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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. Eūc'tic-al, a.p. 468Containing acts of supplication; supplicatory; precatory. [Obs.] Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. Law.
  2. 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.]
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Eū'dĭ-ōm'e-try, n.p. 468Eudiometer. The art or practice of ascertaining the purity of the air by the eudiometer.
  8. 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.
  9. Eū-dȳn'a-mis, n.p. 468(Ornith.) A genus of cuckoos remarkable for the strength of the bill, legs, and toes.
  10. Eū'ge, n.p. 468Applause. [Obs.] Hammond.
  11. 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.
  12. Eū-gĕn'ic, a.p. 468(Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
  13. Eū'ge-nīne, n.p. 468(Chem.) A crystallizable substance obtained from cloves by means of alcohol.
  14. Eū'ge-ny, n.p. 468Nobleness of birth. [Obs.]
  15. Eūgh, n.p. 468The yew, or yew-tree. See Yew. “The tough eugh.” Dryden.
  16. Eu-har-mōn'ic, a.p. 468(Mus.) Producing perfect harmony or concord; — used to distinguish from that produced by the tempered scale.
  17. Eū-lŏg'ie or Eū-lŏg'ie-al, a.p. 468Containing, or pertaining to, eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic. [Rare.]
  18. Eū-lōg'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 468In a manner to convey eulogy; eulogistically. [Rare.]
  19. Eū'lo-gĭst, n.p. 468One who eulogizes; one who writes or speaks in commendation of another.
  20. Eū'lo-gĭst'ic, a.p. 468Pertaining or given to, or characterized by, eulogy; commendatory; laudatory.
  21. Eū'lo-gist'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 468In a eulogistic manner; with commendation.
  22. Eū-lō'ǧi-ām, n.p. 468A formal eulogy. See EULOGY. Cowper.
  23. Eū'lo-gize, v. t.p. 468To speak or write in commendation of another; to extol in speech or writing; to praise.
  24. 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…
  25. Eū'ly-tīne, n.p. 468(Min.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg. Dana.
  26. 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.
  27. Eū'no-my, n.p. 468Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. [Rare.] Milford.
  28. 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.
  29. Eū'nuch or Eū'nuch-āte, v. t.p. 468To make a eunuch of; to castrate, as a man. [Obs.]
  30. Eū'nuch-ĭsm, n.p. 468The state of being a eunuch. Bp. Hall.
  31. Eū-ōn'y-mūs, n.p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including the spindle-tree.
  32. Eū'pa-thy, n.p. 468Right feeling. [Obs.] Harris.
  33. Eū'pa-tō'ri-ŭm, n.p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including hemp agrimony, boneset, thoroughwort or Indian sage, &c.
  34. Eū'pa-trīd, n.p. 468One well born, or of noble birth.
  35. Eū-pĕp'si-ā, n.p. 468Same as EUPEPSY, q. v.
  36. Eū-pēp'sy, n.p. 468(Med.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion;—opposed to dyspepsy.
  37. Eū-pēp'tie, a.p. 468Having good digestion, or being easy of digestion.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. Eū-phōn'ic, a.p. 469Pertaining to, or exhibiting,
  43. Eū-phōn'ĭ-calp. 469euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, euphonical orthography. Colebrooke.
  44. Eū-phōn'i-con, n.p. 469(Mus.) A kind of upright piano.
  45. Eū-phō'ni-oŭs, a.p. 469Agreeable in sound; euphonic. [Recent.]
  46. Eū-phō'ni-oŭs-ly, adv.p. 469In a euphonious manner; with euphony; harmoniously.
  47. Eū'pho-nĭsm, n.p. 469An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
  48. Eū'pho-nīze, v. t.p. 469To make agreeable in sound.
  49. 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.
  50. Eū'pho-noŭs, a.p. 469Euphonious. [Rare.]
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. Eū'phu-ĭsm, n.p. 469(Rhet.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
  57. Eū'phu-ĭst, n.p. 469One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language: — applied particularly to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose unnatural high-flown diction is ridiculed in Sir Walter…
  58. Eū'phu-ĭst'ic, a.p. 469Belonging to the euphuists, or to euphuism.
  59. Eū'pi-on, n.p. 469(Chem.) An oily liquid, of highly inflammable nature, obtained from vegetable substances by destructive distillation.
  60. Eū-plās'tic, a.p. 469(Pathol.) Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.