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ness; with attachment. Engagedly biassed brace. Milton. I saw their mouths en- employed. - Military engineering, that to one side or other.' Whitlock. gender.' Massinger.

branch which relates to the construction Engagedness (en-gāj'ed-nes), n. The state Engenderer (en-jen'der-er), n. He who or and maintenance of fortifications, and all of being seriously and earnestly occupied; that which engenders.

buildings necessary in military posts, and zeal; animation.

Engendrure, t n. (Fr.) The act of genera- includes a thorough knowledge of every Engagement (en-gāj'ment), n. 1. The act tion. Chaucer.

point relative to the attack and defence of of engaging. -2. Obligation by agreement or Engild (en-gild), v.t. To gild; to brighten. places. The science also embraces the surcontract; as, men are often more ready to

Fair Helena; who more engilds the night,

veying of a country for the various operamake engagements than to fulfil them. To Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light. Shak. tions of war.- Naval or marine engineering make good their engagement.' Ludlow. Engine (en'jin), n. (Fr. engin, from L. in- has to do partly with works of a warlike 3. Adherence to a party or cause; partial- genium--in, and gigno, genitum, to beget,

nature, such as the construction of warity; bias. to produce. See INGENIOUS.) 1. Innate or

vessels, the construction and management This may be obvious to any who impartially, and natural ability. (In the following extract,

of torpedoes, &c., but also trenches upon without engagement, is at pains to examine. Swift. and probably always in this sense, pro

the ground occupied more exclusively by 4. Occupation; employment of the attention; nounced en-jin'.)

the next two branches. -Civil engineering affair of business.

Virgil won the bays

relates to the forming of roads, bridges, and Play, by too long or constant engagement, becomes

And past them all for deep engine, and made them railroads, the formation of canals, aquelike an employment or profession Rogers.

all to gaze

ducts, harbours, drainage of a country, &c.

Upon the books he made. Churchyard. 5. A combat between armies or fleets; a fight;

--- Mechanical engineering refers strictly to a conflict; a battle. In hot engagement

2. In mech. any mechanical instrument of machinery, such as steam-engines, machinewith the Moors.' Dryden.-6. Obligation;

complicated parts, which concur in produc- tools, mill-work, &c. -2. Careful manage

Religion, motive; that which engages.

ing an intended effect; a machine for apply. ment; maneuvring. which is the chief engagement of our league.'

ing any of the mechanical or physical powers Who kindling a combustion of desire, Vilton (Rare.)

to effect a particular purpose; especially, a With some cold moral think to quench the fire,

machine for applying steam to propel ves- Though all your engineering proves in vain. This is the greatest engagement not to forfeit an opportunity.

Cowper. Hammond. sels, railway trains, &c.; a steam-engine.

A man who 7. In Scottish hist. the name given to a treaty

3. Any instrument in any degree complicated; Engineman (en’jin-man), n.
that by which any effect is produced, as a

manages the engine, as in steamers, steamentered into in 1648 between Charles I., then musket, a cannon, the rack, a battering ram,

carriages, manufactories, and the like. in the hands of the Parliamentary army,

One who manages and commissioners on behalf of the moder&c. "Terrible engines of death.' Raleigh Enginert (en'jin-ėr), n.

a military engine. ate Presbyterians in Scotland, whereby the

This is our engine, towers that overthrows.

Fairfax.

Tis the sport to have the enginer latter, for certain concessions on the king's

Hoist with his own petar.

Shak. 4. Means; anything used to effect a purpose, part, engaged to deliver him from captivity

especially an evil purpose; a tool; an agent Enginery (en'jin-ri), n. 1. The act of manby force of arms.--Battle, Fight, Combat,

An engine fit for my proceedings.' Shak. aging engines or artillery.—2. Engines in Engagement, Conflict. See under BATTLE. SIN. Promise, contract, attraction, gain

They had th' especial engines been, to rear

general; artillery; instruments of war. His fortunes up into the state they were. Daniel.

We saw the foe ing, enlistment, obligation, business, em

Approaching; gross and huge, in hollow cube ployment, occupation, battle, combat, fight; Engine (In sense 1. en-jin'; in 2. en’jin), v.t.

Trailing his devilish enginery.

Milton. conflict, contest.

1.7To torture by means of an engine; to
rack.

3. Mechanism; machinery; internal strucEngager (en-gáj'ér), n. 1. One that enters

The ministres of the town,

ture or arrangemen into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Have hent the carter, and so sore him pined,

The enginery of the one (the English language) is Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood

And eke the hosteler so sore engined,

too near, the idiomatic inotive power of the other That they beknew hir wickednesse anon.

too distant, for distinct vision. G. P. Alarsh. 2 In Scottish hist. one of a party who sup

Chaucer. ported the treaty called 'the Engagement,' 2. To furnish with an engine or engines; as,

4. Any carefully prepared scheme to comand who joined in the invasion of England

pass an end, especially a bad end; machinathe vessel was built on the Clyde and en

tions; devices; system of artifice. "The consequent on it. See ENGAGEMENT.

gined at Greenwich. Engaging (en-gāj’ing), a. Winning; attrac- Engine-bearer (en'jin-bār-ér), n. In ship

fraudful enginery of Rome.' Shenstone. (In

all its uses rare.) tive; tending to draw the attention or the building, one of the sleepers or pieces of timaffections, pleasing; as, engaging manners ber placed between the keelson in a steamer

All his own devilish enginery of lying witnesses, partial sheriffs, &c.

Macaulay. or address. - Engaging and disengaging and the boilers of the steam-engine, to form machinery, that in which one part is alter

The shaft a proper seat for the boilers and machinery. Engine-shaft (en'jin-shaft), n. nately united to or separated from another, Engine-driver (en'jin-driv-ér), n. One who

of marine-engine wheels. as occasion may require.

See MACHINEdrives or manages an engine; especially, Engine-tool (en'jin-töl), n.

TOOL. Engagingly (en-gåj'ing-li), adv. In a man- one who manages a locomotive engine.

А ner to win the affections.

Engineer (en-jin-êr), n. [Formed on type Engine-turning. (en'jin-térn-ing), n. Engagingness (en-gāj'ing-nes), n. The qual- of charioteer, musketeer, &c.) 1. A person

method of turning executed by what is ity of being engaging; attractiveness; at- skilled in the principles and practice of traction; as, the engagingness of his man- engineering, either civil or military. Miliners.

tary engineers form plans of works for ofEngallantt (en-gal'lant), v. t. (Verb-forming fence or defence, and mark out the ground prefix en, and gallant.) To make a gallant for fortifications. Engineers are also emof.

ployed in delineating plans and superinIf you could but endear yourself to her affection,

是三 tending the construction of other public You were eternally engallanted. B. Fonson.

works, as the formation of roads and railEngaolt (en-jal'), v.t. (Prefix en, and gaol.] ways, the raising of embankments, mining

To imprison. Within my mouth you have operations, the formation of docks or artifi-
engaold my tongue.' Shak.
cial harbours, aqueducts, and canals. The

Examples of Engine turning.
Engarboilt (en-går boil), v.t. (Prefix en, and latter are called civil engineers. A me-
garboil (which see).) To disorder. “To en- chanical engineer practises the avocation

termed a rose-engine. It is used for ornagarboil the church.' Bp. Montagu. of the machinist, in executing the presses,

mental work, such as the net-work of curved Engarland (en-gårland), v. t. (Prefix en, and

lines on the backs of watches. See ROSE

mills, looms, and other great machines emgarland.) To encircle with a garland. ployed in the arts and manufactures, par

ENGINE Engarlanded and diapered

ticularly in constructing steam-engines, and Enginous t (en'jin-us), a. (See ENGINE.] * With inwrought flowers.' Tennyson, the apparatus by which they are rendered

1. Pertaining to an engine. An enginous Engarrison (en-ga'ri-sn), v.t. (Prefixen, and

wheel.' available for giving motion to ships, car

Deleker.-2. Ingenious; inventive; garrison.) To furnish with a garrison; to riages, or machinery.-2. One who manages

mechanical defend or protect by a garrison. military engines or artillery. (This is the All tools that enginous despair could frame.

Marlowe & Chapman, Engastrimutht (en-gas'tri-muth), n. (Gr. spelling of enginer in the later folios and

en, in, gastër, gastros, the belly, and mythos, some manuscript editions of Shakspere.)- Engird (en-gérd'), v.t. pret. & pp. engirded speech) A ventriloquist. 3. An engine-driver; one who manages an

or engirt; ppr. engirding. (Prefix en, and Engender (en-jen'der), v.t. (Fr. engendrer, engine; a person who attends to the ma- gird.) To surround; to encircle; to encom. L ingenero-in, and genero, to beget, from chinery on board a steam-vessel.-4. One pass. My body round engirt with misery.' genus, generis, birth, descent. See GENUS.) who carries through any scheme or enter

Shak. 1. To beget between the different sexes; to prise by skill or artful contrivance; a mana- Engirdle (en-ger'dl), v.t. (Prefix en, and originate, as an embryo.

ger.

girdle.) To inclose; to surround. Glover. This bastard love is engendered betwixt lust and Engineer (en-jin-ēr'), v.t. 1. To direct as Engirtt (en-gėrt), v.t. To encircle; to enIdleness.

Sir P. Sidney.

an engineer the execution or formation of ; gird. 2. To produce; to cause to exist; to bring

to perform the office of an engineer in re- A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow; forth; to cause; to excite; as, intemperance spect of; as, to engineer a canal; to engineer

So whíte a friend engirts so white a foe. Shak. engenders fatal maladies; angry words en

a tunnel through the Alps. -2. To work Engiscope (en'ji-skóp'), n. [Gr. engys, near, gender strife.

upon; to ply; to try some scheme or plan and skopeö, to view.) A kind of reflecting upon.

microscope. When Elizabeth came to the throne difficulties were much increased Violence naturally engenders vio

Unless we engineered him with question after Englad (en-glad'), v. t. pret. & pp. engladded;

Cowper. lence. The spirit of Protestantism was therefore far question we could get nothing out of him.

ppr. engladding. To make glad; to cause fiercer and more intolerant after the cruelties of Mary 3. To guide or manage by ingenuity and to rejoice. 'Of the sunshine engladded with than before them.

Macaulay. tact; to conduct through or over obstacles the light.' Skelton. SYN. To breed, generate, produce, occasion, by contrivance and effort; as, to engineer a Englaimedt (en-glāmd'), a. (Prefix en, and call forth, cause, create.

bill through Congress. [United States.) A. Sax. clæman, to smear, clûm, mud, clay; Engender (en-jen'der), v.i. 1. To be caused Engineering (en-jin-ēr'ing), n. 1. The art of Icel kleima, to smear. Akin clammy! or produced; to come into existence.

constructing and using engines or machines; Furred; clammy. "His tongue englaimed. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.

the art of executing such works as are the Liber Festivalis. Dryden.

objects of civil and military architecture, in Englanté (än-glän-tā), a. In her, bearing 2. To come together; to meet in sexual em- which machinery is in general extensively acorns or similar glands.

ENGLE

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Englet (eng'gl). n. [Written also ingle. See typed by the works of Shakspere and Milton, | Engraft (en-graft'), v.t. To ingraft (which etymology of the word under that form.) A the publication of the Prayer-book, and see). -Implant, Engraft, Inculcate, Instil, darling; a favourite; a paramour; an ingle. above all, by the translation of the Bible. Infuse. See under IMPLANT. B. Jonson.

The language is now highly analytical, being Engraftation, Engraftment (en-graftá'Englet (eng'gl), v.t. To cajole; to coax. I'll the least inflectional of any of the Indo- shon, en-graft'ment), n. The act of ingraft

go and engle some broker.' B. Jonson. European tongues. Although the English ing; ingraftment. English (ing'glish), a. (A. Sax. Englisc, from language is Teutonic as regards its grammar Engrail (en-gral'), v. t. [Fr. engrêler, to enthe Engles or Angles, a tribe of Germans who and particles, as well as the great proportion grail, from grele, gresle, hail] 1. To variegate; came from a district called Angeln in the of words in daily use, yet perhaps nolanguage to spot, as with hail. “A caldron new ensouth-east of Schleswig, between the river has incorporated so many foreign words. grail'd with twenty hues.' Chapman --2. In Schlei on the south and the Flensburg Hills

The chief sources from which these contri. her. to indent or make ragged at the edges, on the north, and settled in Britain, giving to

butions have been received are Norman- as if broken with hail; to indent in curved the south part of it the name of Engla-land French, French and the other Romance lan- lines. or England.) Belonging to England or to guages, Latin, an 1 Greek, besides contribu. Engrail (en-grāl), v.i. To form an edging its inhabitants.

tions of greater or less extent from Celtic, or border; to run in a waving or indented English (ing'glish), n. 1. One of the Low Ger- German, Dutch, Hebrew, Persian, Hindu,

line. man group of languages, and that spoken by Chinese, Turkish, Malay, American, &c. A

Engrailed (en-gräld), p. the people of England and the descendants great many of the terms borrowed from the

and a. 1. Variegated ; of natives of that country, as the Americans, last-mentioned languages are the names of

spotted. --2. Having an inCanadian and Australian colonists, &c. It articles forming objects of trade, names for

dented outline. Over is a direct development of Anglo-Saxon which did not previously exist in English

hills with peaky tops (which see), and hence many people object 2. As a collective noun, the people of Eng

engrailed.' Tennyson. --to the distinction made between English land.-3. In printing, a size of type between

3. In her. indented in a and Anglo-Saxon, holding that the language great primer and pica.

series of curves with the ought to be called English throughout all Englis (ing'ylish), c.t. To translate into

points outwards. It is the periods of its history, as it was among

the English language; to represent or ren- A bend engrailed said of one of the lines of the Anglo-Saxons themselves. Although a der in English.

partition, and it is also direct development of Anglo-Saxon, that Those gracious acts ... may be englished more one of the forms in which bends and other development did not proceed regularly and properly acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. ordinaries are represented. Polwheel beargradually by the action of internal causes, Englishablet (ing'glish-a-bl), a. Capable of eth a saltier engrailed.' Carew. but was influenced from without by the being rendered in English,

Engrailment (en-gralment), n. 1. The ring Norman Conquest, the immediate result of English-American (ing’ulish-a-me-ri-kan),

of dots round the edge of a medal-2. In which was that the language of the Normans n. Same as Anglo-American.

her, the state of being engrailed; indenta(Norman-French, the chief element of which Englishman (ing'glish-man), n. A native

tion in curved lines. was Latin) became the chief literary language or naturalized inhabitant of England. Engrain (en-gran'), v.t. [Prefix en, and of England, Anglo-Saxon taking a very sub- Englishry (ing'glish-ri), 11, 1.+ The state or grain.) Properly--1. To dye with grain or ordinate place. When the latter reappears

privilege of being an Englishman.--2. A po- the scarlet dye produced by the kermes inafter the Conquest as a written language, we pulation of English descent; especially the sect; hence, from the permanence and exfind that, instead of being highly intlected or persons of English descent in Ireland. cellence of this dye, to dye in any deep, persynthetic, as it was before that event, it has

Eight years had tlapsed since an arm had been

manent, or enduring colour; to dye deep. become analytic, that is, prepositions and lifted up in the conquered island (Ireland) against

*Leaves engrained in lusty greene.' Spenser. auxiliaries are now used instead of inflec- the domination of the Englishry. Macaulay. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture tional prefixes and terminations to express Englislet (eng’lis-let), n. In her. an escutch

of anything. "The stain hath become enthe various modifications of the idea con- eon of pretence.

grained by time. Sir W. Scott.- 3. To paint tained in any word, and the relations of the Engloom (en-glöm'), v.t. (Prefix en, and

in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. words in a sentence to one another. The gloom) To make gloomy. (Rare. )

See INGRAIN vocabulary, however, appears but slightly Engluet (en-glü'), v.t. (Prefix en, and glue.) Engrainer (en-grăn’ér), n. A person who affected, the Norman words in it being so To glue; to join or close very fast, as with

paints articles in imitation of wood. few as scarcely to be worth taking into ac- bird-lime or glue.

Engrapplet (en-grap'pl), v. i. (Prefix en, and count. About the midille of the thirteenth

Let no sleep thine eye englue. Gower.

grapple.) To seize mutually; to contend or century, the period from which English Englutt (en-glut), v. t. pret. & pp, englutted;

struggle at close quarters. To engrapple proper is usually regarded as taking date, a

with, to close with; to contend with. considerable number of Norman words make ppr. englutting. [Prefix en, and glut-Fr.

There shall young Hotspur, with a fury led, their appearance among those of Anglo. engloutir, from L. glutio, to swallow.] 1. To

Engrapple with thy son, as fierce as he, Danie! Saxon origin, suchwords having been adopted swallow or gulp down.

Engrasp (en-grasp), u.t. [Prefix en, and by writers of the subject race who wished to

My particular griet
Engluds and swallows other sorrows. Shak.

grasp.) To seize with a clasping hold; to make themselves intelligible to both peoples, 2. To fill; to glut. Englutted with vanity.'

hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. the Normans by this time, as it would seem,

Both together fierce engrasped be, having begun to make use of Anglo-Saxon. Ascham.

Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife doth There appear to have been three chief dia- Engore + (en-gor), v. t. pret. & pp. engored;

Spenser. lects of English--the Northern, Midland, and

ppr. engoring. [Prefix en, and gore.] 1. To Engraulis (en-gra'lis), n. A genus of fishes Souther, the second of which gradually bepierce; to gore; to wound. 'Deadly engored

of the herring family, of which the common came the dominant and literary dialect of of a great wilde bore.' Spenser.—2. Io in

anchovy(E. encrasicholus) is the best known the country, and is thus the immediate furiate.

species. See ANCHOWY. parent of our present English. Regarded

As salvage bull, whom two fierce mastives bayt, Engrave (en-grāv'), v.t. pret. engraved; pp.

When rancour doth with rage him once engore, in its widest acceptation as embracing both

Forgets with warie warde them to awayt. Spenser.

engraved or engraven; ppr. engraving. Anglo-Saxon and English proper, English

(Prefix en, and grave, to carve. See GRAVE.) has been divided into five periods:-(1) Eng Engorge (en-gorj), v.t. pret. & pp. engorged;

1. To cut in; to make by incision. lish of the first period, from 450 (the period ppr. engorging. (Fr. engorger, from gorge,

Full many wounds in his corrupted Mesh when the Teutonic invaders began to make the throat.) To swallow; to devour; to

He did engrave.

Spenser. settlements in the country) to 1100. In gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness

2. To cut, as metals, stones, or other hard this stage the language was synthetic, not or in large quantities.

substances, with a chisel or graver; to eut analytic. The Beowulf is the most noted That is the gulf of greediness, they say,

figures, letters, or devices on, as on stone, example of the English of this period.

That deep engor eth all this world its prey.

Spenser. (2) English of the second period, from 1100 Engorge (en-gorj), v.i.

metal, &c.; to mark by incisions. To devour; to feed

Like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrai to 1250, when the influence of the Conquest begins to be perceived to a slight extent in with eagerness or voracity. Beaumont.

the two stones with the names of the children of Israel

Ex. xxviii. 11. the vocabulary and in a general weakening Engorged (en-gorjd'), p. anda. 1. Swallowed of the terminations. Of this period Layawith greediness or in large draughts; gulped

3. To picture or represent by incisions, as

on stone, metal, wood, &c. "From Edith' mon's Brut, a metrical chronicle of legen

down. 2. Causing the throat to swell; prodary British history, compiled chiefly from ducing a choking sensation in the throat.

was engraren on the blade.' Tennyson. the French by a Worcestershire monk named Fraught with rancour and engorged ire.

4. To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix, Layamon, who lived about 1200; and the Spenser.-3. In med. filled to excess with

Engrave principles in men's minds.' Locke. blood; congested.

Engravet (en-grav'), v.t. (Prefix en, and Ormulum, a long paraphrase of Scripture

grave, a tomb.) To bury; to deposit in the with a commentary, prepared by a monk Engorgement (en-gorj'ment), n. 1. The act

grave; to inter; to inhume.

In seemely called Orm or Ormin about 1215, may be of swallowing greedily;

sort their corses to engrave.' Spenser. cited as examples. (3) The third period, a devouring with vora

Engravementt (en-grāvýment)n. 1. Act from 1250 to 1350, when inanimate objects city. – 2. In med. the

of engraving.-2. The work of an engraver; begin to have no longer gender but to be state of being filled to

engraved work. classed as neuter. The infinitive takes 'to'

excess, as the vessels of before it, and the present participle ends in an organ with blood; con

We being the offspring of God ought not to think

that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, ‘ing.' The metrical chronicles of Robert of gestion.

the engravement of art and man's device. Barrow. Gloucester and Robert De Brunne are exEngoulée (än-go-la), pp.

Engraver (en-grāv'er), n. One who engraves; amples of this period. (4) The fourth period,

(Fr. engouler, to swalfrom 1350 to 1460, when the Midland dialect low.) In her. an epithet

a cutter of letters, figures, or devices on has become the prevailing one. This period

stone, metal, or wood; a sculptor; a carver. applied to all ben is, A bend engoulée. embraces the names of Chaucer and Gower. crosses, saltires, &c., when

Engraveryt (en-grāv'e-ri), n. The work of

an engraver. * Some handsome engraveries (5) The fifth period, from 1460 to the present their extremities enter the mouths of ani

and medals.' Sir T. Browne. time. This period has been subdivided into

mals. two-from 1460 to 1520, characterized by the Engrafft (en-graf), v.t.

Engraving (en-grăv'ing), n. 1. In its widest To ingraft; to

sense, the art of cutting designs, writing, diffusion of classical literature and the introunite.

&c., on any hard substance, as stone, metal, duction of the printing-press, and from 1520 You have been so much engraffed to Falstaff. Shak.

wood. Many branches of the art, as gemto the present time, in the course of which Engraffment (en-graf'ment), n. Same as engraving, cameo-cutting, and die-sinking, the language was to a great extent stereo- Ingrastinent.

are of great antiquity. In a more specific

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sense, engraving is the art of forming designs 2. The act of copying out in large fair cha- To surround with, or as with, a hedge. on the surface of metal plates or of blocks of racters; as, the engrossment of a deed. Vicars. wood for the purpose of taking off impres- 3. The copy of an instrument or writing Enhort, t v.t. [Prefix en, and L. hortor, to sions or prints of these designs on paper, made in large fair characters. Lord Clar- encourage.] To exhort. Chaucer. Wood-engraving appears to have come first endon.-4. The state of being engrossed or Enhunger (en-hungʻgér), v.t. (Verb-forming into use, the earliest dated wood-engraving occupied, or having one's attention wholly prefix en, and hunger.) To make hungry. bearing date 1423, while the earliest dated taken up; appropriation; absorption. (Rare.) engraving from a metal plate bears that of the engrossment of her own ardent and de- When its first missionaries bare it (the gospel) to 1461. Wood-engraving differs from engrav- voted love.' Lord Lytton.

the nations, and threw it into the arena of the world ing in metal in that, while on a metal plate Enguard (en-gård'), v.t. [Prefix en, and

to do battle with its superstitions, and ... to grapple the lines or marks which are to appear on

with those animal passions which vice had torn from guard. To guard; to defend. Shak.

their natural range, and enhungered to feed on innothe paper are sunk into the plate, and before Enguiché än-ge-sha), a. (Fr.) In her. ap- cence and life.

3. Martinean. being printed from are filled with ink, the plied to a hunting-horn whose rim around rest of the surface being kept clean, in wood- the mouth is of a different colour from the Enhydra (en-hi'dra), n. [Gr. en, in, and

hydor, water. ] A genus of carnivorous engraving they are left prominent, the blank horn itself.

mammals belonging to the family Musteliparts being cut away, so that the wood-cut Engulf (en-gulf'), v.t. (Prefix en, and gulf. ]

dæ, sub-family Lutrinæ, and consisting of acts as a type, and is printed from in the To absorb or swallow up, as in a gulf; to in

only one species, the sea-otter, which is usual way. The metals most commonly used gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought.' found only on the north-western coasts of for engraving are copper and steel. Dif- Young

America and the shores of Kamtchatka. ferent methods or styles of engraving on Engulfment (en-gulf'ment), n. An absorp

The skins are held in high esteem in China. steel or copper are known as aquatint, etch- tion in a gulf, or deep cavern, or vortex.

In appearance it is very like a seal. ing, mezzotint, stipple, line engraving, &c. [Rare.]

Enhydric (en-hi'drik), a. Same as Enhy2 'hat which is engraved; an engraved plate. Engyscope (en'ji-skop), n. Same as Engi- drous. 3. An impression taken from an engraved scope.

Enhydrite (en-hi'drit), n. (Gr. en, and plate; a print. Enhable,t Enhabilet (en-ha'bl, en-ha'bil),

hydor, water. ) A mineral containing water. Engreatent (en-grāt'n), o.t. (Prefixen, great, v. a. To enable. and suffix en.) To make great or greater; Enhalset (en-hals-), v.t. (Prefix en, and halse, Enhydrous (en-hi'drus), a. Having water

within; containing drops of water or other to augment; to aggravate. the throat.) To clasp round the neck; to

fluid; as, enhydrous quartz. As sin is grievous in its own nature, so it's much embrace.

Enigma (ē-nigʻma), n. (From L. oenigma, engreatened by the circumstances which attend it.

The other me enhalse,
Jer. Taylor. With welcome cosin, now welcoine out of Wales.

from Gr. ainigma, from ainissomai, to *Engregge, t v.t. (0.Fr. engregier, to make

Mir. for Mags.

speak darkly, from ainos, a tale, a story.]

1. A dark saying, in which some known worse or heavier. to aggravate, from a hypo- Enhance (en-hans'), v.t. pret. & pp. enthetical LL ingraviare, from L. in, and hanced; ppr. enhancing. (Norm, enhauncer; thing is concealed under obscure language;

an obscure question; a riddle; a question, gravis, heavy.) To aggravate; to lie heavy on. Pr. enanzar, to advance, enhance, from All thise thinges ... engreg ren the conscience. enant, enans, forward, from L. in antea

saying, or painting containing a hidden Chaucer. (Fr. en avant), forwards; ante, before.]

meaning which is proposed to be guessed. Engrieve (en-grēv), v.t. (Prefix en, and

1. To raise up; to lift: applied to material A custom was amongst the ancients of proposing

things. grieve.) To grieve; to pain.

an enigma at festivals, and adjudging a reward to him that solved it.

Pope. Aches, and hurts, and corns do engrieve either to

He, nought aghast, his mighty hand enhaunst.

2. Anything inexplicable to an observer, wards rain or towards frost. Bacon.

Spenser.

such as the means by which anything is Engross (en-gros'), v. t. (Fr. en, and grossir,

To elevate or exalt socially; to raise to to enlarge, to make greater or thicker, from honour or in dignity.

effected, the motive for a course of conduct,

the cause of any phenomenon, &c.; a person gros, big. See GROSS.) 1. To make thick or

He that mekith himself shall be enhannsed.

whose conductor disposition is inexplicable; gross; to thicken.

Wickliffe, Mat. xxiii. 12.

as, how the reel got into the bottle is an The waves thereof so slow and sluggish were,

3. 'To heighten; to make greater; to increase; enigma to me; he, or his conduct, is to me Engrost with mud. Spenser. as, to enhance the price of a commodity.

an enigma. 2. + To make larger; to make additions to; The remembrance of the difficulties we now undergo To one who rejects them (the miracles of Jesus) to increase in bulk or quantity. will contribute to enhance our pleasure.

to one who believes that the loftiest morals and the For this they have engrossed and piled up

Allerbury. divinest piety which mankind has ever seen were The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold. Enhance (en-hans'), v.i. To be raised; to

evoked by a religion which rested on errors or on

lies--the world's history must remain, it seems to me, Shak. swell; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances

a hopeless enigma or a revolting fraud. Farrar. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body;

rapidly by compound interest. But praying, to enrich his watchful soul. Shak. Enhanced (en-hanst'), p. or a. In her. a

Enigmatic, Enigmatical (ē-nig-mat'ik, e3. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; term applied to any ordinary, as a fesse,

nig-mat'ik-al), a. Relating to or containing as, worldly cares engross the attention of bend, &c., when removed from its proper

an enigma; obscure; darkly expressed; ammost men, but neither business nor amusesituation and placed higher in the field.

biguous. Enigmatic prophecies.' Warburment should engross our whole time.

ton. Enhancement (en-hans'ment), n. The act

Your answer, sir, is enigmatical. Shak. A dog, a parrot, or an ape,

of increasing, or state of being increased; Or soine worse brute in human shape, rise; augmentation; aggravation; as, the en

Enigmatically (ē-nig-mat'ik-al-li), adv. In Engross the fancies of the fair. Swift. hancement of value, price, enjoyment, plea

an obscure manner; in a sense different 4. To purchase, with a view to sell again, sure, beauty, evil, grief, punishment, crime,

from that which the words in common aceither the whole or large quantities of, for and the like. 'Enhancement of rents.' Ba

ceptation imply. the purpose of making a profit by enhancing con. 'Enhancement of guilt.' Dr. H. More. His death also was enigmatically described by the the price. Enhancer (en-hans'ér), n. One who en

destruction or demolishment of his bodily temple.

Barroru. The first chapman will not be the worst, who per- hances; he who or that which raises price, Enigmatist (e-nigʻmat-ist), n.

A maker or haps will not offer so good a rate in conjunction with &c. the company, as he inay give to engross the commo

dealer in enigmas and riddles. Addison. dity.

Hallam.

Enharbour (en-här bėr), v.t. [Prefixen, and 5. To take or assume in undue quantity, proharbour. ] To dwell in or inhabit. Delights Enigmatize (ē-nigʻmat-iz), v.i. To utter or

talk in enigmas; to deal in riddles. portion, or degree ; as, to engross power.

enharbouring the breasts.' Wm. Browne. 6. [Comp. with this sense the Fr. grossoyer, Enharden (en härd'n), v.t. (Prefix en, and Enigmatography, Enigmatology (e-nig'

ma-togʻ'ra-fi, e-nig'ma-tol"o-ji), n. (Gr. lit. to write fair or in great (gros) characharden.) To harden; to encourage; to em

ainigma, an enigma, graphó, to write, and bolden. To enharden one with confidence.' ters.) To copy in a large hand; to write a Howell. (Rare.)

logos, discourse.) The art of making or of fair correct copy of in large or distinct legible characters, for preservation, as records Enharmonic, Enharmonical(en-här-mon'- Enisle (en-īl'), v.t. (Verb-forming prefix en,

solving riddles. of public acts, on paper or parchment. ik, en-här-mon'ik-al), a. (Fr. enharmonique;

and isle.) To make an island of; to sever, Gr. enarinonikos, in harmony--en, in, and There was the man's whole life written as legibly

as an island; to place alone. (Poetical.] harmonia, harmony. See HARMONY.) In on those clothes, as if we had his autobiography

Yes: in the sea of life enisted, engrossed on parchment before us. Dickens. music, (a) of or pertaining to that one of the

With echoing straits between us thrown, -Absorb, Engross.

three musical scales recognized by the anSee under ABSORB.

Dotting the shoreless watery wild, cient Greeks, which consisted of quarter We mortal millions live alone. SYN. To absorb, swallow up, occupy, lay

Matt. Arnold. hold of, forestall, monopolize.

tones and major thirds, and was regarded Enjail (en-jäl), v.t. [Prefix en, and jail. ] Engross (en-gros'), v.i. To be employed in

as the most accurate. (See DIATONIC, CHRO- To put into jail; to imprison. Smart. engrossing, or making a correct copy of a

MATIC.) (6) Pertaining to a change of notes Enjoin (en-join'), v.t. (Fr. enjoindre; L. inwriting in a fair large hand.

to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, jungo-in, and jungo, to join.] 1. To lay

the instrument can mark no difference to upon, as an order or command; to put an A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,

the ear, as the substitution of AD for G. Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope.

injunction upon; to order or direct with (c) Pertaining to a scale of perfect inton- urgency; to admonish or instruct with authoEngrosser (en-grös'ér), n. 1. He who or ation which recognizes all the notes and rity; to command. Johnson says 'this word that which takes the whole; a person who intervals that result from the exact tuning is more authoritative than direct and less purchases the whole or such quantities of of diatonic scales, and their transposition imperious than command.' It has the force articles in a market as to raise the price; into other keys.

of pressing admonition with authority; as, a one who takes or assumes in undue quan- Enharmonically (en-här-mon'ik-al-li), adv.

parent enjoins on his children the duty of tity, proportion, or degree. A new sort of In the enharmonic style or system; with obedience. But it has also the sense of comengrossers or forestallers.' Locke. 'Engros- perfect intonation.

mand; as, the duties enjoined by God in the serx of delegated power.' Knox.-2. One who Enharmoniont (en-här-mo'ni-on), n. In

moral law. copies a writing in large fair characters. music, a song of many parts, or a concert of

To what the laws enjoin submission pay. Stepney. Engrossing-hand (en-gros'ing-hand), n. In sundry tunes. Holland.

To satisfy the good old man, penmanship, a fair large hand used in copy- Enhearten (en-härt'n), v.t. (Prefix en, and I would bend under any heavy weight ing deeds, records, &c. hearten, to encourage-heart, and en, verb

That he'll enjoin me to.

Shak Engrossment (en-gros'ment), n. 1. The ap. forming suffix.] To encourage; to animate; 2. In law, to prohibit or restrain by a judipropriation of things in the gross or in ex- to embolden. The enemy exults and is en- cial order called an injunction. orbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition. heartened.' Jer. Taylor. [Rare.)

This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturb. * Engrossinents of power and favour.' Swift. Enhedge (en-hej'), v. t. (Prefixen, and hedge.) ing the plaintiffs.

Kent.

ENJOIN

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Enjoin,t Enjoynt (en-join'), v.t. (Prefixen, Enlarge (en-lärj'), v.t. pret. & pp. enlarged; Enlighten (en-lit'en), v.t. [Prefix en, and and join.) To join or unite.

ppr. enlarging. (Verb-forming prefixen, lighten, to make light, to illumine- light, and To be enjoyned with you in bands of indissoluble and large.] 1. To make greater in quantity en, verb-forming suffix.] 1. To shed light love and amity.

Hooker. or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth, on; to supply with light; to illuminate; as, Enjoiner (en-join'ér), n. One who enjoins.

or size; to expand in bulk; to make larger; the sun enlightens the earth. Enjoinment (en-join'ment), n. The act of to augment; to increase; as, the body is en.

His lightnings enlightened the world. enjoining or state of being enjoined; direc- larged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices

Ps. xcvii. 4 tion; command; authoritative admonition. to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence. 2. To give intellectual light to; to impart * Public enjoinment.' Sir T. Browne.

God shall enlarge Japheth.

Gen. ix. 27.

knowledge or practical wisdom to; to illumEnjoy (en-joi'), v.t. (0. Fr. enjoier, to re- 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;

inate; to inform; to instruct; to enable to ceive with joy-prefix en, and joie = E. joy to make more comprehensive.

see or comprehend. (which see) ] 1. To feel or perceive with

'Tis he who enlightens our understandings. Rogers.

This is that science which would truly enlarge pleasure; to take pleasure or satisfaction men's minds were it studied.

Locke. 3. To illuminate with divine knowledge or a in the possession or experience of; as, we 3. To increase in appearance; to magnify to

knowledge of religious truth. Those who enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conver

the eye, as a microscope. --4. To set at were once enlightened.' Heb. vi. 4. sation of friends, and our own meditations.

liberty; to release from confinement or pres- The conscience enlightened by the Word and I could enjoy the pangs of death,

Spirit of God.

Tronck. sure. And smile in agony.

Addison.

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Enlightener (en-lit'en-er), n. One who 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfac- thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress. illuminates; one who or that which communi. tion; to have, hold, or occupy, as a good or

Ps. iv. 1.
I make little doubt but Noah was exceedingly glad

cates light to the eye or clear views to the profitable thing, or as something desirable;

mind. when he was enlarged from the ark. Couper. as, we enjoy a free constitution and inestim

He is the prophet shorn of his more awful splen. able privileges.

5. To state at large; to expatiate upon; in dours, burning with mild equable radiance, as the this sense now followed by on or upon. onlightener of daily life.

Carlyle. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Nuin. xxxvi. 8.

Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs, Enlightenment (en-lit'en-ment), n. Act of

Shak. The land shall enjoy her sabbaths. Lev. xxvi. 34.

And I will give you audience.

enlightening; state of being enlightened or 3. To have sexual intercourse with. If you

--To enlarge the heart, to dilate the heart instructed. will, enjoy Ford's wife.' Shak.

with joy, affection, and the like; to open Their laws, if inferior to modern jurisprudence, do

and expand the heart in good-will; to make not fall short of the enlightenment of the age in For never did thy beauty, since the day free, liberal, and charitable.

which parliament designed them. Sir T. E. May. I saw thee first and wedded thee, adorned With all perfections, so inflame my sense O, ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our

Enlimn (en-lim'), v.t. (Fr. enluminer, to With ardour to enjoy thee.

Milton.
heart is enlarged.

2 Cor. vi. II. colour. See LIMN.) To illuminate or adorn -To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure or Enlarge (en-lärj), v.i. 1. To grow large or

with ornamented letters or with pictures, satisfaction in one's own mind; to experi

larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand; as, as a book. Palmrave. ence delight from the pleasures in which one

a plant enlarges by growth; an estate en- Enlink (en-link'), v.t. (Prefix en, and link.) partakes; to be happy.

larges by good management; a volume of To link; to chain to; to connect. Enlinked Saints enjoy themselves in heaven.

to waste and desolation.' Shak. Tennyson.

air enlarges by rarefaction. --2. To be diffuse [We often hear such a phrase as 'He enjoyed

in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to Enlist (en-list'), v.t. (Prefix en, and list.)

amplify; to expand: in this sense sometimes 1. To enrol; to register; to enter a name on a very bad health,' where instead of enjoyed, used with the reflexive pronoun.

list.--2. To engage in public service, especi. experienced or suffered from should be used. This usage of the word, though quite erron.

This is a theme so unpleasant, I delight not to en.

ally military service, by entering the name in large on it.

Dr. H. More.

a register; as, an officer enlists men.-3. To eous, is not altogether unsupported by ana

They enlarged themselves on the subject,

unite firmly to a cause; to employ in advanclogous examples in good writers. Compare:

Clarendon. ing some interest; to engage the services of; He expired ... having enjoyed by the benefit of 3. To exaggerate.

as, to enlist persons of all classes in the his regimen, a long and healthy life and a gentle and

cause of truth.

At least a severe critic would be apt to think I en. easy death,

Johnson
large a little, as travellers are often suspected to do.

A graver fact, enlisted on your side, of the nineteen tyrants who started up under the

Swift. reign of Gallienus, there was not one who enjoyed a Enlarged (en-lärjd'), a. Not narrow nor con

May furnish illustration well applied. Corper. life of peace or a natural death.

Gibbon.)
fined, expansive; broad; comprehensive;

Enlist (en-list), r. i. 1. To engage in public Enjoy (en-joi'), v.i. To live in happiness; to liberal.

service, especially military service, voluntake pleasure or satisfaction. (Rare. )

They are extremely suspicious of any enlarged or

tarily, by subscribing articles or enrolling Adam, wedded to another Eve,

general views.

Brougham.

one's name.--2. To enter heartily into a Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct. Milton. Enlargedly (en-lärj'ed-li), ado. With en

cause, as being devoted to its interests. Enjoyable (en-joi'a-bl), a. Capable of being

1. The act of largement

Enlistment (en-list'ment), n. enjoyed; capable of yielding enjoyment. Enlargedness (en-lärj'ed-nes), n. The state

enlisting or state of being enlisted; the raisThe evening of our days is generally the calmest of being enlarged.

ing of soldiers by enlisting. and the most enjoyable of them, Pope. Enlargement (en-lärj'ment), n. 1. The act

In England with enlistment instead of conscription

Buckle.

this supply was always precarious Enjoyer (en-joi'ėr), n. One ho enjoys.

of increasing in size or bulk, real or apEnjoyment (en-joi'ment), n. 1. The condi- parent; the state of being increased; aug.

2. The writing by which a soldier is bound. tion of enjoying; the possession or occu- mentation; dilatation; expansion; as, the Enlivet (en-liv'), v. t. To enliven; to quicken; pancy of anything with satisfaction or plea- enlargement of a field by the addition of to animate. sure; fruition; as, the enjoyment of an estate, two or three acres; the enlargement of a The dissolved body shall be raised out of the dust tree which continues to grow. -2. Something

and enlived. of civil and religious privileges. The con

Bp. Hall. tented use and enjoyment of the things we added on; an addition,

Enliven (en-līv'en), v. t. (Prefix en, and have.' Wilkins.--2. That which gives plea- And all who told it added something new;

liven, to make to live-lice, a. and en, sure or satisfaction in the possession; cause

And all who heard it made enlargements too.

verb-forming suffix.) 1. To give life, action,

Pone. of joy or gratification; delight. The hope

or motion to; to make vigorous or active: of everlasting enjoyments.' Glanville.

3. Expansion or extension, applied to the to quicken; to stimulate; as, fresh fuel Enkennelt (en-ken'el), v.t.

enlivens a fire.
(Prefix en, and
mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual

'Sol's enlivening power.' kennel.) To shut up in a kennel

powers, by which the mind comprehends a Shenstone. 2. To give spirit or vivacity to;

wider range of ideas or thought; ennobleEnkernel (en-kér'nel), v.t. [Prefix en, and

to animate; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerkernel.) To form into kernels.

ment, as of the feelings and character. --4. Re- ful; as, social mirth and good humour enEnkindle (en-kin'dl), v.t. pret. & pp. en

lease from confinement, servitude, distress, liven a company; music enlivens the gloomy. or straits.

Syn. To animate, quicken, stimulate, exhilkindled; ppr. enkindling. (Prefix en, and

Then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to kindle.] i. To kindle; to set on fire; to

arate, cheer, inspirit, vivify, gladden, invigthe Jews.

Est. iv. 14. orate, inflame. 'Enkindle all the sparks of nature.'

5. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an ex- Enlivener (en-liv'en-ėr), n. He who or that Shak.-2. To excite; to rouse into action;

patiating on a particular subject; a wide which enlivens or animates; he who or to inflame; as, to enkindle the passions; to range of discourse or argument.

that which invigorates. Fire, th' enlivener enkindle zeal; to enkindle war or discord, or the flames of war.

He concluded with an enlargement upon the vices of the general frame.' Dryden.

and corruptions which were got into the army. Enlock (en-lok'), v.t. (Pretix en, and lock.] Fearing to strengthen that impatience

Clarendon.
Which seem'd too much ensindled. Shak.

To lock up; to inclose.
Enlarger (en-lärj'ér), n. He who or that
Enkindle (en-kin'dl), v.i. To take fire. which enlarges, increases, extends, or ex-

Enluminet (en-lüm'in), v.t. (Fr. enluminer

--en, and L. lumino, to light up.) To illumEnlace (en-las'), v.t. pret. & pp. enlaced; pands; an amplifier. ppr. enlacing. (Prefix en, and lace.) 1. To Enlay (en-la'), v.t. Same as Inlay.

ine; to enlighten. fasten with or as with a lace; to lace; to Enleague (en - lēg), v.i. [Prefix en, and

That same great glorious lampe of light,

That doth enluomine all these lesser fyres. encircle; to surround; to enfold. league.) To be in league with.

Sponser. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace.

For now it doth appear

Enmanche (än-man-shā), pp. (From manche, P. Fletcher. That he, enleagued with robbers, was the spoiler. a sleeve.) In her. resembling or covered 2. + To entangle. Chaucer.

3. Baillie.

with a sleeve: applied when the chief has Enlacement (en-lās'ment), n. Act of en- Enlengthent (en-length'n), v.t. (Prefixen,

lines drawn from the centre of the upper lacing; state of being enlaced; an encircling; and lengthen.) To lengthen; to prolong; to

edge to the sides, to about half the breadth embracement. elongate.

of the chief. And round and round, with fold on fold,

The effluvium passing out in a smaller thread and His tail about the imp he rollid more enlengthened filament, it stirreth not the bodies

Enmarblet (en-märbl), v.t. pret. & pp. enIn fond and close enlacement,

interposed.

Sir T. Brotune.
Southey.

marbled; ppr. eninarbling. (Verb-forming Enlangour, t v.t. (Prefix en, and languor.) Enlevé (änl-vā), a. (Fr.) In her. raised or

prefix en, and marble.) To make hard as To cause to fade, as with languor. elevated: often synonymous with enhanced.

marble; to harden; to emmarble. or such a colour enlangoured,

Enleven,t n. The number eleven. Chaucer. En masse än mås) (Fr.) In the mass or Was Abstinence ywis coloured.

whole body.
Enlight (en-lit), v.t. (Prefix en, and light. ]
Chaucer.
To illuminate; to enlighten.

Enmesh (en-mesh'), v.t. (Prefixen, and mesh.] Enlard (en-lärd), v.t. (Prefix en, and lard.]

(Wit) from the first has shone on ages past,

To net; to entangle; to entrap. The net, To cover with lard or grease; to baste.

that shall enmesh them all.' Shak.

Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. That were to enlard his fat-already pride. Shak.

Pope. Enmew (en-mü'), v.t. Same as Emmeu.

ENMIOUS

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Enmioust (en'mi-us), a. Full of enmity; Ennoblement (en-nö'bl-ment), n. 1. The as, enormous crime or guilt. • The detestinimical. Fox,

act of ennobling or advancing to nobility; able profession of a life so enormous.' Bale. Enmity (en'mi-ti), n. [Fr. inimitié; L. ini. the state of being ennobled. Bacon..--2. Ex- 5.7 Disordered; perverse. micitia, from inimicus, unfriendly, hostile.) altation; elevation in degree or excellence;

I shall find time The quality or state of being an enemy; hos- dignity.

From this enormous state, seeking to give tile or unfriendly disposition; hostility; ill- The eternal wisdom enriched us with all ornoble.

Losses their remedies.

Shak. will; opposition; variance; discord.

ments,

Glanville. -Enormous, Immense, Excessive, all agree I will put enmity between thee and the woman.

Ennui (än-nwē), n. (Fr.; Sp. enojo; 0. Venet. in expressing greatness. Enormous, out of Gen. ill. 15.

lio, from L in odio, in hate, in disgust- rule, out of proportion; immense, that canThe friendship of the world is enmity with God. id est mihi in odio = Fr. cela m'ennuie.] not be measured; excessive, beyond bounds,

Jam. iv. 4. Languor of mind arising from lack of occu- beyond what is fit and right. Enormous is SYN. Hostility, animosity, hatred, ill-will, pation; want of interest in present scenes peculiarly applicable to magnitude; im. malignity, malevolence.

and surrounding objects; listlessness; weari- mense, to extent, quantity, and number; Enmossed (en-most), a. [Prefix en, and ness; tedium; lassitude.

excessive, to degree. ---SYN. Huge, vast, immoss) Covered with moss. Enmossed

The only fault of it is insipidity; which is apt now moderate, excessive, inmense, prodigious, realms.' Keats. (Rare and poetical.] and then to give a sort of ennui, which makes one

outrageous, heinous. Enmove (en-mov), 0.t. Same as Emmove. form certain little wishes that signify nothing:

Gray.

Enormously (ē-nor'mus-li), adv. ExcesEnmure (en-mūr), v.t. (Prefix en, and L.

sively; beyond measure; as, an opinion murus, a wall.) To inclose within a wall

; to Ennuyé (än-nwē-yā), a. (Fr.) Affected with immure. Shak. ennui; bored; languid in spirit; sated with

enormously absurd. pleasure.

Enormousness (ē-nor'mus-nes), n. The Ennation (en-nă'shon), n. (Gr. ennea, nine.)

One affected with

state of being enormous or excessive; greatIn entom. the ninth "segment in insects. Ennuyé (än-nwe-yā), n. Maunders.

ness beyond measure.

ennui; one incapable of receiving pleasure Enneacontahedral (en'ne-a-kon-ta-hē".

from the enjoyments

of life through satiety; Enorthotrope (en-or'tho-tröp), n. (Gr. en, dral), a.

orthos, right, and trepo, to turn.) A toy (Gr. ennenèkonta, ninety, and he

one indifferent to, or bored by, ordinary pleasures or occupations.

consisting of a card on which confused obdra, seat, base.) Having ninety faces: said

jects are transformed into various figures or of a crystal or other solid figure bounded by Ennuyée (an-nwe-yā), n. A female affected with ennui.

pictures, by causing it to revolve rapidly; planes.

a thaumatrope (which see). Enneacontahedron (en'nē -a -kon'ta - hē”. Enodationt (ē-nõd-ā'shon), n. [L. enodatio,

Enough (ē-nuf'), a. (0. E. inoh, enow, A. Sax. dron), n. A figure having ninety sides.

from enodo, to clear from knots-e, and noEnnead (en'ně-ad), n. (Gr. ennea, nine.)

dus, a knot.) The act or operation of clear

genoh, genôg; a common Teut. word. Comp. 1. The number nine.-2. One of the divi. ing of knots, or of untying; solution, as of

0. Fris. enoch, G. genug, enough; the root sions of Porphyry's collection of the doca dificulty.

meaning is seen in Goth. ganauhan, to trines of Plotinus, so named from the collec

Scarcely anything that way proved too hard for

suffice; whence ganóhs, enough, sufficient.) him for his enodation.

Dr. Sclater.

That satisfies desire or gives content; that tion being arranged into six divisions, each containing nine books. Enode (e-nod'), a. (L. enodis-e, and nodus,

meets reasonable expectations; that answers Enneagon (en'nē-a-gon), n. [Gr. ennea, nine,

knot.] In bot. destitute of knots or joints;

the purpose; that is adequate to want or knotless.

demand: enough usually and more elegantly and gônia, an angle. ) In geom. a polygon or

follows the noun with which it is connected. plane figure with nine sides or nine angles.

Enode (ē-nöd'), v.t. pret. & pp. enoded; ppr. Enneagonal (en-ne-agʻon-al), a. (See ENNEenoding. (L enodo. See the adjective.]

She said, We have straw and provender enough.

Gen. xxiv. 25. AGON.) In geom. having nine angles. To clear of knots; to make clear. Cockeram.

How many hired servants of my father have bread

Chaucer.

Enoint, t pp:
Enneagynous (en-nē-aj'in-us), a. [Gr. en-

Anointed.
enough and to spare.

Luke xv. 17. nea, nine, and gynë, female.) In bot. having Enomotarch (e-nö'mot-ärk), n. (Gr. eno. nine pistils or styles: said of a flower or plant. motarches-enomotia, a band of sworn sol. Enough (ē-nuf'), n. 1. A sufficiency; a quan

tity of a thing which satisfies desire or is Enneahedral (en'nē-a-hē"dral), a. _(Gr. en

diers, and archos, a leader.] The commander nea, nine, and hedra, seat, base.) In geom. Enomoty (e-nõ'mo-ti), n. (Gr. enomotia, of an enomoty. Mitford.

adequate to the wants; as, we have enough

of this sort of cloth. having nine sides. Enneahedria, Enneahedron (en'nė-a-hë". from enómotos, sworn, bound by an oath And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.

Gen. xxxiii. 9. dri-a, en'nē-a-hé"dron), n. In geom. a figure

en, and omnumi, to swear.) In Greek antiq. having nine sides; a nonagon. any band of sworn soldiers; specifically, a

2. That which is equal to the powers or

abilities. Enneander (en-nē-an'dèr), n. [Gr. ennea,

body of soldiers in the Lacedæmonian army, nine, and aner, andros, a male.) In bot. variously estimated at twenty-five and

I will not quarrel with the present age: it has done

enough for me, in making and keeping you two my a plant having nine thirty-two, bound together by an oath.

friends.

Pope. stamens.

Enopla (en'op-la), n. pl. A tribe of turbelEnneandria (en-ne

larian annuloids, distinguished by the pre

Enough! an exclamation denoting suffici.

ency. an'dri-a), n. The ninth sence of an oral or pharyngeal armature,

Henceforth I'll bear class of the Linnæan

consisting either of styles, hooks, or rods. Affliction till it do cry out itself,

The members are microscopic, and live in system of plants,

Enough, enough, and die.

Shak. comprehending such

fresh or sea water, whence they sometimes SYN. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. plants as have her

find their way into the alimentary canal of Enough (ē-nuf'), adv. 1. Sufficiently; in a maphrodite flowers higher animals.

quantity or degree that satisfies or is equal with nine stamens. Enoptomancy (en-op'to-man-si), n. [Gr.

to the desires or wants. There is only one enoptos, visible as in a mirror, and manteia,

The land, behold, it is large enough for them. British plant in the divination.) Divination by means of a mir

Gen. xxxiv. 21. ror. class, Butomus um- Enneandria.-Flower of

Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. bellatus or flowering. Butomus umbellatus. Enormt (ē-norm'), a. Deviating from rule;

Deut. i. 6. rush.

deviating from right; enormous; irregular; 2. Fully; quite; denoting a slight augmen

wicked. Enneandrian, Enneandrous (en-nē-an'

tation of the positive degree; as, he is ready

All uniform dri-an, en-ne-an'drus), a. Having nine

enough to embrace the offer.

Pure, pervious, immixed ... nothing enorm. stamens.

Dr. H. More.

It is sometimes pleasant enough to consider the Enneapetalous (en'nē-a-pet"al-us), a. (Gr.

different notions which different persons have of the That they may suffer such punishment as so enorm

same thing.

Addison. ennea, nine, and petalon, a leaf.] Having ... actions have justly deserved.

Sir C. Cornwallis. nine petals or flower-leaves.

3. In a tolerable or passable degree: used to Enormous.

denote diminution, or a degree or quantity Enneaspermous (en'nē-a-spèrm"us), a. (Gr. Enormious! (e-nor'mi-us), a. ennea, nine, and sperma, seed.] In bot.

The enormious additions of their artificial rather less than is desired, or such a quan. having nine seeds; as, enneaspermous fruits. heights.' Jer. Taylor.

tity or degree as commands acquiescence

rather than full satisfaction; as, the song or Enneatic, Enneaticalt(en-nē-at'ik, en-nē- Enormitant (ē-nor/mi-tan), n. A wretch; a at'ik-al), a. [Gr. ennea, nine.) Occurring monster.

H. L'Estrange.

the performance is well enough. once in nine times, days, or years; ninth. Enormity (ē-nor'mi-ti), n. [Lat. enormitas. Enounce (e-nouns), v.t. pret. and pp. Enneatical days, every ninth day of a dis- See ENORNOUS.] 1. The state or quality of enounced; ppr. enouncing: [Fr. énoncer; ease. - Enneatical years, every ninth year being enormous, immoderate, or excessive: L. enuncio -e for ex, out of, and nuncio, to of a man's life, excessive degree; atrociousness; vastness;

declare.] To utter; to pronounce; to deEnnewt (en-nű), v.t. (Verb-forming prefix as, the enormity of his offence.

• The

clare; to enunciate; to state, as a proposien, and new.) To make new; to renew.

enormity of his learned acquisitions.' De tion or argument. (Rare.) Our natural tongue is rude,

Quincey.--2. That which exceeds measure, Aristotle, in whose philosophy this presumption And hard to be ennawd or is immoderate, excessive, or outrageous;

obtained the authority of a principle, thus enounces
the argument.

Sir IV. Hamilton.
Skelton.
With polish'd ternes.
a very grave offence against order, right,

Act of Ennis (en'is). An Irish form of the Celtic

Enouncement (ē-nouns'ment), n. or decency; atrocious crime; an atrocity. inis, an island, a frequent element of place- These clamorous enormities which are grown too

enouncing; enunciation; distinct statement. names; as, Ennis, Enniscorthy, Enniskil. big and strong for law or shame.

South.

It might seem to him too evidently included in the len, ác.

very conception of the argument to require enounce Enormous (ē-nor'mus), a. (L. enormis-e

Sir W Hamilton. Ennoble (en-nõbl), v. t. pret. & pp. ennobled; for ex, out of, and norma, a rule.] 1. De

Enow (ē-nou'). An old form of enough. ppr. ennobling. (Verb-forming prefix en, viating from or transgressing the usual mea

Shall I go on or have I said enow ! Shak. and noble; Fr. ennoblier.) 1. To make noble; sure or rule; abnormal. 'Enormous in their

En passant (än päs-sån). [Fr.] In passing; to raise to nobility; as, to ennoble a com- gait.' Milton.--2. Spreading or extending by the way. moner.-2. To dignify; to exalt; to aggran- beyond certain limits; redundant.

Enpierce (en-pērs'), v.t. Same as Empierce. dize; to elevate in degree, qualities, or ex

The enormous part of the light in the circumfer. Enquicken (en-kwik'n), v.t. (Pretix en, and cellence.

ence of every lucid point.

Naton,

quicken, to make quick-quick, a. and en, What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards

3. Great beyond or exceeding the common Poge.

verb-forming suffix.] To quicken; to make 3. To make notable, famous, or illustrious.

measure; excessively large; as, an enormous alive. The Spaniards could not as invaders land in Ire. form; a man of enormous size.

Enquire (en-kwir), v.t. and i. Same as land, but only onnobled some of the coasts thereof Dare I in such momentous points advise,

Inquire. with shipwrecks.

Bacon. I should condemn the hoop's enormous size. Pope. Enquirer (en-kwirer). n. Same as Inquirer. SYX. To dignify, exalt, elevate, aggrandize. 4. Excessively wicked; flagitious; atrocious; Enquiry (en-kwi'ri), n. Same as Inquiry.

ment.

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