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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Eū'lo-gist'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 468In a eulogistic manner; with commendation.Eū-lō'ǧi-ām, n. p. 468A formal eulogy. See EULOGY. Cowper.Eū'lo-gize, v. t. p. 468To speak or write in commendation of another; to extol in speech or writing; to praise.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…Eū'ly-tīne, n. p. 468(Min.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg. Dana.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.Eū'no-my, n. p. 468Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. [Rare.] Milford.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.Eū'nuch or Eū'nuch-āte, v. t. p. 468To make a eunuch of; to castrate, as a man. [Obs.]Eū'nuch-ĭsm, n. p. 468The state of being a eunuch. Bp. Hall.Eū-ōn'y-mūs, n. p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including the spindle-tree.Eū'pa-thy, n. p. 468Right feeling. [Obs.] Harris.Eū'pa-tō'ri-ŭm, n. p. 468(Bot.) A genus of plants, including hemp agrimony, boneset, thoroughwort or Indian sage, &c.Eū'pa-trīd, n. p. 468One well born, or of noble birth.Eū-pĕp'si-ā, n. p. 468Same as EUPEPSY, q. v.Eū-pēp'sy, n. p. 468(Med.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion;—opposed to dyspepsy.Eū-pēp'tie, a. p. 468Having good digestion, or being easy of digestion.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.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.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.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.Eū-phōn'ic, a. p. 469Pertaining to, or exhibiting,Eū-phōn'ĭ-cal p. 469euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, euphonical orthography. Colebrooke.Eū-phōn'i-con, n. p. 469(Mus.) A kind of upright piano.Eū-phō'ni-oŭs, a. p. 469Agreeable in sound; euphonic. [Recent.]Eū-phō'ni-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 469In a euphonious manner; with euphony; harmoniously.Eū'pho-nĭsm, n. p. 469An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.Eū'pho-nīze, v. t. p. 469To make agreeable in sound.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.Eū'pho-noŭs, a. p. 469Euphonious. [Rare.]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.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.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.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.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.Eū'phu-ĭsm, n. p. 469(Rhet.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.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…Eū'phu-ĭst'ic, a. p. 469Belonging to the euphuists, or to euphuism.Eū'pi-on, n. p. 469(Chem.) An oily liquid, of highly inflammable nature, obtained from vegetable substances by destructive distillation.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.Eū-plăs'tic, n. p. 469(Med.) Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.Eū-pȳr'i-on, n. p. 469A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneously, as a lucifer match, and the like.Eū-rā'sian, n. p. 469A child born of a European parent on the one side, and an Asiatic on the other.Eū-rē'kā, n. p. 469A discovery; especially, a discovery made after long or difficult research;—so called in allusion to the story of Archimedes, who is said to have uttered this word, on finding out, after long and…Eū'ri-pīze, v. t. p. 469To whirl hither and thither. [Obs.]Eū'ri-pūs, n. p. 469A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eubœa and Bœotia.Eū'rite, n. p. 469(Min.) Feldspathic granite, consisting of feldspar; the white stone (weiss stein) of Werner. Dana.Eū-rīt'ic, a. p. 469Pertaining to, or consisting of, eurite.Eū-rōc'ly-don, n. p. 469A tempestuous wind, which blows from an easterly point, on the Mediterranean, and is very dangerous; a levantee. But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon. Acts…Eū'ro-pē'an, a. p. 469(Geog.) Pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.Eū'ro-pē'an, n. p. 469(Geog.) A native or an inhabitant of Europe.Eū'ro-pē'an-īze, v. t. p. 469To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages; to cause to become naturalized or domesticated in Europe.Eū'rus, n. p. 469The east wind.Eū-rȳ'a-le, n. p. 469(Bot.) A genus of plants, of the family of the water-lilies, growing in India and China, where the roots of some species are used for food.Eū-rȳ'cĕr-ōūs, a. p. 469Having broad horns.Eū-rȳn'o-me, n. p. 469(Zoöl.) A genus of crustaceous animals resembling the spider-crabs.Eū'ryth-my, n. p. 469(Fine Arts.) Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or statue. 2. (Med.) Regularity of the pulse.Eū-sē'bi-an, n. p. 469(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Eusebius of Nicomedia, who was a friend and protector of Arius.Eū-stā'chi-an, a. p. 469(Anat.) Discovered by Eustachius. Eustachian tube (Anat.), a slender pipe affording a passage for the air from a cavity in the ear to the back part of the mouth.—Eustachian valve (Anat.), a…Eū'stȳle, n. p. 469(Arch.) A form of colonnade, in which the columns are placed at a distance from each other, equal to two diameters and a quarter of the column. Gwilt.