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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ĕb'on-y, n. p. 426A species of hard, heavy, and durable wood, from Madagascar and Ceylon, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The most usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green. The black is the heart…Ĕb'on-y-tree, n. p. 426(Bot.) A tree (the Anthyllis Cretica) growing in Crete. It is not the species which furnishes the ebony wood. See EBONY.Éboulement, n. p. 426(Mil.) The crumbling or falling of the wall of a fortification.Ē-brăc'te-ate, a. p. 426(Bot.) Without bracts.E-brăc'te-o-late, a. p. 426(Bot.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; — said of a pedicel or flower stalk.E-brī'e-ty, n. p. 426Intoxication by spirituous liquors; drunkenness; inebriety.E-bril'ade, n. p. 426(Man.) A check given to a horse by a sudden jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn.Ē'bri-ōs'i-ty, n. p. 426— Partial intoxication; habitual drinking to excess.Ĕb'ri-ōus, a. p. 426Partially intoxicated; inclined to drink to excess.E-bŭl'li-āte, v. i. p. 426To boil up; to bubble; to effervesce. [Obs.] Prynne.E-bŭl'lience or E-bŭl'lien-cy, n. p. 426A boiling over. Cudworth.Ē-bŭl'lient, a. p. 426Boiling over, as a liquor; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. “Ebullient with subtlety.” De Quincey.Ĕb'ul-lĭ'tion, n. p. 426The operation of boiling; the agitation of a liquid from the escape of bubbles, the existence of these being due to the action of heat in converting a part of the liquid into vapor. 2. Effervescence…E-bur'na, n. p. 426(Zoöl.) A genus of gastropodous mollusks, having a smooth shell covered with a shining enamel. Baird.E-bûr'ne-an, a. p. 426Made of ivory.E-bŭr’ni-fi-cā’tion, n. p. 426The conversion of substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory. Craig.Ē-cau'date, a. p. 426(Bot.) Without a tail or spur.Ec-băl'li-ŭm, n. p. 426(Bot.) A genus of plants. E. elaterium is the squirting cucumber, the fruit of which, by reason of its remarkable elasticity, when ripe and distended, bursts when touched, and throws its contents to…Ĕc'ba-sĭs, n. p. 426(Rhet.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events and consequences.Ec-bat'ic, a. p. 426(Gram.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase ἵνα πληρωθῇ, if rendered “so that it was fulfilled,” is ecbatic; if…Ĕc'bo-le, n. p. 426(Rhet.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.Ec'ca-le-ō'bi-on, n. p. 426A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.Ĕc'ce-hō'mo, n. p. 426(Paint.) A picture which represents the Savior given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.Ec-çĕn'tric or Ec-çĕn'tric-al, a. p. 426Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit. 2. Pertaining to eccentricity or to an eccentric; as, the eccentric anomaly of a planet…Ec-çĕn'tric, n. p. 426A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. Bacon. 2. One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing. 3.…Ec-cĕn′tric-al-ly, adv. p. 426With eccentricity; in an eccentric manner.Ĕc'cen-trĭc'i-ty, n. p. 426The state of being eccentric; oddity; whimsicalness. 2. (Astron.) The distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves; that is, the distance…Ĕc'chy-mō'sis, n. p. 426(Med.) A livid, black, or yellow spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion. Dunglison.Ee-clē'si-ă, n. p. 426(Gr. Antiq.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. 2. An ecclesiastical society or assembly; a congregation; a church.Ec·cle' si·al, a. p. 426Ecclesiastical. [Obs.] “Our ecclesial and political choices.” Milton.Ec-cle'si-ārch, n. p. 426A ruler of the church.Ec-clē'si-ăst, n. p. 426An ecclesiastic. [Rare.] “A noble ecclesiast.” Chaucer.Ec-cle'si-äs'tic or Ec-cle'si-äs'tic-al, a. p. 426Pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs, history, or polity; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of…Ee-elē/ṣi-ăs/tie, n. p. 426A person in orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities…Ec-cle'si-äs'ti-cal-ly, adv. p. 426In an ecclesiastical manner: according to ecclesiastical rules.Ec-cle'si-ăs'ti-cĭsm, n. p. 426Strong attachment to ecclesiastical observances, privileges, &c.Ee-e-lē'si-ā'st'i-eŭs, n. p. 426A book of the Apocrypha.Ee-clē'si-o-lōg'ĭ-cal, a. p. 426Belonging to ecclesiology.Ec-clē'si-ŏl'o-gĭst, n. p. 426One versed in ecclesiology.Ee-elē'si-ōl'o-gy, n. p. 426The science or theory of church building and decoration.Ĕc'co-pe, n. p. 426(Surg.) The act of cutting out; especially, a perpendicular division of the cranium with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.Ē'e-co-prŏt'tic, a. p. 426(Med.) Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.E'co-prōt'ic, n. p. 426(Med.) A mild purgative, serving simply to cleanse the intestinal canal. Dunglison.Ec'cri-nōl'o-gy, n. p. 426(Med.) A treatise on the secretions of the body. Dunglison.Ĕc'cri-sis, n. p. 426(Med.) Ejection of excrementitious or morbific matter. Dunglison.E'cdy-sis, n. p. 426The act of putting off or moulting; emerging; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell. Dunglison.Ēch'e-lon, n. p. 426(Mil.) An arrangement of battalions in the form of steps, so that each has a line of battle in advance or in rear of its adjacent battalion.E-chĭd'nă, n. p. 426(Zoöl.) A genus of ant-eaters, found in New Holland. They are monotrematous, toothless mammals, nearly allied to the duck-bill, or ornithorhyncus.Ěch'i-nāte or Ěch'i-nā/ted, a. p. 426(Nat. Hist.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; having sharp points; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.E-chī'ne-is, n. p. 426(Ichth.) A genus of fishes including the sucking fish or remora.E-chīn'i-dan, n. p. 426A radiate animal, a species of the family of the echinus.E-chīn'i-tal, a. p. 426Belonging to, or like, an echinite.Ĕch'i-nīte, n. p. 426A fossil echinus.E-chīn'o-dĕrm', n. p. 426(Zoöl.) An animal of one of the grand divisions of the Radiates. See ANIMAL KINGDOM.—The species have an exterior calcareous crust or shell made of many pieces, more or less firm, rarely coriaceous…Ech'i-no-dĕrm'a-toŭs, a. p. 427Pertaining, or related, to the echinoderms.Ech'i-nōph'o-ră, n. p. 427(Bot.) A genus of umbelliferous plants, including the prickly samphire. Ogilvie.E-chĭ'nops, n. p. 427(Bot.) A genus of composite plants, including the globe-thistle. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of animals of the shrew tribe. Ogilvie.E-chin'ŭ-late, a. p. 427Set with minute prickles.E-chĭ'nus, n. p. 427A hedgehog. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of Echinoderms; sea-urchin; sea hedgehog. 3. (Bot.) A prickly head or top of a plant; an echinated pericarp. 4. (Arch.) A form of molding, being the same as the ovolo…E'chi-ŭm, n. p. 427(Bot.) A genus of plants of many species, including the viper's bugloss.