Enathpaneah
Enathpaneah is a governorate of Kian and former province of the Nansur Empire . Located at the hinge of Khemema and Xerash , Enathpaneah is a semi-mountainous, semi-arid land whose wealth is predominantly derived from the caravans that pass through Caraskand , its administrative and commercial capital . The Sapatishah-Governor of Enathpaneah at the time of the First Holy War was Imbeyan ab Imbaran . Under the New Empire , Coithus Saubon became the Believer-King of Enathpaneah (though he was more often referred to as King of Caraskand) .

Cities

- Caraskand
- Joktha

Tribes

- Surdu

Engûs
Fifth son of Borswelka IV famed for the loss of Swur Fords and sub­se­quent flight in­to the Demua Mountains, where he and his re­main­ing house­hold lived a life of mur­der­ous out­lawry.

Enhorû
"Temus Enhorû" Grand­mas­ter of the Imperial Saik in the Great Ordeal.

Ennutil
The Ennutil are a Scylvendi tribe of the northwestern Jiünati Steppe .

Enpiralas
Enpiralas was the younger son of Cinial'jin and (presumably) Aisarinqu .

Story

Enpiralas was killed in the Battle of Pir Minginnial , and his body was then taken to his father on an Inchoroi shield .

Enpiralas

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi (presumably)
Relatives: Cinial’jin (father) Aisarinqu (mother) Immiriccas (brother) Aisralu (sister) Pil’kmiras (cousin)
Books: Four Revelations (flashback)

Enpiralas

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi (presumably)
Relatives: Cinial’jin (father) Aisarinqu (mother) Immiriccas (brother) Aisralu (sister) Pil’kmiras (cousin)
Books: Four Revelations (flashback)

en
-half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. see em.

en route
-on the way or road.

en
-
-a prefix signifying in or into, used in many english words, chiefly those borrowed from the french. some english words are written indifferently with en
-or in
-. for ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em
-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. it is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. see in
-.
-a prefix from gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. see in
-.

enable
-to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
-to make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

enabled
-of enable

enablement
-the act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.

enabling
-of enable

enact
-to decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
-to act; to perform; to do; to effect.
-to act the part of; to represent; to play.
-purpose; determination.

enacted
-of enact

enacting
-of enact

enactive
-having power to enact or establish as a law.

enactment
-the passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
-that which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.

enactor
-one who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

enacture
-enactment; resolution.

enaliosaur
-one of the enaliosauria.

enaliosauria
-an extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the ichthyosauria and the plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.

enaliosaurian
-pertaining to the enaliosauria.
-one of the enaliosauria.

enallage
-a substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

enambush
-to ambush.

enamel
-a variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.
-a glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
-that which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.
-the intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. it merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.
-to lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
-to variegate with colors as if with enamel.
-to form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.
-to disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
-to practice the art of enameling.
-relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.

enamelar
-consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.

enameled
-of enamel
-coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.

enameler
-alt. of enamelist

enameling
-of enamel

enamelist
-one who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.

enamelled
-of enamel

enamelling
-of enamel

enamor
-to inflame with love; to charm; to captivate;
-- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

enamored
-of enamor

enamoring
-of enamor

enamorment
-the state of being enamored.

enantiomorphous
-similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right
-handed to a left
-handed glove;
-- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

enantiopathic
-serving to palliate; palliative.

enantiopathy
-an opposite passion or affection.
-allopathy;
-- a term used by followers of hahnemann, or homeopathists.

enantiosis
-a figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.

enarch
-to arch.

enarched
-bent into a curve;
-- said of a bend or other ordinary.

enargite
-an iron
-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. it contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

enarmed
-same as armed, 3.

enarration
-a detailed exposition; relation.

enarthrodia
-see enarthrosis.

enarthrosis
-a ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. see articulation.

enascent
-coming into being; nascent.

enatation
-a swimming out.

enate
-growing out.

enation
-any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

enaunter
-lest that.

enavigate
-to sail away or over.

enbattled
-embattled.

enbibe
-to imbibe.

enbroude
-see embroude.

encage
-to confine in a cage; to coop up.

encaged
-of encage

encalendar
-to register in a calendar; to calendar.

encamp
-to form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
-to form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

encamped
-of encamp

encamping
-of encamp

encampment
-the act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
-the place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.

encanker
-to canker.

encapsulation
-the act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

encarnalize
-to carnalize; to make gross.

encarpus
-an ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.

encase
-to inclose as in a case. see incase.

encasement
-the act of encasing; also, that which encases.
-an old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. see ovulist.

encash
-to turn into cash; to cash.

encashment
-the payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.

encauma
-an ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.

encaustic
-prepared by means of heat; burned in.
-the method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.

encave
-to hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.

enceinte
-the line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place;
-- called also body of the place.
-the area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.
-pregnant; with child.

encenia
-a festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at oxford and cambridge, england) commemorative of founders or benefactors.

encense
-to offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.

encephalic
-pertaining to the encephalon or brain.

encephalitis
-inflammation of the brain.

encephalocele
-hernia of the brain.

encephaloid
-resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
-an encephaloid cancer.

encephalology
-the science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.

encephalon
-the contents of the cranium; the brain.

encephalopathy
-any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

encephalos
-the encephalon.

encephalotomy
-the act or art of dissecting the brain.

encephalous
-having a head;
-- said of most mollusca;
-- opposed to acephalous.

enchafe
-to chafe; to enrage; to heat.

enchafing
-heating; burning.

enchain
-to bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
-to hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
-to link together; to connect.

enchainment
-the act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

enchair
-to seat in a chair.

enchannel
-to make run in a channel.

enchant
-to charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
-to delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.

enchanted
-of enchant
-under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

enchanter
-one who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.

enchanting
-of enchant
-having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.

enchantment
-the act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.
-the effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.
-that which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.

enchantress
-a woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.

encharge
-to charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.
-a charge.

encharged
-of encharge

encharging
-of encharge

enchase
-to incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.
-to chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.
-to delineate or describe, as by writing.

enchased
-of enchase

enchaser
-one who enchases.

enchasing
-of enchase

enchasten
-to chasten.

encheason
-occasion, cause, or reason.

encheson
-alt. of encheason

enchest
-to inclose in a chest.

enchiridion
-handbook; a manual of devotions.

enchisel
-to cut with a chisel.

enchodus
-a genus of extinct cretaceous fishes;
-- so named from their spear
-shaped teeth. they were allied to the pike (esox).

enchondroma
-a cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

enchorial
-alt. of enchoric

enchoric
-belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common;
-- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. see demotic.

enchylemma
-the basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

enchyma
-the primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

encincture
-a cincture.

encindered
-burnt to cinders.

encircle
-to form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

encircled
-of encircle

encirclet
-a small circle; a ring.

encircling
-of encircle

enclasp
-to clasp. see inclasp.

enclave
-a tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. see exclave.
-to inclose within an alien territory.

enclavement
-the state of being an enclave.

enclitic
-alt. of enclitical
-a word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

enclitical
-affixed; subjoined;
-- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.

enclitically
-in an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

enclitics
-the art of declining and conjugating words.

encloister
-to shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

enclose
-to inclose. see inclose.

enclosure
-inclosure. see inclosure.

enclothe
-to clothe.

encloud
-to envelop in clouds; to cloud.

encoach
-to carry in a coach.

encoffin
-to put in a coffin.

encolden
-to render cold.

encollar
-to furnish or surround with a collar.

encolor
-to color.

encolure
-the neck of horse.

encomber
-see encumber.

encomberment
-hindrance; molestation.

encomiast
-one who praises; a panegyrist.

encomiastic
-alt. of encomiastical
-a panegyric.

encomiastical
-bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse.

encomion
-encomium; panegyric.

encomium
-warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

encomiums
-of encomium

encompass
-to circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.

encompassed
-of encompass

encompassing
-of encompass

encompassment
-the act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.

encore
-once more; again;
-- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
-a call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.
-to call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

encored
-of encore

encoring
-of encore

encorporing
-incorporation.

encoubert
-one of several species of armadillos of the genera dasypus and euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

encounter
-to come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
-to meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at waterloo.
-a meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
-a meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.

encountered
-of encounter

encounterer
-one who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

encountering
-of encounter

encourage
-to give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward;
-- the opposite of discourage.

encouraged
-of encourage

encouragement
-the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
-that which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.

encourager
-one who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.

encouraging
-of encourage
-furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

encowl
-to make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.

encradle
-to lay in a cradle.

encratite
-one of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food;
-- called also continent.

encrease
-i. [obs.] see increase.

encrimson
-to give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.

encrinal
-alt. of encrinital

encrini
-of encrinus

encrinic
-alt. of encrinital

encrinital
-relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.

encrinite
-a fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus encrinus. sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

encrinitic
-alt. of encrinitical

encrinitical
-pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.

encrinoidea
-that order of the crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk;
-- also called brachiata and articulata. see illusts. under comatula and crinoidea.

encrinus
-a genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the mesozoic rocks.

encrisped
-curled.

encroach
-to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench;
-- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.
-encroachment.

encroached
-of encroach

encroacher
-one who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.

encroaching
-of encroach

encroachingly
-by way of encroachment.

encroachment
-the act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
-that which is taken by encroaching on another.
-an unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.

encrust
-to incrust. see incrust.

encrustment
-that which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.

encumber
-to impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
-to load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

encumbered
-of encumber

encumbering
-of encumber

encumberment
-encumbrance.

encumbrance
-that which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. see incumbrance.
-same as incumbrance.

encumbrancer
-same as incumbrancer.

encurtain
-to inclose with curtains.

encyclic
-alt. of encyclical
-alt. of encyclical

encyclical
-sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
-an encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.

encyclopaedia
-the circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

encyclopedia
-alt. of encyclopaedia

encyclopediacal
-encyclopedic.

encyclopedian
-embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

encyclopedic
-alt. of encyclopedical

encyclopedical
-pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.

encyclopedism
-the art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.

encyclopedist
-the compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.

encyst
-to inclose in a cyst.

encystation
-encystment.

encysted
-inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.

encystment
-a process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
-a process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. see trichina.

end
-the extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain;
-- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.
-point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
-termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
-the object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
-that which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
-one of the yarns of the worsted warp in a brussels carpet.
-to bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
-to form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
-to destroy; to put to death.
-to come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

end
-
-a combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.

end
-all
-complete termination.

endable
-that may be ended; terminable.

endamage
-to bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.

endamageable
-capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.

endamaged
-of endamage

endamagement
-damage; injury; harm.

endamaging
-of endamage

endamnify
-to damnify; to injure.

endanger
-to put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.
-to incur the hazard of; to risk.

endangered
-of endanger

endangering
-of endanger

endangerment
-hazard; peril.

endark
-to darken.

endaspidean
-having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side;
-- said of certain birds.

endazzle
-to dazzle.

endear
-to make dear or beloved.
-to raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.

endeared
-of endear

endearedly
-with affection or endearment; dearly.

endearedness
-state of being endeared.

endearing
-of endear
-making dear or beloved; causing love.

endearment
-the act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.

endeavor
-to exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
-to exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
-an exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

endeavored
-of endeavor

endeavorer
-one who makes an effort or attempt.

endeavoring
-of endeavor

endeavorment
-act of endeavoring; endeavor.

endecagon
-a plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

endecagynous
-having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

endecane
-one of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, c11h24, found as a constituent of petroleum.

endecaphyllous
-composed of eleven leaflets;
-- said of a leaf.

ended
-of end

endeictic
-serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.

endeixis
-an indication.

endemial
-endemic.

endemic
-alt. of endemical
-an endemic disease.

endemical
-peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

endemically
-in an endemic manner.

endemiology
-the science which treats of endemic affections.

endenization
-the act of naturalizing.

endenize
-to endenizen.

endenizen
-to admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.

ender
-one who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.

endermatic
-endermic.

endermic
-acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.

endermically
-by the endermic method; as, applied endermically.

enderon
-the deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

endiademed
-diademed.

endiaper
-to decorate with a diaper pattern.

endict
-see indict.

endictment
-see indictment.

ending
-of end
-termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
-the final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. see 3d case, 5.

endite
-see indite.

endive
-a composite herb (cichorium endivia). its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.

endless
-without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable;
-- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.
-infinite; excessive; unlimited.
-without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
-void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

endlessly
-in an endless manner.

endlessness
-the quality of being endless; perpetuity.

endlong
-lengthwise; along.

endmost
-farthest; remotest; at the very end.

endo
-
-alt. of end
-

endoblast
-entoblast; endoplast. see nucleus,

endoblastic
-relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.

endocardiac
-alt. of endocardial

endocardial
-pertaining to the endocardium.
-seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.

endocarditis
-inflammation of the endocardium.

endocardium
-the membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

endocarp
-the inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

endochondral
-growing or developing within cartilage;
-- applied esp. to developing bone.

endochrome
-the coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

endoctrine
-to teach; to indoctrinate.

endocyst
-the inner layer of the cells of bryozoa.

endoderm
-the inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
-the innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. see illust. of ectoderm.

endodermal
-alt. of endodermic

endodermic
-of or pertaining to the endoderm.

endodermis
-a layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

endogamous
-marrying within the same tribe;
-- opposed to exogamous.

endogamy
-marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs;
-- opposed to exogamy.

endogen
-a plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. the leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. the endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. see exogen.

endogenesis
-endogeny.

endogenetic
-endogenous.

endogenous
-increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.
-originating from within; increasing by internal growth.

endogenously
-by endogenous growth.

endogeny
-growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

endognath
-the inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of crustacea. see maxilla.

endognathal
-pertaining to the endognath.

endolymph
-the watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

endolymphangial
-within a lymphatic vessel.

endolymphatic
-pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.
-within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.

endome
-to cover as with a dome.

endometritis
-inflammation of the endometrium.

endometrium
-the membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

endomorph
-a crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.

endomysium
-the delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

endoneurium
-the delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.

endoparasite
-any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, trichina, etc.;
-- opposed to ectoparasite. see entozoon.

endophloeum
-the inner layer of the bark of trees.

endophragma
-a chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain crustacea.

endophragmal
-of or pertaining to the endophragma.

endophyllous
-wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

endoplasm
-the protoplasm in the interior of a cell.

endoplasma
-same as entoplasm and endosarc.

endoplast
-see nucleus.

endoplastica
-a group of rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba.

endoplastule
-see nucleolus.

endopleura
-the inner coating of a seed. see tegmen.

endopleurite
-the portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.

endopodite
-the internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of crustacea. see maxilliped.

endorhiza
-any monocotyledonous plant;
-- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

endorhizae
-of endorhiza

endorhizal
-alt. of endorhizous

endorhizous
-having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

endorse
-same as indorse.
-a subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

endorsed
-of endorse

endorsee
-same as indorsee.

endorsement
-same as indorsement.

endorser
-same as indorser.

endorsing
-of endorse

endosarc
-the semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

endoscope
-an instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

endoscopy
-the art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.

endoskeletal
-pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.

endoskeleton
-the bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

endosmometer
-an instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.

endosmometric
-pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.

endosmose
-alt. of endosmosis

endosmosis
-the transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.

endosmosmic
-endosmotic.

endosmotic
-pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.

endosperm
-the albumen of a seed;
-- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

endospermic
-relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.

endospore
-the thin inner coat of certain spores.

endosporous
-having the spores contained in a case;
-- applied to fungi.

endoss
-to put upon the back or outside of anything;
-- the older spelling of endorse.

endosteal
-relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.

endosternite
-the part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in crustacea and insects.

endosteum
-the layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

endostoma
-a plate which supports the labrum in certain crustacea.

endostome
-the foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
-and endostoma.

endostosis
-a process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

endostyle
-a fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. see tunicata.

endotheca
-the tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. it usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.

endothecium
-the inner lining of an anther cell.

endothelia
-of endothelium

endothelial
-of, or relating to, endothelium.

endothelium
-the thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. see epithelium.

endotheloid
-like endothelium.

endothorax
-an internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

endow
-to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
-to enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty);
-- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

endowed
-of endow

endower
-to endow.
-one who endows.

endowing
-of endow

endowment
-the act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
-that which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
-that which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents;
-- usually in the plural.

endozoa
-see entozoa.

endrudge
-to make a drudge or slave of.

endue
-to invest.
-an older spelling of endow.

endued
-of endue

enduement
-act of enduing; induement.

enduing
-of endue

endurable
-capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.

endurably
-in an endurable manner.

endurance
-a state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
-the act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

endurant
-capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.

endure
-to continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
-to remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
-to remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.
-to bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
-to harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

endured
-of endure

endurement
-endurance.

endurer
-one who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

enduring
-of endure
-lasting; durable; long
-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.

endways
-alt. of endwise

endwise
-on end; erectly; in an upright position.
-with the end forward.

endyma
-see ependyma.

endyses
-of endysis

endysis
-the act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.;
-- opposed to ecdysis.

enecate
-to kill off; to destroy.

eneid
-same as aeneid.

enema
-an injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

enemata
-of enema

enemies
-of enemy

enemy
-one hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
-hostile; inimical.

enepidermic
-applied to the skin without friction;
-- said of medicines.

energetic
-alt. of energetical

energetical
-having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.
-exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.

energetics
-that branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.

energic
-alt. of energical

energical
-in a state of action; acting; operating.
-having energy or great power; energetic.

energies
-of energy

energize
-to use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
-to give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.

energized
-of energize

energizer
-one who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.

energizing
-of energize
-capable of imparting or exercising energy.

energumen
-one possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

energy
-internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
-power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
-strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit;
-- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
-capacity for performing work.

enerlasting
-eternal duration, past of future; eternity.
-(with the definite article) the eternal being; god.
-a plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the french, the cudweeds, etc.
-a cloth fabic for shoes, etc. see lasting.

enervate
-to deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
-weakened; weak; without strength of force.

enervated
-of enervate

enervating
-of enervate

enervation
-the act of weakening, or reducing strength.
-the state of being weakened; effeminacy.

enervative
-having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.

enerve
-to weaken; to enervate.

enervous
-lacking nerve or force; enervated.

enfamish
-to famish; to starve.

enfect
-contaminated with illegality.

enfeeble
-to make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

enfeebled
-of enfeeble

enfeeblement
-the act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

enfeebler
-one who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

enfeebling
-of enfeeble

enfeeblish
-to enfeeble.

enfeloned
-rendered fierce or frantic.

enfeoff
-to give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.
-to give in vassalage; to make subservient.

enfeoffed
-of enfeoff

enfeoffing
-of enfeoff

enfeoffment
-the act of enfeoffing.
-the instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

enfester
-to fester.

enfetter
-to bind in fetters; to enchain.

enfever
-to excite fever in.

enfierce
-to make fierce.

enfierced
-of enfierce

enfiercing
-of enfierce

enfilade
-a line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
-a firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.
-to pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

enfiladed
-of enfilade

enfilading
-of enfilade

enfiled
-having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

enfire
-to set on fire.

enflesh
-to clothe with flesh.

enflower
-to cover or deck with flowers.

enflowered
-of enflower

enflowering
-of enflower

enfold
-to infold. see infold.

enfoldment
-the act of infolding. see infoldment.

enforce
-to put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
-to make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
-to put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
-to give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
-to put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
-to urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
-to attempt by force.
-to prove; to evince.
-to strengthen; to grow strong.
-force; strength; power.

enforceable
-capable of being enforced.

enforced
-of enforce
-compelled; forced; not voluntary.

enforcement
-the act of enforcing; compulsion.
-a giving force to; a putting in execution.
-that which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

enforcer
-one who enforces.

enforcible
-that may be enforced.

enforcing
-of enforce

enforcive
-serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

enforest
-to turn into a forest.

enform
-to form; to fashion.

enfouldred
-mixed with, or emitting, lightning.

enframe
-to inclose, as in a frame.

enfranchise
-to set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
-to endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
-to receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.

enfranchised
-of enfranchise

enfranchisement
-releasing from slavery or custody.
-admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

enfranchiser
-one who enfranchises.

enfranchising
-of enfranchise

enfree
-to set free.

enfreedom
-to set free.

enfreeze
-to freeze; to congeal.

enfroward
-to make froward, perverse, or ungovernable.

engage
-to put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
-to gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
-to gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
-to employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
-to enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
-to come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
-to promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
-to embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
-to enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
-to be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

engaged
-of engage
-occupied; employed; busy.
-pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
-greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
-involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.

engagedly
-with attachment; with interest; earnestly.

engagedness
-the state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

engagement
-the act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
-the state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
-that which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
-an action; a fight; a battle.
-the state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.

engager
-one who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

engaging
-of encage
-of engage
-tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address.

engallant
-to make a gallant of.

engaol
-to put in jail; to imprison.

engarboil
-to throw into disorder; to disturb.

engarland
-to encircle with a garland, or with garlands.

engarrison
-to garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.

engastrimuth
-an ventriloquist.

engender
-to produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
-to cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
-to assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
-to come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
-one who, or that which, engenders.

engendered
-of engender

engendering
-of engender

engendrure
-the act of generation.

engild
-to gild; to make splendent.

engine
-(pronounced, in this sense, ////.) natural capacity; ability; skill.
-anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
-any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
-a compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
-to assault with an engine.
-to equip with an engine;
-- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
-(pronounced, in this sense, /////.) to rack; to torture.

engine
-sized
-sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp;
-- said of paper.

engineer
-a person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. see under engineering, n.
-one who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
-one who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
-to lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
-to use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through congress.

engineered
-of engineer

engineering
-of engineer
-originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

engineman
-a man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

enginemen
-of engineman

enginer
-a contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

enginery
-the act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
-engines, in general; instruments of war.
-any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

enginous
-pertaining to an engine.
-contrived with care; ingenious.

engird
-to gird; to encompass.

engirded
-of engird

engirding
-of engird

engirdle
-to surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

engirt
-of engird
-to engird.

engiscope
-a kind of reflecting microscope.

englaimed
-clammy.

engle
-a favorite; a paramour; an ingle.
-to cajole or coax, as favorite.

english
-of or pertaining to england, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so
-called anglo
-saxon race.
-see 1st bond, n., 8.
-collectively, the people of england; english people or persons.
-the language of england or of the english nation, and of their descendants in america, india, and other countries.
-a kind of printing type, in size between pica and great primer. see type.
-a twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
-to translate into the english language; to anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
-to strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

englishable
-capable of being translated into, or expressed in, english.

englished
-of english

englishing
-of english

englishism
-a quality or characteristic peculiar to the english.
-a form of expression peculiar to the english language as spoken in england; an anglicism.

englishman
-a native or a naturalized inhabitant of england.

englishmen
-of englishman

englishry
-the state or privilege of being an englishman.
-a body of english or people of english descent;
-- commonly applied to english people in ireland.

englishwoman
-fem. of englishman.

englishwomen
-of englishwoman

engloom
-to make gloomy.

englue
-to join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

englut
-to swallow or gulp down.
-to glut.

englutted
-of englut

englutting
-of englut

engore
-to gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
-to make bloody.

engorge
-to gorge; to glut.
-to swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
-to feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

engorged
-of engorge
-swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
-filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.

engorgement
-the act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
-an overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion.
-the clogging of a blast furnace.

engorging
-of engorge

engouled
-partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

engoulee
-same as engouled.

engraff
-to graft; to fix deeply.

engraffment
-see ingraftment.

engraft
-see ingraft.

engraftation
-alt. of engraftment

engraftment
-the act of ingrafting; ingraftment.

engrail
-to variegate or spot, as with hail.
-to indent with small curves. see engrailed.
-to form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

engrailed
-of engrail
-indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

engrailing
-of engrail

engrailment
-the ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.
-indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.

engrain
-to dye in grain, or of a fast color. see ingrain.
-to incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. see ingrain.
-to color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. see grain, v. t., 1.

engrained
-of engrain

engraining
-of engrain

engrapple
-to grapple.

engrasp
-to grasp; to grip.

engrasped
-of engrasp

engrasping
-of engrasp

engrave
-to deposit in the grave; to bury.
-to cut in; to make by incision.
-to cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
-to form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
-to impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.

engraved
-of engrave
-of engrave
-made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
-having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.

engravement
-engraving.
-engraved work.

engraven
-of engrave

engraver
-one who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

engravery
-the trade or work of an engraver.

engraving
-of engrave
-the act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.
-that which is engraved; an engraved plate.
-an impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.

engregge
-to aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.

engrieve
-to grieve.

engross
-to make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
-to amass.
-to copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.
-to seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.
-to purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

engrossed
-of engross

engrosser
-one who copies a writing in large, fair characters.
-one who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

engrossing
-of engross

engrossment
-the act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.
-that which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.

enguard
-to surround as with a guard.

engulf
-to absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

engulfed
-of engulf

engulfing
-of engulf

engulfment
-a swallowing up as if in a gulf.

engyn
-variant of engine.

enhalo
-to surround with a halo.

enhance
-to raise or lift up; to exalt.
-to advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.
-to be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

enhanced
-of enhance

enhancement
-the act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

enhancer
-one who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

enhancing
-of enhance

enharbor
-to find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.

enharden
-to harden; to embolden.

enharmonic
-alt. of enharmonical

enharmonical
-of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.
-pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of a/ for g/.
-pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.

enharmonically
-in the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

enheahedral
-having nine sides.

enheahedria
-alt. of enheahedron

enheahedron
-a figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

enhearten
-to give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.

enhedge
-to surround as with a hedge.

enhort
-to encourage.

enhunger
-to make hungry.

enhydros
-a variety of chalcedony containing water.

enhydrous
-having water within; containing fluid drops;
-- said of certain crystals.

enigma
-a dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.
-an action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.

enigmas
-of enigma

enigmatic
-alt. of enigmatical

enigmatical
-relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.

enigmatically
-darkly; obscurely.

enigmatist
-one who makes, or talks in, enigmas.

enigmatize
-to make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.

enigmatized
-of enigmatize

enigmatizing
-of enigmatize

enigmatography
-alt. of enigmatology

enigmatology
-the art of making or of solving enigmas.

enisled
-placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.

enjailed
-of enjall

enjailing
-of enjall

enjall
-to put into jail; to imprison.

enjoin
-to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
-to prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
-to join or unite.

enjoined
-of enjoin

enjoiner
-one who enjoins.

enjoining
-of enjoin

enjoinment
-direction; command; authoritative admonition.

enjoy
-to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.
-to have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.
-to have sexual intercourse with.
-to take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

enjoyable
-capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.

enjoyed
-of enjoy

enjoyer
-one who enjoys.

enjoying
-of enjoy

enjoyment
-the condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.
-that which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.

enkennel
-to put into a kennel.

enkerchiefed
-bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered.

enkindle
-to set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
-to excite; to rouse into action; to incite.

enkindled
-of enkindle

enkindling
-of enkindle

enlace
-to bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

enlacement
-the act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

enlard
-to cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.

enlarge
-to make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
-to increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
-to set at large or set free.
-to grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
-to speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
-to get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft;
-- said of the wind.

enlarged
-of enlarge
-made large or larger; extended; swollen.

enlargement
-the act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
-expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
-a setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.
-diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.

enlarger
-one that enlarges.

enlarging
-of enlarge

enlay
-see inlay.

enlengthen
-to lengthen.

enleven
-eleven.

enlight
-to illumine; to enlighten.

enlighten
-to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
-to make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

enlightener
-one who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

enlightenment
-act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

enlimn
-to adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.

enlink
-to chain together; to connect, as by links.

enlist
-to enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
-to engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
-to secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
-to enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
-to enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

enlisted
-of enlist

enlisting
-of enlist

enlistment
-the act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
-the writing by which an enlisted man is bound.

enlive
-to enliven.

enliven
-to give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
-to give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

enlivened
-of enliven

enlivener
-one who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.

enlivening
-of enliven

enlock
-to lock; to inclose.

enlumine
-to illumine.

enlute
-to coat with clay; to lute.

enmanche
-resembling, or covered with, a sleeve;
-- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

enmarble
-to make hard as marble; to harden.

enmesh
-to catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

enmew
-see emmew.

enmist
-to infold, as in a mist.

enmities
-of enmity

enmity
-the quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
-a state of opposition; hostility.

enmossed
-covered with moss; mossed.

enmove
-see emmove.

enmuffle
-to muffle up.

enmure
-to immure.

ennation
-the ninth segment in insects.

ennead
-the number nine or a group of nine.

enneagon
-a polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

enneagonal
-belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

enneagynous
-having or producing nine pistils or styles;
-- said of a flower or plant.

enneandria
-a linnaean class of plants having nine stamens.

enneandrian
-alt. of enneandrous

enneandrous
-having nine stamens.

enneapetalous
-having nine petals, or flower leaves.

enneaspermous
-having nine seeds;
-- said of fruits.

enneatic
-alt. of enneatical

enneatical
-occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.

ennew
-to make new.

enniche
-to place in a niche.

ennoble
-to make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
-to raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

ennobled
-of ennoble

ennoblement
-the act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
-that which ennobles; excellence; dignity.

ennobler
-one who ennobles.

ennobling
-of ennoble

ennui
-a feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

ennuye
-affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.
-one who is affected with ennui.

ennuyee
-a woman affected with ennui.

enodal
-without a node.

enodation
-the act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.

enode
-to clear of knots; to make clear.

enoint
-anointed.

enomotarch
-the commander of an enomoty.

enomoty
-a band of sworn soldiers; a division of the spartan army ranging from twenty
-five to thirty
-six men, bound together by oath.

enopla
-one of the orders of nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

enoptomancy
-divination by the use of a mirror.

enorm
-enormous.

enormities
-of enormity

enormity
-the state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
-that which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

enormous
-exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
-exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

enormously
-in an enormous degree.

enormousness
-the state of being enormous.

enorthotrope
-an optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. see thaumatrope.

enough
-satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient;
-- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
-in a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
-fully; quite;
-- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
-in a tolerable degree;
-- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.
-a sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.
-an exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

enounce
-to announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
-to utter; to articulate.

enounced
-of enounce

enouncement
-act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

enouncing
-of enounce

enow
-a form of enough.

enpatron
-to act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.

enpierce
-to pierce.

enquere
-to inquire.

enquicken
-to quicken; to make alive.

enquire
-see inquire.

enquirer
-see inquirer.

enquiry
-see inquiry.

enrace
-to enroot; to implant.

enrage
-to fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

enraged
-of enrage

enragement
-act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.

enraging
-of enrage

enrange
-to range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.
-to rove over; to range.

enrank
-to place in ranks or in order.

enrapt
-thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.

enrapture
-to transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.

enraptured
-of enrapture

enrapturing
-of enrapture

enravish
-to transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

enravishingly
-so as to throw into ecstasy.

enravishment
-the state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.

enregister
-to register; to enroll or record; to inregister.

enrheum
-to contract a rheum.

enrich
-to make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
-to supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
-to make rich with manure; to fertilize;
-- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.
-to supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store;
-- said of the mind.

enriched
-of enrich

enricher
-one who enriches.

enriching
-of enrich

enrichment
-the act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

enridge
-to form into ridges.

enring
-to encircle.

enripen
-to ripen.

enrive
-to rive; to cleave.

enrobe
-to invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

enrockment
-a mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

enroll
-to insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.
-to envelop; to inwrap; to involve.

enrolled
-of enroll

enroller
-one who enrolls or registers.

enrolling
-of enroll

enrollment
-the act of enrolling; registration.
-a writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record.

enroot
-to fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

enround
-to surround.

ens
-entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, god, as the being of beings.
-something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.

ensafe
-to make safe.

ensample
-an example; a pattern or model for imitation.
-to exemplify, to show by example.

ensanguine
-to stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood
-red color; as, an ensanguined hue.

ensate
-having sword
-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

enscale
-to cover with scales.

ensconce
-to cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

ensconced
-of ensconce

ensconcing
-of ensconce

enseal
-to impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

enseam
-to sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.
-to cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

ensear
-to sear; to dry up.

ensearch
-to make search; to try to find something.
-to search for.

enseel
-to close eyes of; to seel;
-- said in reference to a hawk.

enseint
-with child; pregnant. see enceinte.

ensemble
-the whole; all the parts taken together.
-all at once; together.

enshedule
-to insert in a schedule. see schedule.

enshelter
-to shelter.

enshield
-to defend, as with a shield; to shield.
-shielded; enshielded.

enshrine
-to inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.

enshrined
-of enshrine

enshrining
-of enshrine

enshroud
-to cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.

ensiferous
-bearing a sword.

ensiform
-having the form of a sword blade; sword
-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.

ensign
-a flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers;
-- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
-a signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
-sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
-formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
-a commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
-to designate as by an ensign.
-to distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

ensigncies
-of ensigncy

ensigncy
-the rank or office of an ensign.

ensignship
-the state or rank of an ensign.

ensilage
-the process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.
-the fodder preserved in a silo.
-to preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

ensilaged
-of ensilage

ensilaging
-of ensilage

ensky
-to place in the sky or in heaven.

enslave
-to reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

enslaved
-of enslave

enslavedness
-state of being enslaved.

enslavement
-the act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

enslaver
-one who enslaves.

enslaving
-of enslave

ensnare
-to catch in a snare. see insnare.

ensnarl
-to entangle.

ensober
-to make sober.

ensoul
-to indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

ensphere
-to place in a sphere; to envelop.
-to form into a sphere.

enstamp
-to stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.

enstate
-see instate.

enstatite
-a mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. it is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

enstatitic
-relating to enstatite.

enstore
-to restore.

enstyle
-to style; to name.

ensuable
-ensuing; following.

ensue
-to follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
-to follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.

ensued
-of ensue

ensuing
-of ensue

ensure
-to make sure. see insure.
-to betroth.

ensurer
-see insurer.

enswathe
-to swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.

enswathement
-the act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

ensweep
-to sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

ent
-
-a prefix signifying within. see ento
-.

entablature
-the superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. see illust. of column, cornice.

entablement
-see entablature.

entackle
-to supply with tackle.

entad
-toward the inside or central part; away from the surface;
-- opposed to ectad.

entail
-that which is entailed.
-an estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
-the rule by which the descent is fixed.
-delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
-to settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants;
-- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
-to appoint hereditary possessor.
-to cut or carve in a ornamental way.

entailed
-of entail

entailing
-of entail

entailment
-the act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
-the condition of being entailed.
-a thing entailed.

ental
-pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner;
-- opposed to ectal.

entame
-to tame.

entangle
-to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
-to involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

entangled
-of entangle

entanglement
-state of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

entangler
-one that entangles.

entangling
-of entangle

entasia
-tonic spasm;
-- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

entasis
-a slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
-same as entasia.

entassment
-a heap; accumulation.

entastic
-relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

entelechy
-an actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

entellus
-an east indian long
-tailed bearded monkey (semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. it is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

entend
-to attend to; to apply one's self to.

entender
-to make tender.
-to treat with tenderness.

ententive
-attentive; zealous.

enter
-to come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
-to unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
-to engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
-to pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
-to cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
-to inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
-to go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
-to place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
-to make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. see entry, 4.
-to file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.
-to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of congress."
-to initiate; to introduce favorably.
-to go or come in;
-- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.
-to get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage;
-- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
-to penetrate mentally; to consider attentively;
-- with into.

enter
-
-a prefix signifying between, among, part.

enteradenography
-a treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

enteradenology
-the science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

enteralgia
-pain in the intestines; colic.

enterdeal
-mutual dealings; intercourse.

entered
-of enter

enterer
-one who makes an entrance or beginning.

enteric
-of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

entering
-of enter

enteritis
-an inflammation of the intestines.

enterlace
-see interlace.

entermete
-to interfere; to intermeddle.

entermewer
-a hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

entermise
-mediation.

enterocele
-a hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

enterocoele
-a perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

enterography
-a treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

enterolith
-an intestinal concretion.

enterology
-the science which treats of the viscera of the body.

enteron
-the whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

enteropathy
-disease of the intestines.

enteropneusta
-a group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. balanoglossus is the only known genus. see illustration in appendix.

enterorrhaphy
-the operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.

enterotome
-a kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post
-mortem examinations.

enterotomy
-incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

enterparlance
-mutual talk or conversation; conference.

enterplead
-same as interplead.

enterprise
-that which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
-willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
-to undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
-to treat with hospitality; to entertain.
-to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

enterpriser
-one who undertakes enterprises.

enterprising
-having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

entertain
-to be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
-to give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
-to engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
-to give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
-to meet or encounter, as an enemy.
-to keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
-to lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
-to receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
-entertainment.

entertained
-of entertain

entertainer
-one who entertains.

entertaining
-of entertain
-affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.

entertainment
-the act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
-that which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) that which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.
-admission into service; service.
-payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

entertake
-to entertain.

entertissued
-same as intertissued.

entheal
-alt. of enthean

enthean
-divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.

entheasm
-inspiration; enthusiasm.

entheastic
-of godlike energy; inspired.

entheat
-divinely inspired.

entheic
-caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

enthelmintha
-alt. of enthelminthes

enthelminthes
-intestinal worms. see helminthes.

enthrall
-to hold in thrall; to enslave. see inthrall.

enthrallment
-the act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. see inthrallment.

enthrill
-to pierce; to thrill.

enthrone
-to seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
-to induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

enthronement
-the act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.

enthronization
-the act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

enthronize
-to place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.

enthronized
-of enthronize

enthronizing
-of enthronize

enthuse
-to make or become enthusiastic.

enthusiasm
-inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.
-a state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
-enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm.
-lively manifestation of joy or zeal.

enthusiast
-one moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) one who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) one whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.

enthusiastic
-alt. of enthusiastical
-an enthusiast; a zealot.

enthusiastical
-filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art.

enthymematic
-alt. of enthymematical

enthymematical
-pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.

enthymeme
-an argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, we are dependent; therefore we should be humble. here the major proposition is suppressed. the complete syllogism would be, dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.

entice
-to draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. often in a bad sense: to lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.

enticeable
-capable of being enticed.

enticed
-of entice

enticement
-the act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
-that which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.

enticer
-one who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.

enticing
-of entice
-that entices; alluring.

enticingly
-in an enticing manner; charmingly.

entierty
-see entirety.

entire
-complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.
-without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
-consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
-having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
-not gelded;
-- said of a horse.
-internal; interior.
-entirely.
-a name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.

entirely
-in an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.
-without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

entireness
-the state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.
-integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.
-oneness; unity;
-- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.
-of entirety

entirety
-the state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.
-that which is entire; the whole.

entitative
-considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.

entities
-of entity

entitle
-to give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "commentaries;" to entitle a man "honorable."
-to give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.
-to attribute; to ascribe.

entitled
-of entitle

entitling
-of entitle

entitule
-to entitle.

entity
-a real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

ento
-
-a combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.

entoblast
-the inner germ layer; endoderm. see nucleolus.

entobronchia
-of entobronchium

entobronchium
-one of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

entocuneiform
-alt. of entocuniform

entocuniform
-one of the bones of the tarsus. see cuneiform.

entoderm
-see endoderm, and illust. of blastoderm.

entodermal
-alt. of entodermic

entodermic
-relating to the entoderm.

entogastric
-pertaining to the interior of the stomach;
-- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

entogenous
-see endogenous.

entoglossal
-within the tongue;
-- applied to the glossohyal bone.

entoil
-to take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.

entoiled
-of entoil

entoiling
-of entoil

entomb
-to deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

entombed
-of entomb

entombing
-of entomb

entombment
-the act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.

entomere
-the more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

entomic
-alt. of entomical

entomical
-relating to insects; entomological.

entomoid
-resembling an insect.
-an object resembling an insect.

entomolin
-see chitin.

entomolite
-a fossil insect.

entomologic
-alt. of entomological

entomological
-of or relating to entomology.

entomologies
-of entomology

entomologist
-one versed in entomology.

entomologize
-to collect specimens in the study of entomology.

entomology
-that part of zoology which treats of insects.
-a treatise on the science of entomology.

entomophaga
-one of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. see ichneumon, 2.
-a group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.
-a group of edentates, including the ant
-eaters.

entomophagan
-relating to the entomophaga.
-one of the entomophaga.

entomophagous
-feeding on insects; insectivorous.

entomophilous
-fertilized by the agency of insects;
-- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

entomostraca
-one of the subclasses of crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. the group embraces several orders; as the phyllopoda, ostracoda, copepoda, and pectostraca. see copepoda, phyllopoda, and cladocera.

entomostracan
-relating to the entomostraca.
-one of the entomostraca.

entomostracous
-belonging to the entomostracans.

entomotomist
-one who practices entomotomy.

entomotomy
-the science of the dissection of insects.

entonic
-having great tension, or exaggerated action.

entoperipheral
-being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body;
-- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. opposed to epiperipheral.

entophyte
-a vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

entophytic
-of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

entoplasm
-the inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
-endosarc.

entoplastic
-pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

entoplastra
-of entoplastron

entoplastron
-the median plate of the plastron of turtles;
-- called also entosternum.

entoprocta
-a group of bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. see pedicellina.

entoptic
-relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.

entorganism
-an internal parasitic organism.

entortilation
-a turning into a circle; round figures.

entosterna
-of entosternum

entosternum
-see entoplastron.

entosthoblast
-the granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.

entothorax
-see endothorax.

entotic
-pertaining to the interior of the ear.

entozoa
-a group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the helminthes.
-an artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
-of entozoon

entozoal
-alt. of entozoic

entozoic
-pertaining to, or consisting of, the entozoa.

entozoologist
-one versed in the science of the entozoa.

entozoon
-one of the entozoa.

entr'acte
-the interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.
-a dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.

entrail
-to interweave; to intertwine.
-entanglement; fold.

entrails
-the internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
-the internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.

entrain
-to draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
-to put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
-to go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.

entrammel
-to trammel; to entangle.

entrance
-the act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
-liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
-the passage, door, or gate, for entering.
-the entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
-the causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
-the angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
-the bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
-to put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
-to put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

entranced
-of entrance

entrancement
-the act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.

entrancing
-of entrance

entrant
-one who enters; a beginner.
-an applicant for admission.

entrap
-to catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

entrapped
-of entrap

entrapping
-of entrap

entreat
-to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
-to treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
-to beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
-to invite; to entertain.
-to treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
-to make an earnest petition or request.
-entreaty.

entreatable
-that may be entreated.

entreatance
-entreaty.

entreated
-of entreat

entreater
-one who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.

entreatful
-full of entreaty. [r.] see intreatful.

entreaties
-of entreaty

entreating
-of entreat

entreatingly
-in an entreating manner.

entreative
-used in entreaty; pleading.

entreatment
-entreaty; invitation.

entreaty
-treatment; reception; entertainment.
-the act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.

entree
-a coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
-in french usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in english usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

entremets
-a side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
-any small entertainment between two greater ones.

entrench
-see intrench.

entrepot
-a warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.

entrepreneur
-one who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.

entresol
-a low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.

entrick
-to trick, to perplex.

entries
-of entry

entrochal
-pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites;
-- used of a kind of stone or marble.

entrochite
-a fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

entropion
-same as entropium.

entropium
-the inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

entropy
-a certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. if a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. the entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. sometimes called the thermodynamic function.

entrust
-see intrust.

entry
-the act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
-the act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
-that by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
-the exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. see enter, v. t., 8, and entrance, n., 5.
-the actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
-a putting upon record in proper form and order.
-the act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

entryng
-am entrance.

entune
-to tune; to intone.

entwine
-to twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
-to be twisted or twined.

entwinement
-a twining or twisting together or round; union.

entwist
-to twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

enubilate
-to clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.

enubilous
-free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.

enucleate
-to bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
-to remove without cutting (as a tumor).
-to bring to light; to make clear.

enucleated
-of enucleate

enucleating
-of enucleate

enucleation
-the act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.

enumerate
-to count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.

enumerated
-of enumerate

enumerating
-of enumerate

enumeration
-the act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
-a detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
-a recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.

enumerative
-counting, or reckoning up, one by one.

enumerator
-one who enumerates.

enunciable
-capable of being enunciated or expressed.

enunciate
-to make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
-to make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
-to utter words or syllables articulately.

enunciated
-of enunciate

enunciating
-of enunciate

enunciation
-the act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
-mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
-that which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.

enunciative
-pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.

enunciator
-one who enunciates or proclaims.

enunciatory
-pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.

enure
-see inure.

enuresis
-an involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

envassal
-to make a vassal of.

envault
-to inclose in a vault; to entomb.

enveigle
-to entice. see inveigle.

envelop
-to put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
-that which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
-the nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet;
-- called also coma.
-a work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. it is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
-a curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
-a set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. it is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.

envelope
-alt. of envelop

enveloped
-of envelop

enveloping
-of envelop

envelopment
-the act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
-that which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.

envenime
-to envenom.

envenom
-to taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
-to taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.

envenomed
-of envenom

envenoming
-of envenom

envermeil
-to color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.

enviable
-fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

envie
-to vie; to emulate; to strive.

envied
-of envy

envier
-one who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.

envies
-of envy

envigor
-to invigorate.

envious
-malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
-feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy;
-- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging;
-- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
-inspiring envy.
-excessively careful; cautious.

environ
-to surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
-about; around.

environed
-of environ

environing
-of environ

environment
-act of environing; state of being environed.
-that which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

environs
-the parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

envisage
-to look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

envisaged
-of envisage

envisagement
-the act of envisaging.

envisaging
-of envisage

envolume
-to form into, or incorporate with, a volume.

envolup
-to wrap up; to envelop.

envoy
-one dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. an envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
-an explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book;
-- also in the french from, l'envoi.

envoyship
-the office or position of an envoy.

envy
-malice; ill will; spite.
-chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging;
-- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of caesar.
-emulation; rivalry.
-public odium; ill repute.
-an object of envious notice or feeling.
-to feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
-to feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
-to long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
-to do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
-to hate.
-to emulate.
-to be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes;
-- used especially with at.
-to show malice or ill will; to rail.

envying
-of envy

envyned
-stored or furnished with wine.

enwall
-see inwall.

enwallow
-to plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.

enwheel
-to encircle.

enwiden
-to widen.

enwind
-to wind about; to encircle.

enwoman
-to endow with the qualities of a woman.

enwomb
-to conceive in the womb.
-to bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.

enwombed
-of enwomb

enwombing
-of enwomb

enwrap
-to envelop. see inwrap.

enwrapment
-act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.

enwreathe
-see inwreathe.

enzootic
-afflicting animals;
-- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. it corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

enzyme
-an unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.