Ecaudate
E•cau´date, a. [Pref. e- + caudate.]
1. (Bot.) Without a tail or spur.
2. (Zoöl.) Tailless.

Ecballium
Ec•bal´li•um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Ecbole.] (Bot.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Ecbatic
Ec•bat´ic, a. [See Ecbasis.] (Gram.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

Ecbolic
Ec•bol´ic, n. [See Ecbole.] (Med.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

Eccaleobion
Ec•ca•le•o´bi•on, n. [Gr. to call out ( out of + to call) + life.] A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

Ecce homo
Ec"ce ho"mo [L., behold the man. See John xix. 5.] (Paint.) A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

Eccentric
Ec•cen´tric, a. [F. excentrique, formerly also spelled eccentrique, fr. LL. eccentros out of the center, eccentric, Gr. ; out of + center. See Ex-, and Center, and cf. Excentral.]
1. Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
2. Not having the same center; — said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; — opposed to concentric.
3. (Mach.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
4. Not coincident as to motive or end.
"His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master." Bacon.
5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay.
"He shines eccentric, like a comet’s blaze." Savage. Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly. — Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. — Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation. — Eccentrichook or gab, a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap. — Eccentric rod, the rod that connects as eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric. — Eccentric sheave, or Eccentric pulley, an eccentric. — Eccentric strap, the ring, operating as a journal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; — called also eccentric hoop.
Syn. — Irregular; anomalous; singular; odd; peculiar; erratic; idiosyncratic; strange; whimsical.

Eccentric
Ec•cen´tric, n.
1. A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
2. One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
3. (Astron.) (a) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. (b) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. Hutton.
4. (Mach.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. Back eccentric, the eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine. — Fore eccentric, the eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.

Eccentrical
Ec•cen´tric•al, a. See Eccentric.

Eccentricity
Ec•cen•tric´i•ty, n. ; pl. Eccentricities (#). [Cf. F. excentricite.]
1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
2. (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
3. (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
4. (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.

Ecchymose
Ec´chy•mose, v. t. (Med.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; — chiefly used in the passive form; as the parts were much ecchymosed.

Ecchymosis
Ec•chy•mo´sis, n. ; pl. Ecchymoses . [NL., fr. Gr., fr. to extravasate; out of + to pour.] (Med.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

Ecchymotic
Ec•chy•mot´ic, a. Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Eccle
Ec´cle, n. (Zoöl.) The European green woodpecker; — also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

Ecclesia
Ec•cle´si•a, n. ; pl. Ecclesiae . [L., fr. Gr. .]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2. (Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building.

Ecclesial
Ec•cle´si•al, a. Ecclesiastical. [Obs.] Milton.

Ecclesiarch
Ec•cle´si•arch, n. [LL. ecclesiarcha, fr. Gr. church + to rule: cf. F. ecclesiarque.] An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

Ecclesiast
Ec•cle´si•ast, n.
1. An ecclesiastic. Chaucer.
2. The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.]

Ecclesiastes
Ec•cle•si•as´tes, n. [L., fr. Gr. a preacher. See Ecclesiastic, a. ] One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

Ecclesiastical
Ec•cle•si•as´tic•al, a. [See Ecclesiastical, a. ] Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
"Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination." Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. — Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; — called also Christian courts. [Eng.] — Ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [Eng.] — Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. — Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; — called also States of the Church.

Ecclesiasticism
Ec•cle•si•as´ti•cism, n. Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

Ecclesiasticus
Ec•cle•si•as´ti•cus, n. [L.] A book of the Apocrypha.

Ecclesiological
Ec•cle•si•o•log´ic•al, a. Belonging to ecclesiology.

Ecclesiologist
Ec•cle•si•ol´o•gist, n. One versed in ecclesiology.

Ecclesiology
Ec•cle•si•ol´o•gy, n. [ Ecclesia + -logy.] The science or theory of church building and decoration.

Eccritic
Ec•crit´ic, n. [Gr. secretive, fr. to choose out.] (Med.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

Ecderon
Ec´der•on, n. [NL., fr. Gr. out + skin.] (Anat.) See Ecteron. — Ec•der•on´ic (#), a.

Ecgonine
Ec´go•nine ( 104), n. [Gr. ’e•kgonos sprung from.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

echauguette
e•chau•guette´, n. [F.] A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

Echelon
Ech´e•lon (esh"e•lon), n. [F., fr. echelle ladder, fr. L. scala.]
1. (Mil.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).
2. (Naval) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation. Encyc. Dict.Echelon lens (Optics), a large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a succession of annular rings beyond the central lens; — used in lighthouses.

Echelon
Ech´e•lon, v. t. (Mil.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.

Echelon
Ech´e•lon, v. i. To take position in echelon.
"Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from the right." Upton (Tactics).

Echidna
E•chid´na (e•kid"na), n. [L., a viper, adder, Gr. ’e•chidna.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; — called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.

Echidnine
E•chid´nine ( 104), n. [See Echidna.] (Chem.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C. { Ech´i•nate, Ech´i•na•ted } a. [L. echinatus. See Echinus.] Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as an echinated pericarp.

Echinital
E•chin´i•tal, a. Of, or like, an echinite.

Echinite
Ech´i•nite, n. [Cf. F. echinite. See Echinus.] (Paleon.) A fossil echinoid.

Echinoderm
E•chin´o•derm, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Echinodermata.

Echinodermal
E•chi•no•der´mal, a. (Zoöl.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

Echinodermata
E•chi•no•der´ma•ta (e•ki•no•der"ma•ta), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ’echi^nos hedgehog, sea urchin + de•rma, -atos, skin.] (Zoöl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.] The species usually have an exterior calcareous skeleton, or shell, made of many pieces, and often covered with spines, to which the name. They may be star-shaped, cylindrical, disk-shaped, or more or less spherical. The body consists of several similar parts ( spheromeres) repeated symmetrically around a central axis, at one end of which the mouth is situated. They generally have suckers for locomotion. The group includes the following classes: Crinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, and Holothurioidea. See these words in the Vocabulary, and also Ambulacrum.

Echinoid
E•chi´noid, a. [ Echinus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. — n. One of the Echinoidea.

Echinoidea
Ech•i•noi´de•a, n. pl. [NL. See Echinus, and -oid.] (Zoöl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous shell, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

Echinulate
E•chin´u•late, a. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Set with small spines or prickles.

Echinus
E•chi´nus, n. ; pl. Echini (#). [L., a hedgehog, sea urchin, Gr. ’echi^nos.]
1. (Zoöl.) A hedgehog.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
3. (Arch.) (a) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. (b) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column (c) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with the Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

Echo
Ech´o (ek"o), n. ; pl. Echoes (ek"oz). [L. echo, Gr. ’hchw• echo, sound, akin to ’hchh•, ’h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. vaç to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. echo.]
1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
"The babbling echo mocks the hounds." Shak.
"The woods shall answer, and the echo ring." Pope.
2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them." Fuller.
"Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart." R. L. Stevenson.
3. (a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
"Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv’st unseen Within thy airy shell." Milton. (b) (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
"Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch." Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; — generally superseded by the swell. — Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound. — To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. M. Arnold.
"I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again." Shak.

Echo
Ech´o, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Echoed p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. — 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes .]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
"Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng." Dryden.
"The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever." Keble.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
"They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them." Macaulay.

Echo
Ech´o, v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.

Echo
Ech´o, n. ; pl. Echoes (#). [L. echo, Gr. echo.] (Whist) (a) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps. (b) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one’s partner.

Echoer
Ech´o•er, n. One who, or that which, echoes.

Echoless
Ech´o•less, a. Without echo or response.

Echometer
E•chom´e•ter, n. [Gr.,, sound + -meter: cf. F. echomètre.] (Mus) A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

Echometry
E•chom´e•try, n. [Cf. F. echometrie.]
1. The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.
2. The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes. { Ech•on´, Ech•oon´ }, pron. Each one. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Echopathy
E•chop´a•thy, n. [ Echo + -pathy, as in homeopathy.] (Med.) A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

Echoscope
Ech´o•scope, n. [Gr.,, sound + -scope.] (Med.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

eclair
e•clair´, n. [F.] (Cookery) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

Eclaircise
E•clair´cise, v. t. [F. eclaircir; pref. es- (L. ex) + clair clear, L. clarus.] To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

Eclaircissement
E•clair´cisse•ment, n. [F., fr. eclaircir. See Eclaircise, v. t.] The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.
"The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer." Clarendon.

Eclampsy
Ec•lamp´sy, n. (Med.) Same as Eclampsia.

Eclectic
Ec•lec´tic, a. [Gr., fr. to pick out, choose out: cf. F. eclectique. See Eclogue, and cf. Elect.]
1. Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as an eclectic philosopher.
2. Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine. Eclectic physician, one of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as botanic physician. [U.S.] — Eclectic school. (Paint.) See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

Eclectic
Ec•lec´tic, n. One who follows an eclectic method.

Eclectically
Ec•lec´tic•al•ly, adv. In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.

Eclecticism
Ec•lec´ti•cism, n. [Cf. F. eclecticisme. Cf. Electicism.] Theory or practice of an eclectic.

Eclipse
E•clipse´ (e•klips"), n. [F. eclipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. ’e•kleipsis, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. ’eklei•pein to leave out, forsake; ’ek out + lei•pein to leave. See Ex-, and Loan.]
1. (Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth’s shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature.
"That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark." Milton.
2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
"All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life." Sir W. Raleigh.
"As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers’ lips." Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. — Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.

Eclipse
E•clipse´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eclipsed (e•klipst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Eclipsing.]
1. To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; — said of a heavenly body; as the moon eclipses the sun.
2. To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. "His eclipsed state." Dryden.
"My joy of liberty is half eclipsed." Shak.

Eclipse
E•clipse´, v. i. To suffer an eclipse.
"While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms." Milton.

Ecliptic
E•clip´tic (e•klip"tik), n. [Cf. F. ecliptique, L. linea ecliptica, Gr. ’ekleiptiko•s, prop. adj., of an eclipse, because in this circle eclipses of the sun and moon take place. See Ecliptic, a. ]
1. (Astron.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23° 28′. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.
2. (Geog.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23° 28′ with the equator; — used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.

Ecliptic
E•clip´tic, a. [L. eclipticus belonging to an eclipse, Gr. ’ekleiptiko•s. See Eclipse.]
1. Pertaining to the ecliptic; as the ecliptic way.
2. Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. Lunar ecliptic limit (Astron.), the space of 12° on the moon’s orbit from the node, within which, if the moon happens to be at full, it will be eclipsed. — Solar ecliptic limit, the space of 17° from the lunar node, within which, if a conjunction of the sun and moon occur, the sun will be eclipsed.

Economics
E•co•nom´ics (e•k&ocr•;nom"iks), n. [Gr. ta• o’ikonomika•, equiv. to "h o’ikonomi•a. See Economic.]
1. The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.
2. Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political. "In politics and economics." V. Knox.

Economization
E•con•o•mi•za´tion, n. The act or practice of using to the best effect. [R.] H. Spenser.

Economize
E•con´o•mize (e•kon"o•miz), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Economized p. pr. & vb. n. Economizing.] [Cf. F. economiser.] To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as to economize one’s income. [Written also economise.]
"Expenses in the city were to be economized." Jowett (Thucyd. ).
"Calculating how to economize time." W. Irving.

Economize
E•con´o•mize, v. i. To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as to economize in order to grow rich. [Written also economise.] Milton.

Economizer
E•con´o•mi•zer, n.
1. One who, or that which, economizes.
2. Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.

Economy
E•con´o•my (-my), n. ; pl. Economies (#). [F. economie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o’ikonomi•a, fr. o’ikono•mos one managing a household; o’i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + no•mos usage, law, rule, fr. ne•mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad.]
1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as a careful economy.
"Himself busy in charge of the household economies." Froude.
2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as political economy.
3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
"The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language." Earle.
"In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy … of poems better observed than in Terence." B. Jonson.
"The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep." Paley.
4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.
Syn. — Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.
"I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease." Swift.
"The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]." Golding.

ecossaise
e•cos•saise´, n. [F.] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

Ecostate
E•cos´tate, a. [Pref. e- + costate.] (Bot.) Having no ribs or nerves; — said of a leaf.

ecoute
e•coute´, n. [F., a listening place.] (Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy’s miners.

Ecphasis
Ec´pha•sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr., fr. to speak out.] (Rhet.) An explicit declaration.

Ecphonema
Ec•pho•ne´ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a thing called out, fr. to cry out; ’ek out + voice.] (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle.

Ecphoneme
Ec´pho•neme, n. [See Ecphonema.] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

ecrasement
e•crase•ment´, n. [F.] (Surg.) The operation performed with an ecraseur.

ecraseur
e•cra•seur´, n. [F., fr. ecraser to crush.] (Surg.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

ecru
e•cru´, a. [F., fr. L. crudus raw.] Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

Ecstasy
Ec´sta•sy, n. ; pl. Ecstasies (#). [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr., fr. to put out of place, derange; = ’ek out + to set, stand. See Ex-, and Stand.] [Also written extasy.]
1. The state of being beside one’s self or rapt out of one’s self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
"Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy." Dryden.
"This is the very ecstasy of love." Shak.
2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
"He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy." Milton.
3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.]
"That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy." Shak.
"Our words will but increase his ecstasy." Marlowe.
4. (Med.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

Ecstasy
Ec´sta•sy, v. t. To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.]
"The most ecstasied order of holy … spirits." Jer. Taylor.

Ecstatic
Ec•stat´ic, a. [Gr., fr. : cf. F. extatique. See Ecstasy, n. ]
1. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
"This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy." Hammond.
2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as ecstatic bliss or joy.

Ecstatic
Ec•stat´ic, n. An enthusiast. [R.] Gauden.

Ecstatical
Ec•stat´ic•al, a.
1. Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.

Ecstatically
Ec•stat´ic•al•ly, adv. Rapturously; ravishingly. { Ect, Ec´to }. [Gr. outside.] A combining form signifying without, outside, external.

Ectad
Ec´tad, adv. [ Ect- + L. a. towards.] (Anat.) Toward the outside or surface; — opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Ectal
Ec´tal, a. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; — opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

Ectental
Ec•ten´tal, a. [Gr. outside + inside.] (Biol.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

Ecteron
Ec´ter•on, n. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. — Ec•ter•on´ic (#), a.

Ecthlipsis
Ec•thlip´sis, n. [L., fr. Gr., fr. to squeeze out.]
1. The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
2. (Lat. Pros.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

Ecthoreum
Ec•tho•re´um, n. ; pl. Ecthorea (#). [NL., fr. Gr. to leap out; ek out +,, to leap, dart.] (Zoöl.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoraeum.]

Ecto-
Ec´to- See Ect-.

Ectobronchium
Ec•to•bron´chi•um, n. ; pl. Ectobronchia (#). [NL. See Ecto-, and Bronchia.] (Anat.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds. { Ec•to•cu•ne´ri•form, Ec•to•cu´ni•form, } n. [ Ecto- + cuneiform, cuniform.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

Ectoderm
Ec´to•derm, n. [ Ecto- + - derm.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. (b) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm. { Ec•to•der´mal, Ec•to•der´mic } a. (Biol.) Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Ectomere
Ec´to•mere, n. [ Ecto- + - mere.] (Biol.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Ectoparasite
Ec•to•par´a•site, n. (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; — opposed to endoparasite. — Ec•to•par•a•sit´ic (#), a.

Ectopia
Ec•to´pi•a, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ’ek out + place.] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Ectopic
Ec•top´ic, a. (Med.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as an ectopic organ.

Ectoplasm
Ec´to•plasm, n. [ Ecto- + Gr. form.] (Biol.) (a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. (c) The ectosarc of protozoan.

Ectoplastic
Ec•to•plas´tic, a. [ Ecto- + Gr. to mold.] Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.

Ectoprocta
Ec•to•proc´ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. outside + the anus.] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.

Ectopy
Ec´to•py, n. (Med.) Same as Ectopia.

Ectosarc
Ec´to•sarc, n. [ Ecto- + Gr.,, flesh.] (Biol.) The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amœba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

Ectosteal
Ec•tos´te•al, a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as ectosteal ossification.

Ectostosis
Ec•tos•to´sis, n. [NL. See Ect-, and Ostosis.] (Physiol.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

Ectropium
Ec•tro´pi•um, n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as Ectropion.

Ectypal
Ec´ty•pal, a. [L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. ; ’ek out + stamp, figure. See Type.] Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

Eczematous
Ec•zem´a•tous, a. (Med.) Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.