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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Eū'chro-ite, n.p. 468(Min.) A mineral of a light, emerald-green color, transparent and brittle; arsenate of copper. Dana.
  2. Eū'chy-my, n.p. 468(Med.) A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
  3. Eū'/ehy-sīd'er-ite, n.p. 468(Min.) A mineral containing silica, lime, magnesia, and oxide of iron; a variety of pyroxene.
  4. Eū’clāse, n.p. 468(Min.) A brittle gem of the beryl family, consisting of silica, alumina, and glucina. It occurs in light, green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant diagonal cleavage, and is obtained from…
  5. Eu'cra-sy, n.p. 468(Med.) Such a due or well-proportioned mixture of qualities in bodies, as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy.
  6. Eūc'tic-al, a.p. 468Containing acts of supplication; supplicatory; precatory. [Obs.] Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. Law.
  7. Eū-dē'mon-ism, n.p. 468That system of philosophy which derives the foundation of moral obligation from its relation to happiness or well-being. [Written also eudæmonism.]
  8. Eū·dē'mon·ist, n.p. 468One who believes in eudæmonism. [Written also eudæmonist.] I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.
  9. Eū-dĭ'al-yte, n.p. 468(Min.) A mineral of a brownish-red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime; — so called from the ease with which it is dissolved in acids. Dana.
  10. Eū/dĭ-òm/e-ter, n.p. 468An instrument for ascertaining the purity of the air, or rather the quantity of oxygen contained in any given bulk of elastic fluid. Ure.
  11. Eū'di-o-mē'trie or Eū'di-o-mē'trie-al, a.p. 468Pertaining to a eudiometer; performed or ascertained by a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.
  12. Eū'dĭ-ōm'e-try, n.p. 468Eudiometer. The art or practice of ascertaining the purity of the air by the eudiometer.
  13. Eū-dŏx'ī-an, n.p. 468(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Eudoxius, who was a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius, and was patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the fourteenth century.
  14. Eū-dȳn'a-mis, n.p. 468(Ornith.) A genus of cuckoos remarkable for the strength of the bill, legs, and toes.
  15. Eū'ge, n.p. 468Applause. [Obs.] Hammond.
  16. Eū-gē'ni-ā, n.p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce the allspice and cloves of commerce.
  17. Eū-gĕn'ic, a.p. 468(Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
  18. Eū'ge-nīne, n.p. 468(Chem.) A crystallizable substance obtained from cloves by means of alcohol.
  19. Eū'ge-ny, n.p. 468Nobleness of birth. [Obs.]
  20. Eūgh, n.p. 468The yew, or yew-tree. See Yew. “The tough eugh.” Dryden.
  21. Eu-har-mōn'ic, a.p. 468(Mus.) Producing perfect harmony or concord; — used to distinguish from that produced by the tempered scale.
  22. Eū-lŏg'ie or Eū-lŏg'ie-al, a.p. 468Containing, or pertaining to, eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic. [Rare.]
  23. Eū-lōg'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 468In a manner to convey eulogy; eulogistically. [Rare.]
  24. Eū'lo-gĭst, n.p. 468One who eulogizes; one who writes or speaks in commendation of another.
  25. Eū'lo-gĭst'ic, a.p. 468Pertaining or given to, or characterized by, eulogy; commendatory; laudatory.
  26. Eū'lo-gist'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 468In a eulogistic manner; with commendation.
  27. Eū-lō'ǧi-ām, n.p. 468A formal eulogy. See EULOGY. Cowper.
  28. Eū'lo-gize, v. t.p. 468To speak or write in commendation of another; to extol in speech or writing; to praise.
  29. Eu'lo-gy, n.p. 468A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. “Eulogies turn into elegies.” Spenser. Syn.—Encomium; praise; panegyric; applause.—EULOGY…
  30. Eū'ly-tīne, n.p. 468(Min.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg. Dana.
  31. Eū-mōl'pus, n.p. 468(Entom.) A genus of beetles, one species of which (E. vitis), a very small insect, commits great devastation upon the vines in the wine countries of Europe. Baird.
  32. Eū'no-my, n.p. 468Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. [Rare.] Milford.
  33. Eū'nuch, n.p. 468A male of the human species castrated; hence, from the frequent employment of such persons in this office in former times, a chamberlain.
  34. Eū'nuch or Eū'nuch-āte, v. t.p. 468To make a eunuch of; to castrate, as a man. [Obs.]
  35. Eū'nuch-ĭsm, n.p. 468The state of being a eunuch. Bp. Hall.
  36. Eū-ōn'y-mūs, n.p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including the spindle-tree.
  37. Eū'pa-thy, n.p. 468Right feeling. [Obs.] Harris.
  38. Eū'pa-tō'ri-ŭm, n.p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including hemp agrimony, boneset, thoroughwort or Indian sage, &c.
  39. Eū'pa-trīd, n.p. 468One well born, or of noble birth.
  40. Eū-pĕp'si-ā, n.p. 468Same as EUPEPSY, q. v.
  41. Eū-pēp'sy, n.p. 468(Med.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion;—opposed to dyspepsy.
  42. Eū-pēp'tie, a.p. 468Having good digestion, or being easy of digestion.
  43. Eū'phe-mĭsm, n.p. 468(Rhet.) A figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened, or by which a delicate word or expression is substituted for one which is harsh or indelicate.
  44. Eū'phe-mis'tic or Eū'phe-mis'tic-al, a.p. 468Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; rendering more decent or delicate in expression.
  45. Eū'phe-mīze, v. t. or i.p. 468To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions. C. Kingsley.
  46. Eū-phō'ni-ăd, n.p. 468(Mus.) An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments. [Rare.] Moore.
  47. Eū-phōn'ic, a.p. 469Pertaining to, or exhibiting,
  48. Eū-phōn'ĭ-calp. 469euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, euphonical orthography. Colebrooke.
  49. Eū-phōn'i-con, n.p. 469(Mus.) A kind of upright piano.
  50. Eū-phō'ni-oŭs, a.p. 469Agreeable in sound; euphonic. [Recent.]
  51. Eū-phō'ni-oŭs-ly, adv.p. 469In a euphonious manner; with euphony; harmoniously.
  52. Eū'pho-nĭsm, n.p. 469An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
  53. Eū'pho-nīze, v. t.p. 469To make agreeable in sound.
  54. Eū'pho-non, n.p. 469(Mus.) An instrument resembling, in tone, the organ, in form, the upright piano, and characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone. Black.
  55. Eū'pho-noŭs, a.p. 469Euphonious. [Rare.]
  56. Eū'pho-ny, n.p. 469An agreeable sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
  57. Eu-phōr'bi-ā, n.p. 469(Bot.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice, some of them armed with thorns.
  58. Eū'phor-bi-ā'ceoŭs or Eū-phōr'bi-al, a.p. 469(Bot.) Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia, or spurge family. Ogilvie.
  59. Eū-phōr'bi-ăm, n.p. 469(Med.) An inodorous gum-resin, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced by Euphorbia officinarum, and used in the composition of some plasters. Dunglison.
  60. Eū-phra'si-ā or Eū'phra-sy (yŭ'fra-sy), n.p. 469(Bot.) The plant eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.