(imp. & p. p.) of Effulge

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

(n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

(n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.

(n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.

(n.) The liquid escaping or exuded.

(a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

(adv.) Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.

(n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding.

(n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

(n.) Eglantine.

(a.) Alt. of Egoistical

(a.) Tending to excite; exciting.

(n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

(v. t.) To excite.

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

(a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

(a.) Serving or tending to excite; excitative.

(n.) That which excites; an excitant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exclude

(n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Egotize

(n.) One who goes out.

() The herb agrimony.

(n.) Sorrow.

(n.) Sickness; ailment; sorrow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Excrete

(a.) Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.

(adv.) As the eighth in order.

(n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

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

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

(n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

(n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

(n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

(n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

(v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Execute

(n.) One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

(n.) A salt of elaidic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

(n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

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

(adv.) With elation.

(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

(n.) An executioner.

(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

(pl. ) of Exegesis

(n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

(n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.

(a.) Alt. of Exegetical

(n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

(n.) A copy of a book or writing.

(a.) Exemplary.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Exempt

(a.) Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

(pl. ) of Exequy

(a.) Practicing; professional.

(a.) Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.

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

(n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector.

(n.) See Electuary.

(a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.

(a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

(a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

(a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.

(a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

(a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

(a.) Those who are elected.

(a.) Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.

(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.

(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.

(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.

(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.

(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.

(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.

(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.

(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.

(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

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

(n.) The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

(a.) Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.

(a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.

(n.) In an American college, an optional study or course of study.

(a.) Alt. of Electrical

(n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

(a.) Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

() A prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro-magnet.

(n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

(n.) Amber.

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

(n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.

(n.) Alt. of Elegancy

(n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

(n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.

(n.) One who composes elegies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exhort

(n.) One who exhorts or incites.

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

(n.) Exigency.

(n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.

(a.) That may be exacted; repairable.

(n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

(a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

(a.) Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

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

(n.) Same as Elench.

(a.) Alt. of Elenctical

(n.) A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

(n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.

(n.) The retina.

(n.) A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.

(n.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

(n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

(n.) The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.

(a.) Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

(n.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

(a.) Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

(n.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.

(n.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.

(a.) Alt. of Epidemical

(n.) An epidemic disease.

(n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

(a.) Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

(a.) Same as Epigaeous.

(n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

(n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

(n.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.

(a.) Alt. of Epilogical

(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.

(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

(a.) Pertaining to the epimera.

(n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.

(n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum.

(n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

(n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.

(n.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

(n.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

(n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them."

(a.) Relating to the epiploon.

(n.) See Omentum.

(pl. ) of Epipodium

(a.) Producing, or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence.

(a.) Relating to the epipubis.

(pl. ) of Epipubis

(n.) A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.

(n.) Survey; superintendence.

(n.) Episcopacy.

(a.) Same as Episodic.

(a.) Alt. of Episodical

(n.) The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

(n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

(n.) A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

(n.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

(n.) Alt. of Epistome

(n.) The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea.

(n.) A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.

(n.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

(n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

(n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

(n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

(pl. ) of Epitome

(n.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

(n.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

(n.) Alt. of Epizootic

(a.) Same as Eponymous.

(n.) An epic poem; epic poetry.

(n.) Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

(a.) Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment.

(n.) An epulotic agent.

() of Equal

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

(v. t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

(v. t.) To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.

(v. t.) To be equal to; equal; to match.

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

(n.) A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.

(n.) An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.

(n.) A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion.

(a.) Having the same form; uniform.

(imp. & p. p.) of Equip

(n.) Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.

(n.) Retinue; train; suite.

(n.) A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.

(pl. ) of Equisetum

(a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

(a.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.

(pl. ) of Equity

(n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

(n.) An equivocation; a guibble.

(v. i.) To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.

(a.) Capable of being erased.

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

(a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

(n.) The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

(n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.

(n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

(n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.

(n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

(a.) Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

(a.) Alt. of Eremitical

(n.) A snatching away.

(n.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.

(adv.) Alt. of Erewhiles

() A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

(n.) A logical deduction.

(n.) A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

(n.) A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

(a.) Capable of being erected.

(n.) See Note under Ermine, n., 4.

(n.) A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -

(a.) Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

(a.) Erratic.

(n.) A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.

(n.) The employment of a knight-errant.

(a.) Full of error; wrong.

(n.) One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

(v. t.) To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.

(a.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

(n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.

(n.) That which bursts forth.

(n.) A violent exclamation; ejaculation.

(n.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

(a.) Breaking out or bursting forth.

(a.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.

(a.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.

(n.) An eruptive rock.

(n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.

(n.) Alt. of Erythrine

(v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.

(v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.

(n.) See Escalop.

(n.) A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.

(n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

(n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Escarp

(n.) See Shallot.

(n.) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.

(n.) One who eschews.

(imp. & p. p.) of Escort

(a.) Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

(a.) Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.

(n.) Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.

(a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.

(n.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained.

(v. t.) To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.

(n.) The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

(a.) Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree.

(n.) The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.

(n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Espouse

(n.) One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.

(imp. & p. p.) of Esquire

(n.) The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

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

(n.) A writer of an essay, or of essays.

(imp. & p. p.) of Essence

(n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

(n.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

(a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

(n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Esteem

(n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.

(n.) Alt. of Esthetics

(v. t.) To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.

(v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.

(n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.

(n.) Alt. of Estivation

(n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

(n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.

(n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.

(v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

(v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

(v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

(a.) Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.

(n.) One who is hungry or greedy.

(n.) A kind of chronogram.

(n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

(n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

(v. t.) To make eternal or endless.

(v. t.) To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits.

(a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

(a.) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.

(v. t.) To convert into ether.

(v. t.) To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

(n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

(n.) Ethylidene.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.

(n.) Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

(imp. & p. p.) of Endorse

(n.) Same as Indorsee.

(n.) Same as Indorser.

(n.) The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

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

(v. t.) To make a drudge or slave of.

(a.) Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.

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

(a.) Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.

(v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

(v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.

(pl. ) of Energy

(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.

(a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.

(a.) Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

(v. t.) To famish; to starve.

(v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

(v. t.) To fester.

(v. t.) To bind in fetters; to enchain.

(v. t.) To make fierce.

(n.) A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

(n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

(v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

(v. t.) To cover or deck with flowers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enforce

(a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

(n.) One who enforces.

(v. t.) To turn into a forest.

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

(a.) Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address.

(v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.

(v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

(v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.

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

(n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

(n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

(n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

(v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

(v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

(n.) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

(n.) Engines, in general; instruments of war.

(n.) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

(a.) Pertaining to an engine.

(a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Engird

(v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Engorge

(p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

(p. a.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.

(a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

(imp.) of Engrave

(p. p.) of Engrave

() of Engrave

(a.) Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

(a.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.

(n.) One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

(v. t.) To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.

(v. t.) To grieve.

(imp. & p. p.) of Engulf

(imp. & p. p.) of Enhance

(n.) One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

(v. t.) To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.

(v. t.) To harden; to embolden.

(v. t.) To make hungry.

(n.) A variety of chalcedony containing water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enjoin

(n.) One who enjoins.

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

(v. t.) To put into a kennel.

(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

(v. t.) To excite; to rouse into action; to incite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enlarge

(a.) Made large or larger; extended; swollen.

(n.) One that enlarges.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enlist

(v. t.) To illumine.

(a.) Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

(v. t.) To make hard as marble; to harden.

(pl. ) of Enmity

(v. t.) To muffle up.

(n.) A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

(a.) Alt. of Enneatical

(imp. & p. p.) of Ennoble

(n.) One who ennobles.

(n.) The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

(n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

(a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.

(a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enounce

(n.) See Inquirer.

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

(v. t.) To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enrich

(n.) One who enriches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enroll

(n.) One who enrolls or registers.

(n.) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

(v. t.) To exemplify, to show by example.

(v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

(v. i.) To make search; to try to find something.

(v. t. ) To search for.

(n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.

(adv.) All at once; together.

(v. t.) To defend, as with a shield; to shield.

(a.) Shielded; enshielded.

(v. t.) To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.

(a.) Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.

(n.) The rank or office of an ensign.

(n.) The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

(n.) The fodder preserved in a silo.

(v. t.) To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enslave

(n.) One who enslaves.

(v. t.) To place in a sphere; to envelop.

(v. t.) To form into a sphere.

(a.) Ensuing; following.

(v. t.) To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.

(v. t.) To supply with tackle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Entail

(v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

(v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

(a.) Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

(v. t.) To make tender.

(v. t.) To treat with tenderness.

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

(n.) Inspiration; enthusiasm.

(v. t.) To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.

(v. t.) To pierce; to thrill.

(v. t.) To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.

(v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

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

(a.) That entices; alluring.

(adv.) In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.

(adv.) Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

(n.) The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.

(n.) That which is entire; the whole.

(imp. & p. p.) of Entitle

(v. t.) To entitle.

(pl. ) of Entity

(n.) See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

(imp. & p. p.) of Entoil

(imp. & p. p.) of Entomb

(n.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

(a.) Resembling an insect.

(n.) An object resembling an insect.

(a.) Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.

(a.) Alt. of Entozoic

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.

(n.) One of the Entozoa.

(n. pl.) The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

(n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.

(n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

(n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

(n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

(n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.

(n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

(n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

(n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

(v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

(v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

(n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.

(n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.

(v. t.) See Intrench.

(n.) A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.

(n.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.

(n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

(v. t.) To make a vassal of.

(v. t.) To entice. See Inveigle.

(n.) Alt. of Envelop

(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

(n. pl.) The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

(v. t.) To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

(v. t.) To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.

(v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enwomb

(a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

(n.) Same as Aeolipile.

(a.) Of or pertaining to eophytes.

(a.) Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.

(a.) Inductive.

(n.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order

(n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

(a.) Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.

(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elevate

(a.) Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.

(n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

(n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

(n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

(n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

(n.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

(n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

(a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

(a.) Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.

(a.) Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

(a.) Destructive; fatal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

(n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

(adv.) In an elfish manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elicit

(a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

(a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.

(adv.) In an eligible manner.

(n.) See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.

(v. t.) To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

(v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.

(n.) Hellebore.

(n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.

(n.) An ellipse.

(a.) Alt. of Elliptical

(a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.

(n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

(n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.

(n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

(n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.

(a.) Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

(n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.

(n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

(n.) The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

(n.) The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

(a.) Alt. of Exoterical

(n.) The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expand

(n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expect

(n.) One who expects.

(imp. & p. p.) of Eloign

(a.) To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

(a.) To remove further off.

(v. i.) To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

(a.) Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

(a.) Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.

(a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.

(a.) Free of impediment; unimpeded.

(a.) Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

(v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

(v. t.) To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expel

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Expend

(adv.) Otherwise.

(v. i.) To struggle out; -- with out.

(a.) Capable of being eluded; evadible.

(n.) The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.

(adv.) In an elvish manner.

(a.) Resembling a beetle's wing case.

(v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

(v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

(a.) Emaciated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emanate

(adv.) In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

(a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expiate

(n.) One who makes expiation or atonement.

(n.) One who expires or is expiring.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embalm

(n.) One who embalms.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embank

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

(a.) Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

(a.) Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embar

(imp. & p. p.) of Embark

(a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

(a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.

(a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.

(imp. & p. p.) of Explode

(n.) One who or that which explodes.

(n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.

(v. t.) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.

(v. i.) To be arrayed for battle.

(v. t.) To furnish with battlements.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Embed

(v. t.) To make better.

(v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

(v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

(v. i.) To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.

(imp. & p. p.) of Explore

(v. t.) To polish thoroughly.

(n.) A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated

(n.) One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Export

(v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

(v. t.) To whiten. See Blanch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emblaze

(v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

(v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emblem

(n.) One who embodies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embody

(n.) One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

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

(v. t.) To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.

(n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

(n.) Intercalated time.

(n.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

(n.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

(v. t.) To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emboss

(a.) Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

(a.) Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.

(n.) The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

(n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.

(n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.

(n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

(n.) An expeller.

(a.) Swollen; protuberant.

(n.) One who embosses.

(v. t.) To bottle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embrace

(n.) One who embraces.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expunge

(v. t.) To copy; to transcribe.

(n.) A copy; a transcript.

(v. t.) To brighten.

(v. t.) To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.

(v. t.) To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.

(a.) Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.

(a.) Embryonic; undeveloped.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Extend

(n.) One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

(a.) Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.

(a.) Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.

(a.) Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.

(a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

(n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

(n. pl.) Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.

(n.) The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.

(n.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.

(a.) Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.

(n.) The voiding of urine.

(n.) What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.

(a. & n.) Diuretic.

(v. i.) Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

(v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.

(n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

(v. i.) To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.

(a.) Migratory; roving.

(n.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.

(a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.

(a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.

(a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.

(n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.

(n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.

(n.) State of being eminent; eminence.

(n.) Alt. of Emeership

(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.

(a.) Exploring; spying.

(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

(n.) The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.

(n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.

(a.) Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

(a.) Same as Emissary, a., 2.

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

(a.) Sending forth; emissive.

(v. t.) To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.

(a.) Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.

(a.) Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

(a.) Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.

(a.) Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.

(a.) Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

(a.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

(n.) Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) To turn to marble; to harden.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Extol

(n.) One who extols; one who praises.

(imp. & p. p.) of Extort

(n.) One who practices extortion.

(v. t.) To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.

(n.) See Empress.

(pl. ) of Emphasis

(n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.

(n.) A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.

(a.) Alt. of Emphatical

(v. t.) To pierce; to impierce.

(imp. & p. p.) of Employ

(n.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

(n.) One employed by another.

(n.) One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

(v. t.) To plunge; to implunge.

(v. t.) To poison; to impoison.

(n.) Poison.

(v. t.) See Imprison.

(a.) Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

(imp. & p. p.) of Extrude

(a.) See Exsuccous.

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

(a.) Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.

(a.) Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant.

(v. i.) To overflow; to inundate.

(v. i.) To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

(n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.

(n.) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

(n.) Ointment for the eye.

(n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

(n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

(n.) A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance.

(n.) Eye agate. See under Eye.

(pl. ) of Eyetooth

(n.) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

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

(n.) The act of making empty.

(n.) The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast.

(v. t.) To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

(v. t.) To puzzle.

(n.) An eruption of pustules.

(a.) Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.

(n.) Empyrean.

(n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.

(a.) Empyreal.

(a.) Capable of being emulated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emulate

(n.) One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

(a.) Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.

(n.) An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.

(n.) A medicine that excites the flow of bile.

(v. t.) To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

(n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

(a.) Softening; milklike.

(a.) Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.

(a.) Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.

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

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

(a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.

(n.) Enactment; resolution.

(n.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

(v. t.) To ambush.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enamel

(a.) Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.

(n.) Alt. of Enamelist

(imp. & p. p.) of Enamor

(a.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

(n.) An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

(a.) Coming into being; nascent.

(adv.) Lest that.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Encamp

(v. t.) To canker.

(n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.

(n.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

(n.) The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.

(a.) Pregnant; with child.

(v. t.) To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.

(n.) A charge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enchase

(n.) One who enchases.

(n.) Alt. of Encheason

(v. t.) To cut with a chisel.

(a.) Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

(v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

(v. i.) Alt. of Enclitical

(n.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

(v. t.) To clothe.

(v. t.) To put in a coffin.

(v. t.) To render cold.

(v. t.) To furnish or surround with a collar.

(n.) The neck of horse.

(n.) Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

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

(v. t.) To lay in a cradle.

(v. t. &) i. [Obs.] See Increase.

(a.) Alt. of Encrinital

(a.) Alt. of Encrinital

(v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.

(n.) Encroachment.

(v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.

(v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

(a.) Alt. of Encyclical

(n.) Alt. of Encyclical

(a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.

(v. t.) To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.

(v. t.) To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

(v. t.) To incur the hazard of; to risk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Endear

(a.) Endemic.

(v. t.) To endenizen.

(a.) Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.

(v. t.) To decorate with a diaper pattern.

(n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

(n.) The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

(n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

(n.) The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

(n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

(n.) The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

(n.) The governor of a province or people.

(a.) Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

(a.) Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

(n.) A treatise on morality; ethics.

(n.) The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.

(n.) A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.

(n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.

(pl. ) of Earning

(n.) Earshot.

(v. i.) To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

(v. i.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.

(v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

(v. t.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.

(a.) Alt. of Etiolated

(n.) The science of causes. Same as /tiology.

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

(n.) A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

(a.) Without ease.

(n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

(n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.

(n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

(n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

(n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

(n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

(n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

(n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

(adv.) Alt. of Eastwards

(n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ebonize

(a.) Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

(a.) Having a fine color.

(n.) A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.

(a.) Made of or relating to ivory.

(a.) Without a tail or spur.

(a.) Tailless.

() Expecting a wish; supplicatory.

(n.) A good angel.

(n.) The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.

(n.) The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish.

(n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

(n.) A church, either as a body or as a building.

(n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

(n.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

(n.) One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast.

(n.) A formal eulogy.

(v. t.) To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.

(pl. ) of Eulogy

(n.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

(n.) A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

(n.) One well born, or of noble birth.

(n.) Alt. of Eupepsy

(a.) Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.

(a.) Alt. of Echinated

(n.) A fossil echinoid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.

(n.) One of the Echinoidea.

(a.) Alt. of Euphonical

(n.) An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

(n.) The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.

(n.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

(n.) One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.

(v. t.) To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.

(a.) Without echo or response.

(a.) Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

(a.) Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.

(n.) One who follows an eclectic method.

(imp. & p. p.) of Eclipse

(a.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

(a.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.

(a.) Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.

(n.) Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

(n.) Regularly of the pulse.

(n.) Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.

(a.) Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.

(n.) A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.

(a.) Alt. of Economical

(n.) A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.

(a.) Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

(n.) A purgative or cathartic.

(v. t.) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.

(v. t.) To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

(v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

(v. t.) To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.

(v. i.) To let blood

(a.) Capable of being evaded.

(v. t.) To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

(v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.

(n.) Evangel.

(a.) That may be evaded.

() The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

() An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'.

() The libration of the moon.

(a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

(n.) An explicit declaration.

(n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

(n.) Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.

(n.) Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

(n.) An enthusiast.

(a.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.

(n.) Beginning of evening.

(n.) Equality.

(n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

(n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.

(a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

(n.) The time of evening; evening.

(n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.

(n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

(n.) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

(n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

(n.) The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

(a.) See Epizoic.

(n.) See Epizoon.

(a.) Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

(a.) Alt. of Ecumenical

(adv.) During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.

(n.) The act of eversing; destruction.

(n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

(a.) Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

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

(a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.

(n.) Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

(v. t. & i.) To vibrate.

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

(n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

(n.) Conclusive evidence; proof.

(n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

(a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

(a.) Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

(a.) Belonging to the Edentata.

(n.) One of the Edentata.

(n.) One who bears witness.

(n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

(v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

(n.) The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

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

(a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

(a.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.

(adv.) With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

(adv.) Gradually; gingerly.

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

(a.) Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

(a.) Avoidable.

(n.) One who calls forth.

(a.) Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

(n.) A female editor.

(v. t.) To guard as a churchwarden does.

(a.) Capable of being educated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Educate

(a.) Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

(n.) One who educates; a teacher.

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

(n.) The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

(v. t.) To publish abroad.

(n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.

(a.) Capable of being educed.

(n.) The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

(a.) Tending to draw out; extractive.

(n.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

(a.) Causing fear; eerie.

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

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

(a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

(n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

(n.) That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

(v. t.) To whet or sharpen.

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

(a.) Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Examine

(n.) A person examined.

(n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Example

(n.) Same as Exanthema.

(imp. & p. p.) of Effect

(n.) One who effects.

(n.) An effecter.

(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

(v. t.) To blind.

(v. t.) Excess.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exceed

(n.) One who exceeds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Excel

(imp. & p. p.) of Except

(a.) Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

(a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

(n.) An efferent duct or stream.

(a.) Like a wild beast; fierce.

(n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

(v. t.) To make fierce.

(a.) Relating to an effigy.

(n.) See Effigy.

(pl. ) of Effigy

(v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

(a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams.

(n.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

(pl. ) of Effluvium

(n.) One who takes exceptions.

(n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

(n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.

(n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.

(n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

(n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.

(n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.

(n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.

(n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.

(n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.

(v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

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

(n.) The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

(n.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

(n.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.

(n.) A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground

(n.) The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.

(n.) The peanut. See Peanut.

(n.) Same as Aitchbone.

(adv.) Alt. of Edgewise

(n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

(n.) The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

(n.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

(pl. ) of Ellipsis