembling a beetle's wing case.
• Elytra Dictionary E - pleural of Elytrum.
• Elytron Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Elytrum.
• Elytrum Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Elzevir Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.
• Em Dictionary E - noun 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- Dictionary E - A prefix. See En-.
• Emacerate Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
• Emaceration Dictionary E - noun Emaciation.
• Emaciated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emaciate.
• Emaciating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emaciate.
• Emaciate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
• Emaciation Dictionary E - noun The act of making very lean.
• Emaculate Dictionary E - verb transitive To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
• Emaculation Dictionary E - noun The act of clearing from spots.
• Aemail ombrant Dictionary E - An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
• Emanant Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emanate.
• Emanating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emanate.
• Emanate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
• Emanation Dictionary E - noun The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
• Emanative Dictionary E - adjective Issuing forth; effluent.
• Emanatively Dictionary E - adverb By an emanation.
• Emanatory Dictionary E - adjective Emanative; of the nature of an emanation.
• Emancipated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emancipate.
• Emancipating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emancipate.
• Emancipate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Emancipation Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
• Emancipator Dictionary E - noun One who emancipates.
• Emancipatory Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.
• Emancipist Dictionary E - noun A freed convict.
• Emarginate Dictionary E - verb transitive To take away the margin of.
• Emarginated Dictionary E - adjective Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
• Emarginately Dictionary E - adverb In an emarginate manner.
• Emargination Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emasculate.
• Emasculating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emasculate.
• Emasculate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
• Emasculation Dictionary E - noun The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
• Emasculator Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, emasculates.
• Emasculatory Dictionary E - adjective Serving or tending to emasculate.
• Embace Dictionary E - verb transitive See Embase.
• Embale Dictionary E - verb transitive To make up into a bale or pack.
• Emball Dictionary E - verb transitive To encircle or embrace.
• Embalmed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embalm.
• Embalming Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embalm.
• Embalm Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Embalmer Dictionary E - noun One who embalms.
• Embalmment Dictionary E - noun The act of embalming.
• Embanked Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embank.
• Embanking Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embank.
• Embank Dictionary E - verb transitive To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
• Embankment Dictionary E - noun The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
• Embarred Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embar.
• Embar Dictionary E - verb transitive To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
• Embarcation Dictionary E - noun Same as Embarkation.
• Embarge Dictionary E - verb transitive To put in a barge.
• Embargoes Dictionary E - pleural of Embargo.
• Embargo Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embargo.
• Embargoing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embargo.
• Embarked Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embark.
• Embarking Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embark.
• Embark Dictionary E - verb transitive To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
• Embarkation Dictionary E - noun The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
• Embarkment Dictionary E - noun Embarkation.
• Embarrassed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embarrass.
• Embarrassing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embarrass.
• Embarrass Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Embarrassment Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Embase Dictionary E - verb transitive To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
• Embasement Dictionary E - verb transitive Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
• Embassadorial Dictionary E - adjective Same as Ambassadorial.
• Embassadress Dictionary E - noun Same as Ambassadress.
• Embassadry Dictionary E - noun Embassy.
• Embassage Dictionary E - noun An embassy.
• Embassies Dictionary E - pleural of Embassy.
• Embassy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Embastardize Dictionary E - verb transitive To bastardize.
• Embathe Dictionary E - verb transitive To bathe; to imbathe.
• Embattail Dictionary E - verb transitive To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
• Embattled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embattle.
• Embattling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embattle.
• Embattle Dictionary E - verb transitive To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
• Embattlement Dictionary E - noun An intended parapet; a battlement.
• Embay Dictionary E - verb transitive To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
• Embayed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embay.
• Embaying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embay.
• Embayment Dictionary E - noun A bay.
• Embeam Dictionary E - verb transitive To make brilliant with beams.
• Embedded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embed.
• Embedding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embed.
• Embed Dictionary E - verb transitive To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
• Embedment Dictionary E - noun The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
• Embellished Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embellish.
• Embellishing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embellish.
• Embellish Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun One who embellishes.
• Embellishment Dictionary E - noun The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
• Ember Dictionary E - noun A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; - used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
• Ember-goose Dictionary E - noun The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.
• Emberings Dictionary E - noun plural Ember days.
• Embetter Dictionary E - verb transitive To make better.
• Embezzled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embezzle.
• Embezzling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embezzle.
• Embezzle Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Embezzlement Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who embezzles.
• Embillow Dictionary E - intransitive verb To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.
• Embiotocoid Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidae.
• Embitter Dictionary E - verb transitive To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
• Embitterment Dictionary E - noun The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
• Emblanch Dictionary E - verb transitive To whiten. See Blanch.
• Emblazed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emblaze.
• Emblazing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emblaze.
• Emblaze Dictionary E - verb transitive To adorn with glittering embellishments.
• Emblazoned Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emblazon.
• Emblazoning Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emblazon.
• Emblazon Dictionary E - verb transitive To depict or represent; - said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
• Emblazoner Dictionary E - noun One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
• Emblazonment Dictionary E - noun An emblazoning.
• Emblazonries Dictionary E - pleural of Emblazonry.
• Emblazonry Dictionary E - noun The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
• Emblem Dictionary E - noun Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
• Emblemed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emblem.
• Embleming Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emblem.
• Emblematic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Emblematical.
• Emblematical Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.
• Emblematist Dictionary E - noun A writer or inventor of emblems.
• Emblematized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emblematize.
• Emblematizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emblematize.
• Emblematize Dictionary E - verb transitive To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
• Emblement Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emblemize.
• Emblemizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emblemize.
• Emblemize Dictionary E - verb transitive To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• Embloom Dictionary E - verb transitive To emblossom.
• Emblossom Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover or adorn with blossoms.
• Embodier Dictionary E - noun One who embodies.
• Embodiment Dictionary E - noun The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
• Embodied Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embody.
• Embodying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embody.
• Embody Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Embogue Dictionary E - intransitive verb To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
• Emboguing Dictionary E - noun The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
• Emboil Dictionary E - intransitive verb To boil with anger; to effervesce.
• Emboitement Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embolden.
• Emboldening Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embolden.
• Embolden Dictionary E - verb transitive To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
• Emboldener Dictionary E - noun One who emboldens.
• Embolic Dictionary E - adjective Embolismic.
• Embolism Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Embolismal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
• Embolismatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Embolismatical.
• Embolismatical Dictionary E - adjective Embolismic.
• Embolismic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Embolismical.
• Embolismical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
• Embolite Dictionary E - noun A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
• Emboli Dictionary E - pleural of Embolus.
• Embolus Dictionary E - noun Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
• Emboly Dictionary E - noun Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.
• Embonpoint Dictionary E - noun Plumpness of person; - said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
• Emborder Dictionary E - verb transitive To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
• Embosom Dictionary E - verb transitive To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
• Embossed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emboss.
• Embossing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emboss.
• Emboss Dictionary E - verb transitive To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
• Embosser Dictionary E - noun One who embosses.
• Embossment Dictionary E - noun The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
• Embottle Dictionary E - verb transitive To bottle.
• Embouchure Dictionary E - noun The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
• Embow Dictionary E - verb transitive To bend like a bow; to curve.
• Emboweled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embowel.
• Embowelled Dictionary E - of Embowel.
• Emboweling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embowel.
• Embowelling Dictionary E - of Embowel.
• Embowel Dictionary E - verb transitive To disembowel.
• Emboweler Dictionary E - noun One who takes out the bowels.
• Embowelment Dictionary E - noun Disembowelment.
• Embower Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.
• Embowl Dictionary E - verb transitive To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
• Embox Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.
• Emboyssement Dictionary E - noun An ambush.
• Embrace Dictionary E - verb transitive To fasten on, as armor.
• Embraced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embrace.
• Embracing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embrace.
• Embracement Dictionary E - noun A clasp in the arms; embrace.
• Embraceor Dictionary E - noun One guilty of embracery.
• Embracer Dictionary E - noun One who embraces.
• Embracery Dictionary E - noun An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• Embracive Dictionary E - adjective Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
• Embraid Dictionary E - verb transitive To braid up, as hair.
• Embranchment Dictionary E - noun The branching forth, as of trees.
• Embrangle Dictionary E - verb transitive To confuse; to entangle.
• Embrasure Dictionary E - noun An embrace.
• Embrave Dictionary E - verb transitive To inspire with bravery.
• Embrawn Dictionary E - verb transitive To harden.
• Embread Dictionary E - verb transitive To braid.
• Embreathement Dictionary E - noun The act of breathing in; inspiration.
• Embrew Dictionary E - verb transitive To imbrue; to stain with blood.
• Embright Dictionary E - verb transitive To brighten.
• Embrocated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embrocate.
• Embrocating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embrocate.
• Embrocate Dictionary E - verb transitive To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
• Embrocation Dictionary E - noun The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
• Embroglio Dictionary E - noun See Imbroglio.
• Embroidered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embroider.
• Embroidering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embroider.
• Embroider Dictionary E - verb transitive To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
• Embroiderer Dictionary E - noun One who embroiders.
• Embroideries Dictionary E - pleural of Embroidery.
• Embroidery Dictionary E - noun Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
• Embroiled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Embroil.
• Embroiling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Embroil.
• Embroil Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Embroiler Dictionary E - noun One who embroils.
• Embroilment Dictionary E - noun The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.
• Embronze Dictionary E - verb transitive To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.
• Embrothel Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose in a brothel.
• Embroude Dictionary E - verb transitive Alt. of Embroyde.
• Embrowde Dictionary E - verb transitive Alt. of Embroyde.
• Embroyde Dictionary E - verb transitive To embroider; to adorn.
• Embrown Dictionary E - verb transitive To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
• Embrue Dictionary E - verb transitive See Imbrue, Embrew.
• Embrute Dictionary E - verb transitive To brutify; to imbrute.
• Embryos Dictionary E - pleural of Embryo.
• Embryo Dictionary E - noun The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant.
• Embryogenic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the development of an embryo.
• Embryogeny Dictionary E - noun The production and development of an embryo.
• Embryogony Dictionary E - noun The formation of an embryo.
• Embryography Dictionary E - noun The general description of embryos.
• Embryologic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Embryological.
• Embryological Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to embryology.
• Embryologist Dictionary E - noun One skilled in embryology.
• Embryology Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun & adjective See Embryo.
• Embryonal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
• Embryonary Dictionary E - adjective Embryonic.
• Embryonate Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Embryonated.
• Embryonated Dictionary E - adjective In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
• Embryonic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
• Embryoniferous Dictionary E - adjective Having an embryo.
• Embryoniform Dictionary E - adjective Like an embryo in form.
• Embryoplastic Dictionary E - noun Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• Embryo sac Dictionary E - See under Embryonic.
• Embryotic Dictionary E - adjective Embryonic.
• Embryotomy Dictionary E - noun The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• Embryotroph Dictionary E - noun The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• Embryous Dictionary E - adjective Embryonic; undeveloped.
• Embulk Dictionary E - verb transitive To enlarge in the way of bulk.
• Emburse Dictionary E - verb transitive To furnish with money; to imburse.
• Embush Dictionary E - verb transitive To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
• Embushment Dictionary E - noun An ambush.
• Embusy Dictionary E - verb transitive To employ.
• Eme Dictionary E - noun An uncle.
• Emeer Dictionary E - noun Same as Emir.
• Emenagogue Dictionary E - noun See Emmenagogue.
• Emended Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emend.
• Emending Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emend.
• Emend Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - adjective Corrigible; amendable.
• Emendately Dictionary E - adverb Without fault; correctly.
• Emendation Dictionary E - noun The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
• Emendator Dictionary E - noun One who emends or critically edits.
• Emendatory Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
• Emender Dictionary E - noun One who emends.
• Emendicate Dictionary E - verb transitive To beg.
• Emerald Dictionary E - noun A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
• Emeraldine Dictionary E - noun A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.
• Emeraud Dictionary E - noun An emerald.
• Emerged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emerge.
• Emerging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emerge.
• Emerge Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Emergence.
• Emergence Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Emergency.
• Emergency Dictionary E - noun Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.
• Emergent Dictionary E - adjective Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.
• Emeril Dictionary E - noun Emery.
• Emerited Dictionary E - adjective Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.
• Emeritus Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Emeritus.
• Emerods Dictionary E - noun plural Alt. of Emeroids.
• Emeroids Dictionary E - noun plural Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.
• Emersed Dictionary E - adjective Standing out of, or rising above, water.
• Emersion Dictionary E - noun The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.
• Emery Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A vomiting.
• Emetic Dictionary E - adjective Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
• Emetical Dictionary E - adjective Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.
• Emetine Dictionary E - noun A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
• Emeto-cathartic Dictionary E - adjective Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
• Emeu Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Emew.
• Emew Dictionary E - noun See Emu.
• Emeute Dictionary E - noun A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
• Emforth Dictionary E - preposition According to; conformably to.
• Emgalla Dictionary E - noun The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.
• Emicant Dictionary E - adjective Beaming forth; flashing.
• Emication Dictionary E - noun A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation.
• Emiction Dictionary E - noun The voiding of urine.
• Emictory Dictionary E - adjective & noun Diuretic.
• Emigrant Dictionary E - intransitive verb Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
• Emigrated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emigrate.
• Emigrating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emigrate.
• Emigrate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
• Emigration Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Emigrational Dictionary E - adjective Relating to emigration.
• Emigrationist Dictionary E - noun An advocate or promoter of emigration.
• Emigrator Dictionary E - noun One who emigrates; am emigrant.
• Emigre Dictionary E - noun One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.
• Eminence Dictionary E - noun That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.
• Eminences Dictionary E - pleural of Eminency.
• Eminency Dictionary E - noun State of being eminent; eminence.
• Eminent Dictionary E - adjective High; lofty; towering; prominent.
• Eminently Dictionary E - adverb In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.
• Emir Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Emeer.
• Emirship Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Emeership.
• Emeership Dictionary E - noun The rank or office of an Emir.
• Emissaries Dictionary E - pleural of Emissary.
• Emissary Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Emissaryship Dictionary E - noun The office of an emissary.
• Emission Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Emissitious Dictionary E - adjective Looking, or narrowly examining; prying.
• Emissive Dictionary E - adjective Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.
• Emissivity Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Same as Emissary, a., 2.
• Emitted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emit.
• Emitting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emit.
• Emit Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Emittent Dictionary E - adjective Sending forth; emissive.
• Emmantle Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.
• Emmanuel Dictionary E - noun See Immanuel.
• Emmarble Dictionary E - verb transitive To turn to marble; to harden.
• Emmenagogue Dictionary E - noun A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
• Emmet Dictionary E - noun An ant.
• Emmetropia Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia.
• Emmetropy Dictionary E - noun Same as Emmetropia.
• Emmew Dictionary E - verb transitive To mew or coop up.
• Emmove Dictionary E - verb transitive To move; to rouse; to excite.
• Emodin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
• Emolliated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emolliate.
• Emolliating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emolliate.
• Emolliate Dictionary E - adjective To soften; to render effeminate.
• Emollient Dictionary E - adjective Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
• Emollition Dictionary E - noun The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.
• Emolument Dictionary E - noun The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
• Emolumental Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an emolument; profitable.
• Emong Dictionary E - preposition Alt. of Emongst.
• Emongst Dictionary E - preposition Among.
• Emotion Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Affected with emotion.
• Emotional Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
• Emotionalism Dictionary E - noun The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• Emotionalize Dictionary E - verb transitive To give an emotional character to.
• Emotive Dictionary E - adjective Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.
• Emotiveness Dictionary E - noun Susceptibility to emotion.
• Emotivity Dictionary E - noun Emotiveness.
• Emove Dictionary E - verb transitive To move.
• Empair Dictionary E - verb transitive To impair.
• Empaistic Dictionary E - adjective Having to do with inlaid work; - especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.
• Empale Dictionary E - verb transitive To make pale.
• Empaled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Empale.
• Empaling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Empale.
• Empalement Dictionary E - noun A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.
• Empanel Dictionary E - noun A list of jurors; a panel.
• Empanoplied Dictionary E - adjective Completely armed; panoplied.
• Emparadise Dictionary E - verb transitive Same as Imparadise.
• Empark Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.
• Emparlance Dictionary E - noun Parley; imparlance.
• Empasm Dictionary E - noun A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.
• Empassion Dictionary E - verb transitive To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion.
• Empassionate Dictionary E - adjective Strongly affected.
• Empawn Dictionary E - verb transitive To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.
• Empeach Dictionary E - verb transitive To hinder. See Impeach.
• Empearl Dictionary E - verb transitive To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.
• Empeople Dictionary E - verb transitive To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.
• Emperess Dictionary E - noun See Empress.
• Emperice Dictionary E - noun An empress.
• Emperil Dictionary E - verb transitive To put in peril. See Imperil.
• Emperished Dictionary E - adjective Perished; decayed.
• Emperor Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The rank or office of an emperor.
• Empery Dictionary E - noun Empire; sovereignty; dominion.
• Emphases Dictionary E - pleural of Emphasis.
• Emphasis Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Emphasized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emphasize.
• Emphasizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emphasize.
• Emphasize Dictionary E - verb transitive To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
• Emphatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Emphatical.
• Emphatical Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Emphatically Dictionary E - adverb With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently.
• Emphaticalness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
• Emphractic Dictionary E - adjective Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.
• Emphrensy Dictionary E - verb transitive To madden.
• Emphysema Dictionary E - noun A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
• Emphysematous Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.
• Emphyteusis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands.
• Emphyteuticary Dictionary E - noun One who holds lands by emphyteusis.
• Empierce Dictionary E - verb transitive To pierce; to impierce.
• Empight Dictionary E - adjective Fixed; settled; fastened.
• Empire Dictionary E - noun Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
• Empiric Dictionary E - noun One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
• Empirical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
• Empirically Dictionary E - adverb By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
• Empiricism Dictionary E - noun The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
• Empiricist Dictionary E - noun An empiric.
• Empiristic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; - opposed to nativistic.
• Emplaster Dictionary E - noun See Plaster.
• Emplastic Dictionary E - adjective Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
• Emplastration Dictionary E - noun The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
• Emplead Dictionary E - verb transitive To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
• Emplection Dictionary E - noun See Emplecton.
• Emplecton Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive See Implore.
• Employed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Employ.
• Employing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Employ.
• Employ Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose; to infold.
• Employable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.
• Employe Dictionary E - noun One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• Employee Dictionary E - noun One employed by another.
• Employer Dictionary E - noun One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• Employment Dictionary E - noun The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
• Emplumed Dictionary E - adjective Plumed.
• Emplunge Dictionary E - verb transitive To plunge; to implunge.
• Empoison Dictionary E - verb transitive To poison; to impoison.
• Empoisoner Dictionary E - noun Poisoner.
• Empoisonment Dictionary E - noun The act of poisoning.
• Emporetic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Emporetical.
• Emporetical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise.
• Emporiums Dictionary E - pleural of Emporium.
• Emporia Dictionary E - pleural of Emporium.
• Emporium Dictionary E - noun A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.
• Empoverish Dictionary E - verb transitive See Impoverish.
• Empowered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Empower.
• Empowering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Empower.
• Empower Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Empress Dictionary E - noun The consort of an emperor.
• Emprint Dictionary E - verb transitive See Imprint.
• Emprise Dictionary E - noun An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
• Emprising Dictionary E - verb transitive Full of daring; adventurous.
• Emprison Dictionary E - verb transitive See Imprison.
• Emprosthotonos Dictionary E - noun A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles.
• Empte Dictionary E - verb transitive To empty.
• Emptier Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, empties.
• Emptiness Dictionary E - noun The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
• Emption Dictionary E - noun The act of buying.
• Emptional Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being purchased.
• Empty Dictionary E - superlative 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.
• Empties Dictionary E - pleural of Empty.
• Emptied Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Empty.
• Emptying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Empty.
• Empugn Dictionary E - verb transitive See Impugn.
• Empurpled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Empurple.
• Empurpling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Empurple.
• Empurple Dictionary E - verb transitive To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.
• Empuse Dictionary E - noun A phantom or specter.
• Empuzzle Dictionary E - verb transitive To puzzle.
• Empyema Dictionary E - noun A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.
• Empyesis Dictionary E - noun An eruption of pustules.
• Empyreal Dictionary E - adjective Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
• Empyrean Dictionary E - noun The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
• Empyreuma Dictionary E - noun The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
• Empyreumatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Empyreumatical.
• Empyreumatical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor.
• Empyreumatize Dictionary E - verb transitive To render empyreumatic.
• Empyrical Dictionary E - adjective Containing the combustible principle of coal.
• Empyrosis Dictionary E - noun A general fire; a conflagration.
• Emrods Dictionary E - noun plural See Emerods.
• Emu Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being emulated.
• Emulate Dictionary E - adjective Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
• Emulated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Emulate.
• Emulating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Emulate.
• Emulation Dictionary E - noun The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
• Emulative Dictionary E - adjective Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.
• Emulatively Dictionary E - adverb In an emulative manner; with emulation.
• Emulator Dictionary E - noun One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
• Emulatory Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.
• Emulatress Dictionary E - noun A female emulator.
• Emule Dictionary E - verb transitive To emulate.
• Emulge Dictionary E - verb transitive To milk out; to drain.
• Emulgent Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.
• Emulous Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Emulously Dictionary E - adverb In an emulous manner.
• Emulousness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being emulous.
• Emulsic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
• Emulsify Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
• Emulsion Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Softening; milklike.
• Emunctories Dictionary E - pleural of Emunctory.
• Emunctory Dictionary E - noun Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.
• Emuscation Dictionary E - noun A freeing from moss.
• Emu wren Dictionary E - A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.
• Emyds Dictionary E - pleural of Emyd.
• Emyd// Dictionary E - pleural of Emyd.
• Emyd Dictionary E - noun A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.
• Emydea Dictionary E - noun plural A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.
• En- Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.
• Enabled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enable.
• Enabling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enable.
• Enable Dictionary E - verb transitive To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
• Enablement Dictionary E - noun The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
• Enacted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enact.
• Enacting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enact.
• Enact Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enactive Dictionary E - adjective Having power to enact or establish as a law.
• Enactment Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enactor Dictionary E - noun One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
• Enacture Dictionary E - noun Enactment; resolution.
• Enaliosaur Dictionary E - noun One of the Enaliosauria.
• Enaliosauria Dictionary E - noun plural An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
• Enaliosaurian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
• Enallage Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To ambush.
• Enamel Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enameled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enamel.
• Enamelled Dictionary E - of Enamel.
• Enameling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enamel.
• Enamelling Dictionary E - of Enamel.
• Enamelar Dictionary E - adjective Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
• Enameler Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Enamelist.
• Enamelist Dictionary E - noun One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.
• Enamored Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enamor.
• Enamoring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enamor.
• Enamor Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The state of being enamored.
• Enantiomorphous Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Serving to palliate; palliative.
• Enantiopathy Dictionary E - noun An opposite passion or affection.
• Enantiosis Dictionary E - noun A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
• Enarch Dictionary E - verb transitive To arch.
• Enarched Dictionary E - adjective Bent into a curve; - said of a bend or other ordinary.
• Enargite Dictionary E - noun An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
• Enarmed Dictionary E - adjective Same as Armed, 3.
• Enarration Dictionary E - noun A detailed exposition; relation.
• Enarthrodia Dictionary E - noun See Enarthrosis.
• Enarthrosis Dictionary E - noun A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.
• Enascent Dictionary E - adjective Coming into being; nascent.
• Enatation Dictionary E - noun A swimming out.
• Enate Dictionary E - adjective Growing out.
• Enation Dictionary E - noun Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.
• Enaunter Dictionary E - adverb Lest that.
• Enavigate Dictionary E - verb transitive To sail away or over.
• Enbattled Dictionary E - adjective Embattled.
• Enbibe Dictionary E - verb transitive To imbibe.
• Enbroude Dictionary E - verb transitive See Embroude.
• Encaged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encage.
• Engaging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encage.
• Encage Dictionary E - verb transitive To confine in a cage; to coop up.
• Encalendar Dictionary E - verb transitive To register in a calendar; to calendar.
• Encamped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encamp.
• Encamping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encamp.
• Encamp Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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.
• Encampment Dictionary E - noun The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
• Encanker Dictionary E - verb transitive To canker.
• Encapsulation Dictionary E - noun The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
• Encarnalize Dictionary E - verb transitive To carnalize; to make gross.
• Encarpus Dictionary E - noun An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
• Encase Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose as in a case. See Incase.
• Encasement Dictionary E - noun The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
• Encash Dictionary E - verb transitive To turn into cash; to cash.
• Encashment Dictionary E - noun The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
• Encauma Dictionary E - noun An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.
• Encaustic Dictionary E - adjective Prepared by means of heat; burned in.
• Encave Dictionary E - verb transitive To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.
• -ence Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; - called also body of the place.
• Encenia Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.
• Encephalic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.
• Encephalitis Dictionary E - noun Inflammation of the brain.
• Encephalocele Dictionary E - noun Hernia of the brain.
• Encephaloid Dictionary E - adjective Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
• Encephalology Dictionary E - noun The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.
• Encephalon Dictionary E - noun The contents of the cranium; the brain.
• Encephalopathy Dictionary E - noun Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
• Encephalos Dictionary E - noun The encephalon.
• Encephalotomy Dictionary E - noun The act or art of dissecting the brain.
• Encephalous Dictionary E - adjective Having a head; - said of most Mollusca; - opposed to acephalous.
• Enchafe Dictionary E - verb transitive To chafe; to enrage; to heat.
• Enchafing Dictionary E - noun Heating; burning.
• Enchain Dictionary E - verb transitive To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
• Enchainment Dictionary E - noun The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
• Enchair Dictionary E - verb transitive To seat in a chair.
• Enchannel Dictionary E - verb transitive To make run in a channel.
• Enchanted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enchant.
• Enchanting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enchant.
• Enchant Dictionary E - verb transitive To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
• Enchanter Dictionary E - noun One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
• Enchantment Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enchantress Dictionary E - noun A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.
• Encharged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encharge.
• Encharging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encharge.
• Encharge Dictionary E - verb transitive To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.
• Enchased Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enchase.
• Enchasing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enchase.
• Enchase Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enchaser Dictionary E - noun One who enchases.
• Enchasten Dictionary E - verb transitive To chasten.
• Encheson Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Encheason.
• Encheason Dictionary E - noun Occasion, cause, or reason.
• Enchest Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose in a chest.
• Enchiridion Dictionary E - noun Handbook; a manual of devotions.
• Enchisel Dictionary E - verb transitive To cut with a chisel.
• Enchodus Dictionary E - noun A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; - so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).
• Enchondroma Dictionary E - noun A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.
• Enchorial Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enchoric.
• Enchoric Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.
• Encincture Dictionary E - noun A cincture.
• Encindered Dictionary E - adjective Burnt to cinders.
• Encircled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encircle.
• Encircling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encircle.
• Encircle Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun A small circle; a ring.
• Enclasp Dictionary E - verb transitive To clasp. See Inclasp.
• Enclave Dictionary E - noun A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
• Enclavement Dictionary E - noun The state of being an enclave.
• Enclitic Dictionary E - intransitive verb Alt. of Enclitical.
• Enclitical Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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.
• Enclitically Dictionary E - adverb In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.
• Enclitics Dictionary E - noun The art of declining and conjugating words.
• Encloister Dictionary E - verb transitive To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
• Enclose Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose. See Inclose.
• Enclosure Dictionary E - noun Inclosure. See Inclosure.
• Enclothe Dictionary E - verb transitive To clothe.
• Encloud Dictionary E - verb transitive To envelop in clouds; to cloud.
• Encoach Dictionary E - verb transitive To carry in a coach.
• Encoffin Dictionary E - verb transitive To put in a coffin.
• Encolden Dictionary E - verb transitive To render cold.
• Encollar Dictionary E - verb transitive To furnish or surround with a collar.
• Encolor Dictionary E - verb transitive To color.
• Encolure Dictionary E - noun The neck of horse.
• Encomber Dictionary E - verb transitive See Encumber.
• Encomberment Dictionary E - noun Hindrance; molestation.
• Encomiast Dictionary E - noun One who praises; a panegyrist.
• Encomiastic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encomiastical.
• Encomiastical Dictionary E - adjective Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse.
• Encomion Dictionary E - noun Encomium; panegyric.
• Encomiums Dictionary E - pleural of Encomium.
• Encomium Dictionary E - noun Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
• Encompassed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encompass.
• Encompassing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encompass.
• Encompass Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.
• Encore Dictionary E - adverb noun interjection Once more; again; - used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
• Encored Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encore.
• Encoring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encore.
• Encorporing Dictionary E - noun Incorporation.
• Encoubert Dictionary E - noun One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
• Encountered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encounter.
• Encountering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encounter.
• Encounter Dictionary E - adverb 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.
• Encounterer Dictionary E - noun One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.
• Encouraged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encourage.
• Encouraging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encourage.
• Encourage Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
• Encourager Dictionary E - noun One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
• Encowl Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.
• Encradle Dictionary E - verb transitive To lay in a cradle.
• Encratite Dictionary E - noun One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; - called also Continent.
• Encrease Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive Obs. See Increase.
• Encrimson Dictionary E - verb transitive To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.
• Encrinic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encrinital.
• Encrinal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encrinital.
• Encrinital Dictionary E - adjective Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.
• Encrinite Dictionary E - noun A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.
• Encrinitic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encrinitical.
• Encrinitical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.
• Encrinoidea Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Encrinus.
• Encrinus Dictionary E - noun A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.
• Encrisped Dictionary E - adjective Curled.
• Encroached Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encroach.
• Encroaching Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encroach.
• Encroach Dictionary E - intransitive verb 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.
• Encroacher Dictionary E - noun One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• Encroachingly Dictionary E - adverb By way of encroachment.
• Encroachment Dictionary E - noun The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
• Encrust Dictionary E - verb transitive To incrust. See Incrust.
• Encrustment Dictionary E - noun That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.
• Encumbered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Encumber.
• Encumbering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Encumber.
• Encumber Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Encumberment Dictionary E - noun Encumbrance.
• Encumbrance Dictionary E - noun That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
• Encumbrancer Dictionary E - noun Same as Incumbrancer.
• Encurtain Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose with curtains.
• -ency Dictionary E - A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.
• Encyclic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encyclical.
• Encyclical Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Encyclopedia Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Encyclopaedia.
• Encyclopaedia Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Encyclopedic.
• Encyclopedian Dictionary E - adjective Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
• Encyclopedic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Encyclopedical.
• Encyclopedical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.
• Encyclopedism Dictionary E - noun The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
• Encyclopedist Dictionary E - noun The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.
• Encyst Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose in a cyst.
• Encystation Dictionary E - noun Encystment.
• Encysted Dictionary E - adjective Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.
• Encystment Dictionary E - noun A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
• End Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ended Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of End.
• Ending Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of End.
• Endable Dictionary E - adjective That may be ended; terminable.
• End-all Dictionary E - noun Complete termination.
• Endamaged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endamage.
• Endamaging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endamage.
• Endamage Dictionary E - verb transitive To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.
• Endamageable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.
• Endamagement Dictionary E - noun Damage; injury; harm.
• Endamnify Dictionary E - verb transitive To damnify; to injure.
• Endangered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endanger.
• Endangering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endanger.
• Endanger Dictionary E - verb transitive To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.
• Endangerment Dictionary E - noun Hazard; peril.
• Endark Dictionary E - verb transitive To darken.
• Endaspidean Dictionary E - adjective Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; - said of certain birds.
• Endazzle Dictionary E - verb transitive To dazzle.
• Endeared Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endear.
• Endearing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endear.
• Endear Dictionary E - verb transitive To make dear or beloved.
• Endearedly Dictionary E - adverb With affection or endearment; dearly.
• Endearedness Dictionary E - noun State of being endeared.
• Endearment Dictionary E - noun The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.
• Endeavored Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endeavor.
• Endeavoring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endeavor.
• Endeavor Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Endeavorer Dictionary E - noun One who makes an effort or attempt.
• Endeavorment Dictionary E - noun Act of endeavoring; endeavor.
• Endecagon Dictionary E - noun A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.
• Endecagynous Dictionary E - adjective Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.
• Endecane Dictionary E - noun One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.
• Endecaphyllous Dictionary E - adjective Composed of eleven leaflets; - said of a leaf.
• Endeictic Dictionary E - adjective Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.
• Endeixis Dictionary E - noun An indication.
• Endemial Dictionary E - adjective Endemic.
• Endemic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Endemical.
• Endemical Dictionary E - adjective Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
• Endemically Dictionary E - adverb In an endemic manner.
• Endemiology Dictionary E - noun The science which treats of endemic affections.
• Endenization Dictionary E - noun The act of naturalizing.
• Endenize Dictionary E - verb transitive To endenizen.
• Endenizen Dictionary E - verb transitive To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
• Ender Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
• Endermatic Dictionary E - adjective Endermic.
• Endermic Dictionary E - adjective Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.
• Endermically Dictionary E - adverb By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.
• Enderon Dictionary E - noun The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
• Endiademed Dictionary E - adjective Diademed.
• Endiaper Dictionary E - verb transitive To decorate with a diaper pattern.
• Endict Dictionary E - verb transitive See Indict.
• Endictment Dictionary E - noun See Indictment.
• Endite Dictionary E - verb transitive See Indite.
• Endive Dictionary E - noun A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.
• Endless Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Endlessly Dictionary E - adverb In an endless manner.
• Endlessness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being endless; perpetuity.
• Endlong Dictionary E - adverb & preposition Lengthwise; along.
• Endmost Dictionary E - adjective Farthest; remotest; at the very end.
• Endo- Dictionary E - Alt. of End-.
• End- Dictionary E - A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.
• Endoblast Dictionary E - noun Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,.
• Endoblastic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.
• Endocardiac Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Endocardial.
• Endocardial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the endocardium.
• Endocarditis Dictionary E - noun Inflammation of the endocardium.
• Endocardium Dictionary E - noun The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
• Endocarp Dictionary E - noun The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.
• Endochondral Dictionary E - adjective Growing or developing within cartilage; - applied esp. to developing bone.
• Endochrome Dictionary E - noun The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• Endoctrine Dictionary E - verb transitive To teach; to indoctrinate.
• Endocyst Dictionary E - noun The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.
• Endoderm Dictionary E - noun The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
• Endodermal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Endodermic.
• Endodermic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the endoderm.
• Endodermis Dictionary E - noun A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• Endogamous Dictionary E - adjective Marrying within the same tribe; - opposed to exogamous.
• Endogamy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Endogeny.
• Endogenetic Dictionary E - adjective Endogenous.
• Endogenous Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Endogenously Dictionary E - adverb By endogenous growth.
• Endogeny Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.
• Endognathal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the endognath.
• Endolymph Dictionary E - noun The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
• Endolymphangial Dictionary E - adjective Within a lymphatic vessel.
• Endolymphatic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.
• Endome Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover as with a dome.
• Endometritis Dictionary E - noun Inflammation of the endometrium.
• Endometrium Dictionary E - noun The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.
• Endomorph Dictionary E - noun A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.
• Endomysium Dictionary E - noun The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.
• Endoneurium Dictionary E - noun The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.
• Endoparasite Dictionary E - noun Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; - opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon.
• Endophloeum Dictionary E - noun The inner layer of the bark of trees.
• Endophragma Dictionary E - noun A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.
• Endophragmal Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the endophragma.
• Endophyllous Dictionary E - adjective Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.
• Endoplasm Dictionary E - noun The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• Endoplasma Dictionary E - noun Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc.
• Endoplast Dictionary E - noun See Nucleus.
• Endoplastica Dictionary E - noun plural A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba.
• Endoplastule Dictionary E - noun See Nucleolus.
• Endopleura Dictionary E - noun The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• Endopleurite Dictionary E - noun The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.
• Endopodite Dictionary E - noun The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.
• Endorhizae Dictionary E - pleural of Endorhiza.
• Endorhiza Dictionary E - noun Any monocotyledonous plant; - so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.
• Endorhizal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Endorhizous.
• Endorhizous Dictionary E - adjective Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.
• Endorsed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endorse.
• Endorsing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endorse.
• Endorse Dictionary E - verb transitive Same as Indorse.
• Endorsee Dictionary E - noun Same as Indorsee.
• Endorsement Dictionary E - noun Same as Indorsement.
• Endorser Dictionary E - noun Same as Indorser.
• Endosarc Dictionary E - noun The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
• Endoscope Dictionary E - noun An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• Endoscopy Dictionary E - noun The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.
• Endoskeletal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.
• Endoskeleton Dictionary E - noun The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
• Endosmometer Dictionary E - noun An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.
• Endosmometric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.
• Endosmose Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Endosmosis.
• Endosmosis Dictionary E - noun The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.
• Endosmosmic Dictionary E - adjective Endosmotic.
• Endosmotic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
• Endosperm Dictionary E - noun The albumen of a seed; - limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
• Endospermic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.
• Endospore Dictionary E - noun The thin inner coat of certain spores.
• Endosporous Dictionary E - adjective Having the spores contained in a case; - applied to fungi.
• Endoss Dictionary E - verb transitive To put upon the back or outside of anything; - the older spelling of endorse.
• Endosteal Dictionary E - adjective Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.
• Endosternite Dictionary E - noun The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
• Endosteum Dictionary E - noun The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
• Endostoma Dictionary E - noun A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.
• Endostome Dictionary E - noun The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
• Endostosis Dictionary E - noun A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.
• Endostyle Dictionary E - noun A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• Endotheca Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The inner lining of an anther cell.
• Endothelial Dictionary E - adjective Of, or relating to, endothelium.
• Endothelia Dictionary E - pleural of Endothelium.
• Endothelium Dictionary E - noun The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.
• Endotheloid Dictionary E - adjective Like endothelium.
• Endothorax Dictionary E - noun An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.
• Endowed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endow.
• Endowing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endow.
• Endow Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Endower Dictionary E - verb transitive To endow.
• Endowment Dictionary E - noun The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
• Endozoa Dictionary E - noun plural See Entozoa.
• Endrudge Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a drudge or slave of.
• Endued Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endue.
• Enduing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endue.
• Endue Dictionary E - verb transitive To invest.
• Enduement Dictionary E - noun Act of enduing; induement.
• Endurable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.
• Endurably Dictionary E - adverb In an endurable manner.
• Endurance Dictionary E - noun A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
• Endurant Dictionary E - adjective Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
• Endured Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Endure.
• Enduring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Endure.
• Endure Dictionary E - intransitive verb To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
• Endurement Dictionary E - noun Endurance.
• Endurer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.
• Endways Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Endwise.
• Endwise Dictionary E - adverb On end; erectly; in an upright position.
• Endyma Dictionary E - noun See Ependyma.
• Endyses Dictionary E - pleural of Endysis.
• Endysis Dictionary E - noun The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; - opposed to ecdysis.
• Enecate Dictionary E - verb transitive To kill off; to destroy.
• Eneid Dictionary E - noun Same as Aeneid.
• Enemata Dictionary E - pleural of Enema.
• Enema Dictionary E - noun An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
• Enemies Dictionary E - pleural of Enemy.
• Enemy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enepidermic Dictionary E - adjective Applied to the skin without friction; - said of medicines.
• Energetic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Energetical.
• Energetical Dictionary E - adjective Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.
• Energetics Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Energical.
• Energical Dictionary E - adjective In a state of action; acting; operating.
• Energized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Energize.
• Energizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Energize.
• Energize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
• Energizer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.
• Energumen Dictionary E - noun One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.
• Energies Dictionary E - pleural of Energy.
• Energy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enervated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enervate.
• Enervating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enervate.
• Enervate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
• Enervation Dictionary E - noun The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
• Enervative Dictionary E - adjective Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.
• Enerve Dictionary E - verb transitive To weaken; to enervate.
• Enervous Dictionary E - adjective Lacking nerve or force; enervated.
• Enfamish Dictionary E - verb transitive To famish; to starve.
• Enfect Dictionary E - adjective Contaminated with illegality.
• Enfeebled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enfeeble.
• Enfeebling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enfeeble.
• Enfeeble Dictionary E - verb transitive To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
• Enfeeblement Dictionary E - noun The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• Enfeebler Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• Enfeeblish Dictionary E - intransitive verb To enfeeble.
• Enfeloned Dictionary E - adjective Rendered fierce or frantic.
• Enfeoffed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enfeoff.
• Enfeoffing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enfeoff.
• Enfeoff Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enfeoffment Dictionary E - noun The act of enfeoffing.
• Enfester Dictionary E - verb transitive To fester.
• Enfetter Dictionary E - verb transitive To bind in fetters; to enchain.
• Enfever Dictionary E - verb transitive To excite fever in.
• Enfierced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enfierce.
• Enfiercing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enfierce.
• Enfierce Dictionary E - verb transitive To make fierce.
• Enfilade Dictionary E - noun A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
• Enfiladed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enfilade.
• Enfilading Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enfilade.
• Enfiled Dictionary E - particle adjective 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To set on fire.
• Enflesh Dictionary E - verb transitive To clothe with flesh.
• Enflowered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enflower.
• Enflowering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enflower.
• Enflower Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover or deck with flowers.
• Enfold Dictionary E - verb transitive To infold. See Infold.
• Enfoldment Dictionary E - noun The act of infolding. See Infoldment.
• Enforced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enforce.
• Enforcing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enforce.
• Enforce Dictionary E - verb transitive To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
• Enforceable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being enforced.
• Enforcement Dictionary E - noun The act of enforcing; compulsion.
• Enforcer Dictionary E - noun One who enforces.
• Enforcible Dictionary E - adjective That may be enforced.
• Enforcive Dictionary E - adjective Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
• Enforest Dictionary E - verb transitive To turn into a forest.
• Enform Dictionary E - verb transitive To form; to fashion.
• Enfouldred Dictionary E - adjective Mixed with, or emitting, lightning.
• Enframe Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose, as in a frame.
• Enfranchised Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enfranchise.
• Enfranchising Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enfranchise.
• Enfranchise Dictionary E - verb transitive To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
• Enfranchisement Dictionary E - noun Releasing from slavery or custody.
• Enfranchiser Dictionary E - noun One who enfranchises.
• Enfree Dictionary E - verb transitive To set free.
• Enfreedom Dictionary E - verb transitive To set free.
• Enfreeze Dictionary E - verb transitive To freeze; to congeal.
• Enfroward Dictionary E - verb transitive To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable.
• Engaged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engage.
• Engage Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Engagedly Dictionary E - adverb With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• Engagedness Dictionary E - noun The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• Engagement Dictionary E - noun The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
• Engager Dictionary E - noun One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
• Engallant Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a gallant of.
• Engaol Dictionary E - verb transitive To put in jail; to imprison.
• Engarboil Dictionary E - verb transitive To throw into disorder; to disturb.
• Engarland Dictionary E - verb transitive To encircle with a garland, or with garlands.
• Engarrison Dictionary E - verb transitive To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
• Engastrimuth Dictionary E - noun An ventriloquist.
• Engendered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engender.
• Engendering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engender.
• Engender Dictionary E - verb transitive To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
• Engendrure Dictionary E - noun The act of generation.
• Engild Dictionary E - verb transitive To gild; to make splendent.
• Engine Dictionary E - noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
• Engineer Dictionary E - noun A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
• Engineered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engineer.
• Engineering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engineer.
• Enginemen Dictionary E - pleural of Engineman.
• Engineman Dictionary E - noun A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
• Enginer Dictionary E - noun A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
• Enginery Dictionary E - noun The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
• Engine-sized Dictionary E - adjective Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; - said of paper.
• Enginous Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an engine.
• Engirded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engird.
• Engirt Dictionary E - of Engird.
• Engirding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engird.
• Engird Dictionary E - verb transitive To gird; to encompass.
• Engirdle Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• Engiscope Dictionary E - noun A kind of reflecting microscope.
• Englaimed Dictionary E - adjective Clammy.
• Engle Dictionary E - noun A favorite; a paramour; an ingle.
• English Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
• Englished Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of English.
• Englishing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of English.
• Englishable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• Englishism Dictionary E - noun A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.
• Englishmen Dictionary E - pleural of Englishman.
• Englishman Dictionary E - noun A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• Englishry Dictionary E - noun The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
• Englishwomen Dictionary E - pleural of Englishwoman.
• Englishwoman Dictionary E - noun Fem. of Englishman.
• Engloom Dictionary E - verb transitive To make gloomy.
• Englue Dictionary E - verb transitive To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.
• Englutted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Englut.
• Englutting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Englut.
• Englut Dictionary E - verb transitive To swallow or gulp down.
• Engore Dictionary E - verb transitive To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
• Engorged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engorge.
• Engorging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engorge.
• Engorge Dictionary E - verb transitive To gorge; to glut.
• Engorgement Dictionary E - noun The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
• Engouled Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Same as Engouled.
• Engraff Dictionary E - verb transitive To graft; to fix deeply.
• Engraffment Dictionary E - noun See Ingraftment.
• Engraft Dictionary E - verb transitive See Ingraft.
• Engraftation Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Engraftment.
• Engraftment Dictionary E - noun The act of ingrafting; ingraftment.
• Engrailed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engrail.
• Engrailing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engrail.
• Engrail Dictionary E - verb transitive To variegate or spot, as with hail.
• Engrailment Dictionary E - noun The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.
• Engrained Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engrain.
• Engraining Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engrain.
• Engrain Dictionary E - verb transitive To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.
• Engrapple Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To grapple.
• Engrasped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engrasp.
• Engrasping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engrasp.
• Engrasp Dictionary E - verb transitive To grasp; to grip.
• Engrave Dictionary E - verb transitive To deposit in the grave; to bury.
• Engraved Dictionary E - imperative of Engrave.
• Engraven Dictionary E - of Engrave.
• Engraving Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engrave.
• Engravement Dictionary E - noun Engraving.
• Engraver Dictionary E - noun One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
• Engravery Dictionary E - noun The trade or work of an engraver.
• Engregge Dictionary E - verb transitive To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.
• Engrieve Dictionary E - verb transitive To grieve.
• Engrossed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engross.
• Engrossing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engross.
• Engross Dictionary E - verb transitive To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
• Engrosser Dictionary E - noun One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.
• Engrossment Dictionary E - noun The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.
• Enguard Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround as with a guard.
• Engulfed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Engulf.
• Engulfing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Engulf.
• Engulf Dictionary E - verb transitive To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
• Engulfment Dictionary E - noun A swallowing up as if in a gulf.
• Engyn Dictionary E - Variant of Engine.
• Enhalo Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround with a halo.
• Enhanced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enhance.
• Enhancing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enhance.
• Enhance Dictionary E - verb transitive To raise or lift up; to exalt.
• Enhancement Dictionary E - noun The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• Enhancer Dictionary E - noun One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
• Enharbor Dictionary E - verb transitive To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.
• Enharden Dictionary E - verb transitive To harden; to embolden.
• Enharmonic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enharmonical.
• Enharmonical Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Enharmonically Dictionary E - adverb In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.
• Enhearten Dictionary E - verb transitive To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.
• Enhedge Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround as with a hedge.
• Enhort Dictionary E - verb transitive To encourage.
• Enhunger Dictionary E - verb transitive To make hungry.
• Enhydros Dictionary E - noun A variety of chalcedony containing water.
• Enhydrous Dictionary E - adjective Having water within; containing fluid drops; - said of certain crystals.
• Enigmas Dictionary E - pleural of Enigma.
• Enigma Dictionary E - noun A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.
• Enigmatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enigmatical.
• Enigmatical Dictionary E - adjective Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• Enigmatically Dictionary E - adverb Darkly; obscurely.
• Enigmatist Dictionary E - noun One who makes, or talks in, enigmas.
• Enigmatized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enigmatize.
• Enigmatizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enigmatize.
• Enigmatize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.
• Enigmatography Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Enigmatology.
• Enigmatology Dictionary E - noun The art of making or of solving enigmas.
• Enisled Dictionary E - particle adjective Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.
• Enjailed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enjall.
• Enjailing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enjall.
• Enjall Dictionary E - verb transitive To put into jail; to imprison.
• Enjoined Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enjoin.
• Enjoining Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enjoin.
• Enjoin Dictionary E - verb transitive To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
• Enjoiner Dictionary E - noun One who enjoins.
• Enjoinment Dictionary E - noun Direction; command; authoritative admonition.
• Enjoyed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enjoy.
• Enjoying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enjoy.
• Enjoy Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enjoyable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.
• Enjoyer Dictionary E - noun One who enjoys.
• Enjoyment Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enkennel Dictionary E - verb transitive To put into a kennel.
• Enkerchiefed Dictionary E - adjective Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered.
• Enkindled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enkindle.
• Enkindling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enkindle.
• Enkindle Dictionary E - verb transitive To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
• Enlace Dictionary E - verb transitive To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.
• Enlacement Dictionary E - noun The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.
• Enlard Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.
• Enlarged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enlarge.
• Enlarging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enlarge.
• Enlarge Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enlargement Dictionary E - noun The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
• Enlarger Dictionary E - noun One that enlarges.
• Enlay Dictionary E - verb transitive See Inlay.
• Enlengthen Dictionary E - verb transitive To lengthen.
• Enleven Dictionary E - noun Eleven.
• Enlight Dictionary E - verb transitive To illumine; to enlighten.
• Enlighten Dictionary E - verb transitive To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
• Enlightener Dictionary E - noun One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
• Enlightenment Dictionary E - noun Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
• Enlimn Dictionary E - verb transitive To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.
• Enlink Dictionary E - verb transitive To chain together; to connect, as by links.
• Enlisted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enlist.
• Enlisting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enlist.
• Enlist Dictionary E - verb transitive To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
• Enlistment Dictionary E - noun The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
• Enlive Dictionary E - verb transitive To enliven.
• Enlivened Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enliven.
• Enlivening Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enliven.
• Enliven Dictionary E - verb transitive To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
• Enlivener Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
• Enlock Dictionary E - verb transitive To lock; to inclose.
• Enlumine Dictionary E - verb transitive To illumine.
• Enlute Dictionary E - verb transitive To coat with clay; to lute.
• Enmanche Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To make hard as marble; to harden.
• Enmesh Dictionary E - verb transitive To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
• Enmew Dictionary E - verb transitive See Emmew.
• Enmist Dictionary E - verb transitive To infold, as in a mist.
• Enmities Dictionary E - pleural of Enmity.
• Enmity Dictionary E - noun The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
• Enmossed Dictionary E - adjective Covered with moss; mossed.
• Enmove Dictionary E - verb transitive See Emmove.
• Enmuffle Dictionary E - verb transitive To muffle up.
• Enmure Dictionary E - verb transitive To immure.
• Ennation Dictionary E - noun The ninth segment in insects.
• Ennead Dictionary E - noun The number nine or a group of nine.
• Enneagon Dictionary E - noun A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
• Enneagonal Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.
• Enneagynous Dictionary E - adjective Having or producing nine pistils or styles; - said of a flower or plant.
• Enheahedral Dictionary E - adjective Having nine sides.
• Enheahedria Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Enheahedron.
• Enheahedron Dictionary E - noun A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.
• Enneandria Dictionary E - noun A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens.
• Enneandrian Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enneandrous.
• Enneandrous Dictionary E - adjective Having nine stamens.
• Enneapetalous Dictionary E - adjective Having nine petals, or flower leaves.
• Enneaspermous Dictionary E - adjective Having nine seeds; - said of fruits.
• Enneatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enneatical.
• Enneatical Dictionary E - adjective Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
• Ennew Dictionary E - verb transitive To make new.
• Enniche Dictionary E - verb transitive To place in a niche.
• Ennobled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ennoble.
• Ennobling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ennoble.
• Ennoble Dictionary E - verb transitive To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
• Ennoblement Dictionary E - noun The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
• Ennobler Dictionary E - noun One who ennobles.
• Ennui Dictionary E - noun A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
• Ennuye Dictionary E - adjective Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.
• Ennuyee Dictionary E - noun A woman affected with ennui.
• Enodal Dictionary E - adjective Without a node.
• Enodation Dictionary E - noun The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.
• Enode Dictionary E - verb transitive To clear of knots; to make clear.
• Enoint Dictionary E - adjective Anointed.
• Enomotarch Dictionary E - noun The commander of an enomoty.
• Enomoty Dictionary E - noun A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
• Enopla Dictionary E - noun plural One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.
• Enoptomancy Dictionary E - noun Divination by the use of a mirror.
• Enorm Dictionary E - adjective Enormous.
• Enormities Dictionary E - pleural of Enormity.
• Enormity Dictionary E - noun The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
• Enormous Dictionary E - adjective Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
• Enormously Dictionary E - adverb In an enormous degree.
• Enormousness Dictionary E - noun The state of being enormous.
• Enorthotrope Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; - usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
• Enounced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enounce.
• Enouncing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enounce.
• Enounce Dictionary E - verb transitive To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
• Enouncement Dictionary E - noun Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.
• Enow Dictionary E - A form of Enough.
• Enpatron Dictionary E - verb transitive To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.
• Enpierce Dictionary E - verb transitive To pierce.
• Enquere Dictionary E - intransitive verb To inquire.
• Enquicken Dictionary E - verb transitive To quicken; to make alive.
• Enquire Dictionary E - verb intransitive & transitive See Inquire.
• Enquirer Dictionary E - noun See Inquirer.
• Enquiry Dictionary E - noun See Inquiry.
• Enrace Dictionary E - verb transitive To enroot; to implant.
• Enraged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enrage.
• Enraging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enrage.
• Enrage Dictionary E - verb transitive To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
• Enragement Dictionary E - noun Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.
• Enrange Dictionary E - verb transitive To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.
• Enrank Dictionary E - verb transitive To place in ranks or in order.
• Enrapt Dictionary E - particle adjective Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
• Enraptured Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enrapture.
• Enrapturing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enrapture.
• Enrapture Dictionary E - verb transitive To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
• Enravish Dictionary E - verb transitive To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.
• Enravishingly Dictionary E - adverb So as to throw into ecstasy.
• Enravishment Dictionary E - noun The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.
• Enregister Dictionary E - verb transitive To register; to enroll or record; to inregister.
• Enrheum Dictionary E - intransitive verb To contract a rheum.
• Enriched Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enrich.
• Enriching Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enrich.
• Enrich Dictionary E - verb transitive To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
• Enricher Dictionary E - noun One who enriches.
• Enrichment Dictionary E - noun The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
• Enridge Dictionary E - verb transitive To form into ridges.
• Enring Dictionary E - verb transitive To encircle.
• Enripen Dictionary E - verb transitive To ripen.
• Enrive Dictionary E - verb transitive To rive; to cleave.
• Enrobe Dictionary E - verb transitive To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.
• Enrockment Dictionary E - noun A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.
• Enrolled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enroll.
• Enrolling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enroll.
• Enroll Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enroller Dictionary E - noun One who enrolls or registers.
• Enrollment Dictionary E - noun The act of enrolling; registration.
• Enroot Dictionary E - verb transitive To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.
• Enround Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround.
• En route Dictionary E - On the way or road.
• Ens Dictionary E - noun Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.
• Ensafe Dictionary E - verb transitive To make safe.
• Ensample Dictionary E - noun An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
• Ensanguine Dictionary E - verb transitive To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue.
• Ensate Dictionary E - adjective Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.
• Enscale Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover with scales.
• Enshedule Dictionary E - verb transitive To insert in a schedule. See Schedule.
• Ensconced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ensconce.
• Ensconcing Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ensconce.
• Ensconce Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.
• Enseal Dictionary E - verb transitive To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.
• Enseam Dictionary E - verb transitive To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.
• Ensear Dictionary E - verb transitive To sear; to dry up.
• Ensearch Dictionary E - intransitive verb To make search; to try to find something.
• Enseel Dictionary E - verb transitive To close eyes of; to seel; - said in reference to a hawk.
• Enseint Dictionary E - adjective With child; pregnant. See Enceinte.
• Ensemble Dictionary E - noun The whole; all the parts taken together.
• Enshelter Dictionary E - verb transitive To shelter.
• Enshield Dictionary E - verb transitive To defend, as with a shield; to shield.
• Enshrined Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enshrine.
• Enshrining Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enshrine.
• Enshrine Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.
• Enshroud Dictionary E - verb transitive To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.
• Ensiferous Dictionary E - adjective Bearing a sword.
• Ensiform Dictionary E - adjective Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.
• Ensign Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ensigncies Dictionary E - pleural of Ensigncy.
• Ensigncy Dictionary E - noun The rank or office of an ensign.
• Ensignship Dictionary E - noun The state or rank of an ensign.
• Ensilage Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ensilaged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ensilage.
• Ensilaging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ensilage.
• Ensky Dictionary E - verb transitive To place in the sky or in heaven.
• Enslaved Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enslave.
• Enslaving Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enslave.
• Enslave Dictionary E - verb transitive To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
• Enslavedness Dictionary E - noun State of being enslaved.
• Enslavement Dictionary E - noun The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.
• Enslaver Dictionary E - noun One who enslaves.
• Ensnare Dictionary E - verb transitive To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
• Ensnarl Dictionary E - verb transitive To entangle.
• Ensober Dictionary E - verb transitive To make sober.
• Ensoul Dictionary E - verb transitive To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.
• Ensphere Dictionary E - verb transitive To place in a sphere; to envelop.
• Enstamp Dictionary E - verb transitive To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.
• Enstate Dictionary E - verb transitive See Instate.
• Enstatite Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to enstatite.
• Enstore Dictionary E - verb transitive To restore.
• Enstyle Dictionary E - verb transitive To style; to name.
• Ensuable Dictionary E - adjective Ensuing; following.
• Ensued Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Ensue.
• Ensuing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Ensue.
• Ensue Dictionary E - verb transitive To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
• Ensure Dictionary E - verb transitive To make sure. See Insure.
• Ensurer Dictionary E - noun See Insurer.
• Enswathe Dictionary E - verb transitive To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.
• Enswathement Dictionary E - noun The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
• Ensweep Dictionary E - verb transitive To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.
• Ent- Dictionary E - A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.
• -ent Dictionary E - An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.
• Entablature Dictionary E - noun The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.
• Entablement Dictionary E - noun See Entablature.
• Entackle Dictionary E - verb transitive To supply with tackle.
• Entad Dictionary E - adverb Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; - opposed to ectad.
• Entail Dictionary E - noun That which is entailed.
• Entailed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entail.
• Entailing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entail.
• Entailment Dictionary E - noun The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
• Ental Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; - opposed to ectal.
• Entame Dictionary E - verb transitive To tame.
• Entangled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entangle.
• Entangling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entangle.
• Entangle Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Entanglement Dictionary E - noun State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• Entangler Dictionary E - noun One that entangles.
• Entasia Dictionary E - noun Tonic spasm; - applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
• Entasis Dictionary E - noun A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
• Entassment Dictionary E - noun A heap; accumulation.
• Entastic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
• Entelechy Dictionary E - noun An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.
• Entellus Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - intransitive verb To attend to; to apply one's self to.
• Entender Dictionary E - verb transitive To make tender.
• Ententive Dictionary E - adjective Attentive; zealous.
• Enter- Dictionary E - A prefix signifying between, among, part.
• Entered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enter.
• Entering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enter.
• Enter Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Enteradenography Dictionary E - noun A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.
• Enteradenology Dictionary E - noun The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.
• Enteralgia Dictionary E - noun Pain in the intestines; colic.
• Enterdeal Dictionary E - noun Mutual dealings; intercourse.
• Enterer Dictionary E - noun One who makes an entrance or beginning.
• Enteric Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.
• Enteritis Dictionary E - noun An inflammation of the intestines.
• Enterlace Dictionary E - verb transitive See Interlace.
• Entermete Dictionary E - intransitive verb To interfere; to intermeddle.
• Entermewer Dictionary E - noun A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
• Entermise Dictionary E - noun Mediation.
• Enterocele Dictionary E - noun A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.
• Enterocoele Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.
• Enterolith Dictionary E - noun An intestinal concretion.
• Enterology Dictionary E - noun The science which treats of the viscera of the body.
• Enteron Dictionary E - noun The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.
• Enteropathy Dictionary E - noun Disease of the intestines.
• Enteropneusta Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.
• Enterotome Dictionary E - noun A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
• Enterotomy Dictionary E - noun Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
• Enterparlance Dictionary E - noun Mutual talk or conversation; conference.
• Enterplead Dictionary E - intransitive verb Same as Interplead.
• Enterprise Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enterpriser Dictionary E - noun One who undertakes enterprises.
• Enterprising Dictionary E - adjective Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
• Entertained Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entertain.
• Entertaining Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entertain.
• Entertain Dictionary E - verb transitive To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
• Entertainer Dictionary E - noun One who entertains.
• Entertainment Dictionary E - noun The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
• Entertake Dictionary E - verb transitive To entertain.
• Entertissued Dictionary E - adjective Same as Intertissued.
• Entheal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enthean.
• Enthean Dictionary E - adjective Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.
• Entheasm Dictionary E - noun Inspiration; enthusiasm.
• Entheastic Dictionary E - adjective Of godlike energy; inspired.
• Entheat Dictionary E - adjective Divinely inspired.
• Enthelmintha Dictionary E - noun plural Alt. of Enthelminthes.
• Enthelminthes Dictionary E - noun plural Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.
• Entheic Dictionary E - adjective Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.
• Enthrall Dictionary E - verb transitive To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.
• Enthrallment Dictionary E - noun The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment.
• Enthrill Dictionary E - verb transitive To pierce; to thrill.
• Enthrone Dictionary E - verb transitive To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
• Enthronement Dictionary E - noun The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.
• Enthronization Dictionary E - noun The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.
• Enthronized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enthronize.
• Enthronizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enthronize.
• Enthronize Dictionary E - verb transitive To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.
• Enthuse Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To make or become enthusiastic.
• Enthusiasm Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Enthusiast Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enthusiastical.
• Enthusiastical Dictionary E - adjective Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art.
• Enthymematic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Enthymematical.
• Enthymematical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.
• Enthymeme Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entice.
• Enticing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entice.
• Entice Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being enticed.
• Enticement Dictionary E - noun The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
• Enticer Dictionary E - noun One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.
• Enticingly Dictionary E - adverb In an enticing manner; charmingly.
• Entierty Dictionary E - noun See Entirety.
• Entire Dictionary E - adjective Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.
• Entirely Dictionary E - adverb In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.
• Entireness Dictionary E - noun The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.
• Entirety Dictionary E - noun The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.
• Entitative Dictionary E - adjective Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
• Entitled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entitle.
• Entitling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entitle.
• Entitle Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.".
• Entitule Dictionary E - verb transitive To entitle.
• Entities Dictionary E - pleural of Entity.
• Entity Dictionary E - noun A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
• Ento- Dictionary E - A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.
• Entoblast Dictionary E - noun The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
• Entobronchia Dictionary E - pleural of Entobronchium.
• Entobronchium Dictionary E - noun One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
• Entocuneiform Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Entocuniform.
• Entocuniform Dictionary E - noun One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
• Entoderm Dictionary E - noun See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.
• Entodermal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Entodermic.
• Entodermic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the entoderm.
• Entogastric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; - applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
• Entogenous Dictionary E - adjective See Endogenous.
• Entoglossal Dictionary E - adjective Within the tongue; - applied to the glossohyal bone.
• Entoiled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entoil.
• Entoiling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entoil.
• Entoil Dictionary E - verb transitive To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.
• Entombed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entomb.
• Entombing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entomb.
• Entomb Dictionary E - verb transitive To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
• Entombment Dictionary E - noun The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.
• Entomere Dictionary E - noun The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
• Entomic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Entomical.
• Entomical Dictionary E - adjective Relating to insects; entomological.
• Entomoid Dictionary E - adjective Resembling an insect.
• Entomolin Dictionary E - noun See Chitin.
• Entomolite Dictionary E - noun A fossil insect.
• Entomologic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Entomological.
• Entomological Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to entomology.
• Entomologist Dictionary E - noun One versed in entomology.
• Entomologize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To collect specimens in the study of entomology.
• Entomologies Dictionary E - pleural of Entomology.
• Entomology Dictionary E - noun That part of zoology which treats of insects.
• Entomophaga Dictionary E - noun plural One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.
• Entomophagan Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the Entomophaga.
• Entomophagous Dictionary E - adjective Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
• Entomophilous Dictionary E - adjective Fertilized by the agency of insects; - said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
• Entomostraca Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the Entomostraca.
• Entomostracous Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the Entomostracans.
• Entomotomist Dictionary E - noun One who practices entomotomy.
• Entomotomy Dictionary E - noun The science of the dissection of insects.
• Entonic Dictionary E - adjective Having great tension, or exaggerated action.
• Entoperipheral Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
• Entophytic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.
• Entoplasm Dictionary E - noun The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
• Entoplastic Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Entoplastron.
• Entoplastron Dictionary E - noun The median plate of the plastron of turtles; - called also entosternum.
• Entoprocta Dictionary E - noun plural A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
• Entoptic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.
• Entorganism Dictionary E - noun An internal parasitic organism.
• Entortilation Dictionary E - noun A turning into a circle; round figures.
• Entosterna Dictionary E - pleural of Entosternum.
• Entosternum Dictionary E - noun See Entoplastron.
• Entosthoblast Dictionary E - noun The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
• Entothorax Dictionary E - noun See Endothorax.
• Entotic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the interior of the ear.
• Entozoa Dictionary E - noun plural A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
• Entozoal Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Entozoic.
• Entozoic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.
• Entozoologist Dictionary E - noun One versed in the science of the Entozoa.
• Entozoon Dictionary E - noun One of the Entozoa.
• Entr'acte Dictionary E - noun The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.
• Entrail Dictionary E - verb transitive To interweave; to intertwine.
• Entrails Dictionary E - noun plural The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
• Entrain Dictionary E - verb transitive To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
• Entrammel Dictionary E - verb transitive To trammel; to entangle.
• Entrance Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Entranced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entrance.
• Entrancing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entrance.
• Entrancement Dictionary E - noun The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.
• Entrant Dictionary E - noun One who enters; a beginner.
• Entrapped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entrap.
• Entrapping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entrap.
• Entrap Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Entreat.
• Entreating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Entreat.
• Entreat Dictionary E - verb transitive To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
• Entreatable Dictionary E - adjective That may be entreated.
• Entreatance Dictionary E - noun Entreaty.
• Entreater Dictionary E - noun One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
• Entreatful Dictionary E - adjective Full of entreaty. R. See Intreatful.
• Entreatingly Dictionary E - adverb In an entreating manner.
• Entreative Dictionary E - adjective Used in entreaty; pleading.
• Entreatment Dictionary E - noun Entreaty; invitation.
• Entreaties Dictionary E - pleural of Entreaty.
• Entreaty Dictionary E - noun Treatment; reception; entertainment.
• Entree Dictionary E - noun A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
• Entremets Dictionary E - noun singular & plural A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
• Entrench Dictionary E - verb transitive See Intrench.
• Entrepot Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
• Entresol Dictionary E - noun A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
• Entrick Dictionary E - verb transitive To trick, to perplex.
• Entrochal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; - used of a kind of stone or marble.
• Entrochite Dictionary E - noun A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
• Entropion Dictionary E - noun Same as Entropium.
• Entropium Dictionary E - noun The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
• Entropy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive See Intrust.
• Entries Dictionary E - pleural of Entry.
• Entry Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Entryng Dictionary E - noun Am entrance.
• Entune Dictionary E - verb transitive To tune; to intone.
• Entwine Dictionary E - verb transitive To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
• Entwinement Dictionary E - noun A twining or twisting together or round; union.
• Entwist Dictionary E - verb transitive To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.
• Enubilate Dictionary E - verb transitive To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
• Enubilous Dictionary E - adjective Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
• Enucleated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enucleate.
• Enucleating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enucleate.
• Enucleate Dictionary E - verb transitive To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
• Enucleation Dictionary E - noun The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
• Enumerated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enumerate.
• Enumerating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enumerate.
• Enumerate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
• Enumerative Dictionary E - adjective Counting, or reckoning up, one by one.
• Enumerator Dictionary E - noun One who enumerates.
• Enunciable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
• Enunciated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enunciate.
• Enunciating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enunciate.
• Enunciate Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
• Enunciation Dictionary E - noun The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
• Enunciative Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
• Enunciator Dictionary E - noun One who enunciates or proclaims.
• Enunciatory Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
• Enure Dictionary E - verb transitive See Inure.
• Enuresis Dictionary E - noun An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
• Envassal Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a vassal of.
• Envault Dictionary E - verb transitive To inclose in a vault; to entomb.
• Enveigle Dictionary E - verb transitive To entice. See Inveigle.
• Enveloped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Envelop.
• Enveloping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Envelop.
• Envelop Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Envelop.
• Envelopment Dictionary E - noun The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
• Envenime Dictionary E - verb transitive To envenom.
• Envenomed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Envenom.
• Envenoming Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Envenom.
• Envenom Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Envermeil Dictionary E - verb transitive To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.
• Enviable Dictionary E - adjective Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
• Envie Dictionary E - intransitive verb To vie; to emulate; to strive.
• Envier Dictionary E - noun One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
• Envigor Dictionary E - verb transitive To invigorate.
• Envious Dictionary E - adjective Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
• Environed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Environ.
• Environing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Environ.
• Environ Dictionary E - verb transitive To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
• Environment Dictionary E - noun Act of environing; state of being environed.
• Environs Dictionary E - noun plural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
• Envisaged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Envisage.
• Envisaging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Envisage.
• Envisage Dictionary E - verb transitive To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
• Envisagement Dictionary E - noun The act of envisaging.
• Envolume Dictionary E - verb transitive To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.
• Envolup Dictionary E - verb transitive To wrap up; to envelop.
• Envoy Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Envoyship Dictionary E - noun The office or position of an envoy.
• Envies Dictionary E - pleural of Envy.
• Envy Dictionary E - noun Malice; ill will; spite.
• Envied Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Envy.
• Envying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Envy.
• Envyned Dictionary E - adjective Stored or furnished with wine.
• Enwall Dictionary E - verb transitive See Inwall.
• Enwallow Dictionary E - verb transitive To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.
• Enwheel Dictionary E - verb transitive To encircle.
• Enwiden Dictionary E - verb transitive To widen.
• Enwind Dictionary E - verb transitive To wind about; to encircle.
• Enwoman Dictionary E - verb transitive To endow with the qualities of a woman.
• Enwombed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Enwomb.
• Enwombing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Enwomb.
• Enwomb Dictionary E - verb transitive To conceive in the womb.
• Enwrap Dictionary E - verb transitive To envelop. See Inwrap.
• Enwrapment Dictionary E - noun Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.
• Enwreathe Dictionary E - verb transitive See Inwreathe.
• Enzootic Dictionary E - adjective Afflicting animals; - used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
• Enzyme Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Eolian Dictionary E - adjective Aeolian.
• Eolic Dictionary E - adjective & noun See Aeolic.
• Eolipile Dictionary E - noun Same as Aeolipile.
• Eolis Dictionary E - noun A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.
• Eon Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Aeon.
• Eophyte Dictionary E - noun A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.
• Eophytic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to eophytes.
• Eos Dictionary E - noun Aurora, the goddess of morn.
• Eosaurus Dictionary E - noun An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; - so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
• Eosin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, - whence the name.
• Eozoic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.
• Eozoons Dictionary E - pleural of Eozoon.
• Eozoa Dictionary E - pleural of Eozoon.
• Eozoon Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.
• Ep- Dictionary E - See Epi-.
• Epacris Dictionary E - noun A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.
• Epact Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.
• Epagogic Dictionary E - adjective Inductive.
• Epalate Dictionary E - adjective Without palpi.
• Epanadiplosis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.
• Epanaphora Dictionary E - noun Same as Anaphora.
• Epanastrophe Dictionary E - noun Same as Anadiplosis.
• Epanodos Dictionary E - noun A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order.
• Epanody Dictionary E - noun The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.
• Epanorthosis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Growing upon flowers; - said of certain species of fungi.
• Eparch Dictionary E - noun In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• Eparchy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Epaulette.
• Epaulette Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epauletted.
• Epauletted Dictionary E - adjective Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
• Epaxial Dictionary E - adjective Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.
• Epeira Dictionary E - noun A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.
• Epen Dictionary E - noun See Epencephalon.
• Epencephalic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epencephalon.
• Epencephalon Dictionary E - noun The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.
• Ependyma Dictionary E - noun The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.
• Ependymis Dictionary E - noun See Ependyma.
• Epenetic Dictionary E - adjective Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.
• Epentheses Dictionary E - pleural of Epenthesis.
• Epenthesis Dictionary E - noun The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. n/mol.
• Epenthetic Dictionary E - adjective Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.
• Epergne Dictionary E - noun A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.
• Eperlan Dictionary E - noun The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
• Epexegesis Dictionary E - noun A full or additional explanation; exegesis.
• Epexegetical Dictionary E - adjective Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.
• Ephah Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Epha.
• Epha Dictionary E - noun A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.
• Ephemera Dictionary E - noun A fever of one day's continuance only.
• Ephemeral Dictionary E - adjective Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
• Ephemeran Dictionary E - noun One of the ephemeral flies.
• Ephemeric Dictionary E - adjective Ephemeral.
• Ephemerides Dictionary E - pleural of Ephemeris.
• Ephemeris Dictionary E - noun A diary; a journal.
• Ephemerist Dictionary E - noun One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
• Ephemeron Dictionary E - noun One of the ephemeral flies.
• Ephemerous Dictionary E - adjective Ephemeral.
• Ephesian Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
• Ephialtes Dictionary E - noun The nightmare.
• Ephippial Dictionary E - adjective Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
• Ephippium Dictionary E - noun A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
• Ephod Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Ephor.
• Ephori Dictionary E - pleural of Ephor.
• Ephor Dictionary E - noun A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.
• Ephoral Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an ephor.
• Ephoralty Dictionary E - noun The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors.
• Ephraim Dictionary E - noun A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.
• Ephyra Dictionary E - noun A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.
• Epi- Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
• Epiblastic Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
• Epiblema Dictionary E - noun The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
• Epibolic Dictionary E - adjective Growing or covering over; - said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
• Epiboly Dictionary E - noun Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.
• Epibranchial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch.
• Epic Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Epical Dictionary E - adjective Epic.
• Epicardiac Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to the epicardium.
• Epicardium Dictionary E - noun That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.
• Epicarican Dictionary E - noun An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.
• Epicarp Dictionary E - The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.
• Epicede Dictionary E - noun A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.
• Epicedial Dictionary E - adjective Elegiac; funereal.
• Epicedian Dictionary E - adjective Epicedial.
• Epicedium Dictionary E - noun An epicede.
• Epicene Dictionary E - adjective & noun 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.
• Epicentral Dictionary E - adjective Arising from the centrum of a vertebra.
• Epicerastic Dictionary E - adjective Lenient; assuaging.
• Epichiremata Dictionary E - pleural of Epichirema.
• Epichirema Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective In or of the country.
• Epicleidium Dictionary E - noun A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.
• Epiclinal Dictionary E - adjective Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.
• Epicoele Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Epicene.
• Epicolic Dictionary E - adjective Situated upon or over the colon; - applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
• Epicondylar Dictionary E - noun Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.
• Epicondyle Dictionary E - noun A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.
• Epicoracoid Dictionary E - noun A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
• Epicranial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.
• Epicranium Dictionary E - noun The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
• Epictetain Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.
• Epicure Dictionary E - noun A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.
• Epicurean Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy.
• Epicureanism Dictionary E - noun Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
• Epicurely Dictionary E - adverb Luxuriously.
• Epicureous Dictionary E - adjective Epicurean.
• Epicurism Dictionary E - noun The doctrines of Epicurus.
• Epicurize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
• Epicycle Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epicyclic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.
• Epicycloid Dictionary E - noun A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.
• Epicycloidal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
• Epideictic Dictionary E - adjective Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; - applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
• Epidemic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epidemical.
• Epidemical Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Epidemically Dictionary E - adverb In an epidemic manner.
• Epidemiography Dictionary E - noun A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
• Epidemiological Dictionary E - adjective Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
• Epidemiologist Dictionary E - noun A person skilled in epidemiology.
• Epidemiology Dictionary E - noun That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
• Epidemy Dictionary E - noun An epidemic disease.
• Epiderm Dictionary E - noun The epidermis.
• Epidermal Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
• Epidermatic Dictionary E - adjective Epidermal.
• Epidermatoid Dictionary E - adjective Epidermoid.
• Epidermeous Dictionary E - adjective Epidermal.
• Epidermic Dictionary E - adjective Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
• Epidermical Dictionary E - adjective Epidermal.
• Epidermidal Dictionary E - adjective Epidermal.
• Epidermis Dictionary E - verb transitive The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
• Epidermoid Dictionary E - adjective Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.
• Epidermose Dictionary E - noun Keratin.
• Epidictic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epidictical.
• Epidictical Dictionary E - adjective Serving to explain; demonstrative.
• Epididymis Dictionary E - noun An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
• Epididymitis Dictionary E - noun Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
• Epidote Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.
• Epigaea Dictionary E - noun An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.
• Epigaeous Dictionary E - adjective Growing on, or close to, the ground.
• Epigastrial Dictionary E - adjective Epigastric.
• Epigastric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
• Epigastrium Dictionary E - noun The upper part of the abdomen.
• Epigeal Dictionary E - adjective Epigaeous.
• Epigee Dictionary E - noun See Perigee.
• Epigene Dictionary E - adjective Foreign; unnatural; unusual; - said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.
• Epigenesis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.
• Epigenetic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
• Epigeous Dictionary E - adjective Same as Epigaeous.
• Epigeum Dictionary E - noun See Perigee.
• Epiglottic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
• Epiglottidean Dictionary E - adjective Same as Epiglottic.
• Epiglottis Dictionary E - noun A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
• Epignathous Dictionary E - adjective Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.
• Epigram Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epigrammatic Dictionary E - Alt. of Epigrammatical.
• Epigrammatical Dictionary E - Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
• Epigrammatically Dictionary E - adverb In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
• Epigrammatist Dictionary E - noun One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.
• Epigrammatized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Epigrammatize.
• Epigrammatizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Epigrammatize.
• Epigrammatize Dictionary E - verb transitive To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.
• Epigrammatizer Dictionary E - noun One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
• Epigrammist Dictionary E - noun An epigrammatist.
• Epigraph Dictionary E - noun Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
• Epigraphic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epigraphical.
• Epigraphical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
• Epigraphics Dictionary E - noun The science or study of epigraphs.
• Epigraphist Dictionary E - noun A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
• Epigraphy Dictionary E - noun The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
• Epigynous Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
• Epilepsy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
• Epileptical Dictionary E - adjective Epileptic.
• Epileptiform Dictionary E - adjective Resembling epilepsy.
• Epileptogenous Dictionary E - adjective Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; - applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
• Epileptoid Dictionary E - adjective Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.
• Epilogation Dictionary E - noun A summing up in a brief account.
• Epilogic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epilogical.
• Epilogical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an epilogue.
• Epilogism Dictionary E - noun Enumeration; computation.
• Epilogistic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
• Epilogize Dictionary E - verb intransitive & transitive To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.
• Epilogue Dictionary E - noun A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
• Epiloguize Dictionary E - verb intransitive & transitive Same as Epilogize.
• Epimachus Dictionary E - noun A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.
• Epimera Dictionary E - noun plural See Epimeron.
• Epimeral Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epimera.
• Epimere Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epimeron Dictionary E - noun In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
• Epinastic Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
• Epineurium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
• Epinicial Dictionary E - adjective Relating to victory.
• Epinicion Dictionary E - noun A song of triumph.
• Epinikian Dictionary E - adjective Epinicial.
• Epiornis Dictionary E - noun One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Aepiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar.
• Epiotic Dictionary E - noun The upper and outer element of periotic bone, - in man forming a part of the temporal bone.
• Epipedometry Dictionary E - noun The mensuration of figures standing on the same base.
• Epiperipheral Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Borne on the petals or corolla.
• Epiphany Dictionary E - noun An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
• Epipharyngeal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes.
• Epipharynx Dictionary E - noun A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.
• Epiphonema Dictionary E - noun An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
• Epiphoneme Dictionary E - noun Epiphonema.
• Epiphora Dictionary E - noun The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.
• Epiphragm Dictionary E - noun A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or aestivation.
• Epiphylospermous Dictionary E - adjective Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns.
• Epiphyllous Dictionary E - adjective Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf.
• Epiphyllum Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - Alt. of Epiphysial.
• Epiphysial Dictionary E - Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.
• Epiphyses Dictionary E - pleural of Epiphysis.
• Epiphysis Dictionary E - noun The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.
• Epiphytal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an epiphyte.
• Epiphyte Dictionary E - noun An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.
• Epiphytic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epiphytical.
• Epiphytical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte.
• Epiplastra Dictionary E - pleural of Epiplastron.
• Epiplastron Dictionary E - noun One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.
• Epipleural Dictionary E - adjective Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.
• Epiplexis Dictionary E - noun A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.
• Epiploce Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the epiploon.
• Epiploa Dictionary E - pleural of Epiploon.
• Epiploon Dictionary E - noun See Omentum.
• Epipodial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
• Epipodialia Dictionary E - pleural of Epipodiale.
• Epipodiale Dictionary E - noun One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.
• Epipodite Dictionary E - noun The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.
• Epipodia Dictionary E - pleural of Epipodium.
• Epipodium Dictionary E - noun One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.
• Epipolic Dictionary E - adjective Producing, or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence.
• Epipolism Dictionary E - noun See Fluorescence.
• Epipolized Dictionary E - adjective Changed to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light.
• Epipteric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.
• Epipterygoid Dictionary E - adjective Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone.
• Epipubic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the epipubis.
• Epipubes Dictionary E - pleural of Epipubis.
• Epipubis Dictionary E - noun A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.
• Episcopacy Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.
• Episcopalian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• Episcopalianism Dictionary E - noun The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• Episcopally Dictionary E - adverb By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.
• Episcopant Dictionary E - noun A bishop.
• Episcoparian Dictionary E - adjective Episcopal.
• Episcopate Dictionary E - noun A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.
• Episcopated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Episcopate.
• Episcopating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Episcopate.
• Episcopicide Dictionary E - noun The killing of a bishop.
• Episcopize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a bishop of by consecration.
• Episcopy Dictionary E - noun Survey; superintendence.
• Episepalous Dictionary E - adjective Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.
• Episkeletal Dictionary E - adjective Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.
• Episodal Dictionary E - adjective Same as Episodic.
• Episode Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.
• Episodic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Episodical.
• Episodical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious.
• Epispadias Dictionary E - noun A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.
• Epispastic Dictionary E - adjective Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
• Episperm Dictionary E - noun The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.
• Epispermic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.
• Epispore Dictionary E - noun The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
• Epistaxis Dictionary E - noun Bleeding at the nose.
• Epistemology Dictionary E - noun The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
• Episternal Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the episternum.
• Episterna Dictionary E - pleural of Episternum.
• Episternum Dictionary E - noun A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.
• Epistilbite Dictionary E - noun A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
• Epistle Dictionary E - noun A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; - applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
• Epistler Dictionary E - noun A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.
• Epistolar Dictionary E - adjective Epistolary.
• Epistolary Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.
• Epistolean Dictionary E - noun One who writes epistles; a correspondent.
• Epistoler Dictionary E - noun One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
• Epistolet Dictionary E - noun A little epistle.
• Epistolic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epistolical.
• Epistolical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
• Epistolize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To write epistles.
• Epistolizer Dictionary E - noun A writer of epistles.
• Epistolographic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.
• Epistolography Dictionary E - noun The art or practice of writing epistles.
• Epistoma Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Epistome.
• Epistome Dictionary E - noun The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea.
• Epistrophe Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; - now called architrave.
• Episyllogism Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
• Epitapher Dictionary E - noun A writer of epitaphs.
• Epitaphial Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epitaphian.
• Epitaphian Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
• Epitaphic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.
• Epitaphist Dictionary E - noun An epitapher.
• Epitasis Dictionary E - noun That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; - opposed to protasis.
• Epithalamic Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
• Epithalamiums Dictionary E - pleural of Epithalamium.
• Epithalamia Dictionary E - pleural of Epithalamium.
• Epithalamium Dictionary E - noun A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
• Epithalamies Dictionary E - pleural of Epithalamy.
• Epithalamy Dictionary E - noun Epithalamium.
• Epitheca Dictionary E - noun A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.
• Epithelial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.
• Epithelioid Dictionary E - adjective Like epithelium; as, epithelioid cells.
• Epithelioma Dictionary E - noun A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; - called also epithelial cancer.
• Epitheliums Dictionary E - pleural of Epithelium.
• Epithelia Dictionary E - pleural of Epithelium.
• Epithelium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Epithelioid.
• Epithem Dictionary E - noun Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.
• Epithema Dictionary E - noun A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
• Epithesis Dictionary E - noun The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles.
• Epithet Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epithetic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Epithetical.
• Epithetical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets.
• Epithite Dictionary E - noun A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant.
• Epithumetic Dictionary E - adjective Epithumetical.
• Epithumetical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.
• Epitithides Dictionary E - noun The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.
• Epitomator Dictionary E - noun An epitomist.
• Epitomes Dictionary E - pleural of Epitome.
• Epitome Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epitomist Dictionary E - noun One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer.
• Epitomized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Epitomize.
• Epitomizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Epitomize.
• Epitomize Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Epitomizer Dictionary E - noun An epitomist.
• Epitrite Dictionary E - noun A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
• Epitrochlea Dictionary E - noun A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.
• Epitrochlear Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the epitrochlea.
• Epitrochoid Dictionary E - noun A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.
• Epitrope Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -.
• Epozoan Dictionary E - noun An epizoon.
• Epozoic Dictionary E - adjective Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; - said of external parasites.
• Epizoa Dictionary E - pleural of Epizoon.
• Epizoon Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an epizoon.
• Epizooty Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Epizootic.
• Epoch Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epocha Dictionary E - noun See Epoch.
• Epochal Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.
• Epode Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Epodic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.
• Eponym Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eponyme.
• Eponyme Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eponymic Dictionary E - adjective Same as Eponymous.
• Eponymist Dictionary E - noun One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.
• Eponymous Dictionary E - adjective Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
• Eponymy Dictionary E - noun The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.
• Epoophoron Dictionary E - noun See Parovarium.
• Epopee Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Epopoeia.
• Epopoeia Dictionary E - noun An epic poem; epic poetry.
• Epopt Dictionary E - noun One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.
• Epos Dictionary E - noun An epic.
• Epotation Dictionary E - noun A drinking up; a quaffing.
• Eprouvette Dictionary E - noun An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.
• Epsomite Dictionary E - noun Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.
• Epsom salts Dictionary E - Alt. of salt.
• salt Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet.
• Epulation Dictionary E - noun A feasting or feast; banquet.
• Epulis Dictionary E - noun A hard tumor developed from the gums.
• Epulose Dictionary E - adjective Feasting to excess.
• Epulosity Dictionary E - noun A feasting to excess.
• Epulotic Dictionary E - adjective Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment.
• Epuration Dictionary E - noun Purification.
• Epure Dictionary E - noun A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.
• Equability Dictionary E - noun The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind.
• Equable Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Equableness Dictionary E - noun Quality or state of being equable.
• Equably Dictionary E - adverb In an equable manner.
• Equal Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Equaled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equal.
• Equalled Dictionary E - of Equal.
• Equaling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equal.
• Equalling Dictionary E - of Equal.
• Equalitarian Dictionary E - noun One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.
• Equalities Dictionary E - pleural of Equality.
• Equality Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equalization Dictionary E - noun The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
• Equalized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equalize.
• Equalizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equalize.
• Equalize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
• Equalizer Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• Equally Dictionary E - adverb 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 Dictionary E - noun Equality; evenness.
• Equangular Dictionary E - adjective Having equal angles; equiangular.
• Equanimity Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed.
• Equant Dictionary E - noun A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; - called also eccentric equator.
• Equated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equate.
• Equating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equate.
• Equate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.
• Equator Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equatorial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.
• Equatorially Dictionary E - adverb So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.
• Equerries Dictionary E - pleural of Equerry.
• Equerry Dictionary E - noun A large stable or lodge for horses.
• Equery Dictionary E - noun Same as Equerry.
• Equestrian Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.
• Equestrianism Dictionary E - noun The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.
• Equestrienne Dictionary E - noun A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.
• Equi- Dictionary E - A prefix, meaning equally; as, equidistant; equiangular.
• Equiangled Dictionary E - adjective Equiangular.
• Equiangular Dictionary E - adjective Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.
• Equibalance Dictionary E - noun Equal weight; equiponderance.
• Equibalanced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equibalance.
• Equibalancing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equibalance.
• Equicrescent Dictionary E - adjective Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.
• Equicrural Dictionary E - adjective Having equal legs or sides; isosceles.
• Equicrure Dictionary E - adjective Equicrural.
• Equidifferent Dictionary E - adjective Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.
• Equidistance Dictionary E - noun Equal distance.
• Equidistant Dictionary E - adjective Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing.
• Equidiurnal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; - applied to the equinoctial line.
• Equiform Dictionary E - adjective Having the same form; uniform.
• Equilateral Dictionary E - adjective Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
• Equilibrated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equilibrate.
• Equilibrating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equilibrate.
• Equilibrate Dictionary E - verb transitive To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
• Equilibration Dictionary E - noun Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.
• Equilibrious Dictionary E - adjective Evenly poised; balanced.
• Equilibrist Dictionary E - noun One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
• Equilibrity Dictionary E - noun The state of being balanced; equality of weight.
• Equilibriums Dictionary E - pleural of Equilibrium.
• Equilibria Dictionary E - pleural of Equilibrium.
• Equilibrium Dictionary E - noun Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.
• Equimomental Dictionary E - adjective Having equal moments of inertia.
• Equimultiple Dictionary E - adjective Multiplied by the same number or quantity.
• Equinal Dictionary E - adjective See Equine.
• Equine Dictionary E - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.
• Equinia Dictionary E - noun Glanders.
• Equinoctial Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line.
• Equinoctially Dictionary E - adverb Towards the equinox.
• Equinox Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equinumerant Dictionary E - adjective Equal as to number.
• Equipped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equip.
• Equipping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equip.
• Equip Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Equipage Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equipaged Dictionary E - adjective Furnished with equipage.
• Equiparable Dictionary E - adjective Comparable.
• Equiparate Dictionary E - verb transitive To compare.
• Equipedal Dictionary E - adjective Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.
• Equipendency Dictionary E - noun The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.
• Equipensate Dictionary E - verb transitive To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• Equipment Dictionary E - noun The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
• Equipoise Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equipollence Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Equipollency.
• Equipollency Dictionary E - noun Equality of power, force, signification, or application.
• Equipollent Dictionary E - adjective Having equal power or force; equivalent.
• Equipollently Dictionary E - adverb With equal power.
• Equiponderance Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Equiponderancy.
• Equiponderancy Dictionary E - noun Equality of weight; equipoise.
• Equiponderant Dictionary E - adjective Being of the same weight.
• Equiponderate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing.
• Equiponderous Dictionary E - adjective Having equal weight.
• Equipondious Dictionary E - adjective Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.
• Equipotential Dictionary E - adjective Having the same potential.
• Equiradical Dictionary E - adjective Equally radical.
• Equirotal Dictionary E - adjective Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.
• Equisetaceous Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family.
• Equisetiform Dictionary E - adjective Having the form of the equisetum.
• Equiseta Dictionary E - pleural of Equisetum.
• Equisetum Dictionary E - noun A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; - also called horsetails.
• Equisonance Dictionary E - noun An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.
• Equisonant Dictionary E - adjective Of the same or like sound.
• Equitable Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Equitableness Dictionary E - noun The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.
• Equitably Dictionary E - adverb In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.
• Equitancy Dictionary E - noun Horsemanship.
• Equitant Dictionary E - adjective Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
• Equitation Dictionary E - noun A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship.
• Equitemporaneous Dictionary E - adjective Contemporaneous.
• Equites Dictionary E - noun plural An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
• Equities Dictionary E - pleural of Equity.
• Equity Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Equivalence Dictionary E - noun The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.
• Equivalency Dictionary E - noun Same as Equivalence.
• Equivalent Dictionary E - adjective Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
• Equivalently Dictionary E - adverb In an equal manner.
• Equivalue Dictionary E - verb transitive To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing.
• Equivalve Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Equivalved.
• Equivalved Dictionary E - adjective Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
• Equivalvular Dictionary E - adjective Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.
• Equivocacy Dictionary E - noun Equivocalness.
• Equivocal Dictionary E - adjective (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.
• Equivocally Dictionary E - adverb In an equivocal manner.
• Equivocalness Dictionary E - noun The state of being equivocal.
• Equivocated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Equivocate.
• Equivocating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Equivocate.
• Equivocate Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Equivocation Dictionary E - noun The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
• Equivocator Dictionary E - noun One who equivocates.
• Equivocatory Dictionary E - adjective Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
• Equivoque Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Equivoke.
• Equivoke Dictionary E - noun An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
• Equivorous Dictionary E - adjective Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.
• Equus Dictionary E - noun A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.
• -er Dictionary E -.
• Eras Dictionary E - pleural of Era.
• Era Dictionary E - noun A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
• Eradiated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eradiate.
• Eradiating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eradiate.
• Eradiate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.
• Eradiation Dictionary E - noun Emission of radiance.
• Eradicable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being eradicated.
• Eradicated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eradicate.
• Eradicating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eradicate.
• Eradicate Dictionary E - verb transitive To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
• Eradication Dictionary E - noun The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
• Eradicative Dictionary E - adjective Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
• Erasable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being erased.
• Erased Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Erase.
• Erasing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Erase.
• Erase Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Erasement Dictionary E - noun The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
• Eraser Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
• Erasion Dictionary E - noun The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
• Erastian Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The principles of the Erastains.
• Erasure Dictionary E - noun The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
• Erative Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.
• Erato Dictionary E - noun The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
• Erbium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An archdeacon.
• Erd Dictionary E - noun The earth.
• Ere Dictionary E - adverb Before; sooner than.
• Erebus Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Erect Dictionary E - adjective Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
• Erected Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Erect.
• Erecting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Erect.
• Erectable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather.
• Erecter Dictionary E - noun An erector; one who raises or builds.
• Erectile Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.
• Erectility Dictionary E - noun The quality or state of being erectile.
• Erection Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Erective Dictionary E - adjective Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• Erectly Dictionary E - adverb In an erect manner or posture.
• Erectness Dictionary E - noun Uprightness of posture or form.
• Erecto-patent Dictionary E - adjective Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• Erector Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, erects.
• Erelong Dictionary E - adverb Before the /apse of a long time; soon; - usually separated, ere long.
• Eremacausis Dictionary E - noun A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• Eremitage Dictionary E - noun See Hermitage.
• Eremite Dictionary E - noun A hermit.
• Eremitic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eremitical.
• Eremitical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.
• Eremitish Dictionary E - adjective Eremitic.
• Eremitism Dictionary E - noun The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
• Eretation Dictionary E - noun A creeping forth.
• Ereption Dictionary E - noun A snatching away.
• Erethism Dictionary E - noun A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
• Erethistic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to erethism.
• Erewhile Dictionary E - adverb Alt. of Erewhiles.
• Erewhiles Dictionary E - adverb Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore.
• Erven Dictionary E - pleural of Erf.
• Erf Dictionary E - noun A garden plot, usually about half an acre.
• Erg Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - verb transitive To deduce logically, as conclusions.
• Ergo Dictionary E - [[conj. / adverb Therefore; consequently; - often used in a jocular way.
• Ergot Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ergotic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.
• Ergotin Dictionary E - noun An extract made from ergot.
• Ergotine Dictionary E - A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.
• Ergotism Dictionary E - noun A logical deduction.
• Ergotized Dictionary E - adjective Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.
• Eriach Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eric.
• Eric Dictionary E - noun A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
• Erica Dictionary E - noun A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
• Ericaceous Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.
• Ericinol Dictionary E - noun A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.
• Ericius Dictionary E - noun The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.
• Ericolin Dictionary E - noun A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.
• Eridanus Dictionary E - noun A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.
• Erigible Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being erected.
• Erin Dictionary E - noun An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.
• Erinaceous Dictionary E - adjective Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
• Eringo Dictionary E - noun The sea holly. See Eryngo.
• Erinite Dictionary E - noun A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; - so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.
• Erinyes Dictionary E - pleural of Erinys.
• Erinys Dictionary E - noun An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.
• Eriometer Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eristical.
• Eristical Dictionary E - adjective Controversial.
• Erke Dictionary E - adjective ASlothful.
• Erlking Dictionary E - noun A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.
• Erme Dictionary E - intransitive verb To grieve; to feel sad.
• Ermelin Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ermilin.
• Ermilin Dictionary E - noun See Ermine.
• Ermin Dictionary E - noun An Armenian.
• Ermine Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ermined Dictionary E - adjective Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine.
• Ermines Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Erminois.
• Erminois Dictionary E - noun See Note under Ermine, n., 4.
• Ermit Dictionary E - noun A hermit.
• Ern Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Erne.
• Erne Dictionary E - noun A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).
• Ernest Dictionary E - noun See Earnest.
• Ernestful Dictionary E - adjective Serious.
• Eroded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Erode.
• Eroding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Erode.
• Erode Dictionary E - verb transitive To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.
• Erodent Dictionary E - noun A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.
• Erogated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Erogate.
• Erogating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Erogate.
• Erogate Dictionary E - verb transitive To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.
• Erogation Dictionary E - noun The act of giving out or bestowing.
• Eros Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.
• Erosion Dictionary E - noun The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
• Erosive Dictionary E - adjective That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.
• Erostrate Dictionary E - adjective Without a beak.
• Eroteme Dictionary E - noun A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation.
• Erotesis Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Erotical.
• Erotical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.
• Eroticism Dictionary E - noun Erotic quality.
• Erpetologist Dictionary E - noun Herpetologist.
• Erpetology Dictionary E - noun Herpetology.
• Erred Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Err.
• Erring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Err.
• Err Dictionary E - intransitive verb To wander; to roam; to stray.
• Errable Dictionary E - adjective Liable to error; fallible.
• Errableness Dictionary E - noun Liability to error.
• Errabund Dictionary E - adjective Erratic.
• Errancy Dictionary E - noun A wandering; state of being in error.
• Errand Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
• Errantia Dictionary E - noun plural A group of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chaetopoda.
• Errantry Dictionary E - noun A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
• Errata Dictionary E - noun plural See Erratum.
• Erratic Dictionary E - adjective Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; - hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.
• Erratical Dictionary E - adjective Erratic.
• Erration Dictionary E - noun A wandering; a roving about.
• Erratum Dictionary E - noun An error or mistake in writing or printing.
• Erthine Dictionary E - noun A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.
• Erroneous Dictionary E - adjective Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; - hence, irregular; unnatural.
• Error Dictionary E - noun A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
• Errorful Dictionary E - adjective Full of error; wrong.
• Errorist Dictionary E - noun One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
• Ers Dictionary E - noun The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).
• Erse Dictionary E - noun A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; - called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.
• Ersh Dictionary E - noun See Arrish.
• Erst Dictionary E - adverb First.
• Erstwhile Dictionary E - adverb Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• Erubescence Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Erubescency.
• Erubescency Dictionary E - noun The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.
• Erubescent Dictionary E - adjective Red, or reddish; blushing.
• Erubescite Dictionary E - noun See Bornite.
• Erucae Dictionary E - pleural of Eruca.
• Eruca Dictionary E - noun An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.
• Erucic Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having the form of a caterpillar; - said of insect larvae.
• Eruct Dictionary E - verb transitive Alt. of Eructate.
• Eructate Dictionary E - verb transitive To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.
• Eructation Dictionary E - noun The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
• Erudiate Dictionary E - verb transitive To instruct; to educate; to teach.
• Erudite Dictionary E - adjective Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.
• Erudition Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Freed from wrinkles; smooth.
• Eruginous Dictionary E - adjective Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; aeruginous.
• Erumpent Dictionary E - adjective Breaking out; - said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.
• Erupt Dictionary E - verb transitive To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
• Eruption Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eruptional Dictionary E - adjective Eruptive.
• Eruptive Dictionary E - adjective Breaking out or bursting forth.
• Eryngium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.
• Erysipelas Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Resembling erysipelas.
• Erysipelatous Dictionary E - adjective Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature.
• Erysipelous Dictionary E - adjective Erysipelatous.
• Erythema Dictionary E - noun A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.
• Erythematic Dictionary E - adjective Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.
• Erythematous Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or causing, erythema.
• Erythrean Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Erythraean.
• Erythraean Dictionary E - adjective Red in color.
• Erythric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.
• Erythrin Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Erythrine.
• Erythrine Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Erythrina Dictionary E - noun A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; - so called from its red flowers.
• Erythrism Dictionary E - noun A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.
• Erythrite Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Erythrochroic Dictionary E - adjective Having, or subject to, erythrochroism.
• Erythrochroism Dictionary E - noun An unusual redness, esp. in the plumage of birds, or hair of mammals, independently of age, sex, or season.
• Erythrodextrin Dictionary E - noun A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.
• Erythrogen Dictionary E - noun Carbon disulphide; - so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.
• Erythrogranulose Dictionary E - noun A term applied by Brucke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.
• Erythroid Dictionary E - adjective Of a red color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle).
• Erythroleic Dictionary E - adjective Having a red color and oily appearance; - applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.
• Erythrolein Dictionary E - noun A red substance obtained from litmus.
• Erythrolitmin Dictionary E - noun Erythrolein.
• Erythronium Dictionary E - noun A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium.
• Erythrophleine Dictionary E - noun A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).
• Erythrophyll Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Erythrophyllin.
• Erythrophyllin Dictionary E - noun The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.
• Erythrosin Dictionary E - noun A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.
• Erythroxylon Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.
• Escalade Dictionary E - verb transitive A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
• Escaladed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Escalade.
• Escalading Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Escalade.
• Escallop Dictionary E - noun See Escalop.
• Escalloped Dictionary E - adjective See Escaloped.
• Escalop Dictionary E - noun A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.
• Escaloped Dictionary E - adjective Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
• Escambio Dictionary E - noun A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
• Escapable Dictionary E - adjective Avoidable.
• Escapade Dictionary E - noun The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
• Escaped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Escape.
• Escaping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Escape.
• Escape Dictionary E - verb To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
• Escapement Dictionary E - noun The act of escaping; escape.
• Escaper Dictionary E - noun One who escapes.
• Escarbuncle Dictionary E - noun See Carbuncle, 3.
• Escargatoire Dictionary E - noun A nursery of snails.
• Escarp Dictionary E - noun The side of the ditch next the parapet; - same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
• Escarped Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Escarp.
• Escarping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Escarp.
• Escarpment Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
• Eschalot Dictionary E - noun See Shallot.
• Eschar Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eschara Dictionary E - noun A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
• Escharine Dictionary E - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
• Escharotic Dictionary E - adjective Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
• Eschatological Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the last or final things.
• Eschatology Dictionary E - noun The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
• Eschaunge Dictionary E - noun Exchange.
• Escheat Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Esheated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Escheat.
• Escheating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Escheat.
• Escheatable Dictionary E - adjective Liable to escheat.
• Escheatage Dictionary E - noun The right of succeeding to an escheat.
• Escheator Dictionary E - noun An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
• Eschevin Dictionary E - noun The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
• Eshewed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eschew.
• Eshewing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eschew.
• Eschew Dictionary E - adjective To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
• Eschewer Dictionary E - noun One who eschews.
• Eschewment Dictionary E - noun The act of eschewing.
• Eschscholtzia Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Escutcheon.
• Escopet Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Escopette.
• Escopette Dictionary E - noun A kind of firearm; a carbine.
• Escorial Dictionary E - noun See Escurial.
• Escort Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Escorted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Escort.
• Escorting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Escort.
• Escot Dictionary E - noun See Scot, a tax.
• Escouade Dictionary E - noun See Squad,.
• Escout Dictionary E - noun See Scout.
• Escribed Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun A writing.
• Escritoire Dictionary E - noun A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.
• Escritorial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
• Escrod Dictionary E - noun See Scrod, a young cod.
• Escrol Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Escroll.
• Escroll Dictionary E - noun A scroll.
• Escrow Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Aesculapian.
• Esculapius Dictionary E - noun Same as Aesculapius.
• Esculent Dictionary E - adjective Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
• Esculic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.
• Esculin Dictionary E - noun A glucoside obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.
• Escurial Dictionary E - noun A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.
• Escutcheon Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Escutcheoned Dictionary E - adjective Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
• Ese Dictionary E - noun Ease; pleasure.
• Esemplastic Dictionary E - adjective Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
• Eserine Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Sexless; asexual.
• Esguard Dictionary E - noun Guard.
• Eskar Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Esker.
• Esker Dictionary E - noun See Eschar.
• Eskimos Dictionary E - pleural of Eskimo.
• Eskimo Dictionary E - noun One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.
• Esloin Dictionary E - verb transitive To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign.
• Esnecy Dictionary E - noun A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.
• Esodic Dictionary E - adjective Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; - said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.
• Esophagal Dictionary E - adjective Esophageal.
• Esophageal Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the esophagus.
• Esophagean Dictionary E - adjective Esophageal.
• Esophagotomy Dictionary E - noun The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage.
• Esophagus Dictionary E - noun That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
• Esoteric Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Esoteric.
• Esoterically Dictionary E - adverb In an esoteric manner.
• Esotericism Dictionary E - noun Esoteric doctrine or principles.
• Esoterics Dictionary E - noun Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.
• Esotery Dictionary E - noun Mystery; esoterics; - opposed to exotery.
• Esox Dictionary E - noun A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
• Espace Dictionary E - noun Space.
• Espadon Dictionary E - noun A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.
• Espalier Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Espalier.
• Espaliering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Espalier.
• Esparcet Dictionary E - noun The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.
• Esparto Dictionary E - noun A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.
• Espauliere Dictionary E - noun A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; - the origin of the modern epaulette.
• Especial Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adverb In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• Especialness Dictionary E - noun The state of being especial.
• Esperance Dictionary E - noun Hope.
• Espiaille Dictionary E - noun Espial.
• Espial Dictionary E - noun The act of espying; notice; discovery.
• Espier Dictionary E - noun One who espies.
• Espinel Dictionary E - noun A kind of ruby. See Spinel.
• Espionage Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
• Esplees Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun Espousal.
• Espousal Dictionary E - noun The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
• Espoused Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Espouse.
• Espousing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Espouse.
• Espouse Dictionary E - verb transitive To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
• Espousement Dictionary E - noun The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
• Espouser Dictionary E - noun One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
• Espressivo Dictionary E - adjective With expression.
• Espringal Dictionary E - noun An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
• Esprit Dictionary E - noun Spirit.
• Espied Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Espy.
• Espying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Espy.
• Espy Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Espies Dictionary E - pleural of Espy.
• -esque Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - pleural of Esquimau.
• Esquimau Dictionary E - noun Same as Eskimo.
• Esquire Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Esquire.
• Esquiring Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Esquire.
• Esquisse Dictionary E - noun The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
• -ess Dictionary E - A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.
• Essays Dictionary E - pleural of Essay.
• Essay Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Essayed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Essay.
• Essaying Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Essay.
• Essayer Dictionary E - noun One who essays.
• Essayist Dictionary E - noun A writer of an essay, or of essays.
• Essence Dictionary E - noun The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
• Essenced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Essence.
• Essencing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Essence.
• Essenes Dictionary E - pleural of Essene.
• Essene Dictionary E - noun One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
• Essenism Dictionary E - noun The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.
• Essential Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
• Esential Dictionary E - noun Existence; being.
• Essentiality Dictionary E - noun The quality of being essential; the essential part.
• Esentially Dictionary E - adverb In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.
• Esentialness Dictionary E - noun Essentiality.
• Essentiated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Essentiate.
• Essentiating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Essentiate.
• Essentiate Dictionary E - verb transitive To form or constitute the essence or being of.
• Essoin Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Essoign.
• Essoign Dictionary E - noun An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
• Essoiner Dictionary E - noun An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
• Essonite Dictionary E - noun Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.
• Essorant Dictionary E - adjective Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; - said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.
• Est Dictionary E - noun & adverb East.
• -est Dictionary E - A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
• Established Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Establish.
• Establishing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Establish.
• Establish Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Establisher Dictionary E - noun One who establishes.
• Establishment Dictionary E - noun The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
• Establishmentarian Dictionary E - noun One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.
• Estacade Dictionary E - noun A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
• Estafet Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Estafette.
• Estafette Dictionary E - noun A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
• Estancia Dictionary E - noun A grazing; a country house.
• Estate Dictionary E - noun Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
• Estatlich Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Estatly.
• Estatly Dictionary E - adjective Stately; dignified.
• Esteemed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Esteem.
• Esteeming Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Esteem.
• Esteem Dictionary E - verb transitive To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.
• Esteemable Dictionary E - adjective Worthy of esteem; estimable.
• Esteemer Dictionary E - noun One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.
• Ester Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Esthete Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Esthetics.
• Esthetic Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Esthetics.
• Esthetical Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Esthetics.
• Estiferous Dictionary E - adjective Producing heat.
• Estimable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage.
• Estimableness Dictionary E - noun The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
• Estimably Dictionary E - adverb In an estimable manner.
• Estimated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Estimate.
• Estimating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Estimate.
• Estimate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Estimation Dictionary E - verb transitive The act of estimating.
• Estimative Dictionary E - adjective Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.
• Estimator Dictionary E - noun One who estimates or values; a valuer.
• Estival Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Estivation.
• Estivate Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Estivation.
• Estivation Dictionary E - noun Same as Aestival, Aestivate, etc.
• Estoile Dictionary E - noun A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.
• Estophed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Estop.
• Estopping Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Estop.
• Estop Dictionary E - verb transitive To impede or bar by estoppel.
• Estoppel Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Estovers Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• Estranged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Estrange.
• Estranging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Estrange.
• Estrange Dictionary E - verb transitive To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
• Estrangedness Dictionary E - noun State of being estranged; estrangement.
• Estrangement Dictionary E - noun The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.
• Estranger Dictionary E - noun One who estranges.
• Estrangle Dictionary E - verb transitive To strangle.
• Estrapade Dictionary E - noun The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
• Estray Dictionary E - intransitive verb To stray.
• Estre Dictionary E - noun The inward part of a building; the interior.
• Estreat Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Estreat.
• Estreating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Estreat.
• Estrepe Dictionary E - verb transitive To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.
• Estrepement Dictionary E - noun A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
• Estrich Dictionary E - noun Ostrich.
• Estuance Dictionary E - noun Heat.
• Estuarine Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.
• Estuaries Dictionary E - pleural of Estuary.
• Estuary Dictionary E - noun A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
• Estuated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Estuate.
• Estuating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Estuate.
• Estuate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
• Estuation Dictionary E - noun The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
• Estufas Dictionary E - pleural of Estufa.
• Estufa Dictionary E - noun An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.
• Esture Dictionary E - noun Commotion.
• Esurient Dictionary E - adjective Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.
• Esurine Dictionary E - adjective Causing hunger; eating; corroding.
• -et Dictionary E - A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
• Etaac Dictionary E - noun The blue buck.
• Etacism Dictionary E - noun The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.
• Etacist Dictionary E - noun One who favors etacism.
• Etagere Dictionary E - noun A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.
• Etat Major Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - Alt. of Et caetera.
• Et caetera Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - noun A variant of Eddish.
• Etched Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Etch.
• Etching Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Etch.
• Etcher Dictionary E - noun One who etches.
• Eteostic Dictionary E - noun A kind of chronogram.
• Eterminable Dictionary E - adjective Interminable.
• Etern Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eterne.
• Eterne Dictionary E - adjective Eternal.
• Eternal Dictionary E - adjective Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
• Eternalist Dictionary E - noun One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
• Eternalize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make eternal.
• Eternally Dictionary E - adverb In an eternal manner.
• Eternify Dictionary E - verb transitive To make eternal.
• Eternities Dictionary E - pleural of Eternity.
• Eternity Dictionary E - noun Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
• Eternization Dictionary E - noun The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.
• Eternized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eternize.
• Eterniziing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eternize.
• Eternize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make eternal or endless.
• Etesian Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - noun A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; - called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.
• Ethane Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Easy.
• Ethel Dictionary E - adjective Noble.
• Ethene Dictionary E - noun Ethylene; olefiant gas.
• Ethenic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.
• Ethenyl Dictionary E - noun A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C.
• Etheostomoid Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.
• Ether Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Ethereal Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Etherealism Dictionary E - noun Ethereality.
• Ethereality Dictionary E - noun The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
• Etherealization Dictionary E - noun An ethereal or spiritlike state.
• Etherealize Dictionary E - verb transitive To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
• Ethereally Dictionary E - adverb In an ethereal manner.
• Etherealness Dictionary E - noun Ethereality.
• Ethereous Dictionary E - adjective Formed of ether; ethereal.
• Etherification Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having the form of ether.
• Etherin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The administration of ether to produce insensibility.
• Etherized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Etherize.
• Etherizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Etherize.
• Etherize Dictionary E - verb transitive To convert into ether.
• Etherol Dictionary E - noun An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
• Ethic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ethical.
• Ethical Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adverb According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character.
• Ethicist Dictionary E - noun One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
• Ethics Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.
• Ethidene Dictionary E - noun Ethylidene.
• Ethine Dictionary E - noun Acetylene.
• Ethionic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.
• Ethiop Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ethiopian.
• Ethiopian Dictionary E - noun A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.
• Ethiopic Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
• Ethiops Dictionary E - noun A black substance; - formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.
• Ethmoid Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ethmoidal.
• Ethmoidal Dictionary E - adjective Like a sieve; cribriform.
• Ethmotrubinal Dictionary E - adjective See Turbinal.
• Ethmovomerine Dictionary E - noun Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.
• Ethnarch Dictionary E - noun The governor of a province or people.
• Ethnarchy Dictionary E - noun The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
• Ethnic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ethnical.
• Ethnical Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
• Ethnically Dictionary E - adverb In an ethnical manner.
• Ethnicism Dictionary E - noun Heathenism; paganism; idolatry.
• Ethnographer Dictionary E - noun One who investigates ethnography.
• Ethnographic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Ethnographical.
• Ethnographical Dictionary E - adjective pertaining to ethnography.
• Ethnographically Dictionary E - adverb In an ethnographical manner.
• Ethnography Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - a Alt. of Ethnological.
• Ethnological Dictionary E - a Of or pertaining to ethnology.
• Ethnologically Dictionary E - adverb In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.
• Ethnologist Dictionary E - noun One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.
• Ethnology Dictionary E - noun The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
• Ethologic Dictionary E - a Alt. of Ethological.
• Ethological Dictionary E - a treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
• Ethologist Dictionary E - noun One who studies or writes upon ethology.
• Ethology Dictionary E - noun A treatise on morality; ethics.
• Ethopoetic Dictionary E - Expressing character.
• Ethule Dictionary E - Ethyl.
• Ethyl Dictionary E - noun A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
• Ethylamine Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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), #NAME?.
• Ethylic Dictionary E - Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.
• Ethylidene Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
• Ethylsulphuric Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.
• Etiolated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Etiolate.
• Etiolating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Etiolate.
• Etiolate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
• Etiolation Dictionary E - noun The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
• Etoolin Dictionary E - noun A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.
• Etiological Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
• Etiology Dictionary E - noun The science of causes. Same as /tiology.
• Etiquette Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
• Etnean Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.
• Etoile Dictionary E - noun See Estoile.
• Etrurian Dictionary E - adjective Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy.
• Etruscan Dictionary E - noun Of or relating to Etruria.
• Etter pike Dictionary E - noun The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).
• Ettin Dictionary E - noun A giant.
• Ettle Dictionary E - verb transitive To earn. Obs. See Addle, to earn.
• Etude Dictionary E - noun A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
• Etui Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun See Etui.
• Etym Dictionary E - noun See Etymon.
• Etymic Dictionary E - adjective Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.
• Etymologer Dictionary E - noun An etymologist.
• Etymological Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
• Etymologicon Dictionary E - noun An etymological dictionary or manual.
• Etymologist Dictionary E - noun One who investigates the derivation of words.
• Etymologize Dictionary E - verb transitive To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
• Etymologies Dictionary E - pleural of Etymology.
• Etymology Dictionary E - noun That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
• Etymons Dictionary E - pleural of Etymon.
• Etyma Dictionary E - pleural of Etymon.
• Etymon Dictionary E - noun An original form; primitive word; root.
• Etypical Dictionary E - adjective Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.
• Eu Dictionary E - A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; - the opposite of dys-.
• Eucairite Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, - whence its name.
• Eucalyptol Dictionary E - noun A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.
• Eucalyptus Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.
• Eucharist Dictionary E - noun The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
• Eucharistic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eucharistical.
• Eucharistical Dictionary E - adjective Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
• Euchite Dictionary E - noun One who resolves religion into prayer.
• Euchloric Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric /.
• Euchlorine Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Euchology.
• Euchology Dictionary E - noun A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.
• Euchologue Dictionary E - noun Euchology.
• Euchre Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Euchroic Dictionary E - adjective Having a fine color.
• Euchroite Dictionary E - noun A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.
• Euchrone Dictionary E - noun A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.
• Euchymy Dictionary E - noun A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
• Euclase Dictionary E - noun A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.
• Euclid Dictionary E - noun A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
• Euclidian Dictionary E - noun Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.
• Eucopepoda Dictionary E - noun plural A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.
• Eucrasy Dictionary E - Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.
• Euctical Dictionary E - Expecting a wish; supplicatory.
• Eudemon Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eudaemon.
• Eudaemon Dictionary E - noun A good angel.
• Eudemonics Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eudaemonics.
• Eudaemonics Dictionary E - noun That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; - contrasted with aretaics.
• Eudemonism Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eudaemonism.
• Eudaemonism Dictionary E - noun That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.
• Eudemonist Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eudaemonist.
• Eudaemonist Dictionary E - noun One who believes in eudemonism.
• Eudemonistic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eudaemonistic.
• Eudaemonistic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to eudemonism.
• Eudemonistical Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eudaemonistical.
• Eudaemonistical Dictionary E - adjective Eudemonistic.
• Eudialyte Dictionary E - noun A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.
• Eudiometer Dictionary E - noun An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; - so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.
• Eudiometric Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eudiometrical.
• Eudiometrical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.
• Eudiometry Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun plural The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves.
• Eudoxian Dictionary E - noun A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
• Euganoidei Dictionary E - noun plural A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.
• Euge Dictionary E - noun Applause.
• Eugenia Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
• Eugenics Dictionary E - noun The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.
• Eugenin Dictionary E - noun A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; - called also clove camphor.
• Eugenol Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - Nobleness of birth.
• Eugetic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eugetinic.
• Eugetinic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.
• Eugh Dictionary E - noun The yew.
• Eugubian Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eugubine.
• Eugubine Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.
• Euharmonic Dictionary E - adjective Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.
• Euhemerism Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who advocates euhemerism.
• Euhemeristic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to euhemerism.
• Euhemerize Dictionary E - verb transitive To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.
• Euisopoda Dictionary E - A group which includes the typical Isopoda.
• Eulachon Dictionary E - noun The candlefish. Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon. See Candlefish.
• Eulerian Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century.
• Eulogic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eulogical.
• Eulogical Dictionary E - adjective Bestowing praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic.
• Eulogist Dictionary E - noun One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast.
• Eulogistic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Eulogistical.
• Eulogistical Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse.
• Eulogiums Dictionary E - pleural of Eulogium.
• Eulogium Dictionary E - noun A formal eulogy.
• Eulogized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eulogize.
• Eulogizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eulogize.
• Eulogize Dictionary E - verb transitive To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.
• Eulogies Dictionary E - pleural of Eulogy.
• Eulogy Dictionary E - noun A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.
• Eulytite Dictionary E - noun A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; - called also culytine.
• Eumenides Dictionary E - noun plural A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.
• Eumolpus Dictionary E - noun A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.
• Eunomian Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eunomy Dictionary E - noun Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government.
• Eunuch Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Eunuchate Dictionary E - verb transitive To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.
• Eunuchism Dictionary E - noun The state of being eunuch.
• Euonymin Dictionary E - noun A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.
• Euonymus Dictionary E - noun A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.
• Euornithes Dictionary E - noun plural The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.
• Euosmitte Dictionary E - noun A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.
• Eupathy Dictionary E - noun Right feeling.
• Eupatorin Eupatorine Dictionary E - noun A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium.
• Eupatorium Dictionary E - noun A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.
• Eupatrid Dictionary E - noun One well born, or of noble birth.
• Eupepsia Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Eupepsy.
• Eupepsy Dictionary E - noun Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; - opposed to dyspepsia.
• Eupeptic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.
• Euphemism Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Euphemistical.
• Euphemistical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression.
• Euphemized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Euphemize.
• Euphemizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Euphemize.
• Euphemize Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.
• Euphoniad Dictionary E - noun An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments.
• Euphonic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Euphonical.
• Euphonical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or exhibiting, euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography.
• Euphonicon Dictionary E - noun A kind of upright piano.
• Euphonious Dictionary E - adjective Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
• Euphonism Dictionary E - noun An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
• Euphonium Dictionary E - noun A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.
• Euphonize Dictionary E - verb transitive To make euphonic.
• Euphonon Dictionary E - noun An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.
• Euphonous Dictionary E - noun Euphonious.
• Euphonies Dictionary E - pleural of Euphony.
• Euphony Dictionary E - noun A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
• Euphorbia Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Euphorbial.
• Euphorbial Dictionary E - adjective Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.
• Euphorbin Euphorbine Dictionary E - noun A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia.
• Euphorbium Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; - sometimes called gabbro.
• Euphrasy Dictionary E - noun The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.
• Euphroe Dictionary E - noun A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.
• Euphuism Dictionary E - noun An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
• Euphuist Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.
• Euphuize Dictionary E - verb transitive To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.
• Eupione Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; - called also eupittonic acid.
• Eupittonic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• Euplastic Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Euplectella Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun plural 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 Dictionary E - noun Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.
• Eupryion Dictionary E - noun A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match.
• Eurasian Dictionary E - noun A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
• Eurasiatio Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.
• Eureka Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - adjective Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.
• Euripize Dictionary E - verb transitive To whirl hither and thither.
• Euripus Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.
• Euritic Dictionary E - adjective Of or pelating to eurite.
• Euroclydon Dictionary E - noun A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.
• European Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
• Europeanize Dictionary E - verb transitive To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
• Eurus Dictionary E - noun The east wind.
• Euryale Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Euryalida Dictionary E - noun plural A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.
• Eurycerous Dictionary E - adjective Having broad horns.
• Eurypteroid Dictionary E - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the genus Euryperus.
• Eurypteroidea Dictionary E - noun plural An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
• Eurypterus Dictionary E - noun A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.
• Eurythmy Dictionary E - noun Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.
• Eusebian Dictionary E - noun A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.
• Eustachian Dictionary E - adjective Discovered by Eustachius.
• Eustyle Dictionary E - noun See Intercolumnlation.
• Eutaxy Dictionary E - noun Good or established order or arrangement.
• Euterpe Dictionary E - The Muse who presided over music.
• Euterpean Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to Euterpe or to music.
• Euthanasia Dictionary E - noun An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
• Euthanasy Dictionary E - noun Same as Euthanasia.
• Euthiochroic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called.
• Euthyneura Dictionary E - noun plural A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.
• Eutrophy Dictionary E - noun Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
• Eutychian Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The doctrine of Eutyches and his followers.
• Euxanthic Dictionary E - adjective Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin.
• Euxanthin Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.
• Evacate Dictionary E - verb transitive To empty.
• Evacuant Dictionary E - adjective Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
• Evacuated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evacuate.
• Evacuating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evacuate.
• Evacuate Dictionary E - verb transitive To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
• Evacuation Dictionary E - noun The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
• Evacuative Dictionary E - adjective Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
• Evacuator Dictionary E - noun One who evacuates; a nullifier.
• Evacuatory Dictionary E - noun A purgative.
• Evaded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evade.
• Evading Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evade.
• Evade Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Evadible Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being evaded.
• Evagation Dictionary E - noun A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
• Evagination Dictionary E - noun The act of unsheathing.
• Eval Dictionary E - adjective Relating to time or duration.
• Evaluate Dictionary E - verb transitive To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.
• Evaluation Dictionary E - noun Valuation; appraisement.
• Evanesced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evanesce.
• Evanescing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evanesce.
• Evanesce Dictionary E - intransitive verb To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
• Evanescence Dictionary E - noun The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes.
• Evanescent Dictionary E - adjective Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
• Evanescently Dictionary E - adverb In a vanishing manner; imperceptibly.
• Evangel Dictionary E - noun Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.
• Evangelian Dictionary E - adjective Rendering thanks for favors.
• Evangelic Dictionary E - adjective Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
• Evangelical Dictionary E - adjective Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
• Evangelicalism Dictionary E - noun Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.
• Evangelically Dictionary E - adverb In an evangelical manner.
• Evangelicalness Dictionary E - noun State of being evangelical.
• Evangelicism Dictionary E - noun Evangelical principles; evangelism.
• Evangelicity Dictionary E - noun Evangelicism.
• Evangelism Dictionary E - noun The preaching or promulgation of the gospel.
• Evangelist Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.
• Evangelistic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.
• Evangelization Dictionary E - noun The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
• Evangelized Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evangelize.
• Evangelizing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evangelize.
• Evangelize Dictionary E - verb transitive To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.
• Evangely Dictionary E - noun Evangel.
• Evangile Dictionary E - noun Good tidings; evangel.
• Evanid Dictionary E - adjective Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.
• Evanish Dictionary E - intransitive verb To vanish.
• Evanishment Dictionary E - noun A vanishing; disappearance.
• Evaporable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.
• Evaporated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evaporate.
• Evaporating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evaporate.
• Evaporate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Evaporation Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Evaporaive Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
• Evaporator Dictionary E - noun An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• Evaporometer Dictionary E - noun An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
• Evasible Dictionary E - adjective That may be evaded.
• Evasion Dictionary E - noun The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
• Evasive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
• Eve Dictionary E - noun Evening.
• Evectics Dictionary E - noun The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.
• Evection Dictionary E - The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.
• Even Dictionary E - noun Evening. See Eve, n. 1.
• Evened Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Even.
• Evening Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Even.
• Evene Dictionary E - intransitive verb To happen.
• Evener Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which makes even.
• Evenfall Dictionary E - noun Beginning of evening.
• Evenhand Dictionary E - noun Equality.
• Evenhanded Dictionary E - adjective Fair or impartial; unbiased.
• Evenly Dictionary E - adverb With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
• Evenminded Dictionary E - adjective Having equanimity.
• Evenness Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
• Eventerate Dictionary E - verb transitive To rip open; todisembowel.
• Eventful Dictionary E - adjective Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
• Eventide Dictionary E - noun The time of evening; evening.
• Eventilate Dictionary E - verb transitive To winnow out; to fan.
• Eventilation Dictionary E - noun The act of eventilating; discussion.
• Eventless Dictionary E - adjective Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
• Eventognathi Dictionary E - noun plural An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.
• Eventration Dictionary E - noun A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.
• Eventtual Dictionary E - adjective Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential.
• Eventualities Dictionary E - pleural of Eventuality.
• Eventuality Dictionary E - noun The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
• Eventually Dictionary E - adverb In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
• Eventuated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eventuate.
• Eventuating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eventuate.
• Eventuate Dictionary E - intransitive verb To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.
• Eventuation Dictionary E - noun The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
• Ever Dictionary E - adverb At any time; at any period or point of time.
• Everduring Dictionary E - adjective Everlasting.
• Everglade Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Everich Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Everych.
• Everych Dictionary E - adjective each one; every one; each of two. See Every.
• Everichon Dictionary E - pronoun Alt. of Everychon.
• Everychon Dictionary E - pronoun Every one.
• Everlasting Dictionary E - adjective Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.
• Enerlasting Dictionary E - noun Eternal duration, past of future; eternity.
• Everlastingly Dictionary E - adverb In an everlasting manner.
• Everlastingness Dictionary E - noun The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.
• Everliving Dictionary E - adjective Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.
• Evermore Dictionary E - adverb During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; - often used substantively with for.
• Evernic Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid.
• Everse Dictionary E - verb transitive To overthrow or subvert.
• Eversion Dictionary E - noun The act of eversing; destruction.
• Eversive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.
• Everted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evert.
• Everting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evert.
• Evert Dictionary E - verb transitive To overthrow; to subvert.
• Every Dictionary E - adjective & a. pronoun 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.
• Everybody Dictionary E - noun Every person.
• Everyday Dictionary E - adjective Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.
• Everyone Dictionary E - noun Everybody; - commonly separated, every one.
• Everything Dictionary E - noun Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.
• Everywhen Dictionary E - adverb At any or all times; every instant.
• Everywhere Dictionary E - adverb In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• Everywhereness Dictionary E - noun Ubiquity; omnipresence.
• Evesdrop Dictionary E - intransitive verb See Eavesdrop.
• Evesdropper Dictionary E - noun See Eavesdropper.
• Evestigate Dictionary E - verb transitive To investigate.
• Evet Dictionary E - noun The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.
• Evibrate Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive To vibrate.
• Evicted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evict.
• Evicting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evict.
• Evict Dictionary E - verb transitive To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
• Eviction Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Evidence Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Evidenced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evidence.
• Evidencing Dictionary E - [[p, pr. & verb noun of Evidence.
• Evidencer Dictionary E - noun One whi gives evidence.
• Evident Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - adjective Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.
• Evidentiary Dictionary E - adjective Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.
• Evidently Dictionary E - adverb In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.
• Evidentness Dictionary E - noun State of being evident.
• Evigilation Dictionary E - noun A waking up or awakening.
• Evil Dictionary E - adjective 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 eye Dictionary E - See Evil eye under Evil, a.
• Evil-eyed Dictionary E - adjective Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.
• Evil-favored Dictionary E - adjective Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.
• Evilly Dictionary E - adverb In an evil manner; not well; ill.
• Evil-minded Dictionary E - adjective Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.
• Evilness Dictionary E - noun The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
• Evinced Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evince.
• Evincing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evince.
• Evince Dictionary E - verb transitive To conquer; to subdue.
• Evincement Dictionary E - noun The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.
• Evincible Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.
• Evincive Dictionary E - adjective Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
• Evirate Dictionary E - verb transitive To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
• Eviration Dictionary E - noun Castration.
• Eviscerated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eviscerate.
• Eviscerating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eviscerate.
• Eviscerate Dictionary E - verb transitive To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
• Evisceration Dictionary E - adjective A disemboweling.
• Evitable Dictionary E - adjective Avoidable.
• Evitate Dictionary E - verb transitive To shun; to avoid.
• Evitation Dictionary E - noun A shunning; avoidance.
• Evite Dictionary E - verb transitive To shun.
• Eviternal Dictionary E - adjective Eternal; everlasting.
• Eviternity Dictionary E - noun Eternity.
• Evocate Dictionary E - verb transitive To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.
• Evocation Dictionary E - noun The act of calling out or forth.
• Evocative Dictionary E - adjective Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.
• Evocator Dictionary E - noun One who calls forth.
• Evoked Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evoke.
• Evoking Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evoke.
• Evoke Dictionary E - verb transitive To call out; to summon forth.
• Evolatic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Evolatical.
• Evolatical Dictionary E - adjective Apt to fly away.
• Evolation Dictionary E - noun A flying out or up.
• Evolute Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Evolutional Dictionary E - adjective Relating to evolution.
• Evolutionary Dictionary E - adjective Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
• Evolutionism Dictionary E - noun The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
• Evolutionist Dictionary E - noun One skilled in evolutions.
• Evolved Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Evolve.
• Evolving Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Evolve.
• Evolve Dictionary E - verb transitive To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
• Evolvement Dictionary E - noun The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.
• Evolvent Dictionary E - noun The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• Evomit Dictionary E - verb transitive To vomit.
• Evomition Dictionary E - noun The act of vomiting.
• Evulgate Dictionary E - verb transitive To publish abroad.
• Evulgation Dictionary E - noun A divulging.
• Evulsion Dictionary E - noun The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
• Ew Dictionary E - noun A yew.
• Ewe Dictionary E - noun The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.
• Ewe-necked Dictionary E - adjective Having a neck like a ewe; - said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out.
• Ewer Dictionary E - noun A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.
• Ewery Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Ewry.
• Ewry Dictionary E - noun An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
• Ewt Dictionary E - noun The newt.
• Ex- Dictionary E - 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exacerbate.
• Exacerrating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exacerbate.
• Exacerbate Dictionary E - verb transitive To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
• Exacerbation Dictionary E - noun The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
• Exacerbescence Dictionary E - noun Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.
• Exacervation Dictionary E - noun The act of heaping up.
• Exacinate Dictionary E - verb transitive To remove the kernel form.
• Exacination Dictionary E - noun Removal of the kernel.
• Exact Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Exacted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exact.
• Exacting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exact.
• Exacter Dictionary E - noun An exactor.
• Exaction Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exacritude Dictionary E - noun The quality of being exact; exactness.
• Exactly Dictionary E - adverb In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
• Exactness Dictionary E - noun The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
• Exactor Dictionary E - noun One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.
• Exactress Dictionary E - noun A woman who is an exactor.
• Exacuate Dictionary E - verb transitive To whet or sharpen.
• Exaeresis Dictionary E - noun In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
• Exaggerated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exaggerate.
• Exaggerating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exaggerate.
• Exaggerate Dictionary E - verb transitive To heap up; to accumulate.
• Exaggeration Dictionary E - noun The act of heaping or piling up.
• Exaggerative Dictionary E - adjective Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.
• Exaggerator Dictionary E - noun One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.
• Exaggeratory Dictionary E - adjective Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.
• Exagitate Dictionary E - verb transitive To stir up; to agitate.
• Exagitation Dictionary E - noun Agitation.
• Exalbuminous Dictionary E - adjective Having no albumen about the embryo; - said of certain seeds.
• Exalted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exalt.
• Exalting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exalt.
• Exalt Dictionary E - verb transitive To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
• Exaltate Dictionary E - adjective Exercising its highest influence; - said of a planet.
• Exaltation Dictionary E - noun The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
• Exalter Dictionary E - noun One who exalts or raises to dignity.
• Exaltment Dictionary E - noun Exaltation.
• Examen Dictionary E - adjective Examination; inquiry.
• Exametron Dictionary E - noun An hexameter.
• Examinable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being examined or inquired into.
• Examinant Dictionary E - noun One who examines; an examiner.
• Examinate Dictionary E - noun A person subjected to examination.
• Examination Dictionary E - noun The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
• Examinator Dictionary E - noun An examiner.
• Examined Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Examine.
• Examining Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Examine.
• Examine Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Examinee Dictionary E - noun A person examined.
• Examiner Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The office or rank of an examiner.
• Examplary Dictionary E - adjective Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.
• Example Dictionary E - noun One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
• Exampled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Example.
• Exampling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Example.
• Exampleless Dictionary E - adjective Without or above example.
• Exampler Dictionary E - noun A pattern; an exemplar.
• Exampless Dictionary E - adjective Exampleless. Wrongly formed..
• Exanguious Dictionary E - adjective Bloodless. Obs. See Exsanguious.
• Exangulous Dictionary E - adjective Having no corners; without angles.
• Exanimate Dictionary E - adjective Lifeless; dead.
• Exanimation Dictionary E - noun Deprivation of life or of spirits.
• Exanimous Dictionary E - adjective Lifeless; dead.
• Exannulate Dictionary E - adjective Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; - said of certain genera of ferns.
• Exanthem Dictionary E - noun Same as Exanthema.
• Exanthemata Dictionary E - pleural of Exanthema.
• Exanthema Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Exanthematous.
• Exanthematous Dictionary E - adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.
• Exanthesis Dictionary E - noun An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
• Exantlate Dictionary E - verb transitive To exhaust or wear out.
• Exantlation Dictionary E - noun Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.
• Exarate Dictionary E - verb transitive To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.
• Exaration Dictionary E - noun Act of plowing; also, act of writing.
• Exarch Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun The office or the province of an exarch.
• Exarillate Dictionary E - adjective Having no aril; - said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
• Exarticulate Dictionary E - adjective Having but one joint; - said of certain insects.
• Exarticulation Dictionary E - noun Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.
• Exasperate Dictionary E - adjective Exasperated; imbittered.
• Exsasperated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exasperate.
• Exasperating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exasperate.
• Exasperater Dictionary E - noun One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
• Exasperation Dictionary E - noun The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
• Exaspidean Dictionary E - adjective Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; - said of certain birds.
• Exauctorate Dictionary E - verb transitive See Exauthorate.
• Exauctoration Dictionary E - noun See Exauthoration.
• Exaugurate Dictionary E - verb transitive To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.
• Exauguration Dictionary E - noun The act of exaugurating; desecration.
• Exauthorate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.
• Exauthoration Dictionary E - noun Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.
• Exauthorize Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of uthority.
• Excalceate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive of shoes.
• Excalceation Dictionary E - noun The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.
• Excalfaction Dictionary E - noun A heating or warming; calefaction.
• Excalfactive Dictionary E - adjective Serving to heat; warming.
• Excalfactory Dictionary E - adjective Heating; warming.
• Excalibur Dictionary E - noun The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.
• Excamb Dictionary E - verb transitive Alt. of Excambie.
• Excambie Dictionary E - verb transitive To exchange; - used with reference to transfers of land.
• Excambion Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Excambium.
• Excambium Dictionary E - noun Exchange; barter; - used commonly of lands.
• Excandescence Dictionary E - noun A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.
• Excandescent Dictionary E - adjective White or glowing with heat.
• Excantation Dictionary E - noun Disenchantment by a countercharm.
• Excarnate Dictionary E - verb transitive To deprive or clear of flesh.
• Excarnation Dictionary E - noun The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; - opposed to incarnation.
• Excarnificate Dictionary E - verb transitive To clear of flesh; to excarnate.
• Excarnification Dictionary E - noun The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
• Excavated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excavate.
• Excavating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excavate.
• Excavate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Excavation Dictionary E - noun The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
• Excavator Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
• Excave Dictionary E - verb transitive To excavate.
• Excecate Dictionary E - verb transitive To blind.
• Excecation Dictionary E - noun The act of making blind.
• Excedent Dictionary E - verb transitive Excess.
• Exceeded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exceed.
• Exceeding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exceed.
• Exceed Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Exceedable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of exceeding or surpassing.
• Exceeder Dictionary E - noun One who exceeds.
• Exceedingly Dictionary E - adverb To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.
• Excelled Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excel.
• Excelling Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excel.
• Excel Dictionary E - verb transitive To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
• Excellence Dictionary E - noun The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
• Excellencies Dictionary E - pleural of Excellency.
• Excellency Dictionary E - noun Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
• Excellent Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Excellently Dictionary E - adverb In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.
• Excelsior Dictionary E - verb transitive More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
• Excentral Dictionary E - adjective Out of the center.
• Excentric Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Excentrical.
• Excentrical Dictionary E - adjective Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
• Excentricity Dictionary E - Same as Eccentricity.
• Excepted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Except.
• Excepting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Except.
• Except Dictionary E - verb transitive To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
• Exceptant Dictionary E - adjective Making exception.
• Exception Dictionary E - noun The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
• Exceptionable Dictionary E - adjective Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
• Exceptional Dictionary E - adjective Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
• Exceptioner Dictionary E - noun One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
• Exceptionless Dictionary E - adjective Without exception.
• Exceptious Dictionary E - adjective Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
• Exceptive Dictionary E - adjective That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
• Exceptless Dictionary E - adjective Not exceptional; usual.
• Exceptor Dictionary E - noun One who takes exceptions.
• Excerebration Dictionary E - noun The act of removing or beating out the brains.
• Excerebrose Dictionary E - adjective Brainless.
• Excern Dictionary E - verb transitive To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
• Excernent Dictionary E - adjective Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
• Excerp Dictionary E - adjective To pick out.
• Excerpted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excerpt.
• Excerpting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excerpt.
• Excerpt Dictionary E - verb transitive To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
• Excerption Dictionary E - noun The act of excerpting or selecting.
• Excerptive Dictionary E - adjective That excerpts, selects, or chooses.
• Excerptor Dictionary E - noun One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
• Excess Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Excessive Dictionary E - adjective Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
• Exchange Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exchanged Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exchange.
• Exchanging Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exchange.
• Exchangeability Dictionary E - noun The quality or state of being exchangeable.
• Exchangeable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
• Exchangeably Dictionary E - adverb By way of exchange.
• Exchanger Dictionary E - noun One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.
• Excheat Dictionary E - noun See Escheat.
• Excheator Dictionary E - noun See Escheator.
• Exchequer Dictionary E - noun One of the superior courts of law; - so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
• Exchequered Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exchequer.
• Exchequering Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exchequer.
• Excide Dictionary E - verb transitive To cut off.
• Excipient Dictionary E - verb transitive Taking an exception.
• Exciple Dictionary E - noun Alt. of Excipulum.
• Excipulum Dictionary E - noun The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
• Excisable Dictionary E - adjective Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
• Excise Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Excised Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excise.
• Excising Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excise.
• Excisemen Dictionary E - pleural of Exciseman.
• Exciseman Dictionary E - noun An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
• Excision Dictionary E - noun The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
• Excitability Dictionary E - noun The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
• Excitable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• Excitant Dictionary E - adjective Tending to excite; exciting.
• Excitate Dictionary E - verb transitive To excite.
• Excitation Dictionary E - noun The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
• Excitative Dictionary E - adjective Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
• Excitator Dictionary E - noun A kind of discarder.
• Excitatory Dictionary E - adjective Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
• Excited Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excite.
• exciting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excite.
• Excite Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Exciteful Dictionary E - noun Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
• Excitement Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exciter Dictionary E - noun One who, or that which, excites.
• Excitive Dictionary E - adjective Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
• Excito-motion Dictionary E - noun Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• Excito-motor Dictionary E - adjective Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
• Excito-motory Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - a Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• Excito-secretory Dictionary E - adjective 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 Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exclaim.
• Exclaiming Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exclaim.
• Exclaim Dictionary E - verb transitive & intransitive 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.
• Exclaimer Dictionary E - noun One who exclaims.
• Exclamation Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exclamative Dictionary E - adjective Exclamatory.
• Exclamatory Dictionary E - adjective Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
• Exclave Dictionary E - noun A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
• Excluded Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exclude.
• Excluding Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exclude.
• Exclude Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Exclusion Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exclusionary Dictionary E - adjective Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
• Exclusionism Dictionary E - noun The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
• Exclusionist Dictionary E - noun One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
• Exclusive Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Exclusiveness Dictionary E - noun Quality of being exclusive.
• Exclusivism Dictionary E - noun The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
• Exclusivist Dictionary E - noun One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.
• Exclusory Dictionary E - adjective Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
• Excoct Dictionary E - verb transitive To boil out; to produce by boiling.
• Excoction Dictionary E - The act of excocting or boiling out.
• Excogitated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excogitate.
• Excogitating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excogitate.
• Excogitate Dictionary E - verb transitive To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
• Excogitation Dictionary E - noun The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
• Excommune Dictionary E - verb transitive To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.
• Excommunicable Dictionary E - adjective Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
• Excommunicant Dictionary E - noun One who has been excommunicated.
• Excommunicate Dictionary E - adjective Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
• Excommunicated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excommunicate.
• Excommunicating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excommunicate.
• Excommunication Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun One who excommunicates.
• Excommunion Dictionary E - A shutting out from communion; excommunication.
• Excoriable Dictionary E - Capable of being excoriated.
• Excoriated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Eccoriate.
• excoriating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Eccoriate.
• Eccoriate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
• Excorticate Dictionary E - verb transitive To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
• Excortication Dictionary E - noun The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
• Excreable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being discharged by spitting.
• Excreate Dictionary E - verb transitive To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
• Excreation Dictionary E - noun Act of spitting out.
• Excrement Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Excremental Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to excrement.
• Excrementitial Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Excrementitious.
• Excrementitious Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
• Excrementive Dictionary E - adjective Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
• Excrementize Dictionary E - intransitive verb To void excrement.
• Excrescence Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - noun Excrescence.
• Excrescent Dictionary E - adjective Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
• Excrescential Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
• Excreta Dictionary E - noun plural Matters to be excreted.
• Excreted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excrete.
• Excreting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excrete.
• Excrete Dictionary E - verb transitive To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
• Excretin Dictionary E - noun A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces.
• Excretion Dictionary E - noun The act of excreting.
• Excretive Dictionary E - adjective Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
• Excretory Dictionary E - adjective Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
• Excruciable Dictionary E - adjective Liable to torment.
• Excruciate Dictionary E - adjective Excruciated; tortured.
• Excruciated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excruciate.
• Excruciating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excruciate.
• Excruciation Dictionary E - noun The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.
• Excubation Dictionary E - noun A keeping watch.
• Excubitorium Dictionary E - noun A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
• Exculpable Dictionary E - Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation.
• Exculpated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exculpate.
• Exculpating Dictionary E - of Exculpate.
• Exculpate Dictionary E - verb transitive To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
• Exculpation Dictionary E - noun The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.
• Exculpatory Dictionary E - Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.
• Excur Dictionary E - i. To run out or forth; to extend.
• Excurrent Dictionary E - adjective Running or flowing out.
• Excurse Dictionary E - verb transitive To journey or pass thought.
• Excursion Dictionary E - A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
• Excursionist Dictionary E - noun One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.
• Excursive Dictionary E - adjective Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
• Excursus Dictionary E - noun A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
• Excusable Dictionary E - adjective That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
• Excusation Dictionary E - noun Excuse; apology.
• Excusator Dictionary E - noun One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
• Excusatory Dictionary E - adjective Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
• Excused Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Excuse.
• Excusing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Excuse.
• Excuse Dictionary E - verb transitive 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.
• Excuseless Dictionary E - adjective Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.
• Excusement Dictionary E - noun Excuse.
• Excuser Dictionary E - noun One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
• Excuss Dictionary E - verb transitive To shake off; to discard.
• Excussion Dictionary E - noun The act of excusing; seizure by law.
• Exeat Dictionary E - noun A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
• Execrable Dictionary E - adjective Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
• Execrated Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Execrate.
• Execrating Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Execrate.
• Execrate Dictionary E - verb transitive 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 Dictionary E - noun The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.
• Execrative Dictionary E - adjective Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
• Execratory Dictionary E - adjective Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.
• Exect Dictionary E - verb transitive To cut off or out. Obs. See Exsect.
• Exection Dictionary E - noun See Exsection.
• Executable Dictionary E - adjective Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
• Executant Dictionary E - noun One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.
• Executed Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Execute.
• Executing Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Execute.
• Execute Dictionary E - verb transitive To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
• Executer Dictionary E - noun One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.
• Execution Dictionary E - noun The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
• Executioner Dictionary E - noun One who executes; an executer.
• Executive Dictionary E - adjective 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.
• Executively Dictionary E - adverb In the way of executing or performing.
• Executor Dictionary E - noun One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
• Executorial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to an executive.
• Executorship Dictionary E - noun The office of an executor.
• Executory Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.
• Executress Dictionary E - noun An executrix.
• Executrix Dictionary E - noun A woman exercising the functions of an executor.
• Exedent Dictionary E - adjective Eating out; consuming.
• Exedrae Dictionary E - pleural of Exedra.
• Exedra Dictionary E - noun A room in a public building, furnished with seats.
• Exegeses Dictionary E - pleural of Exegesis.
• Exegesis Dictionary E - noun Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.
• Exegete Dictionary E - noun An exegetist.
• Exegetic Dictionary E - adjective Alt. of Exegetical.
• Exegetical Dictionary E - adjective Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.
• Exegetics Dictionary E - noun The science of interpretation or exegesis.
• Exegetist Dictionary E - noun One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; - also called exegete.
• Exemplar Dictionary E - noun A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
• Exemplarily Dictionary E - adverb In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.
• Exemplariness Dictionary E - noun The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.
• Exemplarity Dictionary E - noun Exemplariness.
• Exemplary Dictionary E - adjective Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
• Exemplifiable Dictionary E - adjective That can be exemplified.
• Exemplification Dictionary E - noun The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
• Exemplifier Dictionary E - noun One who exemplifies by following a pattern.
• Exemplified Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exemplify.
• Exemplifying Dictionary E - past particle &. verb noun of Exemplify.
• Exemplify Dictionary E - verb transitive To show or illustrate by example.
• Exempt Dictionary E - adjective Cut off; set apart.
• Exempted Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exempt.
• Exempting Dictionary E - past particle & verb noun of Exempt.
• Exemptible Dictionary E - adjective That may be exempted.
• Exemption Dictionary E - noun 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 Dictionary E - adjective Separable.
• Exenterate Dictionary E - verb transitive To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.
• Exenteration Dictionary E - noun Act of exenterating.
• Exequatur Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exequial Dictionary E - adjective Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.
• Exequious Dictionary E - adjective Funereal.
• Exequies Dictionary E - pleural of Exequy.
• Exequy Dictionary E - noun A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
• Exercent Dictionary E - adjective Practicing; professional.
• Exercisable Dictionary E - adjective That may be exercised, used, or exerted.
• Exercise Dictionary E - noun 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.
• Exercised Dictionary E - imperative & past particle of Exercise.
• Exercising Dictionary E -