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2. Hence, any delightful place. An Elysian more pure and bright than that pf the Greeks. I. Taylor.
ELYTRIFORM
E*lyt"ri*form, a. Etym: [Elytrum + -form.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.
ELYTRIN
El"y*trin, n. Etym: [From Elytrum.] (Chem.)
Defn: See Chitin.
ELYTROID
El"y*troid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling a beetle's wing case.
ELYTRON; ELYTRUM El"y*tron, El"y*trum (-tr n.; pl. Elytra. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.) (a) 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. See Coleoptera. (b) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chætopoda.
ELZEVIR
El"ze*vir, a. (Bibliog.)
Defn: 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. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Brande & C.
'EM
'Em.
Defn: An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them. Addison.
EM
Em, n. (Print.)
Defn: 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-
Em-.
Defn: A prefix. See En-.
EMACERATE E*mac"er*ate, v. t. & i. Etym: [L. emaceratus emaciated; e + macerare to make soft.]
Defn: To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.
EMACERATION
E*mac`er*a"tion, n.
Defn: Emaciation. [Obs.]
EMACIATE E*ma"ci*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating.] Etym: [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See Meager.]
Defn: To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne.
EMACIATE
E*ma"ci*ate, v. t.
Defn: To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
EMACIATE
E*ma"ci*ate, a. Etym: [L. emaciatus, p. p.]
Defn: Emaciated. "Emaciate steeds." T. Warton.
EMACIATION
E*ma`ci*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. émaciation.]
1. The act of making very lean.
2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
EMACULATE E*mac"u*late, v. t. Etym: [L. emaculatus, p. p. of emaculare to clear from spots. See Maculate.]
Defn: To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.]
Hales.
EMACULATION
E*mac`u*la"tion, n.
Defn: The act of clearing from spots. [Obs.] Johnson.
EMAIL OMBRANT; AEMAIL OMBRANT
E`mail` om`brant", Æ`mail` om`brant". Etym: [F., shaded enamel.]
(Fine Arts)
Defn: An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.
EMANANT
Em"a*nant, a. Etym: [L. emanans, -antis, p. pr. of emanare. See
Emanate.]
Defn: 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.
EMANATE Em"a*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emanated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emanating.] Etym: [L. emanare, emanatum, to emanate; e out + manare to flow, prob. for madnare, and akin to madere to be wet, drip, madidus wet, drenched, drunk, Gr. mad to boil, matta drunk. Cf. Emane.]
1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.
Syn.
— To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.
EMANATE
Em"a*nate, a.
Defn: Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]
EMANATION
Em`a*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. emanatio: cf. F. émanation.]
1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.
2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower. An emanation of the indwelling life. Bryant.
EMANATIVE
Em"a*na*tive, a.
Defn: Issuing forth; effluent.
EMANATIVELY
Em"a*na*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: By an emanation.
EMANATORY
Em"a*na*to*ry, a.
Defn: Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.
EMANCIPATE E*man"ci*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emancipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emancipating.] Etym: [L. emancipatus, p. p. of emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See Manual, and Capable.]
Defn: 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. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).
(c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error. From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward.
EMANCIPATE
E*man"ci*pate, a. Etym: [L. emancipatus, p. p.]
Defn: Set at liberty.
EMANCIPATION
E*man`ci*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. emancipatio: cf. F. émancipation.]
Defn: 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.
Syn. — Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission; enfranchisement.
EMANCIPATIONIST
E*man`ci*pa"tion*ist, n.
Defn: An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
EMANCIPATOR
E*man"ci*pa`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who emancipates.
EMANCIPATORY
E*man"ci*pa*to*ry, a.
Defn: Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.
"Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.
EMANCIPIST
E*man"ci*pist, n.
Defn: A freed convict. [Australia]
EMARGINATE E*mar"gi*nate, v. t. Etym: [L. emarginare; e out + marginare to furnish with a margin, fr. margo margin.]
Defn: To take away the margin of.
EMARGINATE; EMARGINATED
E*mar"gi*nate, E*mar"gi*na`ted, a.
1. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Notched at the summit.
3. (Cryst.)
Defn: Having the edges truncated.
EMARGINATELY
E*mar"gi*nate*ly, adv.
Defn: In an emarginate manner.
EMARGINATION
E*mar`gi*na"tion, n.
Defn: The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
EMASCULATE
E*mas"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emasculated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emasculating.] Etym: [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine.
See Male masculine.]
1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
EMASCULATE
E*mas"cu*late, a.
Defn: Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.
EMASCULATION
E*mas`cu*la"tion, n.
1. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
2. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
EMASCULATOR
E*mas"cu*la`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who, or that which, emasculates.
EMASCULATORY
E*mas"cu*la*to*ry, a.
Defn: Serving or tending to emasculate.
EMBACE
Em*bace", v. t.
Defn: See Embase. [Obs.]
EMBALE
Em*bale", v. t. Etym: [F. emballer; pref. em- (L. in) + balle bale.
See 1st Bale.] [Obs.]
1. To make up into a bale or pack. Johnson.
2. To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.
EMBALL
Em*ball", v. t. Etym: [See Embale.]
Defn: To encircle or embrace. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
EMBALM
Em*balm", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embalmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embalming.]
Etym: [F. embaumer; pref. em- (L. in) + baume balm. See Balm.]
1. 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. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.
2. To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume. With fresh dews embalmed the earth. Milton.
3. To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance. Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope.
EMBALMER
Em*balm"er, n.
Defn: One who embalms.
EMBALMMENT
Em*balm"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embaumement.]
Defn: The act of embalming. [R.] Malone.
EMBANK
Em*bank", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.]
Etym: [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.]
Defn: To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
EMBANKMENT
Em*bank"ment, n.
1. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
2. A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
EMBAR
Em*bar", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.]
Etym: [Pref. em- + bar: cf. F. embarrer. Cf. Embargo.]
1. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.
2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.
EMBARCATION
Em`bar*ca"tion, n.
Defn: Same as Embarkation.
EMBARGE
Em*barge", v. t.
Defn: To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.
EMBARGO
Em*bar"go, n.; pl. Embargoes. Etym: [Sp., fr. embargar to arrest,
restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar.
See Bar.]
Defn: 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.
Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.
EMBARGO
Em*bar"go, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embargoed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embargoing.]
Defn: To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; — said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
EMBARK
Em*bark", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embarking.]
Etym: [F. embarquer; pref. em- (L. in) + barque bark: cf. Sp.
embarcar, It. imbarcare. See Bark. a vessel.]
1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.
EMBARK
Em*bark", v. i.
1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
2. To engage in any affair. Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.
EMBARKATION
Em`bar*ka"tion, n.
1. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.
EMBARKMENT
Em*bark"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embarquement.]
Defn: Embarkation. [R.] Middleton.
EMBARRASS
Em*bar"rass, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarrassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embarrassing.] Etym: [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embara,
Pr. barras bar); pref. em- (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See Bar.]
1. 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.
2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
3. (Com.)
Defn: To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; — said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
Syn. — To hinder; perplex; entangle; confuse; puzzle; disconcert; abash; distress. — To Embarrass, Puzzle, Perplex. We are puzzled when our faculties are confused by something we do not understand. We are perplexed when our feelings, as well as judgment, are so affected that we know not how to decide or act. We are embarrassed when there is some bar or hindrance upon us which impedes our powers of thought, speech, or motion. A schoolboy is puzzled by a difficult sum; a reasoner is perplexed by the subtleties of his opponent; a youth is sometimes so embarrassed before strangers as to lose his presence of mind.
EMBARRASS
Em*bar"rass, n. Etym: [F. embarras. See Embarrass, v. t.]
Defn: Embarrassment. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
EMBARRASSMENT
Em*bar"rass*ment, n. Etym: [F. embarrassement.]
1. 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. The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.
2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
EMBASE Em*base", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + base, a. or v. t.: cf. OF. embaissier.]
Defn: To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.] Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester. Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. South.
EMBASEMENT
Em*base"ment, n. Etym: [From Embase, v. t.]
Defn: Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.
EMBASSADE
Em"bas*sade, n. Etym: [F. ambassade. See Embassy.]
Defn: An embassy. See Ambassade. [Obs.] Shak.
EMBASSADOR Em*bas"sa*dor, n. Etym: [F. ambassadeur, Sp. embajador, LL. ambassiator, ambasciator. See Embassy, and cf. Ambassador.]
Defn: Same as Ambassador.
Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer.
Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.
EMBASSADORIAL
Em*bas`sa*do"ri*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. ambassadorial.]
Defn: Same as Ambassadorial.
EMBASSADRESS
Em*bas"sa*dress, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ambassadrice.]
Defn: Same as Ambassadress.
EMBASSADRY
Em*bas"sa*dry, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. ambassaderie.]
Defn: Embassy. [Obs.] Leland.
EMBASSAGE
Em"bas*sage (; 48), n.
1. An embassy. "He sent a solemn embassage." Bacon. Except your embassages have better success. Motley.
2. Message; errand. Shak.
EMBASSY Em"bas*sy, n.; pl. Embassies. Etym: [OF. ambassée, embascée, LL. ambasciata, fr. ambasciare for ambactiare to go on a mission, fr. L. ambactus vassal, dependent, of Celtic or German origin; cf. W. amaeth husbandman, Goth. andbahts servant, G. amt office, OHG. ambaht. Cf. Ambassador.]
1. 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. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.
2. The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
3. The residence or office of an ambassador.
Note: Sometimes, but rarely, spelled ambassy.
EMBASTARDIZE
Em*bas"tard*ize, v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + bastardize.]
Defn: To bastardize. [Obs.]
EMBATHE
Em*bathe", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + bathe. Cf. Imbathe.]
Defn: To bathe; to imbathe.
EMBATTAIL
Em*bat"tail, v. t. Etym: [See Embattle.]
Defn: To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
[Archaic]
To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof.
Tennyson.
EMBATTLE
Em*bat"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embattled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embattling.] Etym: [OF. embataillier; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bataille
battle. See Battle, and cf. Battlement.]
Defn: To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.
EMBATTLE
Em*bat"tle, v. i.
Defn: To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]
EMBATTLE
Em*bat"tle, v. t. Etym: [See Battlement.]
Defn: To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.
EMBATTLED
Em*bat"tled, a.
1. Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Her.)
Defn: Having the edge broken like battlements; — said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.
EMBATTLEMENT
Em*bat"tle*ment, n.
1. An intended parapet; a battlement.
2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
EMBAY
Em*bay", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + bay to bathe.]
Defn: To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMBAY
Em*bay", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embaying.]
Etym: [Pref. em- + 1st bay.]
Defn: To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.
EMBAYMENT
Em*bay"ment, n.
Defn: A bay. [R.]
The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir
W. Scott.
EMBEAM
Em*beam", v. t.
Defn: To make brilliant with beams. [R.] G. Fletcher.
EMBED
Em*bed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Embedding.]
Etym: [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.]
Defn: To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
EMBEDMENT
Em*bed"ment, n.
Defn: The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
EMBELLISH
Em*bel"lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embellished; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embellishing.] Etym: [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref.
em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty.]
Defn: 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.
Syn. — To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.
EMBELLISHER
Em*bel"lish*er, n.
Defn: One who embellishes.
EMBELLISHMENT
Em*bel"lish*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embellissement.]
1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.
2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor.
EMBER
Em"ber, n. Etym: [OE. emmeres, emeres, AS. ; akin to Icel. eimyrja,
Dan. emmer, MHG. eimere; cf. Icel. eimr vapor, smoke.]
Defn: A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; — used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.
EMBER
Em"ber, a. Etym: [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running
around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See
Amb-, and Run.]
Defn: Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
Ember days (R. C. & Eng. Ch.), days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [A. D. 1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks.
EMBER-GOOSE Em"ber-goose`, n. Etym: [Cf. Norw. ember, hav-imber, hav-immer, Icel. himbrin, himbrimi.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]
EMBERINGS
Em"ber*ings, n. pl.
Defn: Ember days. [Obs.]
EMBERIZIDAE
Emberizidae n.
Defn: a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World
sparrows.
Syn. — subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae.
[WordNet 1.5]
EMBETTER
Em*bet"ter, v. t.
Defn: To make better. [Obs.]
EMBEZZLE
Em*bez"zle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embezzled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embezzling.] Etym: [Norm. F. embeseiller to destroy; cf. OF.
besillier to ill treat, ravage, destroy. Cf. Bezzle.]
1. 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.
2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs.] To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.
EMBEZZLEMENT
Em*bez"zle*ment, n.
Defn: 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.
Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.
EMBEZZLER
Em*bez"zler, n.
Defn: One who embezzles.
EMBILLOW
Em*bil"low, v. i.
Defn: To swell or heave like a [R.] Lisle.
EMBIOTOCOID Em`bi*ot"o*coid, a. Etym: [NL. Embiotoca, the name of one genus + - oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidæ. — n.
Defn: One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidæ) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; — also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.
EMBITTER
Em*bit"ter, v. t.
Defn: To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
EMBITTERMENT
Em*bit"ter*ment, n.
Defn: The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
EMBLANCH
Em*blanch", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + 1st blanch.]
Defn: To whiten. See Blanch. [Obs.] Heylin.
EMBLAZE
Em*blaze", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Emblazing.]
Etym: [Pref. em- + 1st blaze.]
1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.
2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.
EMBLAZON
Em*bla"zon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblazoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emblazoning.] Etym: [Pref. em- + blazon. Cf. Emblaze.]
1. To depict or represent; — said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.
EMBLAZONER
Em*bla"zon*er, n.
Defn: One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
EMBLAZONING
Em*bla"zon*ing, n.
Defn: The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
EMBLAZONMENT
Em*bla"zon*ment, n.
Defn: An emblazoning.
EMBLAZONRY
Em*bla"zon*ry, n.; pl. Emblazonries (.
Defn: The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental
decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.;
emblazonment.
Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.
EMBLEM Em"blem, n. Etym: [F. emblème, L. emblema, -atis, that which is put in or on, inlaid work, fr. Gr. In, and Parable.]
1. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.
2. A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." Shak.
3. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Note: Writers and artists of the 17th century gave much attention and study to the composition of such emblems, and many collections of them were published.
Syn. — Sign; symbol; type; device; signal; token. — Sign, Emblem, Symbol, Type. Sign is the generic word comprehending all significant representations. An emblem is a visible object representing another by a natural suggestion of characteristic qualities, or an habitual and recognized association; as, a circle, having no apparent beginning or end, is an emblem of eternity; a particular flag is the emblem of the country or ship which has adopted it for a sign and with which it is habitually associated. Between emblem and symbol the distinction is slight, and often one may be substituted for the other without impropriety. See Symbol. Thus, a circle is either an emblem or a symbol of eternity; a scepter, either an emblem or a symbol of authority; a lamb, either an emblem or a symbol of meekness. "An emblem is always of something simple; a symbol may be of something complex, as of a transaction . . . In consequence we do not speak of actions emblematic." C. J. Smith. A type is a representative example, or model, exhibiting the qualities common to all individuals of the class to which it belongs; as, the Monitor is a type of a class of war vessels.
EMBLEM
Em"blem, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embleming.]
Defn: To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.]
Emblemed by the cozening fig tree. Feltham.
EMBLEMATIC; EMBLEMATICAL
Em`blem*at"ic, Em`blem*at"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. emblématique.]
Defn: 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. — Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
EMBLEMATICCIZE
Em`blem*at"ic*cize, v. t.
Defn: To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. [R.]
Walpole.
EMBLEMATIST
Em*blem"a*tist, n.
Defn: A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.
EMBLEMATIZE
Em*blem"a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblematized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emblematizing.]
Defn: To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. Bp. Hurd.
EMBLEMENT
Em"ble*ment, n. Etym: [OF. embleer to sow with corn, F. emblaver, fr.
LL. imbladare; pref. in- + LL. bladum grain, F. blé.] (Law)
Defn: 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. Wharton's Law Dict.
EMBLEMIZE
Em"blem*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblemized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emblemizing.]
Defn: To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. [R.]
EMBLOOM
Em*bloom", v. t.
Defn: To emblossom. Savage.
EMBLOSSOM
Em*blos"som, v. t.
Defn: To cover or adorn with blossoms.
On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.
EMBODIER
Em*bod"i*er, n.
Defn: One who embodies.
EMBODIMENT
Em*bod"i*ment, n.
1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
EMBODY
Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.]
Defn: 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. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.
EMBODY
Em*bod"y, v. i.
Defn: To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
[Written also imbody.]
Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.
EMBOGUE
Em*bogue", v. i. Etym: [See Disembogue.]
Defn: To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]
EMBOGUING
Em*bo"guing, n.
Defn: The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
[R.]
EMBOIL
Em*boil", v. i.
Defn: To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMBOIL
Em*boil", v. t.
Defn: To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [Obs.]
Spenser.
EMBOITEMENT Em`boîte"ment`, n. Etym: [F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box.] (Biol.)
Defn: The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.
EMBOLDEN
Em*bold"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboldened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emboldening.]
Defn: To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak. The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office. Sir W. Scott.
EMBOLDENER
Em*bold"en*er, n.
Defn: One who emboldens.
EMBOLIC
Em*bol"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. Embolism.]
1. Embolismic.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.
3. (Biol.)
Defn: Pushing or growing in; — said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
EMBOLISM
Em"bo*lism, n. Etym: [L. embolismus, from Gr. embolisme. See Emblem.]
1. 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.
2. Intercalated time. Johnson.
3. (Med.)
Defn: The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
EMBOLISMAL
Em`bo*lis"mal, a.
Defn: Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
EMBOLISMATIC; EMBOLISMATICAL
Em`bo*lis*mat"ic, Em`bo*lis*mat"ic*al, a.
Defn: Embolismic.
EMBOLISMIC; EMBOLISMICAL
Em`bo*lis"mic, Em`bo*lis"mic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. embolismique.]
Defn: Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
EMBOLITE
Em"bo*lite, n. Etym: [From Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
EMBOLUS
Em"bo*lus, n.; pl. Emboli. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Emblem.]
1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
EMBOLY
Em"bo*ly, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.
EMBONPOINT
Em`bon`point", n. Etym: [F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See
Bon, and Point.]
Defn: Plumpness of person; — said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
EMBORDER Em*bor"der, v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + border: cf. OF. emborder.]
Defn: To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
EMBOSOM
Em*bos"om, v. t. Etym: [Written also imbosom.]
1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser.
2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst
of something.
His house embosomed in the grove. Pope.
Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.
EMBOSS
Em*boss", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embossing.]
Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + boss: cf. OF. embosser to swell in
bunches.]
1. To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.
2. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.
EMBOSS
Em*boss", v. t. Etym: [Etymology uncertain.]
Defn: To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [Obs.]
EMBOSS Em*boss", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Pr. & Sp. emboscar, It. imboscare, F. embusquer, and E. imbosk.]
1. To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obs.] In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.
2. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.
EMBOSS
Em*boss", v. i.
Defn: To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S.
Butler.
EMBOSSED
Em*bossed", a.
1. Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
2. Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
3. Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.
EMBOSSER
Em*boss"er, n.
Defn: One who embosses.
EMBOSSMENT
Em*boss"ment, n.
1. The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
2. A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.
EMBOTTLE
Em*bot"tle, v. t.
Defn: To bottle. [R.] Phillips.
EMBOUCHURE Em`bou`chure", n. Etym: [F., fr. emboucher to put to the mouth; pref. em- (L. in) + bouche the mouth. Cf. Embouge, Debouch.]
1. The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
2. (Mus.) (a) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument. (b) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.
EMBOW
Em*bow", v. t.
Defn: To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.]
Sir W. Scott.
With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.
EMBOWEL Em*bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweled or Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.]
1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.
Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.
EMBOWELER
Em*bow"el*er, n.
Defn: One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]
EMBOWELMENT
Em*bow"el*ment, n.
Defn: Disembowelment.
EMBOWER
Em*bow"er, v. t.
Defn: To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. — v. i.
Defn: To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.
EMBOWL
Em*bowl", v. t.
Defn: To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P.
Sidney.
EMBOX
Em*box", v. t.
Defn: To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.
EMBOYSSEMENT
Em*boysse"ment, n. Etym: [See Embushment.]
Defn: An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EMBRACE
Em*brace", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (intens.) + brace, v. t.]
Defn: To fasten on, as armor. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMBRACE
Em*brace", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Embracing.]
Etym: [OE. embracier, F. embrasser; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bras arm.
See Brace, n.]
1. To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under
my courtesy. Shak.
Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them. Acts xx. 1.
2. To cling to; to cherish; to love. Shak.
3. To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. "I embrace these conditions." "You embrace the occasion." Shak. What is there that he may not embrace for truth Locke.
4. To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced. Denham.
5. To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace. Dryden.
6. To accept; to undergo; to submit to. "I embrace this fortune patiently." Shak.
7. (Law)
Defn: To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
Blackstone.
Syn.
— To clasp; hug; inclose; encompass; include;
EMBRACE
Em*brace", v. i.
Defn: To join in an embrace.
EMBRACE
Em*brace", n.
Defn: Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the
bosom; clasp; hug.
We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses. Tennyson.
EMBRACEMENT
Em*brace"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embrassement.]
1. A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.
2. State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon.
3. Willing acceptance. [Obs.] A ready embracement of . . . his kindness. Barrow.
EMBRACEOR
Em*brace"or, n. (Law)
Defn: One guilty of embracery.
EMBRACER
Em*bra"cer, n.
Defn: One who embraces.
EMBRACERY
Em*bra"cer*y, n. (Law)
Defn: An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
EMBRACIVE
Em*bra"cive, a.
Defn: Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. [R.] Thackeray.
EMBRAID
Em*braid", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + 1st braid.]
1. To braid up, as hair. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To upbraid. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
EMBRANCHMENT
Em*branch"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embranchement.]
Defn: The branching forth, as of trees.
EMBRANGLE
Em*bran"gle, v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + brangle.]
Defn: To confuse; to entangle.
I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.
EMBRASURE
Em*bra"sure, n. Etym: [See Embrace.]
Defn: An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.
EMBRASURE Em*bra"sure (277), n. Etym: [F., fr. embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.]
1. (Arch.)
Defn: A splay of a door or window.
Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers.
Longfellow.
2. (Fort.)
Defn: An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
EMBRAVE
Em*brave", v. t.
1. To inspire with bravery. [Obs.] Beaumont.
2. To decorate; to make showy and fine. [Obs.] And with sad cypress seemly it embraves. Spenser.
EMBRAWN
Em*brawn", v. t.
Defn: To harden. [Obs.]
It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.
EMBREAD
Em*bread", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + bread = 1st braid.]
Defn: To braid. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMBREATHEMENT
Em*breathe"ment, n.
Defn: The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.
EMBREW
Em*brew", v. t.
Defn: To imbrue; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMBRIGHT
Em*bright", v. t.
Defn: To brighten. [Obs.]
EMBROCATE
Em"bro*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embrocated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embrocating.] Etym: [NL. embrocatus, p. p. of embrocare; cf. Gr.
(Med.)
Defn: To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
EMBROCATION Em`bro*ca"tion, n. Etym: [NL. embrocatio: cf. F. embrocation.] (Med.) (a) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc. (b) The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
EMBROGLIO
Em*brogl"io, n.
Defn: See Imbroglio.
EMBROIDER
Em*broid"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embroidered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embroidering.] Etym: [OE. embrouden. See Broider.]
Defn: To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.
EMBROIDERER
Em*broid"er*er, n.
Defn: One who embroiders.
EMBROIDERY
Em*broid"er*y, n.; pl. Embroideries (.
1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.
EMBROIL
Em*broil", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embroiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Embroiling.] Etym: [F. embrouiller; pref. em- (L. in) + brouiller.
See 1st Broil, and cf. Imbroglio.]
1. 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. The royal house embroiled in civil war. Dryden.
2. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with Addison.
Syn. — To perplex; entangle; distract; disturb; disorder; trouble; implicate; commingle.
EMBROIL
Em*broil", n.
Defn: See Embroilment.
EMBROILER
Em*broil"er, n.
Defn: One who embroils.
EMBROILMENT
Em*broil"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embrouillement.]
Defn: The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
EMBRONZE
Em*bronze", v. t.
1. To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person. [Poetic]
2. To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.
EMBROTHEL
Em*broth"el, v. t.
Defn: To inclose in a brothel. [Obs.] Donne.
EMBROUDE; EMBROWDE; EMBROYDE
Em*broud"e, Em*browd"e, Em*broyd"e, v. t.
Defn: To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.
EMBROWN
Em*brown", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + brown.]
Defn: To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.
EMBRUE
Em*brue", v. t.
Defn: See Imbrue, Embrew. [Obs.]
EMBRUTE
Em*brute", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + brute. Cf. Imbrute.]
Defn: To brutify; to imbrute.
All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.
EMBRYO
Em"bry*o, n.; pl. Embryos. Etym: [F. embryon, Gr. in) + brew.]
(Biol.)
Defn: The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as: (a) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus). (b) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination. In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.
EMBRYO
Em"bry*o, a.
Defn: Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
EMBRYOGENIC
Em`bry*o*gen"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Pertaining to the development of an embryo.
EMBRYOGENY
Em`bry*og"e*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. embryogénie.] (Biol.)
Defn: The production and development of an embryo.
EMBRYOGONY
Em`bry*og"o*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The formation of an embryo.
EMBRYOGRAPHY
Em`bry*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.] (Biol.)
Defn: The general description of embryos.
EMBRYOLOGIC; EMBRYOLOGICAL
Em`bry*o*log"ic, Em`bry*o*log"ic*al, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to embryology.
EMBRYOLOGIST
Em`bry*ol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One skilled in embryology.
EMBRYOLOGY
Em`bry*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. embryologie.] (Biol.)
Defn: 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
Em"bry*on, n. & a. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: See Embryo.
EMBRYONAL
Em"bry*o*nal, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
EMBRYONARY
Em"bry*o*na*ry, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Embryonic.
EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
Em"bry*o*nate, Em"bry*o*na`ted, a. (Biol.)
Defn: In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
EMBRYONIC
Em`bry*on"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle (Bot.), the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; — sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.
EMBRYONIFEROUS
Em`bry*o*nif"er*ous, a. Etym: [Embryo + -ferous.] (Biol.)
Defn: Having an embryo.
EMBRYONIFORM
Em`bry*on"i*form, a. Etym: [Embryo + -form.] (Biol.)
Defn: Like an embryo in form.
EMBRYOPLASTIC
Em`bry*o*plas"tic, n. Etym: [Embryo + plastic.] (Biol.)
Defn: Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
EMBRYO SAC
Em"bry*o sac`. (Bot.)
Defn: See under Embryonic.
EMBRYOTIC
Em`bry*ot"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Embryonic.
EMBRYOTOMY
Em`bry*ot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. embryotomie.] (Med.)
Defn: The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
EMBRYOTROPH
Em"bry*o*troph`, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
EMBRYOUS
Em"bry*ous, a.
Defn: Embryonic; undeveloped. [R.]
EMBULK
Em*bulk", v. t.
Defn: To enlarge in the way of bulk. [R.] Latham.
EMBURSE
Em*burse", v. t. Etym: [See Imburse.]
Defn: To furnish with money; to imburse. [Obs.]
EMBUSH
Em*bush", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Ambush, Imbosk.]
Defn: To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. [Obs.] Shelton.
EMBUSHMENT Em*bush"ment, n. Etym: [OE. embusshement, OF. embuschement, F. embûchement.]
Defn: An ambush. [Obs.]
EMBUSY
Em*bus"y, v. t.
Defn: To employ. [Obs.] Skelton.
EME
Eme, n. Etym: [See Eame.]
Defn: An uncle. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMEER
E*meer", n.
Defn: Same as Emir.
EMENAGOGUE
E*men"a*gogue, n.
Defn: See Emmenagogue.
EMEND
E*mend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.]
Etym: [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F.
émender. Cf. Amend, Mend.]
Defn: 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.
Syn.
— To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.
EMENDABLE
E*mend"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. emendabilis. Cf. Amendable.]
Defn: Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.
EMENDATELY
Em"en*date*ly, adv.
Defn: Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]
EMENDATION
Em`en*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. emendatio: cf. F. émendation.]
1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor.
2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.
EMENDATOR
Em"en*da`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who emends or critically edits.
EMENDATORY
E*mend"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. emendatorius.]
Defn: Pertaining to emendation; corrective. "Emendatory criticism.""
Johnson.
EMENDER
E*mend"er, n.
Defn: One who emends.
EMENDICATE E*men"di*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. emendicatus, p. p. of emendicare to obtain by begging. See Mendicate.]
Defn: To beg. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EMERALD Em"er*ald, n. Etym: [OE. emeraude, OF. esmeraude, esmeralde, F. émeraude, L. smaragdus, fr. Gr. marakata.]
1. (Min.)
Defn: A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See
Beryl.
2. (Print.)
Defn: A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare
Note: * This line is printed in the type called emerald.
EMERALD
Em"er*ald, a.
Defn: Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron. Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; — whence the name; — called also esmeralda. — Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; — also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. — Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. — Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. — Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.
EMERALDINE
Em"er*ald*ine (; 104), n.
Defn: A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.
EMERAUD
Em"er*aud, n. Etym: [See Emerald, n.]
Defn: An emerald. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMERGE
E*merge", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging.]
Etym: [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See
Merge.]
Defn: 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. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.
EMERGENCE
E*mer"gence, n.; pl. Emergences (.
Defn: The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.
EMERGENCY
E*mer"gen*cy, n.; pl. Emergencies. Etym: [See Emergence.]
1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill.
2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency. To whom she might her doubts propose, On all emergencies that rose. Swift. A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies. Brougham.
Syn.
— Crisis; conjuncture; exigency; pinch; strait; necessity.
EMERGENT
E*mer"gent, a. Etym: [L. emergens, p. pr. of emergere.]
1. Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. The mountains huge appear emergent. Milton.
2. Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; Protection granted in emergent danger. Burke. Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. — E*mer"gent*ly, adv. — E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]
EMERIL
Em"er*il, n.
1. Emery. [Obs.] Drayton.
2. A glazier's diamond. Crabb.
EMERITED
Em"er*it*ed, a. Etym: [See Emeritus.]
Defn: Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [Obs.] Evelyn.
EMERITUS E*mer"i*tus, a. Etym: [L., having served out his time, p. p. of emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's term; e out + merere, mereri, to merit, earn, serve.]
Defn: 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.
EMERITUS
E*mer"i*tus, n.; pl. Emeriti. Etym: [L.]
Defn: A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
EMERODS; EMEROIDS
Em"er*ods, Em"er*oids, n. pl. Etym: [OF. emmeroides. See
Hemorrhoids.]
Defn: Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.
EMERSED
E*mersed", a. Etym: [L. emersus, p. p. See Emerge.] (Bot.)
Defn: Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.
EMERSION
E*mer"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. émersion. See Emerge.]
1. The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.
2. (Astron.)
Defn: The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.
EMERY Em"er*y, n. Etym: [F. émeri, earlier émeril, It. smeriglio, fr. Gr. smear. Cf. Emeril.] (Min.)
Defn: 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. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. — Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing. — Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.
EMESIS
Em"e*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Emetic.] (Med.)
Defn: A vomiting.
EMETIC
E*met"ic, a. Etym: [L. emeticus, Gr. vomere: cf. F. émétique. See
Vomit.] (Med.)
Defn: Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. — n.
Defn: A medicine which causes vomiting.
EMETICAL
E*met"ic*al, a.
Defn: Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.
— E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.
EMETINE
Em"e*tine (; 104), n. Etym: [See Emetic.] (Chem.)
Defn: A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
EMETO-CATHARTIC
Em`e*to-ca*thar"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. cathartic.] (Med.)
Defn: Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
EMEU; EMEW
E"meu, or E"mew, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Emu.
EMEUTE e`meute", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
E. M. F.
E. M. F. (Physics)
Defn: An abbreviation for electro-motive force.
EMFORTH Em*forth", prep. Etym: [AS. em-, emn-, in comp. equiv. to efen equal + for forth.]
Defn: According to; conformably to. [Obs.] Chaucer. Emforth my might, so far as lies in my power. [Obs.]
EMGALLA
Em*gal"la, n. (Zoöl.) Etym: [Native name.]
Defn: The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.
EMICANT
Em"i*cant, a. Etym: [L. emicans, p. pr. of emicare. See Emication.]
Defn: Beaming forth; flashing. [R.]
Which emicant did this and that way dart. Blackmore.
EMICATION Em`i*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. emicatio, fr. emicare to spring out or forth; e. out + micare to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle.]
Defn: A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.
EMICTION
E*mic"tion, n. Etym: [L. e out + mingere, mictum, to make water.]
1. The voiding of urine.
2. What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.
EMICTORY
E*mic"to*ry, a. & n. (Med.)
Defn: Diuretic.
EMIGRANT Em"i*grant, a. Etym: [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. émigrant. See Emigrate, v. i.]
1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.
EMIGRANT
Em"i*grant, n.
Defn: One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
Syn. — Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it.
EMIGRATE
Em"i*grate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emigrating.] Etym: [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove,
emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
Defn: To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
EMIGRATE
Em"i*grate, a.
Defn: Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
EMIGRATION
Em`i*gra"tion, n. Etym: [L. emigratio: cf. F. émigration.]
1. 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.
2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
EMIGRATIONAL
Em`i*gra"tion*al, a.
Defn: Relating to emigration.
EMIGRATIONIST
Em`i*gra"tion*ist, n.
Defn: An advocate or promoter of emigration.
EMIGRATOR
Em"i*gra`tor, n.
Defn: One who emigrates; am emigrant. [R.]
EMIGRE e`mi`gre", n. Etym: [F., emigrant.]
Defn: One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first
Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.
EMINENCE Em"i*nence, n. Etym: [L. eminentia, fr. eminens eminent: cf. F. éminence.]
1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke.
2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment. Milton. You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shak.
3. A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.
EMINENCY
Em"i*nen*cy, n.; pl Eminences (.
Defn: State of being eminent; eminence. "Eminency of estate."
Tillotson.
EMINENT Em"i*nent, a. Etym: [L. eminens, -entis, p. pr. of eminere to stand out, be prominent; e out + minere (in comp.) to project; of uncertain origin: cf. F. éminent. Cf. Menace.]
1. High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn
2. Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. Right of eminent domain. (Law) See under Domain.
Syn.
— Lofty; elevated; exalted; conspicuous; prominent; remarkable;
distinguished; illustrious; famous; celebrated; renowned; well-known.
See Distinguished.
EMINENTLY
Em"i*nent*ly, adv.
Defn: In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.
EMIR; EMEER
E"mir, E*meer", n. Etym: [Ar. emir, amir, commander: cf. F. émir. Cf.
Admiral, Ameer.]
Defn: An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.
EMIRSHIP; EMEERSHIP
E`mir*ship, E*meer"ship, n.
Defn: The rank or office of an Emir.
EMISSARY Em"is*sa*ry, n.; pl. Emissaries. Etym: [L. emissarius, fr. emittere, emissum, to send out: cf. F. émissaire. See Emit.]
Defn: 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. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.
Syn. — Emissary, Spy. A spy is one who enters an enemy's camp or territories to learn the condition of the enemy; an emissary may be a secret agent appointed not only to detect the schemes of an opposing party, but to influence their councils. A spy must be concealed, or he suffers death; an emissary may in some cases be known as the agent of an adversary without incurring similar hazard.
EMISSARY
Em"is*sa*ry, a.
1. Exploring; spying. B. Jonson.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
EMISSARYSHIP
Em"is*sa*ry*ship`, n.
Defn: The office of an emissary.
EMISSION
E*mis"sion, n. Etym: [L. emissio: cf. F. émission. See Emit.]
1. 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. issue bank notes.
2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.
EMISSITIOUS
Em`is*si"tious, a. Etym: [L. emissitius, fr. emittere.]
Defn: Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
EMISSIVE
E*mis"sive, a.
Defn: Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.
EMISSIVITY
Em`is*siv"i*ty, n.
Defn: 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
E*mis"so*ry, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Same as Emissary, a., 2.
EMIT
E*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Emitting.] Etym:
[L. emittere to send out; e out + mittere to send. See Mission.]
1. 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. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.
2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit. No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. Const. of the U. S.
EMITTENT
E*mit"tent, a. Etym: [L. emittens, p. pr. emittere.]
Defn: Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
EMMANTLE Em*man"tle, v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + mantle: cf. F. emmanteler. Cf. Inmantle.]
Defn: To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.
EMMANUEL
Em*man"u*el, n.
Defn: See Immanuel. Matt. i. 23.
EMMARBLE
Em*mar"ble, v. t.
Defn: To turn to marble; to harden. [Obs.]
Thou dost emmarble the proud heart. Spenser.
EMMENAGOGUE
Em*men"a*gogue, n. Etym: [Gr. n. pl., menses (emménagogue.] (Med.)
Defn: A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
EMMET
Em"met, n. Etym: [OE. emete, amete, AS. æmete. See Ant.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An ant. Emmet hunter (Zoöl.), the wryneck.
EMMETROPIA
Em`me*tro"pi*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: 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
Em`me*trop"ic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia. The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly for all distances. J. Le Conte.
EMMETROPY
Em*met"ro*py, n. (Med.)
Defn: Same as Emmetropia.
EMMEW
Em*mew", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + mew. Cf. Immew.]
Defn: To mew or coop up. [Obs.] Shak.
EMMOVE
Em*move", v. t. Etym: [For emove: cf. F. émouvoir, L. emovere. See
Emotion.]
Defn: To move; to rouse; to excite. [Obs.]
EMODIN
Em"o*din, n. (Chem.)
Defn: 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 Em`ol*les"cence, n. Etym: [L. e out + mollescere, incho. fr. mollere to be soft, mollis soft.]
Defn: That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
EMOLLIATE
E*mol"li*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emolliated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emolliating.] Etym: [See Emollient, a.]
Defn: To soften; to render effeminate. Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.
EMOLLIENT
E*mol"lient, a. Etym: [L. emolliens, -entis, p. pr. of emollire to
soften; e out + mollire to soften, mollis soft: cf. F. émollient. See
Mollify.]
Defn: Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.
EMOLLIENT
E*mol"lient (; 105), n. (Med.)
Defn: An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
EMOLLITION
Em`ol*li"tion, n.
Defn: The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation. Bacon.
EMOLUMENT E*mol"u*ment, n. Etym: [L. emolumentum, lit., a working out, fr. emoliri to move out, work out; e out + moliri to set in motion, exert one's self, fr. moles a huge, heavy mass: cf. F. émolument. See Mole a mound.]
Defn: The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.
EMOLUMENTAL
E*mol`u*men"tal, a.
Defn: Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.
EMONG; EMONGST
E*mong", E*mongst"
Defn: , (prep. Among. [Obs.]
EMOTION E*mo"tion, n. Etym: [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. See Move, and cf. Emmove.]
Defn: 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. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.
Syn. — Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. — Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. "Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing." Crabb.
EMOTIONAL
E*mo"tion*al, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
EMOTIONALISM
E*mo"tion*al*ism, n.
Defn: The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
EMOTIONALIZE
E*mo"tion*al*ize, v. t.
Defn: To give an emotional character to.
Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about
emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct.
Froude.
EMOTIONED
E*mo"tioned, a.
Defn: Affected with emotion. [R.] "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
EMOTIVE
E*mo"tive, a.
Defn: Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke.
— E*mo"tive*ly, adv.
EMOTIVENESS
E*mo"tive*ness, n.
Defn: Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.
EMOTIVITY
E`mo*tiv"i*ty, n.
Defn: Emotiveness. Hickok.
EMOVE
E*move", v. t.
Defn: To move. [Obs.] Thomson.
EMPAIR
Em*pair", v. t.
Defn: To impair. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPAISTIC
Em*pais"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Fine Arts)
Defn: Having to do with inlaid work; — especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.
EMPALE
Em*pale", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + pale: cf. OF. empalir.]
Defn: To make pale. [Obs.]
No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.
EMPALE Em*pale", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling.] Etym: [OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- (L. in) + OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See Pale a stake, and cf. Impale.] [Written also impale.]
1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
4. (Her.)
Defn: Same as Impale.
EMPALEMENT
Em*pale"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. empalement, fr. empaler. See Empale.]
[Written also impalement.]
1. A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.
2. A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
3. (Her.)
Defn: Same as Impalement.
EMPANEL
Em*pan"el, n. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + panel.] (Law)
Defn: A list of jurors; a panel. [Obs.] Cowell.
EMPANEL
Em*pan"el, v. t.
Defn: See Impanel.
EMPANOPLIED
Em*pan"o*plied, a. Etym: [Pref. em- + panoply.]
Defn: Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.
EMPARADISE
Em*par"a*dise, v. t.
Defn: Same as Imparadise.
EMPARK Em*park", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + park: cf. OF. emparchier, emparkier. Cf. Impark.]
Defn: To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.
[Obs.]
EMPARLANCE
Em*par"lance, n.
Defn: Parley; imparlance. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPASM
Em*pasm", n. Etym: [F. empasme, fr. Gr.
Defn: A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.
EMPASSION
Em*pas"sion, v. t.
Defn: To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.]
Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
EMPASSIONATE
Em*pas"sion*ate, a.
Defn: Strongly affected. [Obs.]
The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.
EMPAWN
Em*pawn", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + pawn. Cf. Impawn.]
Defn: To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.
To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.
EMPEACH
Em*peach", v. t.
Defn: To hinder. See Impeach. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPEARL
Em*pearl", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + pearl. Cf. Impearl.]
Defn: To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.
EMPEOPLE
Em*peo"ple, v. t.
Defn: To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.
[Obs.]
We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne.
EMPERESS
Em"per*ess, n.
Defn: See Empress. [Obs.]
EMPERICE
Em"per*ice, n.
Defn: An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EMPERIL
Em*per"il, v. t.
Defn: To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.
EMPERISHED
Em*per"ished, a.
Defn: Perished; decayed. [Obs.]
I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.
EMPEROR
Em"per*or, n. Etym: [OF. empereor, empereour, F. empereur, L.
imperator, fr. imperare to command; in in + parare to prepare, order.
See Parade, and cf. Imperative, Empress.]
Defn: 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. Emperor goose (Zoöl.), a large and handsome goose (Philacte canagica), found in Alaska. — Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). — Emperor paper. See under Paper. — Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris).
EMPERORSHIP
Em"per*or*ship, n.
Defn: The rank or office of an emperor.
EMPERY
Em"per*y, n. Etym: [L. imperium, influenced by OF. emperie, empire.
See Empire.]
Defn: Empire; sovereignty; dominion. [Archaic] Shak.
Struggling for my woman's empery. Mrs. Browning.
EMPHASIS
Em"pha*sis, n.; pl. Emphases. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. In, and Phase.]
1. (Rhet.)
Defn: 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. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it. E. Porter.
2. A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. External objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color. Sir W. Hamilton.
EMPHASIZE
Em"pha*size, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emphasized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emphasizing.]
Defn: To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
EMPHATIC; EMPHATICAL
Em*phat"ic, Em*phat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. emphatique. See Emphasis.]
1. 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.
2. Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible. "Emphatical colors." Boyle. "Emphatical evils." Bp. Reynolds.
Syn. — Forcible; earnest; impressive; energetic; striking; positive; important; special; significant.
EMPHATICALLY
Em*phat"ic*al*ly, adv.
1. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.
2. Not really, but apparently. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EMPHATICALNESS
Em*phat"ic*al*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
EMPHRACTIC
Em*phrac"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.
EMPHRENSY
Em*phren"sy, v. t.
Defn: To madden. [Obs.]
EMPHYSEMA
Em`phy*se"ma, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. emphysème.] (Med.)
Defn: A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. Emphysema of the lungs, Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.
EMPHYSEMATOUS
Em`phy*sem"a*tous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. emphysémateux.] (Med.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.
EMPHYTEUSIS
Em`phy*teu"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rom. Law)
Defn: 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. Heumann.
EMPHYTEUTIC
Em`phy*teu"tic, a. Etym: [L. emphyteuticus.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands.
EMPHYTEUTICARY
Em`phy*teu"ti*ca*ry, n. Etym: [L. emphyteuticarius, a.]
Defn: One who holds lands by emphyteusis.
EMPIERCE
Em*pierce", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + pierce. Cf. Impierce.]
Defn: To pierce; to impierce. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPIGHT
Em*pight", a. Etym: [Pref. em- + pight pitched, fixed.]
Defn: Fixed; settled; fastened. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPIRE Em"pire, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. imperium a command, sovereignty, dominion, empire, fr. imperare. See Emperor; cf. Imperial.]
1. Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. "The empire of the sea." Shak. Over hell extend His empire, and with iron scepter rule. Milton.
2. The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire. Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government. C. J. Smith.
3. Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason. "Under the empire of facts." M. Arnold. Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men. A. W. Ward. Celestial empire. See under Celestial. — Empire City, a common designation of the city of New York. — Empire State, a common designation of the State of New York.
Syn. — Sway; dominion; rule; control; reign; sovereignty; government; kingdom; realm; state.
EMPIRE STATE
Empire State.
Defn: New York; — a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
Empire State of the South.
Defn: Georgia; — a nickname.
EMPIRE STATE OF THE WEST
Empire State of the West.
Defn: Missouri; — a nickname.
EMPIRIC Em*pir"ic, n. Etym: [L. empiricus an empiric, Gr. fare: cf. F. empirique. See In, and Fare.]
1. One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
2. One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan. Among the Greek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.
EMPIRIC; EMPIRICAL
Em*pir"ic, Em*pir"ic*al, a.
1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.
2. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; — said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies. Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.
Syn.
— See Transcendental.
EMPIRICALLY
Em*pir"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
EMPIRICISM
Em*pir"i*cism, n.
1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery.
3. (Metaph.)
Defn: The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
EMPIRICIST
Em*pir"i*cist, n.
Defn: An empiric.
EMPIRISTIC
Em`pi*ris"tic, a. (Physics)
Defn: Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; — opposed to nativistic.
EMPLACE
Em*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emplaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Emplacing.]
[Cf. F. emplacer. See En-; Place, v. & n.]
Defn: To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.
EMPLACEMENT
Em*place"ment, n. [Cf. F. emplacement.]
Defn: A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
EMPLASTER Em*plas"ter, n. Etym: [OF. emplastre, F. emplâtre, L. emplastrum a plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
Defn: See Plaster. [Obs.] Wiseman.
EMPLASTER
Em*plas"ter, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. emplastrer, F. emplâtrer. See
Emplaster, n.]
Defn: To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance. [Obs.] "Fair as ye his name emplaster." Chaucer.
EMPLASTIC
Em*plas"tic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. emplastique, fr. Gr. Emplaster.]
Defn: Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
EMPLASTIC
Em*plas"tic, n.
Defn: A medicine causing constipation.
EMPLASTRATION
Em`plas*tra"tion, n. Etym: [L. emplastratio a budding.]
1. The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.
2. Etym: [See 1st Emplaster.] (Med.)
Defn: The application of a plaster or salve.
EMPLEAD
Em*plead", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + plead: cf. F. emplaidier.
Cf. Implead.]
Defn: To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
EMPLECTION
Em*plec"tion, n.
Defn: See Emplecton.
EMPLECTON
Em*plec"ton, n. Etym: [F. or L. emplecton, fr. Gr.
Defn: 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. [R.] Weale.
EMPLORE
Em*plore", v. t.
Defn: See Implore. [Obs.]
EMPLOY
Em*ploy", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Employed; p. pr. & vb. n. Employing.]
Etym: [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve,
implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply,
Implicate.]
1. To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; — often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.
(b) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. (c) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.
Syn.
— To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See Use.
EMPLOY
Em*ploy", n. Etym: [Cf. F. emploi.]
Defn: That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular
service or business; employment.
The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope.
In one's employ, in one's service.
EMPLOYABLE
Em*ploy"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. employable.]
Defn: Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
EMPLOYE
Em`ploy`é", n. Etym: [F., p. p. of employer.]
Defn: One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
EMPLOYEE
Em`ploy*ee", n. Etym: [The Eng. form of employé.]
Defn: One employed by another.
EMPLOYER
Em*ploy"er, n.
Defn: One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
EMPLOYMENT
Em*ploy"ment, n.
1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government. Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. Young.
Syn. — Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession.
EMPLUMED
Em*plumed", a.
Defn: Plumed. [R.]
EMPLUNGE
Em*plunge", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Implunge.]
Defn: To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMPOISON
Em*poi"son, v. t. Etym: [F. empoisonner; pref. em- + F. poison. See
Poison, and cf. Impoison.]
Defn: To poison; to impoison. Shak.
EMPOISON
Em*poi"son, n.
Defn: Poison. [Obs.] Remedy of Love.
EMPOISONER
Em*poi"son*er, n.
Defn: Poisoner. [Obs.] Bacon.
EMPOISONMENT
Em*poi"son*ment, n. Etym: [F. empoisonnement.]
Defn: The act of poisoning. Bacon.
EMPORETIC; EMPORETICAL
Em`po*ret"ic, Em`po*ret"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. emporeticus, Gr.
Emporium.]
Defn: Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise. [Obs.]
Johnson.
EMPORIUM Em*po"ri*um, n.; pl. Emporiums, L. Emporia. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. In, and Empiric, Fare.]
1. A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: The brain. [Obs.]
EMPOVERISH
Em*pov"er*ish, v. t.
Defn: See Impoverish.
EMPOWER
Em*pow"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Empowering.]
1. 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.
2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.
EMPRESS Em"press, n. Etym: [OE. empress, emperice, OF. empereis, empereris, fr. L. imperatrix, fem. of imperator. See Emperor.]
1. The consort of an emperor. Shak.
2. A female sovereign.
3. A sovereign mistress. "Empress of my soul." Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.
EMPRESSEMENT
Em`presse`ment", n. [F., fr s'empresser to hasten.]
Defn: Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.
He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.
Poe.
EMPRINT
Em*print", v. t. [Obs.]
Defn: See Imprint.
EMPRISE Em*prise", n. Etym: [OF. emprise, fr. emprendre to undertake; pref. em- (L. in) + F. prendre to take, L. prehendere, prendere; prae before + a verb akin to E. get. See Get, and cf. Enterprise, Impresa.] [Archaic]
1. An enterprise; endeavor; adventure. Chaucer. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.
2. The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits. I love thy courage yet and bolt emprise; But here thy sword can do thee little stead. Milton.
EMPRISE
Em*prise", v. t.
Defn: To undertake. [Obs.] Sackville.
EMPRISING
Em*pris"ing, a. Etym: [From Emprise, v. t.]
Defn: Full of daring; adventurous. [Archaic] T. Campbell.
EMPRISON
Em*pris"on, v. t. Etym: [Obs.]
Defn: See Imprison.
EMPROSTHOTONOS
Em`pros*thot"o*nos, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.
EMPTE
Emp"te, v. t.
Defn: To empty. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EMPTIER
Emp"ti*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, empties.
EMPTIER
Emp"ti*er, compar.
Defn: of Empty.
EMPTINESS
Emp"ti*ness, n. Etym: [From Empty.]
1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.
EMPTION
Emp"tion, n. Etym: [L. emptio, fr. emere to buy.]
Defn: The act of buying. [R.] Arbuthnot.
EMPTIONAL
Emp"tion*al, a.
Defn: Capable of being purchased.
EMPTY Emp"ty, a. [Compar. Emptier; superl. Emptiest.] Etym: [AS. emtig, æmtig, æmetig, fr. æmta, æmetta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain origin; cf. G. emsig busy.]
1. 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.
2. Free; clear; devoid; — often with of. "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton. I shall find you empty of that fault. Shak.
3. Having nothing to carry; unburdened. "An empty messenger." Shak. When ye go ye shall not go empty. Ex. iii. 21.
4. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; — said of language; as, empty words, or threats. Words are but empty thanks. Cibber.
5. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; — said of pleasure, the world, etc. Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise. Pope.
6. Producing nothing; unfruitful; — said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Gen. xli. 27.
7. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb. That in civility thou seem'st so empty. Shak.
8. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
Note: Empty is used as the first element in a compound; as, empty- handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; empty-headed, having few ideas; empty-hearted, destitute of feeling.
Syn.
— See Vacant.
EMPTY
Emp"ty, n.; pl. Empties (.
Defn: An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; — used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."
EMPTY
Emp"ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emptied; p. pr. & vb. n. Emptying.]
Defn: To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth. Eccl. xi. 3.
EMPTY
Emp"ty, v. i.
1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
EMPTYING
Emp"ty*ing, n.
1. The act of making empty. Shak.
2. pl.
Defn: The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
EMPUGN
Em*pugn", v. t. Etym: [Obs.]
Defn: See Impugn.
EMPURPLE
Em*pur"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empurpled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Empurpling.] Etym: [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple.]
Defn: To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
EMPUSE
Em*puse", n. Etym: [LL. empusa, Gr.
Defn: A phantom or specter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
EMPUZZLE
Em*puz"zle, v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- + puzzle.]
Defn: To puzzle. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.
EMPYEMA
Em`py*e"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.
Note: The term empyema is now restricted to a collection of pus in the cavity of the pleura.
EMPYESIS
Em`py*e"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: An eruption of pustules.
EMPYREAL
Em*pyr"e*al, a. Etym: [L. empyrius, empyreus, fiery, Gr. In, and
Fire.]
Defn: Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aërial substance;
pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope.
Empyreal air, oxygen gas.
EMPYREAL
Em*pyr"e*al, n.
Defn: Empyrean. Mrs. Browning.
EMPYREAN
Em`py*re"an, n. Etym: [See Empyreal.]
Defn: The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.
EMPYREAN
Em`py*re"an, a.
Defn: Empyreal. Akenside.
EMPYREUMA
Em`py*reu"ma, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. empyreume. See Empyreal.]
(Chem.)
Defn: The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
EMPYREUMATIC; EMPYREUMATICAL Em`py*reu*mat"ic, Em`py*reu*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. empyreumatique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. Empyreumatic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.
EMPYREUMATIZE
Em`py*reu"ma*tize, v. t.
Defn: To render empyreumatic. [R.]
EMPYRICAL
Em*pyr"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Empyreal.]
Defn: Containing the combustible principle of coal. Kirwan.
EMPYROSIS
Em"py*ro"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Defn: A general fire; a conflagration. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
EMRODS
Em"rods, n. pl.
Defn: See Emerods. [Obs.]
EMU
E"mu, n. Etym: [Cf. Pg. ema ostrich, F. émou, émeu, emu.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.]
Note: The name is sometimes erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the rhea, or South American ostrich. Emu wren. See in the Vocabulary.
EMULABLE
Em"u*la*ble, a. Etym: [L. aemulari to emulate + -able.]
Defn: Capable of being emulated. [R.]
Some imitable and emulable good. Abp. Leighton.
EMULATE Em"u*late, a. Etym: [L. aemulatus, p. p. of aemulari, fr. aemulus emulous; prob. akin to E. imitate.]
Defn: Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [Obs.] "A most emulate pride." Shak.
EMULATE
Em"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emulating.]
Defn: To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great. Thine eye would emulate the diamond. Shak.
EMULATION
Em`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. aemulatio: cf. F. émulation.]
1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.
2. Jea Such factious emulations shall arise. Shak.
Syn. — Competition; rivalry; contest; contention; strife. — Emulation, Competition, Rivalry. Competition is the struggle of two or more persons for the same object. Emulation is an ardent desire for superiority, arising from competition, but now implying, of necessity, any improper feeling. Rivalry is a personal contest, and, almost of course, has a selfish object and gives rise to envy. "Competition and emulation have honor for their basis; rivalry is but a desire for selfish gratification. Competition and emulation animate to effort; rivalry usually produces hatred. Competition and emulation seek to merit success; rivalry is contented with obtaining it." Crabb.
EMULATIVE
Em"u*la*tive, a.
Defn: Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort. "Emulative zeal." Hoole.
EMULATIVELY
Em"u*la*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In an emulative manner; with emulation.
EMULATOR
Em"u*la`tor, n. Etym: [L. aemulator.]
Defn: One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both. Bp.
Warburton.
EMULATORY
Em"u*la*to*ry, a.
Defn: Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry. [R.]
"Emulatory officiousness." Bp. Hall.
EMULATRESS
Em"u*la`tress, n.
Defn: A female emulator. [R.]
EMULE
Em"ule, v. t. Etym: [F. émuler. See Emulate.]
Defn: To emulate. [Obs.] "Emuled of many." Spenser.
EMULGE E*mulge", v. t. Etym: [L. emulgere, emulsum; e out + mulgere to milk; akin to E. milk. See Milk.]
Defn: To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.
EMULGENT E*mul"gent, a. Etym: [L. emulgens, p. pr. of emulgere to milk out: cf. F. émulgent. So called because regarded by the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking, and so producing the urine.] (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins. — n.
Defn: An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.
EMULGENT
E*mul"gent, n. (Med.)
Defn: A medicine that excites the flow of bile. [Obs.] Hoblyn.
EMULOUS
Em"u*lous, a. Etym: [L. aemulus. See Emulate.]
1. 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.
2. Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious. "Emulous Carthage." B. Jonson. Emulous missions 'mongst the gods. Shak.
EMULOUSLY
Em"u*lous*ly, adv.
Defn: In an emulous manner.
EMULOUSNESS
Em"u*lous*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being emulous.
EMULSIC
E*mul"sic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
Hoblyn.
EMULSIFY
E*mul"si*fy, v. t. Etym: [Emulsion + -fy.]
Defn: 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 E*mul"sin, n. Etym: [See Emulsion, Emulge.] (Chem.) (a) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [R.] (b) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.
EMULSION
E*mul"sion, n. Etym: [From L. emulgere, emulsum: cf. F. émulsion. See
Emulge.]
Defn: 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
E*mul"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. émulsif.]
1. Softening; milklike.
2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.
EMUNCTORY E*munc"to*ry, n.; pl. Emunctories. Etym: [L. emunctorium a pair of snuffers, fr. emungere, emunctum, to blow the nose, hence, to wipe, cleanse; e out + mungere to blow the nose: cf. F. émonctoire, formerly spelled also émonctoire.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.
EMUSCATION Em`us*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. emuscare to clear from moss; e out + muscus moss.]
Defn: A freeing from moss. [Obs.]
EMU WREN
E"mu wren`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.
EMYD
E"myd, n.; pl. E. Emyds, E. Emyd. Etym: [See Emydea.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidæ.
EMYDEA E*myd"e*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Emys a genus of tortoises, L. emys a kind of fresh-water tortoise, Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh- water tortoises and terrapins.
EN-
En-.
1. Etym: [F. en-, L. in.]
Defn: 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-.
2. A prefix from Gr. in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.
-EN -en.
1. 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.
2. A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen.
3. A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.
4. Etym: [AS. -en; akin to Goth. -eins, L. -inus, Gr.
Defn: An adjectival suffix, meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden.
5. Etym: [AS. -en; akin to Skr. -na.]
Defn: The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.
EN
En, n. (Print.)
Defn: Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.
ENABLE
En*a"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling.]
1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor.
2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison.
ENABLEMENT
En*a"ble*ment, n.
Defn: The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
Bacon.
ENACT
En*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enacting.]
1. 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.
2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.] The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak.
3. To act the part of; to represent; to play. I did enact Julius Caesar. Shak. Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction.
ENACT
En*act", n.
Defn: Purpose; determination. [Obs.]
ENACTIVE
En*act"ive, a.
Defn: Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.
ENACTMENT
En*act"ment, n.
1. 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.
2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.
ENACTOR
En*act"or, n.
Defn: One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Atterbury.
ENACTURE
En*ac"ture, n.
Defn: Enactment; resolution. [Obs.] Shak.
ENALIOSAUR
En*al"i*o*saur`, n. (Paleon.)
Defn: One of the Enaliosauria.
ENALIOSAURIA
En*al`i*o*sau"ri*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Paleon.)
Defn: An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the
Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
ENALIOSAURIAN
En*al`i*o*sau"ri*an, a. (Paleon.)
Defn: Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
— n.
Defn: One of the Enaliosauria.
ENALLAGE
E*nal"la*ge, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gram.)
Defn: 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
En*am"bush, v. t.
Defn: To ambush. [Obs.]
ENAMEL
En*am"el, n. Etym: [Pref. en- + amel. See Amel, Smelt, v. t.]
1. 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.
2. (Min.)
Defn: A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
3. That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.
4. (Anat.)
Defn: The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. — Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.
ENAMEL
En*am"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enameled or Enamelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enameling or Enamelling.]
1. To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
2. To variegate with colors as if with enamel. Oft he [the serpent]bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck. Milton.
3. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.
4. To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
ENAMEL
En*am"el, v. i.
Defn: To practice the art of enameling.
ENAMEL
En*am"el, a.
Defn: Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.
Tomlinson.
ENAMELAR
En*am"el*ar, a.
Defn: Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy. [R.]
Craig.
ENAMELED
En*am"eled, a.
Defn: Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]
ENAMELER; ENAMELIST
En*am"el*er, En*am"el*ist, n.
Defn: One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]
ENAMOR
En*am"or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enamored; p. pr. & vb. n. Enamoring.]
Etym: [OF. enamourer, enamorer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. amour
love, L. amor. See Amour, and cf. Inamorato.]
Defn: 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. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.
ENAMORMENT
En*am"or*ment, n.
Defn: The state of being enamored. [R.]
ENANTIOMORPHOUS
E*nan`ti*o*mor"phous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Crystallog.)
Defn: 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
E*nan`ti*o*path"ic, a. (Med.)
Defn: Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison.
ENANTIOPATHY
E*nan`ti*op"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr.
1. An opposite passion or affection. Sir W. Hamilton.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Allopathy; — a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.
ENANTIOSIS
E*nan`ti*o"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
ENARCH
En**arch", v. t.
Defn: To arch. [Obs.] Lydgate.
ENARCHED
En*arched", a. (Her.)
Defn: Bent into a curve; — said of a bend or other ordinary.
ENARGITE
En*ar"gite, n. (Min.)
Defn: An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
ENARMED
En*armed", a. (Her.)
Defn: Same as Armed, 3.
ENARRATION
En`ar*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. enarratio. See Narration.]
Defn: A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.
ENARTHRODIA
En`ar*thro"di*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Arthrodia.] (Anat.)
Defn: See Enarthrosis.
— En`ar*thro"di*al, a.
ENARTHROSIS
En`ar*thro"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.
ENASCENT E*nas"cent, a. Etym: [L. enascens, p. pr. of enasci to spring up; e out + nasci to be born.]
Defn: Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
ENATATION
E`na*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. enatare to swim out. See Natation.]
Defn: A swimming out. [Obs.] Bailey.
ENATE
E*nate", a. Etym: [L. enatus, p. p. of enasci. See Enascent.]
Defn: Growing out.
ENATION
E*na"tion, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.
ENAUNTER
E*naun"ter, adv. Etym: [Pref. en- + aunter.]
Defn: Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENAVIGATE
E*nav"i*gate, v. t. Etym: [L. enavigatus, p. p. of enavigare.]
Defn: To sail away or over. [Obs.] Cockeram.
ENBATTLED
En*bat"tled, a.
Defn: Embattled. [Obs.]
ENBIBE
En*bibe", v. t.
Defn: To imbibe. [Obs.] Skelton.
EN BLOC
En` bloc". [F. Cf. Block, n. ]
Defn: In a lump; as a whole; all together. "Movement of the ossicles en bloc." Nature.
En bloc they are known as "the herd".
W. A. Fraser.
ENBROUDE
En*broud"e, v. t.
Defn: See Embroude.
ENCAENIA
En*cæ"ni*a, n. pl.
Defn: = Encenia.
ENCAGE
En*cage", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Engaging.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + cage: cf. F. encager.]
Defn: To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.
ENCALENDAR
En*cal"en*dar, v. t.
Defn: To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.
ENCAMP
En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]
Defn: 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. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.
ENCAMP
En*camp", v. t.
Defn: To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or
quarters.
Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.
ENCAMPMENT
En*camp"ment, n.
1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.
ENCANKER
En*can"ker, v. t.
Defn: To canker. [Obs.]
ENCAPSULATION
En*cap`su*la"tion, n. (Physiol.)
Defn: The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
ENCARNALIZE
En*car"nal*ize, v. t.
Defn: To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] "Encarnalize their spirits."
Tennyson.
ENCARPUS
En*car"pus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. encarpa, pl., Gr. (Arch.)
Defn: An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]
ENCASE
En*case", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Enchase.]
Defn: To inclose as in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl.
ENCASEMENT
En*case"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. Casement.]
1. The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: An old theory of generation similar to emboOvulist.
ENCASH
En*cash", v. t. (Eng. Banking)
Defn: To turn into cash; to cash. Sat. Rev.
ENCASHMENT
En*cash"ment, n. (Eng. Banking)
Defn: The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
ENCAUMA
En*cau"ma, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. Encaustic.] (Med.)
Defn: An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. Dunglison.
ENCAUSTIC En*caus"tic, a. Etym: [L. encausticus, Gr. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink.] (Fine Arts)
Defn: Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. — Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.
ENCAUSTIC En*caus"tic, n. Etym: [L. encaustica, Gr. encaustique. See Encaustic, a.]
Defn: The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
ENCAVE
En*cave", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + cave: cf. F. encaver. Cf.
Incavated.]
Defn: To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.
-ENCE -ence. Etym: [F. -ence, L. -entia.]
Defn: 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 En`ceinte", n. Etym: [F., fr. enceindre to gird about, surround, L. incingere; in (intens). + cingere to gird. See Cincture.]
1. (Fort.)
Defn: The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; — called also body of the place.
2. The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification. The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte. S. W. Williams.
ENCEINTE En`ceinte", a. Etym: [F., fr. L. in not + cinctus, p. p. of cingere to gird about.]
Defn: Pregnant; with child.
ENCENIA
En*ce"ni*a, n. pl. Etym: [LL. encaenia, fr. Gr.
Defn: 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 En*cense", v. t. & i. Etym: [F. encenser, fr. encens. See Incense, n.]
Defn: To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENCEPHALIC
En`ce*phal"ic, a. Etym: [See Encephalon.] (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.
ENCEPHALITIS
En*ceph`a*li"tis, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the brain.
— En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.
ENCEPHALOCELE
En*ceph"a*lo*cele, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Hernia of the brain.
ENCEPHALOID
En*ceph"a*loid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.]
Defn: Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform. Encephaloid cancer (Med.), a very malignant form of cancer of brainlike consistency. See under Cancer.
ENCEPHALOID
En*ceph"a*loid, n.
Defn: An encephaloid cancer.
ENCEPHALOLOGY
En*ceph`a*lol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.
ENCEPHALON
En*ceph"a*lon, n. Etym: [NL. See Encephalos.] (Anat.)
Defn: The contents of the cranium; the brain.
ENCEPHALOPATHY
En*ceph`a*lop"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
ENCEPHALOS
En*ceph"a*los, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The encephalon.
In man the encephalos reaches its full size about seven years of age.
Sir W. Hamilton.
ENCEPHALOTOMY
En*ceph`a*lot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Surg.)
Defn: The act or art of dissecting the brain.
ENCEPHALOUS
En*ceph"a*lous, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having a head; — said of most Mollusca; — opposed to acephalous.
ENCHAFE
En*chafe", v. t.
Defn: To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] Shak.
ENCHAFING
En*chaf"ing, n.
Defn: Heating; burning. [Obs.]
The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. Chaucer.
ENCHAIN
En*chain", v. t. Etym: [F. enchaîner; pref. en- (L. in) chaîne chain.
See Chain, and cf. Incatenation.]
1. To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
2. To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
3. To link together; to connect. Howell.
ENCHAINMENT
En*chain"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. enchaînement.]
Defn: The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
ENCHAIR
En*chair", v. t.
Defn: To seat in a chair. Tennyson.
ENCHANNEL
En*chan"nel, v. t.
Defn: To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D.
Brewster.
ENCHANT En*chant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchanting.] Etym: [F. enchanter, L. incantare to chant or utter a magic formula over or against one, to bewitch; in in, against + cantare to sing. See Chant, and cf. Incantation.]
1. To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Shak. He is enchanted, cannot speak. Tennyson.
2. To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear. Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted. Sir P. Sidney.
Syn.
— To charm; bewitch; fascinate. Cf. Charm.
ENCHANTED
En*chant"ed, a.
Defn: Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.
ENCHANTER
En*chant"er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. enchanteur.]
Defn: One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment. Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Shelley. Enchanter's nightshade (Bot.), a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.
ENCHANTING
En*chant"ing, a.
Defn: Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.
— En*chant"ing*ly, adv.
ENCHANTMENT
En*chant"ment, n. Etym: [F. enchantement.]
1. 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. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.
2. The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.
3. That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights. Such an enchantment as there is in words. South.
Syn. — Incantation; necromancy; magic; sorcery; witchcraft; spell; charm; fascination; witchery.
ENCHANTRESS
En*chant"ress, n. Etym: [Cf. F. enchanteresse.]
Defn: A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.
ENCHARGE
En*charge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encharged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encharging.] Etym: [OF. enchargier, F. encharger; pref. en- (L. in) +
F. charger. See Charge.]
Defn: To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
ENCHARGE
En*charge", n.
Defn: A charge. [Obs.] A. Copley.
ENCHASE En*chase", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchased; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchasing.] Etym: [F. enchâsser; pref. en- (L. in) + châsse box containing relics, frame, case, the same word as caisse case. See 1st Case, and cf. Chase, Encase, Incase.]
1. 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. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.
2. To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case. With golden letters . . . well enchased. Spenser.
3. To delineate or describe, as by writing. [Obs.] All which . . . for to enchase, Him needeth sure a golden pen, I ween. Spenser.
ENCHASER
En*chas"er, n.
Defn: One who enchases.
ENCHASTEN
En*chas"ten, v. t.
Defn: To chasten. [Obs.]
ENCHESON; ENCHEASON En*che"son, En*chea"son, n. Etym: [OF. enchaison, fr. L. incidere to happen; in + cadere to fall.]
Defn: Occasion, cause, or reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENCHEST
En*chest", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Inchest.]
Defn: To inclose in a chest. Vicars.
ENCHIRIDION
En`chi*rid"i*on, n. Etym: [L., from Gr.
Defn: Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.
ENCHISEL
En*chis"el, v. t.
Defn: To cut with a chisel.
ENCHODUS
En"cho*dus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)
Defn: A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; — so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).
ENCHONDROMA
En`chon*dro"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -oma.] (Med.)
Defn: A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.
Quain.
ENCHORIAL; ENCHORIC
En*cho"ri*al, En*chor"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: 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
En`chy*lem"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: 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
En"chy*ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.
ENCINCTURE
En*cinc"ture, n.
Defn: A cincture. [Poetic]
The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.
ENCINDERED
En*cin"dered, a.
Defn: Burnt to cinders. [R.]
ENCIRCLE
En*cir"cle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encircled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encircling.] Etym: [Pref. en- + circle: cf. OF. encercler.]
Defn: 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.
Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell.
Syn.
— To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
ENCIRCLET
En*cir"clet, n. Etym: [Encircle + -let.]
Defn: A small circle; a ring. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
ENCLASP
En*clasp", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + clasp. Cf. Inclasp.]
Defn: To clasp. See Inclasp.
ENCLAVE
En*clave", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. in + clavus a nail.]
Defn: A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave. [Recent]
ENCLAVE
En*clave", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. enclaver.]
Defn: To inclose within an alien territory. [Recent]
ENCLAVEMENT
En*clave"ment, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The state of being an enclave. [Recent]
ENCLITIC; ENCLITICAL En*clit"ic, En*clit"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. encliticus, Gr. In, and Lean, v. i.] (Gram.)
Defn: Affixed; subjoined; — said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.
ENCLITIC
En*clit"ic, n. (Gram.)
Defn: A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).
ENCLITICALLY
En*clit"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back. Walker.
ENCLITICS
En*clit"ics, n. (Gram.)
Defn: The art of declining and conjugating words.
ENCLOISTER
En*clois"ter, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Incloister.]
Defn: To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
ENCLOSE En*close", v. t. Etym: [F. enclos, p. p. of enclore to enclose; pref. en- (L. in) + clore to close. See Close, and cf. Inclose, Include.]
Defn: To inclose. See Inclose.
ENCLOSURE
En*clo"sure, n.
Defn: Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
ENCLOTHE
En*clothe", v. t.
Defn: To clothe.
ENCLOUD
En*cloud", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Incloud.]
Defn: To envelop in clouds; to cloud. [R.] Spenser.
ENCOACH
En*coach", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Incoach.]
Defn: To carry in a coach. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)
ENCOFFIN
En*cof"fin, v. t.
Defn: To put in a coffin. [R.]
ENCOLDEN
En*cold"en, v. t.
Defn: To render cold. [Obs.]
ENCOLLAR
En*col"lar, v. t.
Defn: To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]
ENCOLOR
En*col"or, v. t.
Defn: To color. [R.]
ENCOLURE
En`co`lure", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The neck of horse. R. Browning.
ENCOMBER
En*com"ber, v. t.
Defn: See Encumber. [Obs.]
ENCOMBERMENT
En*com"ber*ment, n. Etym: [See Encumberment.]
Defn: Hindrance; molestation.[Obs.] Spenser.
ENCOMIAST
En*co"mi*ast, n. Etym: [Gr. encomiaste. See Encomium.]
Defn: One who praises; a panegyrist. Locke.
ENCOMIASTIC; ENCOMIASTICAL
En*co`mi*as"tic, En*co`mi*as"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. — En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.
ENCOMIASTIC
En*co`mi*as"tic, n.
Defn: A panegyric. B. Jonson.
ENCOMION
En*co"mi*on, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: Encomium; panegyric. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
ENCOMIUM
En*co"mi*um, n.; pl. Encomiums. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Comedy.]
Defn: Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving.
Syn.
— See Eulogy.
ENCOMPASS
En*com"pass, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encompassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encompassing.]
Defn: 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. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J. Smith. The love of all thy sons encompass thee. Tennyson.
Syn. — To encircle; inclose; surround; include; environ; invest; hem in; shut up.
ENCOMPASSMENT
En*com"pass*ment, n.
Defn: The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded;
circumvention.
By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
ENCORE
En`core", adv. or interj. Etym: [F. The last part of the word is fr.
L. hora hour. See Hour.]
Defn: Once more; again; — used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
ENCORE
En`core", n.
Defn: A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.
ENCORE
En`core", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encored; p. pr. & vb. n. Encoring.]
Defn: To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a
song or a singer.
[Rebecca] insisted upon encoring one of the duets. Thackeray.
ENCORPORING
En*cor"po*ring, n. Etym: [Pref. en- + L. corpus body.]
Defn: Incorporation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENCOUBERT En`cou`bert", n. Etym: [F., Pg. encorberto, encuberto, lit., covered.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and
Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
ENCOUNTER
En*coun"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encountered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encountering.] Etym: [OF. encontrer; pref. en- (L. in) + contre
against, L. contra. See Counter, adv.]
Defn: 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. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.
ENCOUNTER
En*coun"ter, v. i.
Defn: To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo. I will encounter with Andronicus. Shak. Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. Tatham.
ENCOUNTER En*coun"ter, n. Etym: [OF. encontre, fr. encontrer. See Encounter, v. t.]
1. A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope.
2. A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. Spenser. To join their dark encounter in mid-air. Milton .
Syn. — Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter; attack; engagement; onset. See Contest.
ENCOUNTERER
En*coun"ter*er, n.
Defn: One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
ENCOURAGE En*cour"age (; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encouraged (; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Encouraging.] Etym: [F. encourager; pref. en- (L. in) + courage courage. See Courage.]
Defn: 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. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6.
Syn. — To embolden; inspirit; animate; enhearten; hearten; incite; cheer; urge; impel; stimulate; instigate; countenance; comfort; promote; advance; forward; strengthen.
ENCOURAGEMENT
En*cour"age*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. encouragement.]
1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway.
2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people. To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. Byron.
ENCOURAGER
En*cour"a*ger, n.
Defn: One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
ENCOURAGING
En*cour"a*ging, a.
Defn: Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
— En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
ENCOWL
En*cowl", v. t.
Defn: To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.] Drayton.
ENCRADLE
En*cra"dle, v. t.
Defn: To lay in a cradle.
ENCRATITE
En"cra*tite, n. Etym: [L. Encratitae, pl., fr. Gr. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; — called also Continent.
ENCREASE
En*crease", v. t. &
Defn: i. [Obs.] See Increase.
ENCRIMSON
En*crim"son, v. t.
Defn: To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.
ENCRINIC; ENCRINAL; ENCRINITAL
En*crin"ic, En*cri"nal, En*crin"i*tal, a. (Paleon.)
Defn: Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.
ENCRINITE
En"cri*nite, n. Etym: [Gr. encrinite.] (Paleon.)
Defn: A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.
ENCRINITIC; ENCRINITICAL
En`cri*nit"ic, En`cri*nit"ic*al, a. (Paleon.)
Defn: Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.
ENCRINOIDEA
En`cri*noid"e*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Encrinus and -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.
ENCRINUS
En"cri*nus, n.; pl. Encrini. Etym: [NL. See Encrinite.] (Paleon.)
Defn: A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.
ENCRISPED
En*crisped", a.
Defn: Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.
ENCROACH En*croach", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encroached; p. pr. & vb. n. Encroaching.] Etym: [OF. encrochier to perch, prop., to hook, fasten a hook (perh. confused with acrochier, F. accrocher, to hook, get hold of, E. accroach); pref. en- (L. in) + F. croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Accroach.]
Defn: 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. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.
Syn.
— To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass.
ENCROACH
En*croach", n.
Defn: Encroachment. [Obs.] South.
ENCROACHER
En*croach"er, n.
Defn: One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
ENCROACHINGLY
En*croach"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: By way of encroachment.
ENCROACHMENT
En*croach"ment, n.
1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft.
2. That which is taken by encroaching on another.
3. (Law)
Defn: An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
ENCRUST
En*crust", v. t.
Defn: To incrust. See Incrust.
ENCRUSTMENT
En*crust"ment, n.
Defn: That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.
Disengaging truth from its encrustment of error. I. Taylor.
ENCUMBER
En*cum"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encumbered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encumbering.] Etym: [F. encombrer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. combrer to
hinder. See Cumber, and cf. Incumber.] [Written also incumber.]
1. 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. Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker.
2. To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Syn. — To load; clog; oppress; overload; embarrass; perplex; hinder; retard; obstruct; check; block.
ENCUMBERMENT
En*cum"ber*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. encombrement.]
Defn: Encumbrance. [R.]
ENCUMBRANCE
En*cum"brance, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. encombrance. Cf. Incumbrance.]
1. That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
2. (Law)
Defn: Same as Incumbrance.
Syn.
— Burden; clog; impediment; check; hindrance.
ENCUMBRANCER
En*cum"bran*cer, n. (Law)
Defn: Same as Incumbrancer.
ENCURTAIN
En*cur"tain, v. t.
Defn: To inclose with curtains.
-ENCY -en*cy. Etym: [L. -entia.]
Defn: A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.
ENCYCLIC; ENCYCLICAL En*cyc"lic, En*cyc"li*cal, a. Etym: [L. encyclios of a circle, general, Gr. encyclique. See Cycle.]
Defn: Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
ENCYCLIC; ENCYCLICAL
En*cyc"lic, En*cyc"li*cal, n.
Defn: An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. Shipley.
ENCYCLOPEDIA; ENCYCLOPAEDIA En*cy`clo*pe"di*a, En*cy`clo*pæ"di*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. encyclopédie. See Cyclopedia, and Encyclical.] [Formerly written encyclopædy and encyclopedy.]
Defn: 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
En*cy`clo*pe*di"a*cal, a.
Defn: Encyclopedic.
ENCYCLOPEDIAN
En*cy`clo*pe"di*an, a.
Defn: Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
ENCYCLOPEDIC; ENCYCLOPEDICAL En*cy`clo*ped"ic, En*cy`clo*ped"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. encyclopédique.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.
ENCYCLOPEDISM
En*cy`clo*pe"dism, n.
Defn: The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
ENCYCLOPEDIST
En*cy`clo*pe"dist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. encyclopédiste.]
Defn: The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau.
ENCYST
En*cyst", v. t.
Defn: To inclose in a cyst.
ENCYSTATION
En`cys*ta"tion, n.
Defn: Encystment.
ENCYSTED
En*cyst"ed, a.
Defn: Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an
encysted tumor.
The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang.
Coleridge.
ENCYSTMENT
En*cyst"ment, n.
1. (Biol.)
Defn: A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
Note: The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.
END
End, n. Etym: [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG.
enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ände, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis,
Skr. anta. Ante-, Anti-, Answer.]
1. 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 Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.
2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak.
3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.
4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends. Losing her, the end of living lose. Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge.
5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and
ends.
I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.
6. (Carpet Manuf.)
Defn: One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
An end. (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. Spenser (b) To the end;
continuously. [Obs.] Richardson.
— End bulb (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some
sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous
membranes; — also called end corpuscles.
— End fly, a bobfly.
— End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.
— End man, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the
extremities of a line of minstrels.
— End on (Naut.), bow foremost.
— End organ (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends,
either peripherally or centrally.
— End plate (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor
nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
— End play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement.
— End stone (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a
timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
— Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth.
— In the end, finally. Shak.
— On end, upright; erect.
— To the end, in order. Bacon.
— To make both ends meet, to live within one's income. Fuller.
— To put an end to, to destroy.
END
End, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ending.]
1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. "I shall end this strife." Shak. On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen. ii. 2.
2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him." Shak. To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
END
End, v. i.
Defn: To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
ENDABLE
End"a*ble, a.
Defn: That may be ended; terminable.
ENDALL; END-ALL
End"*all`, n.
Defn: Complete termination. [R.]
That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
ENDAMAGE En*dam"age (; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endamaged (; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Endamaging.] Etym: [Pref. en- + damage: cf. F. endommager.]
Defn: To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [R.]
The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
ENDAMAGEABLE
En*dam"age*a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [Obs.]
ENDAMAGEMENT
En*dam"age*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. endommagement.]
Defn: Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.
ENDAMNIFY
En*dam"ni*fy, v. t.
Defn: To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.
ENDANGER
En*dan"ger, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endangered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Endangering.]
1. To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace. All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him. Burke.
2. To incur the hazard of; to risk. [Obs.] He that turneth the humors back . . . endangereth malign ulcers. Bacon.
ENDANGERMENT
En*dan"ger*ment, n.
Defn: Hazard; peril. Milton.
ENDARK
En*dark", v. t.
Defn: To darken. [Obs.] Feltham.
ENDASPIDEAN
En`das*pid"e*an, a. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; — said of certain birds.
ENDAZZLE
En*daz"zle, v. t.
Defn: To dazzle. [Obs.] "Endazzled eyes." Milton.
ENDEAR
En*dear", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endeared; p. pr. & vb. n. Endearing.]
1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak.
2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.] King James I. (1618).
ENDEAREDLY
En*dear"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: With affection or endearment; dearly.
ENDEAREDNESS
En*dear"ed*ness, n.
Defn: State of being endeared.
ENDEARING
En*dear"ing, a.
Defn: Making dear or beloved; causing love.
— En*dear"ing*ly, adv.
ENDEARMENT
En*dear"ment, n.
Defn: The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.
ENDEAVOR En*deav"or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endeavored; p. pr. & vb. n. Endeavoring.] Etym: [OE. endevor; pref. en- + dever, devoir, duty, F. devoir: cf. F. se mettre en devoir de faire quelque chose to try to do a thing, to go about it. See Devoir, Debt.] [Written also endeavour.]
Defn: 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. It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects. Ld. Chatham. To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to the fulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] "A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness." Latimer.
ENDEAVOR
En*deav"or, v. i.
Defn: To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope.
Note: Usually with an infinitive; as, to endeavor to outstrip an
antagonist.
He had . . . endeavored earnestly to do his duty. Prescott.
Syn.
— To attempt; try; strive; struggle; essay; aim; seek.
ENDEAVOR
En*deav"or, n. Etym: [Written also endeavour.]
Defn: An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial. To employ all my endeavor to obey you. Sir P. Sidney. To do one's endeavor, to do one's duty; to put forth strenuous efforts to attain an object; — a phrase derived from the Middle English phrase "to do one's dever" (duty). "Mr. Prynne proceeded to show he had done endeavor to prepare his answer." Fuller.
Syn.
— Essay; trial; effort; exertion. See Attempt.
ENDEAVORER
En*deav"or*er, n.
Defn: One who makes an effort or attempt. [Written also endeavourer.]
ENDEAVORMENT
En*deav"or*ment, n.
Defn: Act of endeavoring; endeavor. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENDECAGON
En*dec"a*gon, n. Etym: [See Hendecagon.] (Geom.)
Defn: A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.
ENDECAGYNOUS
En`de*cag"y*nous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.
ENDECANE
En"de*cane, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]
ENDECAPHYLLOUS
En`de*caph"yl*lous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Composed of eleven leaflets; — said of a leaf.
ENDEICTIC
En*deic"tic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the
Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.
Enfield.
ENDEIXIS
En*deix"is, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Endeictic.] (Med.)
Defn: An indication.
ENDEMIAL
En*de"mi*al, a.
Defn: Endemic. [R.]
ENDEMIC; ENDEMICAL
En*de"mic, En*de"mic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. endémique.] (Med.)
Defn: Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
Note: An endemic disease is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now and then.
ENDEMIC
En*dem"ic, n. (Med.)
Defn: An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.
ENDEMICALLY
En*dem"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In an endemic manner.
ENDEMIOLOGY
En*dem`i*ol"o*gy, n.
Defn: The science which treats of endemic affections.
ENDENIZATION
En*den`i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of naturalizing. [R.]
ENDENIZE
En*den"ize, v. t.
Defn: To endenizen. [Obs.]
ENDENIZEN
En*den"i*zen, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + denizen. Cf. Indenizen.]
Defn: To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
ENDER
End"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
ENDERMATIC
En`der*mat"ic, a.
Defn: Endermic.
ENDERMIC
En*der"mic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.
ENDERMICALLY
En*der"mic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.
ENDERON
En"de*ron, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous
membranes.
— En`de*ron"ic, a.
ENDIADEMED
En*di"a*demed, a.
Defn: Diademed. [R.]
ENDIAPER
En*di"a*per, v. t. Etym: [See Diaper.]
Defn: To decorate with a diaper pattern.
ENDICT
En*dict", v. t.
Defn: See Indict.
ENDICTMENT
En*dict"ment, n.
Defn: See Indictment.
ENDING
End"ing, n.
1. Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5. Ending day, day of death. Chaucer.
ENDITE
En*dite, v. t.
Defn: See Indite. Spenser.
ENDIVE En"dive, n. Etym: [F. endive (cf. Pr., Sp. Pg., & It. endivia), fr. a deriv. of L. intibus, intybus, endive.] (Bot.)
Defn: A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.
ENDLESS
End"less, a. Etym: [AS. endeleás. See End.]
1. 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.
2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. Shak.
3. Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] "All loves are endless." Beau. & Fl.
4. Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit. Endless chain, a chain which is made continuous by uniting its two ends. — Endless screw. (Mech.) See under Screw.
Syn. — Eternal; everlasting; interminable; infinite; unlimited; incessant; perpetual; uninterrupted; continual; unceasing; unending; boundless; undying; imperishable.
ENDLESSLY
End"less*ly, adv.
Defn: In an endless manner.
ENDLESSNESS
End"less*ness, n. Etym: [AS. endeleásnys.]
Defn: The quality of being endless; perpetuity.
ENDLONG
End"long`, adv. & prep. Etym: [Cf. Along.]
Defn: Lengthwise; along. [Archaic]
The doors were all of adamants eterne, I-clenched overthwart and
endelong With iron tough. Chaucer.
He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer.
To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.
ENDMOST
End"most`, a.
Defn: Farthest; remotest; at the very end. Tylor.
ENDO-; END-
En"do-, End-. Etym: [Gr. In.]
Defn: A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.
ENDOBLAST
En"do*blast, n. Etym: [Endo- + -blast.] (Biol.)
Defn: Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,
ENDOBLASTIC
En`do*blas"tic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.
ENDOCARDIAC; ENDOCARDIAL
En`do*car"di*ac, En`do*car"di*al, a.
1. Pertaining to the endocardium.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.
ENDOCARDITIS
En`do*car*di"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the endocardium.
ENDOCARDIUM
En`do*car"di*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
ENDOCARP
En"do*carp, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. endocarpe.] (Bot.)
Defn: The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.
ENDOCHONDRAL
En`do*chon"dral, a. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Physiol.)
Defn: Growing or developing within cartilage; — applied esp. to developing bone.
ENDOCHROME
En"do*chrome, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
ENDOCTRINE
En*doc"trine, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + doctrine.]
Defn: To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.
ENDOCYST
En"do*cyst, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.
ENDODERM En"do*derm, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Biol.) (a) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal. (b) The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
ENDODERMAL; ENDODERMIC
En`do*der"mal, En`do*der"mic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the endoderm.
ENDODERMIS
En`do*der"mis, n. Etym: [NL. See Endoderm.] (Bot.)
Defn: A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
ENDOGAMOUS
En*dog"a*mous, a. Etym: [Endo- + Gr.
Defn: Marrying within the same tribe; — opposed to exogamous.
ENDOGAMY
En*dog"a*my, n.
Defn: 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
En"do*gen, n. Etym: [Endo- + -gen: cf. F. endogène.] (Bot.)
Defn: 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
En`do*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Endo- + genesis.] (Biol.)
Defn: Endogeny.
ENDOGENETIC
En`do*ge*net"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Endogenous.
ENDOGENOUS
En*dog"e*nous, a.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: Originating from within; increasing by internal growth. Endogenous multiplication (Biol.), a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original cell wall is ruptured and the new cells are liberated (see Segmentation, and Illust. of Cell Division, under Division). This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, both animal and vegetable.
ENDOGENOUSLY
En*dog"e*nous*ly, adv.
Defn: By endogenous growth.
ENDOGENY
En*dog"e*ny, n. Etym: [See Endogenesis.] (Biol.)
Defn: 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
En"dog*nath, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of
Crustacea. See Maxilla.
ENDOGNATHAL
En*dog"na*thal, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Pertaining to the endognath.
ENDOLYMPH
En"do*lymph, n. Etym: [Endo- + lymph: cf. F. endolymphe.] (Anat.)
Defn: The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
ENDOLYMPHANGIAL
En"do*lym*phan"gi*al, a. Etym: [Endo- + lymphangial.] (Anat.)
Defn: Within a lymphatic vessel.
ENDOLYMPHATIC En"do*lym*phat"ic, a. Etym: [Endo- + lymphatic.] (Anat.) (a) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct. (b) Within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.
ENDOME
En*dome", v. t.
Defn: To cover as with a dome.
ENDOMETRITIS
En`do*me*tri"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Endometrium, and -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the endometrium.
ENDOMETRIUM
En`do*me"tri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.
ENDOMORPH
En"do*morph, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.
ENDOMYSIUM
En`do*my"si*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.
ENDONEURIUM
En`do*neu"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.
ENDOPARASITE
En`do*par"a*site, n. Etym: [Endo- + parasite.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal,
as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; — opposed to ectoparasite. See
Entozoön.
— En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.
ENDOPHLOEUM
En`do*phloe"um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The inner layer of the bark of trees.
ENDOPHRAGMA
En`do*phrag"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.
ENDOPHRAGMAL
En`do*phrag"mal, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the endophragma.
ENDOPHYLLOUS
En*doph"yl*lous, a. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.
ENDOPLASM
En"do*plasm, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
ENDOPLASMA
En`do*plas"ma, n. Etym: [NL. See Endoplasm.] (Biol.)
Defn: Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc.
ENDOPLAST
En"do*plast, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: See Nucleus.
ENDOPLASTICA
En`do*plas"ti*ca, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am
ENDOPLASTULE
En`do*plas"tule, n. Etym: [A dim. fr. endo- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: See Nucleolus.
ENDOPLEURA
En`do*pleu"ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Pleura.] (Bot.)
Defn: The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
ENDOPLEURITE
En`do*pleu"rite, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.
ENDOPODITE
En*dop"o*dite, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.
ENDORHIZA
En`do*rhi"za, n.; pl. Endorhizæ. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Any monocotyledonous plant; — so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.
Note: Endorhiza was proposed by Richard as a substitute for the term endogen, and exorhiza as a substitute for the term exogen; but they have not been generally adopted.
ENDORHIZAL; ENDORHIZOUS
En`do*rhi"zal, En`do*rhi"zous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.
ENDORSE
En*dorse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endorsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Endorsing.]
Etym: [Formerly endosse, fr. F. endosser to put on the back, to
endorse; pref. en- (L. in) + dos back, L. dorsum. See Dorsal, and cf.
Indorse.]
Defn: Same as Indorse.
Note: Both endorse and indorse are used by good writers; but the tendency is to the more general use of indorse and its derivatives indorsee, indorser, and indorsement.
ENDORSE
En*dorse", n. (Her.)
Defn: A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).
ENDORSEE
En`dor*see", n.
Defn: Same as Indorsee.
ENDORSEMENT
En*dorse"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. endossement.]
Defn: Same as Indorsement.
ENDORSER
En*dors"er, n.
Defn: Same as Indorser.
ENDOSARC
En"do*sarc, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
ENDOSCOPE
En"do*scope, n. Etym: [Endo- + -scope.] (Med.)
Defn: An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
ENDOSCOPY
En*dos"co*py, n. (Med.)
Defn: The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.
ENDOSKELETAL
En`do*skel"e*tal, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.
ENDOSKELETON
En`do*skel"e*ton, n. Etym: [Endo- + skeleton.] (Anat.)
Defn: The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
ENDOSMOMETER
En`dos*mom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Endosmose + -meter.] (Physics)
Defn: An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.
ENDOSMOMETRIC
En*dos`mo*met"ric, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.
ENDOSMOSE; ENDOSMOSIS En"dos*mose`, En`dos*mo"sis, n. Etym: [NL. endosmosis, fr. Gr. endosmose.] (Physics)
Defn: The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.
ENDOSMOSMIC
En`dos*mos"mic, a.
Defn: Endosmotic.
ENDOSMOTIC
En`dos*mot"ic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
Carpenter.
ENDOSPERM
En"do*sperm, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The albumen of a seed; — limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
ENDOSPERMIC
En`do*sper"mic, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.
ENDOSPORE
En"do*spore, n. Etym: [Endo- + spore.] (Bot.)
Defn: The thin inner coat of certain spores.
ENDOSPOROUS
En`do*spor"ous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Having the spores contained in a case; — applied to fungi.
ENDOSS
En*doss", v. t. Etym: [F. endosser. See Endorse.]
Defn: To put upon the back or outside of anything; — the older spelling of endorse. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENDOSTEAL
En*dos"te*al, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.
ENDOSTERNITE
En`do*ster"nite, n. Etym: [Endo- + sternum.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
ENDOSTEUM
En*dos"te*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
ENDOSTOMA
En*dos"to*ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.
ENDOSTOME
En"do*stome, n. Etym: [See Endostoma.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: And endostoma.
ENDOSTOSIS
En`dos*to"sis, n. Etym: [NL. See Endo-, and Ostosis.] (Physiol.)
Defn: A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.
ENDOSTYLE
En"do*style, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
ENDOTHECA
En`do*the"ca, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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. — En`do*the"cal, a.
ENDOTHECIUM
En`do*the"ci*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Endotheca.] (Bot.)
Defn: The inner lining of an another cell.
ENDOTHELIAL
En`do*the"li*al, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of, or relating to, endothelium.
ENDOTHELIUM
En`do*the"li*um, n.; pl. Endothelia. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.
ENDOTHELOID
En`do*the"loid, a. Etym: [Endothelium + -oid.] (Anat.)
Defn: Like endothelium.
ENDOTHERMIC
En`do*ther"mic, a. [Pref. endo-+ thermic.] (Chem.)
Defn: Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; — opposed to exothermic.
ENDOTHORAX
En`do*tho"rax, n. Etym: [Endo- + thorax.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.
ENDOW
En*dow", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Endowing.]
Etym: [OF. endouer; pref. en- (L. in) + F. douer to endow, L. dotare.
See Dower, and cf. 2d Endue.]
1. 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. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
ENDOWER
En*dow"er, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. endouairer. See Dower, Endow.]
Defn: To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
ENDOWER
En*dow"er, n.
Defn: One who endows.
ENDOWMENT
En*dow"ment, n.
1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
3. That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; — usually in the plural. His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do. I. Taylor.
ENDOZOA
En`do*zo"a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Entozoa.
ENDRUDGE
En*drudge", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + drudge.]
Defn: To make a drudge or slave of. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ENDUE
En*due", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endued; p. pr. & vb. n. Enduing.] Etym:
[L. induere, prob. confused with E. endow. See Indue.]
Defn: To invest. Latham.
Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from
on high. Luke xxiv. 49.
Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts. Book of Common Prayer.
ENDUE
En*due", v. t.
Defn: An older spelling of Endow. Tillotson.
ENDUEMENT
En*due"ment, n.
Defn: Act of enduing; induement.
ENDURABLE
En*dur"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. endurable. See Endure.]
Defn: Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay.
— En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.
ENDURABLY
En*dur"a*bly, adv.
Defn: In an endurable manner.
ENDURANCE
En*dur"ance, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]
1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.
2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.
Syn.
— Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
ENDURANT
En*dur"ant, a.
Defn: Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
ENDURE
En*dure", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Endured; p. pr. & vb. n. Enduring.]
Etym: [F. endurer; pref. en- (L. in) + durer to last. See Dure, v.
i., and cf. Indurate.]
1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.
2. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee Ezek. xxii. 14.
ENDURE
En*dure", v. t.
1. To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.
2. To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate. I will no longer endure it. Shak. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Tim. ii. 10. How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people Esther viii. 6.
3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.] Manly limbs endured with little ease. Spenser.
Syn.
— To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.
ENDUREMENT
En*dure"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. endurement.]
Defn: Endurance. [Obs.] South.
ENDURER
En*dur"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.
ENDURING
En*dur"ing, a.
Defn: Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.
"A better and enduring substance." Heb. x. 34.
— En*dur"ing*ly, adv. T. Arnold.
— En*dur"ing*ness, n.
ENDWAYS; ENDWISE
End"ways`, End"wise, adv.
1. On end; erectly; in an upright position.
2. With the end forward.
ENDYMA
En"dy*ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: See Ependyma.
ENDYSIS
En"dy*sis, n.; pl. Endyses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; — opposed to ecdysis.
ENECATE En"e*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. enecatus, p. p. of enecare; e out, utterly + necare to kill.]
Defn: To kill off; to destroy. [Obs.] Harvey.
ENEID
E*ne"id, n.
Defn: Same as Æneid.
ENEMA
En"e*ma, n.; pl. L. Enemata. Etym: [L. enema, Gr. (Med.)
Defn: An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.
ENEMY En"e*my, n.; pl. Enemies. Etym: [OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See Amicable.]
Defn: 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. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44. The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours. It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay. Macaulay.
Syn.
— Foe; antagonist; opponent. See Adversary.
ENEMY
En"e*my, a.
Defn: Hostile; inimical. [Obs.]
They . . . every day grow more enemy to God. Jer. Taylor.
ENEPIDERMIC
En*ep`i*der"mic, a. Etym: [Pref. en- (Gr. epidermic.] (Med.)
Defn: Applied to the skin without friction; — said of medicines.
ENERGETIC; ENERGETICAL
En`er*get"ic, En`er*get"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Energy.]
1. Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. "A Being eternally energetic." Grew.
2. Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.
Syn.
— Forcible; powerful; efficacious; potent; vigorous; effective;
strenuous.
— En`er*get"ic*al*ly, adv.
— En`er*get"ic*al*ness, n.
ENERGETICS
En`er*get"ics, n.
Defn: 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. [R.]
ENERGIC; ENERGICAL
En*er"gic, En*er"gic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. énergique.]
1. In a state of action; acting; operating.
2. Having energy or great power; energetic. The energic faculty that we call will. Blackw. Mag.
ENERGIZE
En"er*gize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Energized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Energizing.] Etym: [From Energy.]
Defn: To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards. J. C. Shairp.
ENERGIZE
En"er*gize, v. t.
Defn: To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
ENERGIZER
En"er*gi`zer, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.
ENERGIZING
En"er*gi`zing, a.
Defn: Capable of imparting or exercising energy.
Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.
ENERGUMEN
En`er*gu"men, n. Etym: [L. energumenos, fr. Gr. énergumène. See
Energetic.] (Eccl. Antiq.)
Defn: One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.
ENERGY
En"er*gy, n.; pl. Energies. Etym: [F. énergie, LL. energia, fr.
Gr.In, and Work.]
1. 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. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.
2. Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
3. Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; — said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
4. (Physics)
Defn: Capacity for performing work.
Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; — energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.
Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, and Degradation of energy, etc. (Physics) See under Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.
Syn. — Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.
ENERVATE
E*ner"vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enervating.] Etym: [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr. enervis
nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See Nerve.]
Defn: To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render
feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers
of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.
Syn.
— To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
ENERVATE
E*ner"vate, a. Etym: [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Defn: Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.
ENERVATION
En`er*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. enervatio: cf. F. énervation.]
1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
ENERVATIVE
E*ner"va*tive, a.
Defn: Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]
ENERVE
E*nerve", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. énerver. See Enervate.]
Defn: To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.
ENERVOUS
E*nerv"ous, a. Etym: [L. enervis, enervus.]
Defn: Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]
ENFACE
En*face", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfacing.]
[Pref. en- + face.]
1. To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.
2. To write or print (a memorandum, direction, or the like) on the face of a draft, bill, etc.; as, to enface the words "Payable in Calcutta" upon the face of a draft.
Enfaced paper (Com.), Indian government securities the principal and interest of which are enfaced as payable in silver rupees. Dict. of Pol. Econ.
ENFAMISH
En*fam"ish, v. t.
Defn: To famish; to starve.
ENFECT
En*fect", a. Etym: [See Infect, a.]
Defn: Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENFEEBLE
En*fee"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeebled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfeebling.] Etym: [OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in) +
feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble.]
Defn: To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.
Syn.
— To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
ENFEEBLEMENT
En*fee"ble*ment, n.
Defn: The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
ENFEEBLER
En*fee"bler, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
ENFEEBLISH
En*fee"blish, v. i.
Defn: To enfeeble. [Obs.] Holland.
ENFELONED
En*fel"oned, a. Etym: [Pref. en- + felon: cf. OF. enfelonner.]
Defn: Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.
ENFEOFF En*feoff" (; see Feoff, 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.] Etym: [Pref. en- + feoff, fief: cf. LL. infeofare, OF. enfeffer, enfeofer.]
1. (Law)
Defn: 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. Mozley & W.
2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.] [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity. Shak.
ENFEOFFMENT En*feoff"ment, n. (Law) (a) The act of enfeoffing. (b) The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.
ENFESTER
En*fes"ter, v. t.
Defn: To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).
ENFETTER
En*fet"ter, v. t.
Defn: To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
ENFEVER
En*fe"ver, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + fever: cf. F. enfiévrer.]
Defn: To excite fever in. [R.] A. Seward.
ENFIERCE
En*fierce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfierced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfiercing.]
Defn: To make fierce. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENFILADE En`fi*lade", n. Etym: [F., fr. enfiler to thread, go trough a street or square, rake with shot; pref. en- (L. in) + fil thread. See File a row.]
1. A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]
2. (Mil.)
Defn: A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.
ENFILADE
En`fi*lade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfiladed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfilading.] (Mil.)
Defn: To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.
ENFILED
En*filed", p. a. Etym: [F. enfiler to pierce, thread.] (Her.)
Defn: 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
En*fire", v. t.
Defn: To set on fire. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENFLESH
En*flesh", v. t.
Defn: To clothe with flesh. [Obs.]
Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
ENFLEURAGE
En`fleu`rage", n. [F., fr. en-(L. in) + fleur flower.]
Defn: A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.
ENFLOWER
En*flow"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enflowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enflowering.]
Defn: To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic]
These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.
ENFOLD
En*fold", v. t.
Defn: To infold. See Infold.
ENFOLDMENT
En*fold"ment, n.
Defn: The act of infolding. See Infoldment.
ENFORCE
En*force", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enforced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enforcing.]
Etym: [OF. enforcier to strengthen, force, F. enforcir; pref. en- (L.
in) + F. force. See Force.]
1. To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.
2. To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.
3. To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.
4. To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. Burke.
5. To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
6. To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.
ENFORCE
En*force, v. i.
1. To attempt by force. [Obs.]
2. To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.
3. To strengthen; to grow strong. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENFORCE
En*force", n.
Defn: Force; strength; power. [Obs.]
A petty enterprise of small enforce. Milton.
ENFORCEABLE
En*force"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being enforced.
ENFORCED
En*forced", a.
Defn: Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced
smiles." Shak.
— En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.
ENFORCEMENT
En*force"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. enforcement.]
1. The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.
2. A giving force to; a putting in execution. Enforcement of strict military discipline. Palfrey.
3. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied. The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.
ENFORCER
En*for"cer, n.
Defn: One who enforces.
ENFORCIBLE
En*for"ci*ble, a.
Defn: That may be enforced.
ENFORCIVE
En*for"cive, a.
Defn: Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive. Marsion.
— En*for"cive*ly, adv.
ENFOREST
En*for"est, v. t.
Defn: To turn into a forest.
ENFORM
En*form", v. t. Etym: [F. enformer. See Inform.]
Defn: To form; to fashion. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENFOULDRED
En*foul"dred, a. Etym: [Pref. en- + OF. fouldre, foldre, lightning,
F. foudre, L. fulgur.]
Defn: Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [Obs.] "With foul enfouldred smoke." Spenser.
ENFRAME
En*frame", v. t.
Defn: To inclose, as in a frame.
ENFRANCHISE
En*fran"chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfranchising.] Etym: [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.]
1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.
2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.
ENFRANCHISEMENT
En*fran"chise*ment, n.
1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak.
2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.
ENFRANCHISER
En*fran"chis*er, n.
Defn: One who enfranchises.
ENFREE
En*free", v. t.
Defn: To set free. [Obs.] "The enfreed Antenor." Shak.
ENFREEDOM
En*free"dom, v. t.
Defn: To set free. [Obs.] Shak.
ENFREEZE
En*freeze", v. t.
Defn: To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.]
Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.
ENFROWARD
En*fro"ward, v. t.
Defn: To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E.
Sandys.
ENGAGE
En*gage", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Engaging.]
Etym: [F. engager; pref. en- (L. in) + gage pledge, pawn. See Gage.]
1. 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. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak.
2. To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
3. To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. Good nature engages everybody to him. Addison.
4. To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on. Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.
5. To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict. A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy. Ludlow.
6. (Mach.)
Defn: To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
ENGAGE
En*gage", v. i.
1. To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant. How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not. Fuller.
2. To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
3. To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
4. (Mach.)
Defn: To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
ENGAGED
En*gaged", a.
1. Occupied; employed; busy.
2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight. Engaged column. (Arch.) Same as Attached column. See under Attach, v. t.
ENGAGEDLY
En*ga"ged*ly, adv.
Defn: With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
ENGAGEDNESS
En*ga"ged*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
ENGAGEMENT
En*gage"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. engagement.]
1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. Milton.
4. (Mil.)
Defn: An action; a fight; a battle.
In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden.
5. (Mach.)
Defn: The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
Syn.
— Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation;
betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See
Battle.
ENGAGER
En*ga"ger, n.
Defn: One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
ENGAGING
En*ga"ging, a.
Defn: Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. — En*ga"ging*ly, adv. — En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.
ENGALLANT
En*gal"lant, v. t.
Defn: To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
ENGAOL
En*gaol", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + gaol: cf. OF. engaoler, engeoler.
See Gaol, and cf. Enjail.]
Defn: To put in jail; to imprison. [Obs.] Shak.
ENGARBOIL
En*gar"boil, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + garboil.]
Defn: To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.
ENGARLAND
En*gar"land, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + garland: cf. F. enguirlander.]
Defn: To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
ENGARRISON
En*gar"ri*son, v. t.
Defn: To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
Bp. Hall.
ENGASTRIMUTH
En*gas"tri*muth, n. Etym: [Gr. engastrimythe.]
Defn: An ventriloquist. [Obs.]
ENGENDER
En*gen"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engendered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Engendering.] Etym: [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to
beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate.]
1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]
2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.
Syn. — To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.
ENGENDER
En*gen"der, v. i.
1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. Dryden.
2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.
ENGENDER
En*gen"der, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, engenders.
ENGENDRURE
En`gen*drure", n. Etym: [OF. engendreure.]
Defn: The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENGILD
En*gild", v. t.
Defn: To gild; to make splendent.
Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
ENGINE
En"gine, n. Etym: [F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium
natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce.
See Genius, and cf. Ingenious, Gin a snare.]
1. (Pronounced, in this sense, [Obs.] A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also. Chaucer.
2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak. You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.
3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.
4. (Mach.)
Defn: A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. — Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. — Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. — Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.
Note: The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power, as steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.
ENGINE
En"gine, v. t.
1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.] To engine and batter our walls. T. Adams.
2. To equip with an engine; — said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
3. (Pronounced, in this sense, [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENGINEER
En`gi*neer", n. Etym: [OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F. ingénieur.
See Engine, n.]
1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [Colloq.] Civil engineer, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. — Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.
ENGINEER
En`gi*neer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engineered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Engineering.]
1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. J. Hamilton.
2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]
ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS En`gi*neer" Corps. (a) In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
ENGINEERING
En`gi*neer"ing, n.
Defn: Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
Note: In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering, which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works, and civil engineering, in a broad sense, as relating to other kinds of public works, machinery, etc. — Civil engineering, in modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works, such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc. — Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc. — Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc. Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.
ENGINEMAN
En"gine*man, n.; pl. Enginemen (.
Defn: A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
ENGINER
En"gin*er, n. Etym: [See Engineer.]
Defn: A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.
ENGINERY
En"gine*ry, n.
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.
2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton.
3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
ENGINE-SIZED
En"gine-sized`, a.
Defn: Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; — said of paper. Knight.
ENGINE-TYPE GENERATOR
En"gine-type` gen"er*a`tor. (Elec.)
Defn: A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
ENGINOUS
En"gi*nous, a. Etym: [OF. engignos. See Ingenious.]
1. Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.] That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. Decker.
2. Contrived with care; ingenious. [Obs.] The mark of all enginous drifts. B. Jonson.
ENGIRD
En*gird", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engirded or Engirt (p. pr. & vb. n.
Engirding.] Etym: [Pref. en- + gird. Cf. Ingirt.]
Defn: To gird; to encompass. Shak.
ENGIRDLE
En*gir"dle, v. t.
Defn: To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
ENGIRT
En*girt", v. t.
Defn: To engird. [R.] Collins.
ENGISCOPE
En"gi*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. -scope.] (Opt.)
Defn: A kind of reflecting microscope. [Obs.]
ENGLAIMED En*glaimed", a. Etym: [OE. engleimen to smear, gleim birdlime, glue, phlegm.]
Defn: Clammy. [Obs.]
ENGLE En"gle, n. Etym: [OE. enghle to coax or cajole. Cf. Angle a hook, one easily enticed, a gull, Ingle.]
Defn: A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
ENGLE
En"gle, v. t.
Defn: To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.]
I 'll presently go and engle some broker. B. Jonson.
ENGLISH Eng"lish, a. Etym: [AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England. Cf. Anglican.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (Arch.)
Defn: See 1st Bond, n.,
8.
— English breakfast tea. See Congou.
— English horn. (Mus.) See Corno Inglese.
— English walnut. (Bot.) See under Walnut.
ENGLISH
Eng"lish, n.
1. Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
Note: The English language has been variously divided into periods by different writers. In the division most commonly recognized, the first period dates from about 450 to 1150. This is the period of full inflection, and is called Anglo-Saxon, or, by many recent writers, Old English. The second period dates from about 1150 to 1550 (or, if four periods be recognized, from about 1150 to 1350), and is called Early English, Middle English, or more commonly (as in the usage of this book), Old English. During this period most of the inflections were dropped, and there was a great addition of French words to the language. The third period extends from about 1350 to 1550, and is Middle English. During this period orthography became comparatively fixed. The last period, from about 1550, is called Modern English.
3. A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
Note: The type called English.
4. (Billiards)
Defn: A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King.
ENGLISH
Eng"lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Englished; p. pr. & vb. n. Englishing.]
1. To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.
2. (Billiards)
Defn: To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion. [U.S.]
ENGLISHABLE
Eng"lish*a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
ENGLISHISM
Eng"lish*ism, n.
1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold.
2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
ENGLISHMAN
Eng"lish*man (-man), n.; pl. Englishmen (-men).
Defn: A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
ENGLISHRY
Eng"lish*ry, n.
1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.
2. A body of English or people of English descent; — commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
ENGLISHWOMAN
Eng"lish*wom`an, n.; pl. Englishwomen (.
Defn: Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
ENGLOOM
En*gloom", v. t.
Defn: To make gloomy. [R.]
ENGLUE En*glue", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + glue: cf. F. engluer to smear with birdlime.]
Defn: To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. Gower.
ENGLUT
En*glut", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Englutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Englutting.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + glut: cf. F. engloutir.]
1. To swallow or gulp down. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To glut. [Obs.] "Englutted with vanity." Ascham.
ENGORE
En*gore", v. t.
1. To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.
2. To make bloody. [Obs.] Chapman.
ENGORGE
En*gorge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engorged; p. pr. & vb. n. Engorging.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + gorge: cf. F. engorger to obstruct, cram.]
1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag.
2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
ENGORGE
En*gorge", v. i.
Defn: To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont.
ENGORGED
En*gorged", p. a.
1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
ENGORGEMENT
En*gorge"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. engorgement.]
1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
2. (Med.)
Defn: An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn.
3. (Metal.)
Defn: The clogging of a blast furnace.
ENGOULED
En*gouled", a. (Her.)
Defn: 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
En`gou`lée", a. Etym: [F., p. p. of engouler to swallow up; pref. en-
(L. in) + gueule mouth.] (Her.)
Defn: Same as Engouled.
ENGRAFF
En*graff", v. t. Etym: [See Ingraft.]
Defn: To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]
ENGRAFFMENT
En*graff"ment, n.
Defn: See Ingraftment. [Obs.]
ENGRAFT
En*graft", v. t.
Defn: See Ingraft. Shak.
ENGRAFTATION; ENGRAFTMENT
En`graf*ta"tion, En*graft"ment, n.
Defn: The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]
ENGRAIL
En*grail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrailed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Engrailing.] Etym: [F. engrêler; pref. en- (L. in) + grêle hail. See
Grail gravel.]
1. To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.
2. (Her.)
Defn: To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
ENGRAIL
En*grail", v. i.
Defn: To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.
ENGRAILED
En*grailed", a. (Her.)
Defn: Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
ENGRAILMENT
En*grail"ment, n.
1. The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.
2. (Her.)
Defn: Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.
ENGRAIN
En*grain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Engraining.] Etym: [Pref. en- + grain. Cf. Ingrain.]
1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.
2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott.
3. To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
ENGRAPPLE
En*grap"ple, v. t. & i.
Defn: To grapple. [Obs.]
ENGRASP
En*grasp", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrasped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Engrasping.]
Defn: To grasp; to grip. [R.] Spenser.
ENGRAVE En*grave", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf. Engrave to carve.]
Defn: To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.
ENGRAVE En*grave", v. t. [imp. Engraved; p. p. Engraved or Engraven (; p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving.] Etym: [Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]
1. To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.] Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. Spenser.
2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11.
3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver. Engrave principles in men's minds. Locke.
ENGRAVED
En*graved", a.
1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
ENGRAVEMENT
En*grave"ment, n.
1. Engraving.
2. Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.
ENGRAVER
En*grav"er, n.
Defn: One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
ENGRAVERY
En*grav"er*y, n.
Defn: The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
ENGRAVING
En*grav"ing, n.
1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.
2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.
Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs.
ENGREGGE
En*greg"ge, v. t. Etym: [OF. engregier, from (assumed) LL.
ingreviare; in + (assumed) grevis heavy, for L. gravis. Cf.
Aggravate.]
Defn: To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENGRIEVE
En*grieve", v. t.
Defn: To grieve. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENGROSS En*gross", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrossing.] Etym: [F., fr. pref. en- (L. in) + gros gross, grosse, n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make thick, large, or gross. See Gross.]
1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or
quantity. [Obs.]
Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser.
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak.
2. To amass. [Obs.] To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. Shak.
3. To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.
4. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.
5. To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. — Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.
Syn. — To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy; forestall; monopolize. See Absorb.
ENGROSSER
En*gross"er, n.
1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.
2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.
ENGROSSMENT
En*gross"ment, n.
1. The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift.
2. That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.
ENGUARD
En*guard", v. t.
Defn: To surround as with a guard. [Obs.] Shak.
ENGULF
En*gulf", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engulfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engulfing.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. Ingulf.]
Defn: To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.
Syn.
— See Absorb.
ENGULFMENT
En*gulf"ment, n.
Defn: A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]
ENGYN
En*gyn".
Defn: Variant of Engine. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENHALO
En*ha"lo, v. t.
Defn: To surround with a halo.
ENHANCE En*hance", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enhanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enhancing.] Etym: [Norm. F. enhauncer, enhaucer, OF. enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (L. in) + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and E. advance. See Altitude, and cf. Hawser.]
1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.
2. To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.
ENHANCE
En*hance", v. i.
Defn: To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
ENHANCEMENT
En*hance"ment, n.
Defn: The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
ENHANCER
En*han"cer, n.
Defn: One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
ENHARBOR
En*har"bor, v. t.
Defn: To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. W. Browne.
ENHARDEN En*hard"en, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + harden: cf. F. enhardir to embolden.]
Defn: To harden; to embolden. [Obs.] Howell.
ENHARMONIC; ENHARMONICAL
En`har*mon"ic, En`har*mon"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. enharmonique.]
1. (Anc. Mus.)
Defn: 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.
2. (Mus.) (a) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A for G#. (b) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.
ENHARMONICALLY
En`har*mon"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.
ENHEARTEN
En*heart"en, v. t.
Defn: To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.
The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.
ENHEDGE
En*hedge", v. t.
Defn: To surround as with a hedge. [R.] Vicars.
ENHORT
En*hort", v. t. Etym: [OF. enhorter, enorter, L. inhortari. Cf.
Exhort.]
Defn: To encourage. [Obs.] "To enhort the people." Chaucer.
ENHUNGER
En*hun"ger, v. t.
Defn: To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
ENHYDROS
En*hy"dros, n. Etym: [NL. See Enhydrous.] (Min.)
Defn: A variety of chalcedony containing water.
ENHYDROUS
En*hy"drous, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Having water within; containing fluid drops; — said of certain crystals.
ENIGMA
E*nig"ma, n.; pl. Enigmas. Etym: [L. aenigma, Gr.
1. A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope.
2. An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.
ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
E`nig*mat"ic, E`nig*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. énigmatique.]
Defn: Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
ENIGMATICALLY
E`nig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: Darkly; obscurely.
ENIGMATIST
E*nig"ma*tist, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. Addison.
ENIGMATIZE
E*nig"ma*tize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Enigmatized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enigmatizing.]
Defn: To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.
ENIGMATOGRAPHY; ENIGMATOLOGY E*nig`ma*tog"ra*phy, E*nig`ma*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy, - logy.]
Defn: The art of making or of solving enigmas.
ENISLED
En*isled", p. a.
Defn: Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island. [R.] "In the sea of life enisled." M. Arnold.
ENJAIL
En*jail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjailing.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + jail. Cf. Engaol.]
Defn: To put into jail; to imprison. [R.] Donne.
ENJOIN
En*join", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoining.]
Etym: [F. enjoindre, L. injungere to join into, charge, enjoin; in +
jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Injunction.]
1. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. High matter thou enjoin'st me. Milton. I am enjoined by oath to observe three things. Shak.
2. (Law)
Defn: To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put
an injunction on.
This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the
plaintiffs. Kent.
Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command; as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law. "This word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command." Johnson.
ENJOIN
En*join", v. t.
Defn: To join or unite. [Obs.] Hooker.
ENJOINER
En*join"er, n.
Defn: One who enjoins.
ENJOINMENT
En*join"ment, n.
Defn: Direction; command; authoritative admonition. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
ENJOY
En*joy", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying.]
Etym: [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F.
joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.]
1. 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.
2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25.
3. To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.
ENJOY
En*joy", v. i.
Defn: To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.] Milton.
ENJOYABLE
En*joy"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.
Milton.
ENJOYER
En*joy"er, n.
Defn: One who enjoys.
ENJOYMENT
En*joy"ment, n.
1. 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.
2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.
Syn. — Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification; fruition; happiness; felicity; delight.
ENKENNEL
En*ken"nel, v. t.
Defn: To put into a kennel.
ENKERCHIEFED
En*ker"chiefed, a.
Defn: Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton.
That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
ENKINDLE
En*kin"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enkindled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enkindling.]
1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle. Shak.
2. To excite; to rouse into action; to incite. To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist. Talfourd.
ENLACE
En*lace", v. t.
Defn: To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.
ENLACEMENT
En*lace"ment, n.
Defn: The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.
ENLARD En*lard", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + lard: cf. OF. enlarder to put on the spit, Pr. & Sp. enlardar to rub with grease, baste.]
Defn: To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.
ENLARGE
En*large", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enlarged; p. pr. & vb. n. Enlarging.]
Etym: [OF. enlargier; pref. en- (L. in) + F. large wide. See Large.]
1. 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. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke.
2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. 11.
3. To set at large or set free. [Archaic] It will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; — used by gold beaters. Knight. — To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. — To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. — To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.
Syn.
— To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify.
See Increase.
ENLARGE
En*large", v. i.
1. To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
2. To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. To enlarge upon this theme. M. Arnold.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; — said of the wind.
ENLARGED
En*larged", a.
Defn: Made large or larger; extended; swollen.
— En*lar"ged*ly, adv.
— En*lar"ged*ness, n.
ENLARGEMENT
En*large"ment, n.
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
3. A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. Give enlargement to the swain. Shak.
4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.
ENLARGER
En*lar"ger, n.
Defn: One that enlarges.
ENLAY
En*lay", v. t.
Defn: See Inlay.
ENLENGTHEN
En*length"en, v. t.
Defn: To lengthen. [Obs.]
ENLEVEN
En*lev"en, n.
Defn: Eleven. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENLIGHT
En*light", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + light. Cf. Enlighten.]
Defn: To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.
ENLIGHTEN
En*light"en, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + lighten: cf. AS. inlihtan. Cf.
Enlight.]
1. To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.
2. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding. The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trench.
ENLIGHTENER
En*light"en*er, n.
Defn: One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
ENLIGHTENMENT
En*light"en*ment, n.
Defn: Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
ENLIMN
En*limn", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + limn. Cf. Enlumine, Illuminate.]
Defn: To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.
ENLINK
En*link", v. t.
Defn: To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.
ENLIST
En*list", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enlisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enlisting.]
1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
ENLIST
En*list", v. i.
1. To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
2. To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
ENLISTMENT
En*list"ment, n.
1. The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
ENLIVE
En*live", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + live, a.]
Defn: To enliven. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ENLIVEN
En*liv"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enlivened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enlivening.] Etym: [Pref. en- + liven.].
1. To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.
2. To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.
Syn. — To animate; rouse; inspire; cheer; encourage; comfort; exhilarate; inspirit; invigorate.
ENLIVENER
En*liv"en*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
ENLOCK
En*lock", v. t.
Defn: To lock; to inclose.
ENLUMINE En*lu"mine, v. t. Etym: [F. enluminer; pref. en- (L. in) + L. luminare to light up, illumine. See Illuminate, and cf. Limn.]
Defn: To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENLUTE
En*lute", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + L. lutum mud, clay.]
Defn: To coat with clay; to lute. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENMANCHE
En`man`ché", a. Etym: [F.; pref. en- (L. in) + manche sleeve.] (Her.)
Defn: 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
En*mar"ble, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + marble.]
Defn: To make hard as marble; to harden. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENMESH
En*mesh", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + mesh. Cf. Inmesh.]
Defn: To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak.
My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.
ENMEW
En*mew", v. t.
Defn: See Emmew.
ENMIST
En*mist", v. t.
Defn: To infold, as in a mist.
ENMITY En"mi*ty, n.; pl. Enmities. Etym: [OE. enemyte, fr. enemy: cf. F. inimitié, OF. enemistié. See Enemy, and cf. Amity.]
1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton.
2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4.
Syn. — Rancor; hostility; hatred; aversion; antipathy; repugnance; animosity; ill will; malice; malevolence. See Animosity, Rancor.
ENMOSSED
En*mossed", a. Etym: [Pref. en- + moss.]
Defn: Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.
ENMOVE
En*move", v. t.
Defn: See Emmove. [Obs.]
ENMUFFLE
En*muf"fle, v. t.
Defn: To muffle up.
ENMURE
En*mure", v. t.
Defn: To immure. [Obs.]
ENNATION
En*na"tion, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The ninth segment in insects.
ENNEAD
En"ne*ad, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; — so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.
ENNEAGON
En"ne*a*gon, n. Etym: [Gr. ennéagone.] (Geom.)
Defn: A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
ENNEAGONAL
En`ne*ag"o*nal, a. (Geom.)
Defn: Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.
ENNEAGYNOUS
En`ne*ag"y*nous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having or producing nine pistils or styles; — said of a flower or plant.
ENNEAHEDRAL
En`ne*a*he"dral, a. Etym: [Gr. (Geom.)
Defn: Having nine sides.
ENNEAHEDRIA; ENNEAHEDRON
En`ne*a*he"dri*a, En`ne*a*he"dron, n. (Geom.)
Defn: A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.
ENNEANDRIA
En`ne*an"dri*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. ennéandrie.] (Bot.)
Defn: A Linnæan class of plants having nine stamens.
ENNEANDRIAN; ENNEANDROUS
En`ne*an"dri*an, En`ne*an"drous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Having nine stamens.
ENNEAPETALOUS
En`ne*a*pet"al*ous, a. Etym: [Gr. petalous: cf. F. ennéapétale.]
(Bot.)
Defn: Having nine petals, or flower leaves.
ENNEASPERMOUS
En`ne*a*sper"mous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having nine seeds; — said of fruits.
ENNEATIC; ENNEATICAL
En`ne*at"ic, En`ne*at"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth. Enneatical day, every ninth day of a disease. — Enneatical year, every ninth year of a man's life.
ENNEW
En*new", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + new. Cf. Innovate.]
Defn: To make new. [Obs.] Skelton.
ENNICHE
En*niche", v. t.
Defn: To place in a niche. Sterne.
ENNOBLE
En*no"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ennobled; p. pr. & vb. n. Ennobling.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + noble: cf. F. ennoblir.]
1. To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.
2. To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Syn.
— To raise; dignify; exalt; elevate; aggrandize.
ENNOBLEMENT
En*no"ble*ment, n.
1. The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon.
2. That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
ENNOBLER
En*no"bler, n.
Defn: One who ennobles.
ENNUI
En`nui", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See Annoy.]
Defn: A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.
ENNUYE
En`nuy`é", a. Etym: [F., p. p. of ennuyer. See Ennui.]
Defn: Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.
ENNUYE
En`nuy`é", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: One who is affected with ennui.
ENNUYEE
En`nuy`ée", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A woman affected with ennui. Mrs. Jameson.
ENODAL
E*nod"al, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Without a node. Gray.
ENODATION En`o*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. enodatio explanation, fr. enodare to free from knots. See Enode.]
Defn: The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty. [R.] Bailey.
ENODE E*node", v. t. Etym: [L. enodare; e out + nodare to fill with knots, nodus a knot.]
Defn: To clear of knots; to make clear. [Obs.] Cockeram.
ENOINT
E*noint", a.
Defn: Anointed. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENOMOTARCH
E*nom"o*tarch, n. Etym: [Gr. Enomoty.] (Gr. Antiq.)
Defn: The commander of an enomoty. Mitford.
ENOMOTY
E*nom"o*ty, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)
Defn: A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
ENOPLA
En"o*pla, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.
ENOPTOMANCY
En*op"to*man`cy, n. Etym: [Gr. -mancy.]
Defn: Divination by the use of a mirror.
ENORM
E*norm", a. Etym: [Cf. F. énorme. See Enormous.]
Defn: Enormous. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENORMITY E*nor"mi*ty, n.; pl. Enormities. Etym: [L. enormitas, fr. enormis enormous: cf. F. énormité. See Enormous.]
1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey.
2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.
ENORMOUS E*nor"mous, a. Etym: [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out + norma rule: cf. F. énorme. See Normal.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.
2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. That detestable profession of a life so enormous. Bale.
Syn. — Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous. — Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes — so to speak — abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. "Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor." V. Knox. "Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive." La Rochefoucauld (Trans).
ENORMOUSLY
E*nor"mous*ly, adv.
Defn: In an enormous degree.
ENORMOUSNESS
E*nor"mous*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being enormous.
ENORTHOTROPE
En*or"tho*trope, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: 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 E*nough", a. Etym: [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS. gen, gen, a. & adv. (akin to OS. gin, D. genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. gan), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth. ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr. na, Gr.
Defn: Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; — usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.
ENOUGH
E*nough", adv.
1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
2. Fully; quite; — used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer. I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. Shak. Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. Shak.
3. In a tolerable degree; — used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.
Note: Enough usually follows the word it modifies.
ENOUGH
E*nough", n.
Defn: A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a feast." And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Gen. xxxiii. 9.
ENOUGH
E*nough", interj.
Defn: An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
ENOUNCE
E*nounce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enouncing.]
Etym: [F. énoncer, L. enuntiare; e out + nuntiare to announce, fr.
nuntius messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Enunciate.]
1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.
2. To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.
ENOUNCEMENT
E*nounce"ment, n.
Defn: Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.
ENOW
E*now".
Defn: A form of Enough. [Archaic] Shak.
EN PASSANT
En` pas`sant". [F.]
Defn: In passing; in the course of any procedure; — said specif.
(Chess),
Defn: of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.
ENPATRON
En*pa"tron, v. t.
Defn: To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. [Obs.] Shak.
ENPIERCE
En*pierce", v. t. Etym: [See Empierce.]
Defn: To pierce. [Obs.] Shak.
ENQUERE
En*quere", v. i.
Defn: To inquire. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENQUICKEN
En*quick"en, v. t.
Defn: To quicken; to make alive. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
ENQUIRE
En*quire", v. i. & t.
Defn: See Inquire.
ENQUIRER
En*quir"er, n.
Defn: See Inquirer.
ENQUIRY
En*quir"y, n.
Defn: See Inquiry.
ENRACE
En*race", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + race lineage.]
Defn: To enroot; to implant. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENRAGE
En*rage", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Enraging.]
Etym: [F. enrager to be enraged; pref. en- (L. in) + rage rage. See
Rage.]
Defn: To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
Syn. — To irritate; incense; inflame; exasperate; provoke; anger; madden; infuriate.
ENRAGEMENT
En*rage"ment, n.
Defn: Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]
ENRANGE
En*range", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + range. Cf. Enrank, Arrange.]
1. To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To rove over; to range. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENRANK
En*rank", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + rank.]
Defn: To place in ranks or in order. [R.] Shak.
EN RAPPORT
En` rap`port". [F.]
Defn: In accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, esp. a private, understanding; of a hypnotic subject, being in such a mental state as to be especially subject to the influence of a particular person or persons.
ENRAPT
En*rapt", p. a. Etym: [Pref. en- + rapt. Cf. Enravish.]
Defn: Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak.
ENRAPTURE
En*rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enraptured; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enrapturing.]
Defn: To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.
ENRAVISH
En*rav"ish, v. t.
Defn: To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.
ENRAVISHINGLY
En*rav"ish*ing*ly, adv.
Defn: So as to throw into ecstasy.
ENRAVISHMENT
En*rav"ish*ment, n.
Defn: The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.
Glanvill.
ENREGISTER
En*reg"is*ter, v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + register: cf. F. enregistrer.
Cf. Inregister.]
Defn: To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.
ENRHEUM
En*rheum", v. i. Etym: [Pref. en- + rheum: cf. F. s'enrhumer.]
Defn: To contract a rheum. [Obs.] Harvey.
ENRICH
En*rich", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enriched; p. pr. & vb. n. Enriching.]
Etym: [F. enrichir; pref. en- (L. in) + riche rich. See Rich.]
1. To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.
2. To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
3. To make rich with manure; to fertilize; — said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.
4. To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; — said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh.
ENRICHER
En*rich"er, n.
Defn: One who enriches.
ENRICHMENT
En*rich"ment, n.
Defn: The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
ENRIDGE
En*ridge", v. t.
Defn: To form into ridges. Shak.
ENRING
En*ring", v. t.
Defn: To encircle. [R.] The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst. Tennyson.
ENRIPEN
En*rip"en, v. t.
Defn: To ripen. [Obs.] Donne.
ENRIVE
En*rive", v. t.
Defn: To rive; to cleave. [Obs.]
ENROBE
En*robe", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + robe: cf. OF. enrober.]
Defn: To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.
ENROCKMENT
En*rock"ment, n. Etym: [Pref. en- + rock.]
Defn: A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.
ENROLL
En*roll", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enrolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enrôler; pref. en- (L. in) + rôle
roll or register. See Roll, n.] [Written also enrol.]
1. 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. An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.
2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENROLLER
En*roll"er, n.
Defn: One who enrolls or registers.
ENROLLMENT
En*roll"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. enrôlement.] [Written also enrolment.]
1. The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.
2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies.
ENROOT
En*root", v. t.
Defn: To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.
ENROUND
En*round", v. t.
Defn: To surround. [Obs.] Shak.
EN ROUTE
En` route". Etym: [F.]
Defn: On the way or road.
ENS
Ens, n. Etym: [L., ens, entis, a thing. See Entity.]
1. (Metaph.)
Defn: Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also,
God, as the Being of Beings.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence. [Obs.]
ENSAFE
En*safe", v. t.
Defn: To make safe. [Obs.] Hall.
ENSAMPLE
En*sam"ple, n. Etym: [OF. ensample, essample, F. exemple. See
Example.]
Defn: An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale.
Being ensamples to the flock.
ENSAMPLE
En*sam"ple, v. t.
Defn: To exemplify, to show by example. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENSANGUINE
En*san"guine, v. t.
Defn: To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.
ENSATE
En"sate, a. Etym: [NL. ensatus, fr. L. ensis sword.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Defn: Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.
ENSCALE
En*scale", v. t.
Defn: To cover with scales.
ENSCHEDULE
En*sched"ule, v. t.
Defn: To insert in a schedule. See Schedule. [R.] Shak.
ENSCONCE
En*sconce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensconced; imp. & p. p. Ensconcing.]
Defn: To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide
securely; to conceal.
She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.
ENSEAL
En*seal", v. t.
Defn: To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to
ratify. [Obs.]
This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.
ENSEAM
En*seam", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + seam suture. Cf. Inseam.]
Defn: To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.
Camden.
ENSEAM
En*seam", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + seam grease.]
Defn: To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [Obs.]
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak.
ENSEAR
En*sear", v. t.
Defn: To sear; to dry up. [Obs.]
Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.
ENSEARCH
En*search", v. i. Etym: [OF. encerchier. See Search.]
Defn: To make search; to try to find something. [Obs.] — v. t.
Defn: To search for. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
ENSEEL
En*seel", v. t.
Defn: To close eyes of; to seel; — said in reference to a hawk.
[Obs.]
ENSEINT
En*seint", a. (Law)
Defn: With child; pregnant. See Enceinte. [Obs.]
ENSEMBLE
En`sem"ble, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The whole; all the parts taken together.
ENSEMBLE
En`sem"ble, adv. Etym: [F.]
Defn: All at once; together.
ENSHELTER
En*shel"ter, v. t.
Defn: To shelter. [Obs.]
ENSHIELD
En*shield", v. t.
Defn: To defend, as with a shield; to shield. [Archaic] Shak.
ENSHIELD
En*shield", a.
Defn: Shielded; enshielded. [Obs.] Shak.
ENSHRINE
En*shrine", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enshrined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enshrining.]
Defn: To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
ENSHROUD
En*shroud", v. t.
Defn: To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. Churchill.
ENSIFEROUS
En*sif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. ensifer; ensis sword + ferre to bear: cf.
F. ensifère.]
Defn: Bearing a sword.
ENSIFORM
En"si*form, a. Etym: [L. ensis sword + -form: cf. F. ensiforme.]
Defn: Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.
ENSIGN En"sign, n. Etym: [L. enseigne, L. insignia, pl. of insigne a distinctive mark, badge, flag; in + signum mark, sign. See Sign, and cf. Insignia, 3d Ancient.]
1. 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. Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still. Shak.
2. A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice. He will lift an ensign to the nations from far. Is. v. 26.
3. Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol. The ensigns of our power about we bear. Waller.
4. (a) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment. (b) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Note: In the British army the rank of ensign was abolished in 1871. In the United States army the rank is not recognized; the regimental flags being carried by a sergeant called the color sergeant. Ensign bearer, one who carries a flag; an ensign.
ENSIGN
En"sign, v. t.
1. To designate as by an ensign. [Obs.] Henry but joined the roses that ensigned Particular families. B. Jonson.
2. To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
ENSIGNCY
En"sign*cy, n.; pl. Ensigncies (.
Defn: The rank or office of an ensign.
ENSIGNSHIP
En"sign*ship, n.
Defn: The state or rank of an ensign.
ENSILAGE
En"si*lage, n. Etym: [F.; pref. en- (L. in) + silo. See Silo.]
1. 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.
2. The fodder preserved in a silo.
ENSILAGE
En"si*lage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensilaged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ensilaging.]
Defn: To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.
ENSILE
En*sile", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Ensiling.]
[F. ensiler: cf. Sp. ensilar. See Silo.]
Defn: To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. —
En"si*list (#), n.
ENSKY
En*sky", v. t.
Defn: To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.
ENSLAVE
En*slave", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enslaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Enslaving.]
Defn: To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a
dominant influence.
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom
lost, all virtue lose. Milton.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.
ENSLAVEDNESS
En*slav"ed*ness, n.
Defn: State of being enslaved.
ENSLAVEMENT
En*slave"ment, n.
Defn: The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved;
bondage; servitude.
A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
ENSLAVER
En*slav"er, n.
Defn: One who enslaves. Swift.
ENSNARE
En*snare", v. t.
Defn: To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
ENSNARL
En*snarl", v. t.
Defn: To entangle. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENSOBER
En*so"ber, v. t.
Defn: To make sober. [Obs.]
Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. Jer. Taylor.
ENSOUL
En*soul", v. t.
Defn: To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [R.] Emerson.
ENSPHERE
En*sphere", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + sphere. Cf. Insphere.]
1. To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman.
2. To form into a sphere.
ENSTAMP
En*stamp", v. t.
Defn: To stamp; to mark as
It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
ENSTATE
En*state", v. t.
Defn: See Instate.
ENSTATITE
En"sta*tite, n. Etym: [Named fr. Gr. (Min.)
Defn: 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
En`sta*tit"ic, a.
Defn: Relating to enstatite.
ENSTORE
En*store", v. t. Etym: [See Instaurate.]
Defn: To restore. [Obs.] Wyclif.
ENSTYLE
En*style", v. t.
Defn: To style; to name. [Obs.]
ENSUABLE
En*su"a*ble, a.
Defn: Ensuing; following.
ENSUE
En*sue", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensued; p. pr. & vb. n. Ensuing.] Etym:
[OF. ensevre, OF. & F. ensuivre, fr. L. insequi; in + sequi to
pursue. See Sue.]
Defn: To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake. [Obs.] "Seek peace, and ensue it." 1 Pet. iii. 11. To ensue his example in doing the like mischief. Golding.
ENSUE
En*sue", v. i.
Defn: To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one. So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued. Pope. Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor.
Syn.
— To follow; pursue; succeed. See Follow.
ENSURE
En*sure", v. t.
1. To make sure. See Insure.
2. To betroth. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
ENSURER
En*sur"er, n.
Defn: See Insurer.
ENSWATHE
En*swathe", v. t.
Defn: To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.
ENSWATHEMENT
En*swathe"ment, n.
Defn: The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
ENSWEEP
En*sweep", v. t.
Defn: To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.
ENT-
Ent-.
Defn: A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.
-ENT -ent. Etym: [F. -ent, L. -ens, -entis.]
Defn: An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.
ENTABLATURE
En*tab"la*ture, n. Etym: [OF. entablature: cf. It intavolatura, fr.
LL. intabulare to construct a basis; L. in + tabulatum board work,
flooring, fr. tabula. See Table.] (Arch.)
Defn: The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns.
See Illust. of Column, Cornice.
Note: It is commonly divided into architrave, the part immediately above the column; frieze, the central space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings. Parker.
ENTABLEMENT
En*tab"le*ment, n. Etym: [F. entablement, LL. intabulamentum.]
Defn: See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.
ENTACKLE
En*tac"kle, v. t.
Defn: To supply with tackle. [Obs.] Skelton.
ENTAD
En"tad, adv. Etym: [Ent- + L. ad towards.] (Anat.)
Defn: Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; — opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.
ENTAIL En*tail", n. Etym: [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]
1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law) (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. (b) The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. Hume.
2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.
ENTAIL
En*tail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing.]
Etym: [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail, n.]
1. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; — said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. Allowing them to entail their estates. Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. Shak.
2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.] To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. Shak.
3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. Spenser.
ENTAILMENT
En*tail"ment, n.
1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
2. The condition of being entailed.
3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.
ENTAL
En"tal, a. Etym: [See Ent-.] (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; — opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.
ENTAME
En*tame", v. t.
Defn: To tame. [Obs.] Shak.
ENTANGLE
En*tan"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Entangling.]
1. 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.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.
ENTANGLEMENT
En*tan"gle*ment, n.
Defn: State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
ENTANGLER
En*tan"gler, n.
Defn: One that entangles.
ENTASIA
En*ta"si*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Entasis.] (Med.)
Defn: Tonic spasm; — applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
ENTASIS
En"ta*sis, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr.
1. (Arch.)
Defn: A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Same as Entasia.
ENTASSMENT
En*tass"ment, n. Etym: [F. entassement, fr. entasser to heap up.]
Defn: A heap; accumulation. [R.]
ENTASTIC
En*tas"tic, a. Etym: [Formed as if fr. (assumed) Gr. Entasis.] (Med.)
Defn: Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
ENTELECHY
En*tel"e*chy, n. Etym: [L. entelechia, Gr. (Peripatetic Philos.)
Defn: An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.
ENTELLUS
En*tel"lus, n. Etym: [NL., the specific name, fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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
En*tend", v. i. Etym: [F. entendre, fr. L. intendere. See Intend.]
Defn: To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENTENDER
En*ten"der, v. t.
1. To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
2. To treat with tenderness. [R.] Young.
ENTENTIVE
En*ten"tive, a. Etym: [OF. ententif.]
Defn: Attentive; zealous. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENTER-
En"ter-. Etym: [F. entre between, fr. L. inter. See Inter-]
Defn: A prefix signifying between, among, part.
ENTER
En"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entered; p. pr. & vb. n. Entering.] Etym:
[OE. entren, enteren, F. entrer, fr. L. intrare, fr. intro inward,
contr. fr. intero (sc. loco), fr. inter in between, between. See
Inter-, In, and cf. Interior.]
1. 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. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.
2. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
3. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
4. To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
5. To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
6. To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
7. (Law) (a) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them. (b) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment. Burrill.
8. To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry,
4.
9. To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preëmption. [U.S.] Abbott.
10. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
11. To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] Shak.
ENTER
En"ter, v. i.
1. To go or come in; — often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps. "The year entering." Evelyn. No evil thing approach nor enter in. Milton. Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. Is. lix. 14. For we which have believed do enter into rest. Heb. iv. 3.
2. To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; — usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
3. To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; — with into. He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action. Addison.
ENTERADENOGRAPHY
En`ter*ad`e*nog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]
Defn: A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.
ENTERADENOLOGY
En`ter*ad`e*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.
ENTERALGIA
En`ter*al"gi*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. entéralgie.] (Med.)
Defn: Pain in the intestines; colic.
ENTERDEAL
En"ter*deal`, n. Etym: [Enter- + deal.]
Defn: Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.]
The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
ENTERER
En"ter*er, n.
Defn: One who makes an entrance or beginning. A. Seward.
ENTERIC
En*ter"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. Enteritis.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.
ENTERING EDGE; ENTRANT EDGE
En"ter*ing edge or En"trant edge.
Defn: = Advancing edge.
ENTERITIS
En`te*ri"tis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.
ENTERLACE
En`ter*lace", v. t.
Defn: See Interlace.
ENTERMETE En`ter*mete", v. i. Etym: [F. s'entremettre; entre between + mettre to place.]
Defn: To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENTERMEWER
En"ter*mew`er, n. Etym: [Enter- + mew to molt.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
ENTERMISE
En`ter*mise", n. Etym: [F. entremise, fr. s'entremettre. See
Entermete.]
Defn: Mediation. [Obs.]
ENTEROCELE
En"ter*o*cele`, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.
ENTEROCOELE
En"ter*o*coele`, n. Etym: [Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: 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
En`ter*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.] (Anat.)
Defn: A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.
ENTEROLITH
En"ter*o*lith, n. Etym: [Gr. -lith.] (Med.)
Defn: An intestinal concretion.
ENTEROLOGY
En`ter*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. entérologie.]
Defn: The science which treats of the viscera of the body.
ENTERON
En"te*ron, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.
ENTEROPATHY
En`ter*op"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Disease of the intestines.
ENTEROPNEUSTA
En`te*rop*neus"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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
En`ter*or"rha*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.
ENTEROTOME
En"ter*o*tome, n. Etym: [F. entérotome. See Enterotomy.] (Med.)
Defn: A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
ENTEROTOMY
En`ter*ot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
ENTERPARLANCE
En`ter*par"lance, n.
Defn: Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.
ENTERPLEAD
En`ter*plead", v. i.
Defn: Same as Interplead.
ENTERPRISE En"ter*prise, n. Etym: [F. enterprise, fr. entreprendre to undertake; entre between (L. inter) + prendre to take. See Inter, and Emprise.]
1. 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. Shak. Their hands can not perform their enterprise. Job v. 12.
2. Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
ENTERPRISE
En"ter*prise, v. t.
1. To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
[R.]
The business must be enterprised this night. Dryden.
What would I not renounce or enterprise for you! T. Otway.
2. To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [Obs.] Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise. Spenser.
ENTERPRISE
En"ter*prise, v. i.
Defn: To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. [R.] Pope.
ENTERPRISER
En"ter*pri`ser, n.
Defn: One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
ENTERPRISING
En"ter*pri`sing, a.
Defn: Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm. — En"ter*pri`sing*ly, adv.
ENTERTAIN
En`ter*tain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entertained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Entertaining.] Etym: [F. entretenir; entre between (L. inter) + tenir
to hold, L. tenere. See Tenable.]
1. To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. Shak.
2. To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares. Heb. xiii. 2.
3. To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc. The weary time she can not entertain. Shak.
4. To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal. I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke. De Quincey. A rumor gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.
5. To meet or encounter, as an enemy. [Obs.] Shak.
6. To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
7. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. [Obs.] To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus. Jer. Taylor.
Syn.
— To amuse; divert; maintain. See Amuse.
ENTERTAIN
En`ter*tain", v. i.
Defn: To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
ENTERTAIN
En`ter*tain", n. Etym: [Cf. F. entretien, fr. entretenir.]
Defn: Entertainment. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENTERTAINER
En`ter*tain"er, n.
Defn: One who entertains.
ENTERTAINING
En`ter*tain"ing, a.
Defn: Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.
— En`ter*tain"ing*ly, adv.
— En`ter*tain"ing*ness, n.
ENTERTAINMENT
En`ter*tain"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. entretenement.]
1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.
2. That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement. Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement. Prescott.
3. Admission into service; service. Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment. Shak.
4. Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. [Obs.] The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies.
Syn. — Amusement; diversion; recreation; pastime; sport; feast; banquet; repast; carousal.
ENTERTAKE
En`ter*take", v. t.
Defn: To entertain. [Obs.]
ENTERTISSUED
En`ter*tis"sued, a.
Defn: Same as Intertissued.
ENTHEAL; ENTHEAN
En"the*al, En"the*an, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm. [Obs.]
ENTHEASM
En"the*asm, n.
Defn: Inspiration; enthusiasm. [R.] "Religious entheasm." Byron.
ENTHEASTIC
En`the*as"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. Entheal.]
Defn: Of godlike energy; inspired.
— En`the*as"tic*al*ly, adv.
ENTHEAT
En"the*at, a. Etym: [Cf. L. entheatus, fr. Gr.
Defn: Divinely inspired. [Obs.] Drummond.
ENTHELMINTHA; ENTHELMINTHES
En`thel*min"tha, En`thel*min"thes, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.
ENTHETIC
En*the"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.
ENTHRALL En*thrall", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + thrall. Cf. Inthrall.] [Written also enthral.]
Defn: To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.
The bars survive the captive they enthrall. Byron.
ENTHRALLMENT
En*thrall"ment, n.
Defn: The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See
Inthrallment.
ENTHRILL
En*thrill", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + thrill.]
Defn: To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.
ENTHRONE
En*throne", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + throne: cf. OF. enthroner. Cf.
Inthronize.]
1. To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity. Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned. Pope. It [mercy] is enthroned in the hearts of kings. Shak.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
ENTHRONEMENT
En*throne"ment, n.
Defn: The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [Recent]
ENTHRONIZATION
En*thron`i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.
ENTHRONIZE
En*thron"ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enthronized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enthronizing.] Etym: [See Inthronize.]
Defn: To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a
bishop.
There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.
ENTHUSE
En*thuse", v. t. & i.
Defn: To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]
ENTHUSIASM
En*thu"si*asm, n. Etym: [Gr. enthousiasme. See Entheal, Theism.]
1. Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse. Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.
2. A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.
3. Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson.
4. Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.
ENTHUSIAST
En*thu"si*ast, n. Etym: [Gr. enthousiaste.]
Defn: 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. Enthusiasts soon understand each other. W. Irving.
Syn.
— Visionary; fanatic; devotee; zealot.
ENTHUSIASTIC; ENTHUSIASTICAL
En*thu`si*as"tic, En*thu`si*as"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous;
as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy.
— En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv.
A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W.
Irving.
ENTHUSIASTIC
En*thu`si*as"tic, n.
Defn: An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]
ENTHYMEMATIC; ENTHYMEMATICAL
En`thy*me*mat"ic, En`thy*me*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.
ENTHYMEME
En"thy*meme, n. Etym: [Gr. (Logic)
Defn: 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.
ENTICE En*tice", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enticing.] Etym: [OE. entisen, enticen, OF. enticier, entichier; pref. en- (L. in) + a word of uncertain origin, cf. OF. atisier to stir a fire, provoke, L. titio firebrand, or MHG. zicken to push.]
Defn: 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.
Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10.
Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven.
Keble.
Syn. — To allure; lure; coax; decoy; seduce; tempt; inveigle; incite; persuade; prevail on. See Allure.
ENTICEABLE
En*tice"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being enticed.
ENTICEMENT
En*tice"ment, n. Etym: [OF. enticement.]
1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
Syn. — Allurement; attraction; temptation; seduction; inveiglement; persuasion; inducement.
ENTICER
En*ti"cer, n.
Defn: One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. Burton.
ENTICING
En*ti"cing, a.
Defn: That entices; alluring.
ENTICINGLY
En*ti"cing*ly, adv.
Defn: In an enticing manner; charmingly. "She . . . sings most enticingly." Addison.
ENTIERTY
En*tier"ty, n.
Defn: See Entirety. [Obs.]
ENTIRE
En*tire", a. Etym: [F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished,
entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See
Tangent, and cf. Integer.]
1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.
2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole;
pure; faithful.
Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak.
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
3. (Bot.) (a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. (b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
4. Not gelded; — said of a horse.
5. Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn.
— See Whole, and Radical.
ENTIRE
En*tire", n.
1. Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray.
2. (Brewing)
Defn: A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.
ENTIRELY
En*tire"ly, adv.
1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh.
2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
ENTIRENESS
En*tire"ness, n.
1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench.
2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.
3. Oneness; unity; — applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [Obs.] True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall.
ENTIRETY
En*tire"ty, n.; pl. Entireness. Etym: [OF. entiereté. Cf. Integrity.]
1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone.
2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon.
ENTIRE-WHEAT
En*tire"-wheat", a.
Defn: Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.
ENTITATIVE
En"ti*ta*tive, a. Etym: [See Entity.]
Defn: Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
Ellis.
— En"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.
ENTITLE
En*ti"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entitled; p. pr. & vb. n. Entitling.]
Etym: [OF. entituler, F. intituler, LL. intitulare, fr. L. in +
titulus title. See Title, and cf. Intitule.]
1. 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." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.
2. To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.
3. To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.] The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself. Milton.
Syn. — To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.
ENTITULE
En*tit"ule, v. t. Etym: [See Entitle.]
Defn: To entitle. B. Jonson.
ENTITY En"ti*ty, n.; pl. Entities. Etym: [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens, entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entité. See Essence, Is.]
Defn: A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in
fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.
Bentley.
ENTO-
En"to-. Etym: [Gr. In.]
Defn: A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.
ENTOBLAST
En"to*blast, n. Etym: [Ento- + -blast.] (Biol.)
Defn: The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
ENTOBRONCHIUM
En`to*bron"chi*um, n.; pl. Entobronchia. Etym: [See Ento-, and
Bronchia.] (Anat.)
Defn: One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM En`to*cu*ne"i*form, En`to*cu"ni*form, n. Etym: [Ento- + cuneiform, cuniform.] (Anat.)
Defn: One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
ENTODERM
En"to*derm, n. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.
ENTODERMAL; ENTODERMIC
En`to*der"mal, En`to*der"mic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Relating to the entoderm.
ENTOGASTRIC
En`to*gas"tric, a. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; — applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
ENTOGENOUS
En*tog"e*nous, a. Etym: [Ento- + -genous.] (Biol.)
Defn: See Endogenous.
ENTOGLOSSAL
En`to*glos"sal, a. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Within the tongue; — applied to the glossohyal bone.
ENTOIL
En*toil", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entoiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Entoiling.]
Defn: To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.]
Entoiled in woofed phantasies. Keats.
ENTOMB
En*tomb", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entombed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entombing.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + tomb: cf. OF. entomber.]
Defn: To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.
ENTOMBMENT
En*tomb"ment, n.
Defn: The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.
ENTOMERE
En"to*mere, n. Etym: [Ento- + -mere.] (Biol.)
Defn: The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
ENTOMIC; ENTOMICAL
En*tom"ic, En*tom"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Entomology.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Relating to insects; entomological.
ENTOMOID
En"to*moid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling an insect.
— n.
Defn: An object resembling an insect.
ENTOMOLIN
En*tom"o*lin, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: See Chitin.
ENTOMOLITE
En*tom"o*lite, n. Etym: [Gr. -lite.] (Paleon.)
Defn: A fossil insect.
ENTOMOLOGIC; ENTOMOLOGICAL
En`to*mo*log"ic, En`to*mo*log"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. entomologique.]
Defn: Of or relating to entomology.
— En`to*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
ENTOMOLOGIST
En`to*mol"o*gist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. entomologiste.]
Defn: One versed in entomology.
ENTOMOLOGIZE
En`to*mol"o*gize, v. i.
Defn: To collect specimens in the study of entomology. C. Kingsley.
ENTOMOLOGY En`to*mol"o*gy, n.; pl. Entomologies. Etym: [Gr. 'e`ntomon insect (so called because nearly cut in two, fr. 'e`ntomos cut in; 'en in + te`mnein to cut) + -logy: cf. F. entomologie. See In, and Tome, and cf. Insect.]
1. That part of zoölogy which treats of insects.
2. A treatise on the science of entomology.
ENTOMOPHAGA En`to*moph"a*ga, n.; pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ntomon an insect + fagei^n to eat.] (Zoöl.)
1. One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon,
2.
2. A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.
3. A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
ENTOMOPHAGAN
En`to*moph"a*gan, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Relating to the Entomophaga.
— n.
Defn: One of the Entomophaga.
ENTOMOPHAGOUS
En`to*moph"a*gous, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
ENTOMOPHILOUS
En`to*moph"i*lous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Fertilized by the agency of insects; — said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
ENTOMOSTRACA
En`to*mos"tra*ca, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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
En`to*mos"tra*can, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Relating to the Entomostraca.
— n.
Defn: One of the Entomostraca.
ENTOMOSTRACOUS
En`to*mos"tra*cous, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Belonging to the Entomostracans.
ENTOMOTOMIST
En`to*mot"o*mist, n.
Defn: One who practices entomotomy.
ENTOMOTOMY
En`to*mot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: The science of the dissection of insects.
ENTONIC
En*ton"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. Entasis.] (Med.)
Defn: Having great tension, or exaggerated action. Dunglison.
ENTOPERIPHERAL
En`to*pe*riph"er*al, a. Etym: [Ento- + peripheral.] (Physiol.)
Defn: 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
En"to*phyte, n. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
ENTOPHYTIC
En`to*phyt"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.
ENTOPLASM En"to*plasm, n. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Biol.) (a) The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) Endosarc.
ENTOPLASTIC
En`to*plas"tic, a. Etym: [Ento- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: 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.
ENTOPLASTRON
En`to*plas"tron, n.; pl. Entoplastra. Etym: [Ento- + plastron.]
(Anat.)
Defn: The median plate of the plastron of turtles; — called also entosternum.
ENTOPROCTA
En`to*proc"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
ENTOPTIC
Ent*op"tic, a. Etym: [Ent- + optic.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.
ENTORGANISM
Ent*or"gan*ism, n. Etym: [Ent- + organism.] (Biol.)
Defn: An internal parasitic organism.
ENTORTILATION En*tor`ti*la"tion, n. Etym: [F. entortiller to twist; pref. en- (L. in) + tortiller to twist.]
Defn: A turning into a circle; round figures. [Obs.] Donne.
ENTOSTERNUM
En`to*ster"num, n.; pl. Entosterna. Etym: [NL. See Ento-, and
Sternum.] (Anat.)
Defn: See Entoplastron.
— En`to*ster"nal, a.
ENTOSTHOBLAST
En*tos"tho*blast, n. Etym: [Gr. 'e`ntosthe from within + -blast.]
(Biol.)
Defn: The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.
ENTOTHORAX
En`to*tho"rax, n. Etym: [Ento- + thorax.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Endothorax.
ENTOTIC
Ent*ot"ic, a. Etym: [Ent- + Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to the interior of the ear.
ENTOURAGE
En`tou`rage" (äN`too`razh"), n. [F.]
Defn: Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.
The entourage and mode of life of the mikados were not such as to make of them able rulers. B. H. Chamberlain.
ENTOZOA
En`to*zo"a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
1. A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
2. An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
ENTOZOAL; ENTOZOIC
En`to*zo"al, En`to*zo"ic, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.
ENTOZOOLOGIST; ENTOZOOELOGIST
En`to*zo*öl"o*gist, n. Etym: [Entozoön + -logy + -ist.]
Defn: One versed in the science of the Entozoa.
ENTOZOON; ENTOZOOEN
En`to*zo"ön, n.; pl. Entozoa. Etym: [NL. See Entozoa.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the Entozoa.
ENTR'ACTE
En`tr'acte", n. Etym: [F. Cf. Interact.]
1. The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.
2. A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.
ENTRAIL
En*trail", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + OF. treiller to grate, lattice,
F. treille vine, arbor. See Trellis.]
Defn: To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENTRAIL
En*trail", n.
Defn: Entanglement; fold. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENTRAILS En"trails, n. pl. Etym: [F. entrailles, LL. intralia, intranea, fr. interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, fr. inter between, among, within. See Internal.]
1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.
ENTRAIN
En*train", v. t. Etym: [F. entrainer.]
Defn: To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
ENTRAIN
En*train", v. t. Etym: [Pref. en- + train.]
Defn: To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
[Recent, Eng.]
ENTRAIN
En*train", v. i.
Defn: To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]
ENTRAMMEL
En*tram"mel, v. t. Etym: [See Trammel.]
Defn: To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.
ENTRANCE En"trance, n. Etym: [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.]
1. 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.
2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak.
3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24.
4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.
5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.
ENTRANCE
En*trance", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Entrancing.] Etym: [Pref. en- + trance.]
1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden.
2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden.
ENTRANCEMENT
En*trance"ment, n.
Defn: The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.
Otway.
ENTRANT
En"trant, n. Etym: [See Entrance, n.]
1. One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.
2. An applicant for admission. Stormonth.
ENTRAP
En*trap", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entrapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Entrapping.]
Etym: [Pref. en- + trap: cf. OF. entraper.]
Defn: 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. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.
Syn.
— To insnare; inveigle; tangle; decoy; entangle.
ENTREAT
En*treat", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entreated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Entreating.] Etym: [OE. entreten to treat, request, OF. entraiter to
treat of; pref. en- (L. in) + traitier to treat. See Treat.]
1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.] Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11.
2. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune. "Entreat my wife to come." "I do entreat your patience." Shak. I must entreat of you some of that money. Shak. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. Poe. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. Gen. xxv. 21.
3. To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.
4. To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] "Pleasures to entreat." Spenser.
Syn.
— To beseech; beg; solicit; crave; implore; supplicate. See
Beseech.
ENTREAT
En*treat", v. i.
1. To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a
treaty. [Obs.]
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat. Hakewill.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them. 1
Mac. x. 47.
2. To make an earnest petition or request. The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men. Knolles.
ENTREAT
En*treat", n.
Defn: Entreaty. [Obs.] Ford.
ENTREATABLE
En*treat"a*ble, a.
Defn: That may be entreated.
ENTREATANCE
En*treat"ance, n.
Defn: Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.
ENTREATER
En*treat"er, n.
Defn: One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
ENTREATFUL
En*treat"ful, a.
Defn: Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.
ENTREATINGLY
En*treat"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In an entreating manner.
ENTREATIVE
En*treat"ive, a.
Defn: Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A.
Brewer.
ENTREATMENT
En*treat"ment, n.
Defn: Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.
ENTREATY
En*treat"y, n.; pl. Entreaties (.
1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser.
Syn.
— Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.
ENTREE
En`trée", n. Etym: [F. See Entry.]
1. A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.
2. (Cookery)