(v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

(v. t.) To give assurance to.

(v. t.) To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.

(v. i.) To shine forth; to beam.

(imp. & p. p.) of Effuse

(adv.) Alt. of Eftsoons

(n.) Equality.

(n.) See Aegilops.

(n.) Egoism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Excite

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

(v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

(n.) Outcry; clamor.

(n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.

(v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.

(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.

(n.) One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

(v. i.) To talk or write as an egotist.

(n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.

(v. t.) To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

(n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.

(a.) Pacific. See Irenic.

(v. t.) To journey or pass thought.

(imp. & p. p.) of Excuse

(imp. & p. p.) of Eject

(n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

(n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

(n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

(n.) One who excuses or forgives another.

(v. t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

(v. t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

(v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

(v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

(v. t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.

(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.

(v. i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.

(v. i.) To perform musically.

(n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.

(a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

(n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elapse

(a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.

(a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.

(n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

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

(a.) Eating out; consuming.

(pl. ) of Exedra

(n.) An exegetist.

(n.) Acting force; elasticity.

(n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

(a.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elbow

(a.) Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elect

(a.) See Eclectic.

(n.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exert

(n.) One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.

(n.) Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

(n.) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.

(n.) One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.

(a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.

(n.) Alt. of Electer

(n.) The act of eating out or through.

(v. t.) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

(v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

(v. t.) To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.

(v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

(a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

(a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

(n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

(n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

(n.) See Exedra.

(v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.

(v. t.) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.

(v. t.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

(n.) Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

(n.) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.

(a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

(a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

(n.) Elegiac verse.

(n.) A write of elegies.

(v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

(pl. ) of Elegy

(n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

(n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.

(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.

(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.

(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.

(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.

(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.

(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.

(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.

(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.

(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire

(n.) the conditions and movements of the air.

(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.

(n.) The whole material composing the world.

(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.

(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.

(v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exhume

(a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.

(n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

(n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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

(a.) Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exist

(n.) A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

(n.) Alt. of Erminois

(n.) The ball or globe of the eye.

(n.) A glance of the eye.

(n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.

(n.) Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.

(a.) Pertaining to an ephor.

(n.) Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.

() The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

(n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

(a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

(a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

(n.) A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

(n.) One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

(n.) An epidemic disease.

(n.) The epidermis.

(n.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

(a.) Epigaeous.

(a.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

(a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

(n.) See Perigee.

(n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.

(n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

(n.) The style of the epigram.

(n.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

(n.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.

(n.) The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

(n.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

(n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.

(n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

(v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.

(v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

(n.) Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

(n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

(n.) Term; expression; phrase.

(v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

(n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.

(n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.

(n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

(a.) Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.

(n.) The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet.

(a.) Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

(a.) Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.

(adv.) In an equable manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Equal

(adv.) In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Equate

(n.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.

(n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.

(n.) A large stable or lodge for horses.

(n.) An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.

(a.) See Equine.

(n.) Glanders.

(n.) The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal.

(n.) Equinoctial wind or storm.

(n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

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

(n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

(n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

(imp. & p. p.) of Erect

(n.) An erector; one who raises or builds.

(adv.) In an erect manner or posture.

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

(n.) A muscle which raises any part.

(n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.

(adv.) Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.

(n.) A hermit.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.

(n.) An extract made from ergot.

(n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.

(n.) A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

(a.) Alt. of Eristical

(n.) Alt. of Ermilin

(a.) Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine.

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

(n.) A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

(v. t.) To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.

(n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

(n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

(a.) That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.

(n.) A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation.

(a.) Liable to error; fallible.

(n.) A wandering; state of being in error.

(a.) Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.

(a.) Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.

(a.) Irregular; changeable.

(n.) One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.

(n.) A rogue.

(n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.

(n.) An error or mistake in writing or printing.

(a.) Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.

(a.) Freed from wrinkles; smooth.

(n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

(n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop.

(n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

(n.) A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.

(imp. & p. p.) of Escape

(n.) One who escapes.

(n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

(n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.

(n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.

(n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.

(n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.

(n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return

(v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.

(v. t.) To forfeit.

(n.) Alt. of Escopette

(n.) A writing.

(n.) A scroll.

(n.) A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.

(n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.

(n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.

(n.) A glucoside obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.

(n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

(a.) Sexless; asexual.

(n.) Guard.

(n.) Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery.

(n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.

(n.) A kind of ruby. See Spinel.

(n. pl.) The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like.

(v. t.) To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

(v. t.) To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.

(v. t.) To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Essay

(n.) One who essays.

(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.

(n.) Constituent substance.

(n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.

(n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

(v. t.) To perfume; to scent.

(n.) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.

(n.) Excuse; exemption.

(n.) Alt. of Estafette

(n.) Alt. of Esthetics

(n.) Alt. of Estivation

(n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.

(n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.

(n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.

(v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.

(v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.

(v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

(n.) Ostrich.

(n.) The down of the ostrich.

(n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

(n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

(a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

(v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

(a.) Causing hunger; eating; corroding.

(n.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

(n.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.

(n.) One who favors etacism.

(n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.

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

(n.) The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

(v. t.) A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching.

(v. t.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate.

(a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

(a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

(a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

(a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.

(a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.

(n.) One of the appellations of God.

(n.) That which is endless and immortal.

(a.) Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.

(n.) A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C.

(n.) A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl.

(adv.) In an eager manner.

(n.) A female or hen eagle.

(n.) See Eddish.

(n.) A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.

(n.) A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

(n.) An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

(a.) Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.

(a.) Arable; tillable.

(n.) Ache or pain in the ear.

(n.) A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

(n.) A species of primrose. See Auricula.

(n.) The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

(v. t.) Same as Indorse.

(n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

(imp. & p. p.) of Endow

(v. t.) To endow.

(n.) One who endows.

(n. pl.) See Entozoa.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Endure

(n.) One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

(adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.

(adv.) With the end forward.

(n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

(v. t.) To kill off; to destroy.

(pl. ) of Enema

(pl. ) of Enemy

(a.) Alt. of Energical

(v. t.) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.

(v. t.) To give in vassalage; to make subservient.

(v. t.) To excite fever in.

(p. a.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

(v. t.) To clothe with flesh.

(v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.

(v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.

(v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

(v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.

(v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

(v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

(v. i.) To attempt by force.

(v. i.) To prove; to evince.

(v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.

(n.) Force; strength; power.

(v. t.) To inclose, as in a frame.

(imp. & p. p.) of Engage

(a.) Occupied; employed; busy.

(a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.

(a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

(a.) Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.

(n.) One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

(v. t.) To make gloomy.

(v. t.) To gorge; to glut.

(v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

(v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

(v. t.) To graft; to fix deeply.

(v. t.) See Ingraft.

(v. t.) To variegate or spot, as with hail.

(v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

(v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

(v. t.) To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

(v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.

(v. t.) To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.

(v. t.) To grasp; to grip.

(v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.

(v. t.) To cut in; to make by incision.

(v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

(v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

(v. t.) To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.

(v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

(v. t.) To amass.

(v. t.) To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.

(v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.

(v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

(v. t.) To surround as with a guard.

(v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.

(v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.

(v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

(v. t.) To surround as with a hedge.

(pl. ) of Enigma

(p. a.) Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enjoy

(n.) One who enjoys.

(v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

(v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.

(v. t.) To set at large or set free.

(v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

(v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.

(v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

(v. t.) To illumine; to enlighten.

(v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

(v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

(v. t.) To place in a niche.

(v. t.) To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.

(v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

(n.) A woman affected with ennui.

(n.) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

(v. t.) To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

(v. t.) To utter; to articulate.

(v. i.) To inquire.

(v. i. & t.) See Inquire.

(n.) See Inquiry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enrage

(v. t.) To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.

(v. t.) To rove over; to range.

(v. i.) To contract a rheum.

(v. t.) To ripen.

(v. t.) To surround.

(v. t.) To cover with scales.

(v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

(v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

(v. t.) To entangle.

(v. t.) To make sober.

(v. t.) To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.

(v. t.) See Instate.

(v. t.) To restore.

(v. t.) To style; to name.

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

(n.) See Insurer.

(v. t.) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

(n.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

(n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

(n.) Same as Entasia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enter

(n.) One who makes an entrance or beginning.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

(n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

(a.) Alt. of Enthean

(a.) Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become enthusiastic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Entice

(n.) One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.

(v. t.) To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."

(v. t.) To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

(v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe.

(a.) Alt. of Entomical

(a.) Having great tension, or exaggerated action.

(a.) Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

(n. pl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.

(n. pl.) An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.

(pl. ) of Entozoon

(v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine.

(n.) Entanglement; fold.

(v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

(v. t.) To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.

(v. i.) To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.

(n.) One who enters; a beginner.

(n.) An applicant for admission.

(v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

(v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.

(v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

(v. t.) To invite; to entertain.

(v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

(v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

(n.) Entreaty.

(n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.

(v. t.) See Intrust.

(pl. ) of Entry

(v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

(v. i.) To be twisted or twined.

(v. t.) To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

(v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.

(v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.

(n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.

(n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.

(n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

(n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.

(n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.

(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.

(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.

(v. t.) To invigorate.

(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.

(a.) Inspiring envy.

(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.

(v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

(adv.) About; around.

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

(v. t.) To encircle.

(v. t.) To widen.

(v. t.) To endow with the qualities of a woman.

(n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

(n.) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

(n.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

(n.) A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.

(n.) Alt. of Epaulette

(a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.

(n.) A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

(n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

(a.) Elevated; raised aloft.

(v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.

(v. t.) To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.

(v. t.) To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

(v. t.) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

(v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

(n.) One who exists.

(a.) Alt. of Exitious

(n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

(n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

(n.) Fairyland.

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

(a.) Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

(v. t.) To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.

(v. t.) To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.

(n) Alt. of Ellingeness

(n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.

(n.) Omission. See Ellipsis.

(n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.

(n.) Alt. of Elogy

(pl. ) of Exordium

(n.) That which is obvious, public, or common.

(n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.

(v. t.) To expand.

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

(a.) Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.

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

(n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

(a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

(a.) Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.

(v. t.) To dislocate; to luxate.

(n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

(n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

(n.) Loss.

(n.) See Chitin.

(n.) Alt. of Elytrum

(n.) One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.

(n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.

(a.) Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

(v. i.) To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

(v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

(a.) Issuing forth; emanant.

(v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

(v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.

(a.) Terminated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expire

(a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

(a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

(v. i.) To give an explanation.

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

(n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

(v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

(n.) The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.

(n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.

(v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

(v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

(v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.

(v. t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.

(v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.

(v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.

(v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.

(n.) A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

(n.) Combat; war.

(n.) The residence or office of an ambassador.

(v. t.) To bathe; to imbathe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Embay

(n.) To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.

(n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

(v. t.) To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

(v. t.) To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.

(v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.

(v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.

(v. t.) To emblossom.

(n.) Exposure.

(imp. & p. p.) of Expose

(n.) One who exposes or discloses.

(v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.

(a.) Embolismic.

(a.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

(a.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

(n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

(v. t.) To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.

(v. t.) To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.

(v. t.) To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

(v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.

(a.) Exactly representing; exact.

(a.) Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement.

(a.) Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially.

(n.) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.

(n.) A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

(n.) An express office.

(n.) That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

(a.) To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.

(a.) To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble.

(a.) To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell.

(a.) To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively.

(a.) To denote; to designate.

(a.) To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.

(v. t.) To drive out; to expel.

(v. t.) To disembowel.

(v. t.) To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

(v. t.) To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.

(v. i.) To lodge or rest in a bower.

(v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.

(n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

(n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

(n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

(n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.

(n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

(n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

(n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.

(v. i.) To join in an embrace.

(n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

(v. t.) To braid up, as hair.

(v. t.) To upbraid.

(v. t.) To inspire with bravery.

(v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

(v. t.) To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.

(v. t.) To purge away.

(v. t.) To search into or out.

(v. t.) To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.

(v. t.) To decorate; to make showy and fine.

(v. t.) To harden.

(v. t.) To braid.

(v. t.) To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.

(v. t.) To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.

(n.) See Embroilment.

(v. t.) To give a brown color to; to imbrown.

(v. t.) To brutify; to imbrute.

(n.) Outward existence.

(n.) The state of rising above others; a projection.

(a.) See Ecstatic, a.

(n. & a.) See Embryo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emend

(n.) One who emends.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emerge

(v. t.) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

(pl. ) of Emeritus

(n. pl.) Alt. of Emeroids

(a.) Standing out of, or rising above, water.

(n.) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

(prep.) According to; conformably to.

(n.) The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.

(a.) Beaming forth; flashing.

(a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.

(a.) Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint.

(imp. & p. p.) of Emit

(n.) An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.

(a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

(a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

(v. t.) To cause to be extinct.

(n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

(a.) Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Empale

(n.) A list of jurors; a panel.

(v. t.) See Impanel.

(v. t.) To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

(v. t.) To put in peril. See Imperil.

(n.) The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.

(a.) Fixed; settled; fastened.

(v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.

(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.

(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.

(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

(n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

(n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

(n.) Extraction; descent.

(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

(n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

(n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan.

(a.) Alt. of Empirical

(v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

(v. t.) See Implore.

(n.) One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

(v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

(v. t.) To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.

(v. t.) See Imprint.

(n.) An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.

(n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.

(v. t.) To undertake.

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

(compar.) of Empty.

(n.) The act of buying.

(n.) Extraction.

(a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

(a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

(a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.

(a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

(a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

(n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

(n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.

(n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.

(n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

(n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

(v. t.) To construct.

(v. t.) To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Exult

(n. pl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

(n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to exuviae.

(n.) An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

(n.) The brow or hairy arch above the eye.

(n.) A tear.

(n.) A blinder on a horse's bridle.

(n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

(n.) The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

(a.) Without eyes; blind.

(n.) Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.

(n.) See Eyewater.

(n.) A wink; a token.

(pl. ) of Empty

(imp. & p. p.) of Empty

(n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.

(a.) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

(v. t.) To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.

(a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.

(a.) Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.

(n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.

(n.) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

(imp. & p. p.) of Enable

(imp. & p. p.) of Enact

(n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

(n.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Encage

(n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.

(n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.

(v. t.) To chafe; to enrage; to heat.

(v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

(v. t.) To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.

(v. t.) To link together; to connect.

(v. t.) To seat in a chair.

(v. t.) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

(v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.

(v. t.) To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

(v. t.) To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.

(v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing.

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

(n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

(v. t.) To clasp. See Inclasp.

(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.

(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.

(v. t.) To inclose. See Inclose.

(v. t.) To envelop in clouds; to cloud.

(v. t.) To carry in a coach.

(v. t.) To color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Encore

(v. t.) To incrust. See Incrust.

(a.) That may be ended; terminable.

(n.) Complete termination.

(a.) Alt. of Endemical

(n.) An endemic disease.

(a.) Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

(a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.

(a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.

(a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

(adv. & prep.) Lengthwise; along.

(a.) Farthest; remotest; at the very end.

(n.) The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

(n.) The status, title, or dignity of an earl.

(a.) Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.

(n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

(n.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.

(a.) Alt. of Ethmoidal

(n.) The ethmoid bone.

(n.) A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

(n.) A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.

(v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

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

(n.) Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

(a.) Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.

(a.) Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.

(a.) Serious; important.

(v. t.) To use in earnest.

(n.) Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

(n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.

(a.) Full of anxiety or yearning.

(n.) That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

(n.) An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

(n.) Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.

(n.) An annoyance to the ear.

() Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.

() Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Earth

(a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

(a.) Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.

(a.) Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.

(a.) Made of earth; earthy.

(adv.) In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.

(a.) Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.

(n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

(a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

(n.) Something fit to be eaten.

(n.) One who works in ebony.

(n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

(v. t.) To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

(pl. ) of Ebony

(n.) Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.

(a.) Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.

(pl. ) of Etymon

(n.) An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.

(n.) A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

(n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

(a.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

(n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

() Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.

(n.) Alt. of Eudaemon

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.

(a.) Well-born; of high birth.

(n.) A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.

(a.) Alt. of Eulogical

(n.) See Ecteron.

(pl. ) of Ecdysis

(n.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

(n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.

(n.) Right feeling.

(n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

(n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.

(v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.

(v. i.) To take position in echelon.

(a. & n.) Same as Echinoid.

(n.) A hedgehog.

(n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.

(n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

(n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column

(n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

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

(n.) A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

(n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.

(n.) A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.

(n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

(n.) The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.

(v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

(v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.

(v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.

(n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.

(n.) See Intercolumnlation.

(n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

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

(n.) Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.

(v. i.) To vanish.

(n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

(a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

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

(n.) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

(n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.

(n.) Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.

(n.) Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.

(n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.

(v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

(n.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

(n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

(n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.

(n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

(n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

(n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.

(n.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

(a.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

(pl. ) of Ectozoon

(a.) Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

(a.) Alt. of Everych

(imp. & p. p.) of Evert

(imp. & p. p.) of Evict

(n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

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

(n.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

(a.) See Edentate, a.

(n.) One of the Edentata.

(a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

(imp. & p. p.) of Evince

(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

(n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

(n.) One who builds.

(n.) One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Edify

(v. t.) To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

(v. t.) To shun; to avoid.

(v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

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

(n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

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

(n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

(n.) The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

(v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

(imp. & p. p.) of Evolve

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

(n.) One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.

(n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

(n.) A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

(a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Efface

(imp. & p. p.) of Exact

(n.) An exactor.

(adv.) In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.

(n.) One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exalt

(a.) Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

(n.) One who exalts or raises to dignity.

(v. t.) To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

(v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.

(n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

(n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

(n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.

(n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

(n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

(v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

(v. t.) To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.

(n.) Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

(v. t.) To fill with breath; to puff up.

(v. t.) To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

(n.) An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

(n.) See Escheat.

(n.) Alt. of Excipulum

(imp. & p. p.) of Excise

(n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

(n.) A brood of eels.

(n.) An electrotype.

(n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

(n.) Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

(pl. ) of Embryo

(n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

(adv.) Alt. of Endwise