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Ebionitism
The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
echo chamber
A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.
econometrician
an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods.
Ecstatically
Rapturously; ravishingly.
Ecthoreum
The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See .
Ectopia
A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; .
Edgeshot
Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.
Edify
To improve.
E'en
A contraction for . See .
effectuality
the power to be effective.
Effluent
A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Eggery
A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.
Egg-glass
A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.
Egilopical
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an gilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.
Elaborative
Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Eloptene
The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from , the more solid parts.
Elect
To pick out; to select; to choose.
Electro-physiological
Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
Elegantly
In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
Elemi
A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera and . yields Mexican elemi; , the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.
Elevatedness
The quality of being elevated.
mail ombrant
An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
embedded
enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; .
Embedment
The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
Enantiosis
A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
Enargite
An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
Encratite
One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also .
Encumbrancer
Same as .
Endemiology
The science which treats of endemic affections.
endogamic
fertilized by pollen from another flower of the same plant.
Endurably
In an endurable manner.
Enface
To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); .
Enforce
Force; strength; power.
Englishry
The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
Engrail
To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
enlightening
enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
Enmossed
Covered with moss; mossed.
Enough
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
enraged
filled with or indicating extreme anger; .
Ent-
A prefix signifying . See .
Enterlace
See .
Entrain
To draw along as a current does; .
Eolic
See .
Ephemerous
Ephemeral.
Epicondyle
A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the humerus; the internal condyle.
Epidemic
An epidemic disease.
Epidermical
Epidermal.
Epileptical
Epileptic.
Epiplastron
One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.
Epispore
The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
Equivocator
One who equivocates.
Erg
The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne (981 dynes exert the same force as a one gram mass in the earth's gravitational field). One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs. The absolute Joule is equivalent to 10 ergs, which are equivalent to 0.2389 gram-calories at 15 C. See also under .
Ergon
Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
Erianthus
a genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs.
Erostrate
Without a beak.
Erse
Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.
Ethel
Noble.
Ethereal
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial;
Euchroite
A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.
Evangelian
Rendering thanks for favors.
evasion
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Evener
One who, or that which makes even.
Exresis
In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
Excarnification
The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
Exceptionable
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
excitableness
being easily excited.
Exclusion
The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
Exclusionist
One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
Excommunicable
Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
Excremental
Of or pertaining to excrement.
Exfetation
Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
Exhalence
Exhalation.
exodontics
the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth.
Exodus
A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
expired
having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; . Opposite of .
Explanatoriness
The quality of being explanatory.
Explicitly
In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; .
Explosive
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; .
exposit
to set forth reasons; to explain or expound.
Exsanguinity
Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to .
Extendedly
In an extended manner.
exterminated
destroyed completely.
Externalize
To make external; to manifest by outward form.
Extravagation
A wandering beyond limits; excess.
Extreat
Extraction.
Extructor
A builder.
Eyr
Air.