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Eager
Sharp; sour; acid.
earlier
occurring at a prior time; .
Earnestly
In an earnest manner.
Eburin
A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
Echidna
A monster, half maid and half serpent.
Eddish
Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See .
Eel
An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus . The electrical eel is a species of . The so called is a minute nematode worm. See , , and .
Effascination
A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.
Effervescive
Tending to produce effervescence.
Eighteen
The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
Elaborator
One who, or that which, elaborates.
Electrically
In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
Electropathy
The treatment of disease by electricity.
Electro-tint
A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
Element
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.
Elementar
Elementary.
Elkwood
The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia ().
Eloinment
See .
Elsin
A shoemaker's awl.
Elver
A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also .
Embase
To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
Embattled
Having indentations like a battlement.
Embryonic
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
Emenagogue
See .
empowered
invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter.
Empyreal
Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond arial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
Endaspidean
Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.
Endeavor
To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
Endemically
In an endemic manner.
Eneid
Same as .
Enfeoffment
The act of enfeoffing.
Ensphere
To place in a sphere; to envelop.
Entailment
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Entermewer
A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
Entoil
To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.
Entourage
Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.
Entrain
To put aboard a railway train; .
Enunciator
One who enunciates or proclaims.
Envier
One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Enwreathe
See .
Eolian
olian.
Epanaphora
Same as .
Epidermic
Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
Epigenesis
The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of , also to .
Epinicion
A song of triumph.
Equator
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.
Equatorially
So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.
Equilibrist
One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
Eradication
The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
erecting
the act of building or putting up.
Eschar
A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
Essentialness
Essentiality.
Estate
Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Etrurian
Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy.
Etypical
Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.
Euctical
Expecting a wish; supplicatory.
Euharmonic
Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.
Evil
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to .
Exantlation
Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.
Exchange
To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by before the thing received.
Excide
To cut off.
Excommunicate
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Excur
To run out or forth; to extend.
Excuser
One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
Execration
The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.
Exemptitious
Separable.
Exeunt
They go out, or retire from the scene; . See 1st .
Exhaustment
Exhaustion; drain.
Exhumated
Disinterred.
Exile
To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
Exile
Small; slender; thin; fine.
Exolete
Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.
Experiment
To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.
Experimentalist
One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.
Experimentation
The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
Expiatory
Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; .
Extensure
Extension.
Extruction
A building up; construction.
Exuccous
See .
Exultant
Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.