(v. t.) To form; to shape.

(n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.

(n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

(v. t.) To stimulate.

(v. t.) To frighten; to scare.

(v. t.) To breathe or puff out.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(a.) Poured out freely; profuse.

(a.) Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.

(a.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.

(a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

(n.) Effusion; loss.

(v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.

(v. i.) To emanate; to issue.

(n.) See Afrit.

(n.) The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Egg

(n.) A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

(n.) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

(n.) The European perch when two years old.

(n.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

(n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

(n.) One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.

(n.) A believer in egoism.

(n.) Personality.

(v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

(v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

(v. t.) To boil out; to produce by boiling.

(n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

(n.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

(v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.

(n.) A kind of sour cherry.

(n.) A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

(a.) Next in order after the seventh.

(a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

(n.) The interval of an octave.

(a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.

(n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

(a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.

(a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.

(v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

(v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

(v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

(v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

(v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

(v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

(v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

(v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

(conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

(v. t.) To shake off; to discard.

(v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

(v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods.

(v. t.) To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.

(n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

(v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elate

(n.) One who, or that which, elates.

(n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

(n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

(n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

(n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

(n.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

(n.) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.

(n.) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

(n.) An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

(a.) Cut off; set apart.

(a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.

(a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

(n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

(n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

(a.) To remove; to set apart.

(a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

(n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

(a.) Made of elder.

(a.) Oldest; longest in duration.

(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.

(n.) Fuel.

() They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.

(v. t.) To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

(v. t.) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.

(v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

(n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.

(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

(n.) Exhortation.

(v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exile

(a.) Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

(n.) A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

(n.) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

(n.) A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

(v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.

(v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.

(v. i.) To practice extortion.

(p. p. & a.) Extorted.

(pl. ) of Ephor

(pl. ) of Ephor

(n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.

(a.) Epic.

(n.) See Perigee.

(n.) See Epoch.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.

(n.) Alt. of Eponyme

(n.) Alt. of Epopoeia

(n.) A hard tumor developed from the gums.

(n.) A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

(v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Erase

(p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

(p. pr. & a.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.

(n.) One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

(n.) A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

(n.) The sea holly. See Eryngo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Erode

(p. p. & a.) Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

(p. p. & a.) Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.

(a.) Alt. of Erotical

(n.) An amorous composition or poem.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Err

(n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

(a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.

(a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.

(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

(n.) One who wanders about.

(n. pl.) See Erratum.

(pl. ) of Erratum

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc.

(n.) A plant of the genus Eryngium.

(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.

(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.

(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

(n.) A sally.

(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

(n.) An apophyge.

(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

(n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

(v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.

(n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

(n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.

(a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.

(a.) To escape from; to avoid.

(n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.

(n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.

(n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

(n.) See Scout.

(n.) See Scrod, a young cod.

(n.) Alt. of Escroll

(n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee.

(n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

(a.) Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

(n.) Space.

(n.) The act of espying; notice; discovery.

(n.) One who espies; a spy; a scout.

(n.) One who espies.

(n.) Spirit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Espy

(pl. ) of Espy

(pl. ) of Essay

(n.) Alt. of Essoign

(n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.

(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

(n.) A person of high rank.

(n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

(n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

(n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.

(v. t.) To establish.

(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.

(v. t.) To endow with an estate.

(v. t.) To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.

(v. t.) To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.

(v. i.) To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.

(v. t.) Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.

(v. t.) High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.

(v. i.) To stray.

(n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.

(n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.

(n.) Commotion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Etch

(n.) One who etches.

(a.) Eternal.

(a.) See Etern.

(n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.

(n.) Ethylene; olefiant gas.

(n.) See Eddish.

(n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

(n.) The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.

(n.) Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.

(n.) Acetylene.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ear

(n.) A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

(n.) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

(n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

(n.) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

(n.) Coming into ear, as corn.

(n.) A plowing of land.

(v. t.) To cover as with a dome.

(v. t.) To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Endue

(v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

(v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

(v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

(v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

(v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

(n.) See Ependyma.

(n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

(n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

(n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

(n.) Capacity for performing work.

(v. t.) To weaken; to enervate.

(a.) Contaminated with illegality.

(v. t.) To set on fire.

(v. t.) To infold. See Infold.

(v. t.) To form; to fashion.

(v. t.) To set free.

(v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.

(v. t.) To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.

(v. t.) To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.

(v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.

(v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

(v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

(v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

(v. i.) To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

(v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.

(v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

(v. t.) To put in jail; to imprison.

(v. t.) To gild; to make splendent.

(n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

(n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

(n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

(n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

(v. t.) To assault with an engine.

(v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

(v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.

() of Engird

(v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

(v. t.) To engird.

(v. t.) To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

(v. t.) To swallow or gulp down.

(v. t.) To glut.

(v. t.) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

(v. t.) To make bloody.

(v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

(v. t.) To surround with a halo.

(v. t.) To encourage.

(n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

(n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.

(v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

(v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

(v. t.) To join or unite.

(v. t.) To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.

(v. t.) To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.

(v. t.) To chain together; to connect, as by links.

(v. t.) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

(v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

(v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

(v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

(v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

(v. t.) To enliven.

(v. t.) To lock; to inclose.

(v. t.) To coat with clay; to lute.

(v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

(v. t.) To infold, as in a mist.

(n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

(n.) A state of opposition; hostility.

(v. t.) See Emmove.

(n.) The number nine or a group of nine.

(a.) Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

(n.) One who is affected with ennui.

(a.) Without a node.

(a.) Anointed.

(a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

(adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

(adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

(adv.) In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

(n.) A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.

(interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

(v. t.) To enroot; to implant.

(v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

(v. t.) To place in ranks or in order.

(p. a.) Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.

(v. t.) To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

(v. t.) To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

(v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

(v. t.) To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

(v. t.) To encircle.

(v. t.) To rive; to cleave.

(v. t.) To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

(n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

(n.) To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.

(v. t.) To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

(v. t.) To make safe.

(a.) Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

(v. t.) To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

(v. t.) To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.

(v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

(v. t.) To sear; to dry up.

(v. t.) To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk.

(v. t.) To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ensue

(v. t.) To make sure. See Insure.

(v. t.) To betroth.

(n.) That which is entailed.

(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

(v. t.) To tame.

() A prefix signifying between, among, part.

(v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.

(a.) Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.

(a.) Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.

(a.) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

(a.) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.

(a.) Not gelded; -- said of a horse.

(a.) Internal; interior.

(n.) Entirely.

(n.) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.

(n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

(v. t.) To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.

(v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

(v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

(n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.

(n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

(v. t.) To tune; to intone.

(n.) One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.

(pl. ) of Envy

(imp. & p. p.) of Envy

(v. t.) See Inwall.

(v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.

(v. t.) To conceive in the womb.

(v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.

(v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.

(n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.

(n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

(n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

(n.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

(a.) Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.

(a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

(n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

(n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

(a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

(n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.

(a.) Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.

(n.) A little elf.

(a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

(v. t.) To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elide

(v. t.) To loose; to pay.

(n.) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

(n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

(n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.

(n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.

(n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.

(n.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.

(a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

(n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

(v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

(v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

(v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.

(v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

(v. t.) To wait for; to await.

(v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.

(v. t.) To wait; to stay.

(n.) Expectation.

(v. t.) To expedite; to hasten.

(v. t.) To remove afar off; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elope

(n.) One who elopes.

(v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

(v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.

(v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elude

(a.) Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

(a.) Mysterious; also, foolish.

(pl. ) of Elytrum

(a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

(n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

(n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

(n.) A sworn appraiser.

(v. t.) To experience.

(v. t.) See Embase.

(v. t.) To make up into a bale or pack.

(v. t.) To bind up; to inclose.

(v. t.) To encircle or embrace.

(v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.

(v. t.) To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.

(v. t.) To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.

(v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

(v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

(v. t.) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

(v. t.) To emit; to give out.

(v. t.) To bring to a close; to terminate.

(v. i.) To emit the breath.

(v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

(v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

(n.) Expiration.

(v. t.) Alt. of Explate

(v. t.) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

(v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

(v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

(v. i.) To engage in any affair.

(v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.

(v. t.) To make brilliant with beams.

(v. t.) To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

(n.) Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.

(n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity.

(n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

(v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.

(v. t.) To carry away; to remove.

(v. t.) To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.

(n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

(n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.

(v. t.) To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

(v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.

(v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.

(v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.

(v. t.) A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

(v. t.) To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.

(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

(v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce.

(v. t.) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

(pl. ) of Embolus

(n.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

(v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

(v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.

(v. t.) To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

(v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

(v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

(v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

(v. t.) To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

(v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.

(v. t.) A cutting out or away.

(v. t.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

(a.) Alt. of Exserted

(v. t.) To imbrue; to stain with blood.

(v. t.) See Imbrue, Embrew.

(n.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

(n.) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).

(n.) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.

(a.) Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

(a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

(a.) Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.

(a.) Publicly known; conspicuous.

(v. t.) To enlarge in the way of bulk.

(v. t.) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

(v. t.) To employ.

(v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.

(v. t.) To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

(v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

(v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.

(v. t.) To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.

(v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.

(v. t.) To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.

(v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

(n.) Emery.

(n.) A glazier's diamond.

(n.) A vomiting.

(a.) Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.

(n.) A medicine which causes vomiting.

(n.) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

(a.) Extended.

(n.) Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.

(n.) Degree; measure; proportion.

(n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.

(n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

(n.) One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

(a.) External; outward; not inherent.

(n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

(n.) Outward form or part; exterior.

(v. i.) To drop or distill.

(n.) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

(v. t.) To move; to rouse; to excite.

(n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

(v. t.) To impair.

(v. t.) To make pale.

(v. t.) To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.

(v. t.) To inclose; to surround. See Impale.

(v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

(v. t.) Same as Impale.

(v. t.) To extirpate.

() A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.

(pl. ) of Extra

(v. t.) To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.

(n.) A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

(n.) Empire; sovereignty; dominion.

(v. t.) To inclose; to infold.

(v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.

(v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study.

(v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.

(n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exude

() n. sing. of Exuviae.

(n.) Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

(n.) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.

(n.) A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

(a.) Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable.

(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.

(n.) The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

(n.) See /iliad.

(v. t.) To milk out; to drain.

(v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

(v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

(v. t.) A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

(v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.

(v. t.) That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.

(v. t.) The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.

(v. t.) To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.

(v. t.) To variegate with colors as if with enamel.

(v. t.) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.

(v. t.) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

(v. i.) To practice the art of enameling.

(a.) Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.

(v. t.) To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

(v. t.) To arch.

(v. t.) To imbibe.

(v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.

(v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.

(v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

(v. t.) To inclose as in a case. See Incase.

(v. t.) To turn into cash; to cash.

(v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.

(adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

(n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.

(v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

(v. t.) To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.

(v. t.) To inclose in a cyst.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of End

(v. t.) To darken.

(v. t.) To make dear or beloved.

(v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.

(v. t.) See Indict.

(n.) Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

(n.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.

(v. t.) See Indite.

(n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.

(n.) The lobe of the ear.

(n.) An earring.

(a.) Alt. of Ethnical

(n.) A heathen; a pagan.

(imp. & p. p.) of Earn

(a.) Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.

(a.) Gross; low; unrefined.

(a.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

(n.) Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.

(n.) In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.

(n.) A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor.

(v. t.) To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ease

(adv.) With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

(adv.) Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.

(adv.) Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

(adv.) Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.

(adv.) Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat

(n.) Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ebb

(n.) An original form; primitive word; root.

(n.) Original or fundamental signification.

(n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

(v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

(v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

(n.) A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.

(n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

(n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

() Nobleness of birth.

(n.) A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.

(n.) Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government.

(n.) A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

(v. t.) Alt. of Eunuchate

(pl. ) of Echinus

(pl. ) of Echo

(imp. & p. p.) of Echo

(3d pers. sing. pres.) of Echo

(n.) One who, or that which, echoes.

(n.) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

(n.) A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups.

(n.) Good or established order or arrangement.

(imp. & p. p.) of Evade

(a.) Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Even

(n.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

(n.) One who, or that which makes even.

(n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

(adv.) With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

(n.) Same as Ectopia.

(n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:

(n.) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

(n.) A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.

(v. t.) To overthrow or subvert.

(n.) A stable.

(n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

(n.) Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

(n. pl.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

(pl. ) of Eddy

(imp. & p. p.) of Eddy

(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill.

(v. t.) To conquer; to subdue.

(v. t.) To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edge

(n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

(n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.

(n.) Anything edible.

(imp. & p. p.) of Evoke

(imp. & p. p.) of Edit

(n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

(imp. & p. p.) of Educe

(v. t.) To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

(v. t.) To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

(v. i.) To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

(v. t.) To vomit.

(n.) A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

(adv.) In a strange, unearthly way.

(v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

(v. t.) To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

(n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

(a.) Examination; inquiry.

(n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

(n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.

(n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.

(n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

(n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.

(n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.

(n.) The purport; the sum and substance.

(n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

(n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.

(v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

(v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

(v. t.) Alt. of Excambie

(v. t.) To excavate.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.

(v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

(v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.

(v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

(v. t.) To object to; to protest against.

(v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

(prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

(conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.

(a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

(n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

(n.) The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.

(n.) That which flows out; emanation; effluence.

(v. i.) To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.

(v. t.) To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

(a.) To pick out.

(n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

(n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

(n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

(v. t.) To cut off.

(n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.

(n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.

(v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.

(v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.

(v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

(n.) See Cerumen.

(n.) A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.