efface
-to cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
-to destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

effaceable
-capable of being effaced.

effaced
-of efface

effacement
-the act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

effacing
-of efface

effascinate
-to charm; to bewitch.

effascination
-a charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.

effect
-execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in may.
-manifestation; expression; sign.
-in general: that which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
-impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
-power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
-consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent;
-- with to.
-the purport; the sum and substance.
-reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
-goods; movables; personal estate;
-- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
-to produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
-to bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

effected
-of effect

effecter
-one who effects.

effectible
-capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

effecting
-of effect

effection
-creation; a doing.

effective
-having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
-that which produces a given effect; a cause.
-one who is capable of active service.
-specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency;
-- a term used in many parts of europe.

effectively
-with effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

effectiveness
-the quality of being effective.

effectless
-without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.

effector
-an effecter.

effectual
-producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

effectually
-with effect; efficaciously.
-actually; in effect.

effectualness
-the quality of being effectual.

effectuate
-to bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

effectuated
-of effectuate

effectuating
-of effectuate

effectuation
-act of effectuating.

effectuose
-alt. of effectuous

effectuous
-effective.

effectuously
-effectively.

effeminacies
-of effeminacy

effeminacy
-characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness;
-- used reproachfully of men.

effeminate
-having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
-womanlike; womanly; tender;
-- in a good sense.
-to make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
-to grow womanish or weak.

effeminated
-of effeminate

effeminately
-in an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.
-by means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman.

effeminateness
-the state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

effeminating
-of effeminate

effemination
-effeminacy; womanishness.

effeminize
-to make effeminate.

effendi
-master; sir;
-- a title of a turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

efferent
-conveying outward, or discharging;
-- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
-conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards;
-- opposed to afferent.
-an efferent duct or stream.

efferous
-like a wild beast; fierce.

effervesce
-to be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.
-to exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.

effervesced
-of effervesce

effervescence
-alt. of effervescency

effervescency
-a kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

effervescent
-gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

effervescible
-capable of effervescing.

effervescing
-of effervesce

effervescive
-tending to produce effervescence.

effet
-the common newt;
-- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

effete
-no longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

efficacious
-possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

efficacity
-efficacy.

efficacy
-power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

efficience
-alt. of efficiency

efficiency
-the quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
-the ratio of useful work to energy expended.

efficient
-causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
-an efficient cause; a prime mover.

efficiently
-with effect; effectively.

effierce
-to make fierce.

effigial
-relating to an effigy.

effigiate
-to form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.

effigiation
-the act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.

effigies
-see effigy.
-of effigy

effigy
-the image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure;
-- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

efflagitate
-to ask urgently.

efflate
-to fill with breath; to puff up.

efflation
-the act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.

effloresce
-to blossom forth.
-to change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
-to become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.

effloresced
-of effloresce

efflorescence
-flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
-a redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
-the formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.
-the powder or crust thus formed.

efflorescency
-the state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

efflorescent
-that effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
-covered with an efflorescence.

efflorescing
-of effloresce

efflower
-to remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part,
-- as in making chamois leather.

effluence
-a flowing out, or emanation.
-that which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.

effluency
-effluence.

effluent
-flowing out; as, effluent beams.
-a stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

effluvia
-of effluvium

effluviable
-capable of being given off as an effluvium.

effluvial
-belonging to effluvia.

effluviate
-to give forth effluvium.

effluvium
-subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

efflux
-the act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.
-that which flows out; emanation; effluence.
-to run out; to flow forth; to pass away.

effluxion
-the act of flowing out; effusion.
-that which flows out; effluvium; emanation.

effodient
-digging up.

efforce
-to force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

efforced
-of efforce

efforcing
-of efforce

efform
-to form; to shape.

efformation
-the act of giving shape or form.

effort
-an exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.
-a force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
-to stimulate.

effortless
-making no effort.

effossion
-a digging out or up.

effranchise
-to enfranchise.

effray
-to frighten; to scare.

effrayable
-frightful.

effrenation
-unbridled license; unruliness.

effront
-to give assurance to.

effronteries
-of effrontery

effrontery
-impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.

effrontit
-marked by impudence.

effrontuously
-impudently.

effulge
-to cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.
-to shine forth; to beam.

effulged
-of effulge

effulgence
-the state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.

effulgent
-diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.

effulgently
-in an effulgent manner.

effulging
-of effulge

effumability
-the capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.

effume
-to breathe or puff out.

effund
-to pour out.

effuse
-poured out freely; profuse.
-disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
-spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.
-having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading;
-- said of certain shells.
-effusion; loss.
-to pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
-to emanate; to issue.

effused
-of effuse

effusing
-of effuse

effusion
-the act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.
-that which is poured out, literally or figuratively.
-the escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. it may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.
-the liquid escaping or exuded.

effusive
-pouring out; pouring forth freely.

efreet
-see afrit.

eft
-a european lizard of the genus seps.
-a salamander, esp. the european smooth newt (triton punctatus).
-again; afterwards; soon; quickly.

eftsoon
-alt. of eftsoons

eftsoons
-again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.