ENGLE

Englet (eng'gl), n. (Written also ingle. See etymology of the word under that form.] A darling; a favourite; a paramour; an ingle. B. Jonson.

Englet (eng'gl), v. t. To cajole; to coax. 'I'll go and engle some broker.' B. Jonson. English (ing'glish), a. [A. Sax. Englisc, from the Engles or Angles, a tribe of Germans who came from a district called Angeln in the south-east of Schleswig, between the river Schlei on the south and the Flensburg Hills on the north, and settled in Britain, giving to the south part of it the name of Engla-land or England.] Belonging to England or to its inhabitants.

English (ing'glish), n. 1. One of the Low German group of languages, and that spoken by the people of England and the descendants of natives of that country, as the Americans, Canadian and Australian colonists, &c. It is a direct development of Anglo-Saxon (which see), and hence many people object to the distinction made between English and Anglo-Saxon, holding that the language ought to be called English throughout all the periods of its history, as it was among the Anglo-Saxons themselves. Although a direct development of Anglo-Saxon, that development did not proceed regularly and gradually by the action of internal causes, but was influenced from without by the Norman Conquest, the immediate result of which was that the language of the Normans (Norman-French, the chief element of which was Latin) became the chief literary language of England, Anglo-Saxon taking a very subordinate place. When the latter reappears after the Conquest as a written language, we find that, instead of being highly inflected or synthetic, as it was before that event, it has become analytic, that is, prepositions and auxiliaries are now used instead of inflectional prefixes and terminations to express the various modifications of the idea contained in any word, and the relations of the words in a sentence to one another.

The

vocabulary, however, appears but slightly affected, the Norman words in it being so few as scarcely to be worth taking into account.

About the middle of the thirteenth

century, the period from which English proper is usually regarded as taking date, a considerable number of Norman words make their appearance among those of AngloSaxon origin, suchwords having been adopted by writers of the subject race who wished to make themselves intelligible to both peoples, the Normans by this time, as it would seem, having begun to make use of Anglo-Saxon. There appear to have been three chief dialects of English-the Northern, Midland, and Southern, the second of which gradually became the dominant and literary dialect of the country, and is thus the immediate parent of our present English. Regarded in its widest acceptation as embracing both Anglo-Saxon and English proper, English has been divided into five periods:-(1) English of the first period, from 450 (the period when the Teutonic invaders began to make settlements in the country) to 1100. In this stage the language was synthetic, not analytic. The Beowulf is the most noted example of the English of this period. (2) English of the second period, from 1100 to 1250, when the influence of the Conquest begins to be perceived to a slight extent in the vocabulary and in a general weakening of the terminations. Of this period Layamon's Brut, a metrical chronicle of legendary British history, compiled chiefly from the French by a Worcestershire monk named Layamon, who lived about 1200; and the Ormulum, a long paraphrase of Scripture with a commentary, prepared by a monk called Orm or Ormin about 1215, may be cited as examples. (3) The third period, from 1250 to 1350, when inanimate objects begin to have no longer gender but to be classed as neuter. The infinitive takes 'to' before it, and the present participle ends in 'ing. The metrical chronicles of Robert of Gloucester and Robert De Brunne are examples of this period. (4) The fourth period, from 1350 to 1460, when the Midland dialect has become the prevailing one. This period embraces the names of Chaucer and Gower. I (5) The fifth period, from 1460 to the present time. This period has been subdivided into

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Same as Anglo-American. Englishman (ing'glish-man), n. A native or naturalized inhabitant of England. Englishry (ing'glish-ri), n. 1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman.-2. A population of English descent; especially the persons of English descent in Ireland.

Eight years had elapsed since an arm had been lifted up in the conquered island (Ireland) against the domination of the Englishry. Macaulay. Englislet (englis-let), n. In her. an escutcheon of pretence.

Engloom (en-glöm'), v.t. [Prefix en, and gloom.] To make gloomy. [Rare.] Engluet (en-glû'), v.t. [Prefix en, and glue.] To glue; to join or close very fast, as with bird-lime or glue.

Let no sleep thine eye englue.

Gower.

Englutt (en-glut'), v. t. pret. & pp. englutted; ppr. englutting. [Prefix en, and glut-Fr. engloutir, from L. glutio, to swallow.] 1. To swallow or gulp down.

My particular griet
Engluts and swallows other sorrows.

Shak.

2. To fill; to glut. Englutted with vanity.' Ascham.

Engoret (en-gōr), v. t. pret. & pp. engored; ppr. engoring. [Prefix en, and gore.] 1. To pierce; to gore; to wound. 'Deadly engored of a great wilde bore.' Spenser.-2. To infuriate.

As salvage bull, whom two fierce mastives bayt, When rancour doth with rage him once engore, Forgets with warie warde them to awayt. Spenser.

Engorge (en-gorj), v.t. pret. & pp. engorged; ppr. engorging. [Fr. engorger, from gorge, the throat.] To swallow; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness or in large quantities.

That is the gulf of greediness, they say,
That deep engorgeth all this world its prey.
Spenser.

Engorge (en-gorj'), v.i. To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity. Beaumont. Engorged (en-gorjd'), p. and a. 1. Swallowed with greediness or in large draughts; gulped down.-2. Causing the throat to swell; producing a choking sensation in the throat. 'Fraught with rancour and engorged ire.' Spenser.-3. In med. filled to excess with blood; congested.

Engorgement (en-gorj'ment), n. 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity. 2. In med. the state of being filled to excess, as the vessels of an organ with blood; congestion.

Engoulée (an-gö-lå), pp. [Fr. engouler, to swallow.] In her. an epithet applied to all ben is, crosses, saltires, &c., when their extremities enter the mouths of animals.

A bend engoulée.

ENGRAVING

Engraft (en-graft), v.t. To ingraft (which see)-Implant, Engraft, Inculcate, Inatal, Infuse. See under IMPLANT.

Engraftation, Engraftment (en-graft-a shon, en-graft'ment), n. The act of ingrafting; ingraftment.

Engrail (en-gral'), v.t. [Fr. engréler, to engrail, from grêle, gresle, hail] 1. To variegate. to spot, as with hail. 'A caldron new en grail'd with twenty hues.' Chapman -2 In her. to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curved lines.

Engrail (en-gral), v.i. To form an edging or border; to run in a waving or indented line.

Engrailed (en-gräld"), p.

and a. 1. Variegated. spotted-2 Having an in dented outline. 'Over hills with peaky tops engrailed. Tennyson 3. In her indented in a series of curves with the points outwards. It is A bend engrailed. said of one of the lines of partition, and it is also one of the forms in which bends and other ordinaries are represented. 'Polwheel beareth a saltier engrailed.' Carew. Engrailment (en-gral'ment), n. 1 The ring of dots round the edge of a medal --2 In her. the state of being engrailed; indenta tion in curved lines. Engrain (en-gran'), v.t. [Prefix en, and grain.] Properly-1. To dye with grain or the scarlet dye produced by the kermes insect; hence, from the permanence and excellence of this dye, to dye in any deep, permanent, or enduring colour; to dye deep. 'Leaves engrained in lusty greene. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything. The stain hath become engrained by time.' Sir W. Scott.-3. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See INGRAIN.

Engrainer (en-grân′êr), n. A person who paints articles in imitation of wood. Engrapplet (en-grap'pl), v. i. (Prefix en, and grapple.] To seize mutually; to contend or struggle at close quarters. To engrapple with, to close with; to contend with.

There shall young Hotspur, with a fury led, Engrapple with thy son, as fierce as he. Darin Engrasp (en-grasp), v.t. [Prefix en, and grasp. To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. Both together fierce engrasped be, Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife doth Spenser

see.

Engraulis (en-graʼlis), n. A genus of fishes of the herring family, of which the common anchovy (E. encrasicholus) is the best known species. See ANCHOVY.

Engrave (en-grăv'), v.t. pret. engraved; pp engraved or engraven; ppr. engraving [Prefix en, and grave, to carve. See GRAVE ] 1. To cut in; to make by incision.

Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh
He did engrave.
Spenser

2. To cut, as metals, stones, or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters, or devices on, as on stone. metal, &c.; to mark by incisions.

Like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxvi. 11.

3. To picture or represent by incisions, as on stone, metal, wood, &c. "From Edith was engraven on the blade.' Tennyson 4. To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix Engrave principles in men's minds. Locke. Engravet (en-grav'), v.t. [Prefix en, and grave, a tomb.] To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. In seemely sort their corses to engrave. Spenser. Engravement (en-gráv'ment), n. 1. Act of engraving. 2. The work of an engraver, engraved work.

We being the offspring of God ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone. the engravement of art and man's device. Bar-ca Engraver (en-gráv′ér), n. One who engraves; a cutter of letters, figures, or devices on stone, metal, or wood; a sculptor; a carver. Engravery (en-grav'e-ri), n. The work of an engraver. Some handsome engraveries and medals.' Sir T. Browne.

diffusion of classical literature and the introduction of the printing-press, and from 1520 to the present time, in the course of which the language was to a great extent stereo

unite.

You have been so much engraffed to Falstaff. Shak. Engraffment (en-graf'ment), n. Same as Ingraftment.

1. In its widest sense, the art of cutting designs, writing, &c., on any hard substance, as stone, metal, wood. Many branches of the art, as gemengraving, cameo-cutting, and die-sinking. are of great antiquity. In a more specific

ENGREATEN

serise, engraving is the art of forming designs en the surface of metal plates or of blocks of wood for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of these designs on paper. Wood-engraving appears to have come first into use, the earliest dated wood-engraving bearing date 1423, while the earliest dated engraving from a metal plate bears that of 1461 Wood-engraving differs from engraving in metal in that while on a metal plate the lines or marks which are to appear on the paper are sunk into the plate, and before

sing printed from are filled with ink, the rest of the surface being kept clean, in woodengraving they are left prominent, the blank parts being cut away, so that the wood-cut acts as a type, and is printed from in the usual way. The metals most commonly used for engraving are copper and steel. Different methods or styles of engraving on steel or copper are known as aquatint, etchvang, mezzotint stipple, line engraving, &c. That which is engraved; an engraved plate. 3 An impression taken from an engraved piste, a print.

Engreatent (en-gråt'n), e.t. [Prefix en, great, and suffix en To make great or greater; augment; to aggravate.

As win is grievous in its own nature, so it's much engreatened by the circumstances which attend it. Fer. Taylor. Engregge, et. (0 Fr. engregier, to make Worse or heavier to aggravate, from a hypothetical LL ingraviare, from Lin, and graris, heavy ] To aggravate; to lie heavy on. All these thinges...engreg, en the conscience. Chaucer Engrieve (en-grěv), vt. [Prefix en, and grete) To grieve; to pain.

Ashes, and hurts, and corns do engrieve either towards ran or towards frost Bacon.

Engross (en-grós'), v. t. (Fr. en, and grossir, to enlarge, to make greater or thicker, from grua, big. See GROSS.] 1. To make thick or gross, to thicken.

The waves thereof so slow and sluggish were,
Engrost with muud.
Spenser.

2 To make larger; to make additions to; to mcrease in bulk or quantity.

For this they have engrossed and piled up
The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold.
Shak.

Not sleeping, to engross his idle body;
But praying, to enrich his watchful soul.

Shak.

4. To purchase, with a view to sell again, either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of making a profit by enhancing the price

The first chapman will not be the worst, who perhaps wid not offer so good a rate in conjunction with the company, as he may give to engross the commosty Hallam.

5. To take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross power.6 [Comp with this sense the Fr. grossoyer, lit. to write fair or in great (gros) characters] To copy in a large hand; to write a

fair correct copy of in large or distinct legible characters, for preservation, as records of public acts, on paper or parchment.

There was the man's whole life written as legibly on the ci thes, as if we had his autobiography Dickens. engrossed on parchment before us,

-Absorb, Engross. See under ABSORB. SYS To absorb, swallow up, occupy, lay hold of, forestall, monopolize. Engross (en-gros), v. To be employed in engrossing, or making a correct copy of a writing in a fair large hand.

Alerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope. Engrosser (en-gros'èr), n. 1. He who or that which takes the whole; a person who purchases the whole or such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; one who takes or assumes in undue quantity proportion, or degree. 'A new sort of engrossers or forestallers. Locke. Engrossers of delegated power.' Knox -2. One who copies a writing in large fair characters. Engrossing-hand (en-gros'ing-hand), n. In penmanship, a fair large hand used in copying deeds, records, &c. Engrossment (en-gros'ment), n. 1. The appropriation of things in the gross or in exorbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition. * Engrossments of power and favour.' Swift.

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2. The act of copying out in large fair characters; as, the engrossinent of a deed. 3. The copy of an instrument or writing made in large fair characters. Lord Clarendon.-4. The state of being engrossed or occupied, or having one's attention wholly taken up; appropriation; absorption. the engrossment of her own ardent and devoted love. Lord Lytton. Enguard (en-gard'), v.t. [Prefix en, and guard.] To guard; to defend. Shak. Enguiché än-gé-sha), a. [Fr.] In her. applied to a hunting-horn whose rim around

the mouth is of a different colour from the horn itself.

Engulf (en-gulf'), v. t. [Prefix en, and gulf.] To absorb or swallow up, as in a gulf; to ingulf. It quite engulfs all human thought.' Young

Engulfment (en-gulf'ment), n. An absorption in a gulf, or deep cavern, or vortex. [Rare.]

Engyscope (en'ji-skōp), n. Same as Engi

scope.

Enhable, Enhabilet (en-ha'bl, en-ha'bil), v. a. To enable.

Enhalset (en-hals'), v. t. [Prefix en, and halse, the throat.] To clasp round the neck; to embrace.

The other me enhalse,"

With welcome cosin, now welcome out of Wales. Mir. for Mags.

Enhance (en-hans), v.t. pret. & pp. enhanced; ppr. enhancing. [Norm. enhauncer; Pr. enanzar, to advance, enhance, from enant, enans, forward, from L. in antea (Fr._en_avant), forwards; ante, before.] 1. To raise up; to lift: applied to material things.

He, nought aghast, his mighty hand enhaunst,
Spenser.

2. To elevate or exalt socially; to raise to honour or in dignity.

He that mekith himself shall be enhaunsed.
Wickliffe, Mat. xxiii. 12.

3. To heighten; to make greater; to increase; as, to enhance the price of a commodity. The remembrance of the difficulties we now undergo will contribute to enhance our pleasure. Atterbury. Enhance (en-hans'), v. To be raised; to swell; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest. Enhanced (en-hanst'), p. or a In her. a term applied to any ordinary, as a fesse, bend, &c., when removed from its proper situation and placed higher in the field. Enhancement (en-hans'ment), n. The act of increasing, or state of being increased; rise; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty, evil, grief, punishment, crime, and the like. Enhancement of rents.' Ba

&c.

Enharbour (en-här'ber), v.t. [Prefix en, and

harbour.] To dwell in or inhabit. 'Delights enharbouring the breasts.' Wm. Browne.

Enharden (en-hard'n), v. t. [Prefix en, and

harden.] To harden; to encourage; to embolden. To enharden one with confidence.' Enharmonic, Enharmonical (en-här-mon'Howell. [Rare.] ik, en-här-mon'ik-al), a. [Fr. enharmonique; Gr. enarmonikos, in harmony-en, in, and harmonia, harmony. See HARMONY.] In music, (a) of or pertaining to that one of the three musical scales recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. (See DIATONIC, CHROMATIC.) (b) 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 AD for G (c) 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 (en-här-mon'ik-al-li), adv. In the enharmonic style or system; with perfect intonation.

Enharmonion† (en-här-moō'ni-on), n. In music, a song of many parts, or a concert of sundry tunes. Holland. Enhearten (en-härt'n), v.t. [Prefix en, and hearten, to encourage-heart, and en, verbforming suffix.] To encourage; to animate; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened.' Jer. Taylor. [Rare.] Enhedge (en-hej'), v.t. [Prefix en, and hedge.]

ENJOIN

To surround with, or as with, a hedge. Vicars.

Enhort, v.t. [Prefix en, and L. hortor, to encourage.] To exhort. Chaucer. Enhunger (en-hung'ger), v.t. [Verb-forming prefix en, and hunger.] To make hungry. [Rare.]

When its first missionaries bare it (the gospel) to the nations, and threw it into the arena of the world to do battle with its superstitions, and... to grapple with those animal passions which vice had torn from their natural range, and enhungered to feed on innocence and life. F. Martinean.

Enhydra (en-hi'dra), n. [Gr. en, in, and hydor, water.] A genus of carnivorous mammals belonging to the family Mustelidæ, sub-family Lutrinæ, and consisting of only one species, the sea-otter, which is found only on the north-western coasts of America and the shores of Kamtchatka. The skins are held in high esteem in China. In appearance it is very like a seal. Enhydric (en-hi'drik), a. Same as Enhydrous.

Enhydrite (en-hï'drīt), n. (Gr. en, and hydor, water. ] A mineral containing water. Enhydrous (en-hi'drus), a. Having water within; containing drops of water or other fluid; as, enhydrous quartz.

Enigma (e-nig'ma), n. [From L. ænigma, from Gr. ainigma, from ainissomai, to speak darkly, from ainos, a tale, a story.] 1. A dark saying, in which some known thing is concealed under obscure language; an obscure question; a riddle; a question, saying, or painting containing a hidden meaning which is proposed to be guessed.

A custom was amongst the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals, and adjudging a reward to him that solved it. Pope.

2. Anything inexplicable to an observer. such as the means by which anything is effected, the motive for a course of conduct, the cause of any phenomenon, &c.; a person whose conduct or disposition is inexplicable; as, how the reel got into the bottle is an enigma to me; he, or his conduct, is to me an enigma.

To one who rejects them (the miracles of Jesus)to one who believes that the loftiest morals and the divinest piety which mankind has ever seen were evoked by a religion which rested on errors or on lies-the world's history must remain, it seems to me, a hopeless enigma or à revolting fraud. Farrar. Enigmatic, Enigmatical (e-nig-matik, ênig-mat'ik-al), a. Relating to or containing an enigma; obscure; darkly expressed; ambiguous. Enigmatic prophecies.' Warburton.

Addison, To utter or

His death also was enigmatically described by the destruction or demolishment of his bodily temple. Barrow. Enigmatist (e-nig'mat-ist), n. A maker or dealer in enigmas and riddles. Enigmatize (e-nig'mat-iz), v.i. talk in enigmas; to deal in riddles. Enigmatography, Enigmatology (e-nigma-tog'ra-fi, é-nig'ma-tol"o-ji), n. [Gr. ainigma, an enigma, graphō, to write, and logos, discourse.] The art of making or of Enisle (en-il'), v. t. [Verb-forming prefix en, solving riddles. and isle.] To make an island of; to sever, as an island; to place alone. [Poetical.] Yes: in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

Matt. Arnold.

Enjail (en-jal'), v.t. [Prefix en, and jail.] To put into jail; to imprison. Smart. Enjoin (en-join), v.t. [Fr. enjoindre; L. injungo-in, and jungo, to join.] 1. To lay upon, as an order or command; to put an injunction upon; to order or direct with urgency; to admonish or instruct with authority; to command. Johnson says 'this word is more authoritative than direct and less imperious than command.' It has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command; as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law.

To what the laws enjoin submission pay. Stepney.
To satisfy the good old man,
I would bend under any heavy weight
That he'll enjoin me to.

Shak

2. In law, to prohibit or restrain by a judicial order called an injunction.

This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturb ing the plaintiffs. Kent.

To be enjoyned with you in bands of indissoluble love and amnity. Hooker.

Enjoiner (en-join'ėr), n. One who enjoins. Enjoinment (en-join'ment), n. The act of enjoining or state of being enjoined; direction; command; authoritative admonition. Public enjoinment.' Sir T. Browne. Enjoy (en-joi), v.t. [O.Fr. enjoier, to receive with joy-prefix en, and joie E. joy (which see).] 1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; as, we enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, and our own meditations. I could enjoy the pangs of death, And smile in agony. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to have, hold, or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, we enjoy a free constitution and inestimable privileges.

Addison.

Tennyson.

Saints enjoy themselves in heaven. [We often hear such a phrase as 'He enjoyed very bad health,' where instead of enjoyed, experienced or suffered from should be used. This usage of the word, though quite erroneous, is not altogether unsupported by analogous examples in good writers. Compare: He expired. having enjoyed by the benefit of his regimen, a long and healthy life and a gentle and easy death. Johnson.

Of the nineteen tyrants who started up under the reign of Gallienus, there was not one who enjoyed a life of peace or a natural death. Gibbon.] Enjoy (en-joi'), v.i. To live in happiness; to take pleasure or satisfaction. [Rare.]

Adam, wedded to another Eve. Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct. Milton. Enjoyable (en-joi'a-bl), a. Capable of being enjoyed; capable of yielding enjoyment. The evening of our days is generally the calmest and the most enjoyable of them. Pope.

Enjoyer (en-joi'èr), n. One who enjoys. Enjoyment (en-joi'ment), n. 1. The condition of enjoying; the possession or occupancy of anything with satisfaction or pleasure; fruition; as, the enjoyment of an estate, of civil and religious privileges. The contented use and enjoyment of the things we have.' Wilkins.-2. That which gives pleasure or satisfaction in the possession; cause of joy or gratification; delight. 'The hope of everlasting enjoyments.' Glanville. Enkennel (en-ken'el), v. t. [Prefix en, and kennel] To shut up in a kennel. Enkernel (en-kernel), v. t. kernel.] To form into kernels. Enkindle (en-kin'dl), v. t. pret. & pp. enkindled; ppr. enkindling. [Prefix en, and kindle.] 1. To kindle; to set on fire; to inflame. Enkindle all the sparks of nature.' Shak.-2. To excite; to rouse into action; to inflame; as, to enkindle the passions; to enkindle zeal; to enkindle war or discord, or the flames of war.

[Prefix en, and

Fearing to strengthen that impatience

Which seem'd too much enkindled. Shak. Enkindle (en-kin'dl), v.i. To take fire. Enlace (en-lás'). v.t. pret. & pp. enlaced; ppr. enlacing. [Prefix en, and lace.] 1. To fasten with or as with a lace; to lace; to encircle; to surround; to enfold.

Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace.
P. Fletcher.

2. To entangle. Chaucer.

Enlacement (en-lás'ment), n.

Act of enlacing; state of being enlaced; an encircling; embracement.

And round and round, with fold on fold,
His tail about the imp he roll'd
In fond and close enlacement.

Southey.

Enlangour,vt [Prefix en, and languor.]
To cause to fade, as with languor.

Of such a colour enlangoured,
Was Abstinence ywis coloured.

Chaucer.

ppr. enlarging. [Verb-forming prefix en, and large. 1. To make greater in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth, or size; to expand in bulk; to make larger; to augment; to increase; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence. Gen. ix. 27.

God shall enlarge Japheth. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to make more comprehensive.

This is that science which would truly enlarge men's minds were it studied. Locke.

3. To increase in appearance; to magnify to the eye, as a microscope. -4. To set at liberty; to release from confinement or pres

-To enlarge the heart, to dilate the heart with joy, affection, and the like; to open and expand the heart in good-will; to make free, liberal, and charitable.

O, ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. II.

Enlarge (en-lärj′), v.i. 1. To grow large or larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.-2. To be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to amplify; to expand: in this sense sometimes used with the reflexive pronoun.

This is a theme so unpleasant, I delight not to enlarge on it. Dr. H. More.

They enlarged themselves on the subject.
Clarendon.

They are extremely suspicious of any enlarged or general views. Brougham. Enlargedly (en-lärj'ed-li), adv. With enlargement. Enlargedness (en-lärj'ed-nes), n. The state of being enlarged.

Enlargement (en-lärj'ment), n. 1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; dilatation; expansion; as, the enlargement of a field by the addition of two or three acres; the enlargement of a tree which continues to grow.-2. Something added on; an addition.

And all who told it added something new;
And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Pope.

3. Expansion or extension, applied to the mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual powers, by which the mind comprehends a wider range of ideas or thought; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character.-4. Release from confinement, servitude, distress, or straits.

Then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews. Est. iv. 14.

5. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument.

He concluded with an enlargement upon the vices and corruptions which were got into the army. Clarendon.

Enlarger (en-lärj'ér), n. He who or that which enlarges, increases, extends, or expands; an amplifier. Enlay (en-la'), v.t. Same as Inlay. Enleague (en-leg), v.i. [Prefix en, and league.] To be in league with.

For now it doth appear That he, enleagued with robbers, was the spoiler. F. Baillie. Enlengthent (en-length'n), v.t. [Prefix en, and lengthen.] To lengthen; to prolong; to elongate.

The effluvium passing out in a smaller thread and more enlengthened filament, it stirreth not the bodies interposed. Sir T. Browne.

Enlevé (añl-va), a. [Fr.] In her. raised or elevated: often synonymous with enhanced. Enleven,t. The number eleven. Chaucer.

ENMEW

Enlighten (en-lit'en), v.t. [Prefix en, and lighten, to make light, to illumine-light, and en, verb-forming suffix.] 1. To shed light on; to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xevii 4 2. To give intellectual light to; to impart knowledge or practical wisdom to; to illuminate; to inform; to instruct; to enable to see or comprehend.

'Tis he who enlightens our understandings. Rogers. 3. To illuminate with divine knowledge or 1 knowledge of religious truth. Those who were once enlightened.' Heb. vi. 4.

The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trenca Enlightener (en-lit'en-ér), n. One who illuminates; one who or that which communicates light to the eye or clear views to the mind.

He is the prophet shorn of his more awful splen dours, burning with mild equable radiance, as the enlightener of daily life. Cariyie. Enlightenment (en-lit'en-ment), n. Act of enlightening; state of being enlightened or instructed.

Their laws, if inferior to modern jurisprudence, do not fall short of the enlightenment of the age in which parliament designed them. Sir T. E. May. Enlimn (en-lim'), v.t. [Fr. enluminer, to colour. See LIMN.] To illuminate or adorn with ornamented letters or with pictures, as a book. Palsgrave.

Enlink (en-link'), v. t. [Prefix en, and link Į To link; to chain to; to connect. Enlinked to waste and desolation.' Shak. Enlist (en-list), v. t. [Prefix en, and list.] 1. To enrol; to register; to enter a name on a list.-2. To engage in public service, especially military service, by entering the name in a register; as, an officer enlists men-3 To unite firmly to a cause; to employ in advanc ing some interest; to engage the services of, as, to enlist persons of all classes in the cause of truth.

A graver fact, enlisted on your side,

May furnish illustration well applied. Cowper

Enlist (en-list), v.i. 1. To engage in public service, especially military service, voluntarily, by subscribing articles or enrolling one's name.-2. To enter heartily into a cause, as being devoted to its interests. 1. The act of Enlistment (en-list'ment), n. enlisting or state of being enlisted; the raising of soldiers by enlisting.

In England with enlistment instead of conscription this supply was always precarious. Buckle.

2. The writing by which a soldier is bound. Enlivet (en-liv'), v. t. To enliven; to quicken;

to animate.

The dissolved body shall be raised out of the dust and enlived. Bp. Hall Enliven (en-liv'en), r.t. [Prefix en, and liven, to make to live-live, a. and en, verb-forming suffix.] 1. To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to quicken; to stimulate; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. 'Sol's enlivening power Shenstone.-2. To give spirit or vivacity to: to animate; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; as, social mirth and good humour enliven a company; music enlivens the gloomy. SYN. To animate, quicken, stimulate, exhilarate, cheer, inspirit, vivify, gladden, invigorate.

Enlivener (en-liv'en-èr), n. He who or that which enlivens or animates; he who or that which invigorates. Fire, th' enlivener of the general frame.' Dryden Enlock (en-lok), v.t. [Prefix en, and lock] To lock up; to inclose. Enluminet (en-lüm'in), e.t. [Fr. enluminer -en, and L. lumino, to light up.] To illum ine; to enlighten.

That same great glorious lampe of light, That doth enlumine all these lesser fyres Spenser Enmanche (äñ-mäñ-shā), pp. [From manche. a sleeve.] In her. resembling or covered with a sleeve: applied when the chief has lines drawn from the centre of the upper edge to the sides, to about half the breadth of the chief. Enmarblet (en-märbl), v.t. pret, & pp. enmarbled; ppr. enmarbling. [Verb-forming prefix en, and marble.] To make hard as marble; to harden; to emmarble. En masse af mas). [Fr.] In the mass or whole body.

To illuminate; to enlighten.

Enlard (en-lärd'), v. t. [Prefix en, and lard.]
To cover with lard or grease; to baste.
That were to enlard his fat-already pride. Shak

(Wit) from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

To net; to entangle; to entrap. The net. that shall enmesh them all.' Shak Enmew (en-mú), v.t. Same as Emmew

ENMIOUS

Full of enmity;

Ermious (en mi-us), a. intravcal For Enmity (en'mi-tî), n. [Fr. inimitis; L. inisetia, from inimicus, unfriendly, hostile.] The quality or state of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition; hostility; illwill, opposition; variance; discord.

I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Gen. iii. 15. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. Jam. iv. 4.

Hostility, animosity, hatred, ill-will, malignity, malevolence. Enmossed (en-most'), a [Prefix en, and

* Covered with moss. 'Enmossed realms. Keats [Rare and poetical.] Enmove (en-movt. Same as Emmove. Emmure (en mur, vt. [Prefix en, and L.

urus, a wall To inclose within a wall; to nmure Shak

Ennation (en-nä'shon), n. [Gr. ennea, nine.] In enton the ninth segment in insects. Maunders

Enneacontahedral (en'ne-a-kon-ta-hē”dral, a ¿Gr. enneněkonta, ninety, and hed. seat, base.] Having ninety faces: said

a crystal or other solid figure bounded by

planes

Ennea contahedron (en' në-a-kon'ta-he". dron), n A figure having ninety sides. Ennead (en'ne-ad), n. [Gr. ennea, nine.] 1 The number nine.-2. One of the divisms of Porphyry's collection of the doctrines of Plotinus, so named from the collecton being arranged into six divisions, each entaining nine books.

Enneagon (en'në-a-gon), n. [Gr. ennea, nine, and zonin, an angle] In geom, a polygon or plane figure with nine sides or nine angles. Enneagonal (en-ne-ag'on-al), a. [See ENNEAGON In geom having nine angles. Enneagynous (en-ne-aj'in-us), a. [Gr. enne, nine, and gyne, female.] In bot. having nine pistils or styles: said of a flower or plant. Enneahedral (en'né-a-hé"dral), a. [Gr. ennea, nine, and hedra, seat, base.] In geom. having nine sides.

Enneahedria, Enneahedron (en'ne-a-he". dria, en né-a-hedron), n. In geom. a figure having nine sides; a nonagon. Enneander (en-né-an'dér), n. nine, and aner, andros, a male.] In bot. a plant having nine stamens

Enneandria (en nëandri-a), n. The ninth class of the Linnæan system of plants, comprehending such plants as have hermaphrodite flowers with nine stamens. There is only one British plant in the class, Butomus umbellatus or floweringrush

[Gr. ennea,

Enneandria. - Flower of

Butomus umbellatus.

Enneandrian, Enneandrous (en-nē-an'dri-an, en-né-an'drus), a. Having nine

stamens.

Enneapetalous (en'né-a-petal-us), a. [Gr. enea, nine, and petalon, a leaf.] Having nine petals or flower-leaves. Enneaspermous (en'né-a-sperm'us), a. [Gr. enna, nine, and sperma, seed.] In bot. having nine seeds; as, enneaspermous fruits. Enneatic, Enneatical (en-ne-at'ik, en-nēat ik al), a

Ennui (an-nwē), n. [Fr.; Sp. enojo; O. Venet. inodio, from L in odio, in hate, in disgustid est mihi in odio Fr. cela m'ennuie.] Languor of mind arising from lack of occupation; want of interest in present scenes and surrounding objects; listlessness; weariness; tedium; lassitude.

The only fault of it is insipidity; which is apt now and then to give a sort of ennui, which makes one form certain little wishes that signify nothing. Gray.

Ennuyé (ah-nwê-ya), a. [Fr] Affected with ennui; bored; languid in spirit; sated with pleasure.

One affected with ennui; one incapable of receiving pleasure from the enjoyments of life through satiety; one indifferent to, or bored by, ordinary pleasures or occupations.

Ennuyé (an-nwē-yā), n.

Ennuyée (an-nwe-ya), n. A female affected

with ennui.

Enodation (e-nod-a'shon), n. [L. enodatio, from enodo, to clear from knots-e, and nodus, a knot.] The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; solution, as of a difficulty.

Scarcely anything that way proved too hard for him for his enodation. Dr. Sclater.

Enode (é-nod'), a. [L. enodis-e, and nodus, knot.] In bot. destitute of knots or joints; knotless.

(Gr. enō

Enode (e-nōd'), v. t. pret. & pp. enoded; ppr. enoding. [L. enodo. See the adjective.] To clear of knots; to make clear. Cockeram. Enoint, pp. Anointed. Chaucer. Enomotarch (e-no'mot-ärk), n. motarches-enomotia, a band of sworn soldiers, and archos, a leader.] The commander of an enomoty. Mitford. Enomoty (e-no'mo-ti), n. [Gr. enomotia, from enomotos, sworn, bound by an oath-en, and omnumi, to swear.] In Greek antiq. any band of sworn soldiers; specifically, a body of soldiers in the Lacedæmonian army, variously estimated at twenty-five and thirty-two, bound together by an oath. Enopla (en'op-la), n. pl. A tribe of turbellarian annuloids, distinguished by the presence of an oral or pharyngeal armature, consisting either of styles, hooks, or rods. The members are microscopic, and live in fresh or sea water, whence they sometimes find their way into the alimentary canal of higher animals.

[Gr. Enoptomancy (en-op'to-man-si), n. enoptos, visible as in a mirror, and manteia, divination.] Divination by means of a mir

ror.

Enormt (é-norm'), a. Deviating from rule; deviating from right; enormous; irregular; wicked. All uniform Pure, pervious, immixed. . . nothing enorm. Dr. H. More. That they may suffer such punishment as so enorm ... actions have justly deserved. Sir C. Cornwallis. Enormous. Enormious (e-nor'mi-us), a. "The enormious additions of their artificial heights.' Jer. Taylor. Enormitant (ē-nor'mi-tan), n. A wretch; a H. L'Estrange. Enormity (e-nor'mi-ti), n. [Lat. enormitas. See ENORMOUS.] 1. The state or quality of being enormous, immoderate, or excessive; excessive degree; atrociousness; vastness; as, the enormity of his offence. enormity of his learned acquisitions.' De Quincey--2. That which exceeds measure, or is immoderate, excessive, or outrageous; a very grave offence against order, right, or decency; atrocious crime; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too South. big and strong for law or shame. Enormous (e-nor'mus), a. [L. enormis-e for ex, out of, and norma, a rule.] 1. Deviating from or transgressing the usual measure or rule; abnormal. Enormous in their gait.' Milton.-2. Spreading or extending beyond certain limits; redundant.

Skelton.

Ennis (en'is) An Irish form of the Celtic an, an island, a frequent element of placenames; as, Ennis, Enniscorthy, Enniskillen, &c.

Ennoble (en-nobl), v. t. pret. & pp. ennobled; ppr. ennobling (Verb-forming prefix en, and noble, Fr. ennoblier.] 1. To make noble; to raise to nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner 2. To dignify; to exalt; to aggrandize, to elevate in degree, qualities, or excelience

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Pope. 3+ To make notable, famous, or illustrious. The Spanir is conid not as invaders land in Irea1 but cas ennobled some of the coasts thereof Басон. with shipwrecks. SYN To dignify, exalt, elevate, aggrandize.

'The

ENQUIRY

The detest

as, enormous crime or guilt. able profession of a life so enormous.' Bale. 5. Disordered; perverse.

I shall find time From this enormous state, seeking to give Losses their remedies.

Shak

Enormous, Immense, Excessive, all agree in expressing greatness. Enormous, out of rule, out of proportion; immense, that cannot be measured; excessive, beyond bounds, beyond what is fit and right. Enormous is peculiarly applicable to magnitude; immense, to extent, quantity, and number; excessive, to degree.-SYN. Huge, vast, immoderate, excessive, immense, prodigious, outrageous, heinous.

Enormously (e-nor'mus-li), adv. Excessively; beyond measure; as, an opinion enormously absurd. The

Enormousness (e-nor'mus-nes), n. state of being enormous or excessive; greatness beyond measure.

Enorthotrope (en-ortho-trōp), n. [Gr. en, orthos, right, and trepo, to turn.] A toy consisting of a card on which confused objects are transformed into various figures or pictures, by causing it to revolve rapidly; a thaumatrope (which see). Enough (e-nuf'), a. [O. E inoh, enow, A. Sax. genoh, genog; a common Teut. word. Comp. O. Fris. enoch, G. genug, enough; the root meaning is seen in Goth. ganauhan, to suffice; whence ganóhs, enough, sufficient.] That satisfies desire or gives content; that meets reasonable expectations; that answers the purpose; that is adequate to want or demand: enough usually and more elegantly follows the noun with which it is connected. She said, We have straw and provender enough. Gen. xxiv. 25.

How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare. Luke xv. 17.

Enough (e-nuf'), n. 1. A sufficiency; a quantity of a thing which satisfies desire or is adequate to the wants; as, we have enough of this sort of cloth.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.. Gen. xxxiii. 9. 2. That which is equal to the powers or

2. Fully; quite; denoting a slight augmen tation of the positive degree; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

It is sometimes pleasant enough to consider the different notions which different persons have of the same thing. Addison.

3. In a tolerable or passable degree: used to denote diminution, or a degree or quantity rather less than is desired, or such a quantity or degree as commands acquiescence rather than full satisfaction; as, the song or the performance is well enough. Enounce (e-nouns), v. t. pret. and pp. enounced; ppr. enouncing. [Fr. énoncer; L. enuncio e for ex, out of, and nuncio, to declare.] To utter; to pronounce; to declare; to enunciate; to state, as a proposition or argument. [Rare.]

Aristotle, in whose philosophy this presumption obtained the authority of a principle, thus enounces the argument. Sir W. Hamilton. Enouncement (e-nouns'ment), n. Act of enouncing; enunciation; distinct statement. It might seem to him too evidently included in the very conception of the argument to require enounceSir W. Hamilton. Enow (e-nou). An old form of enough.

ment.

Shak.

Shall I go on or have I said enow 1 En passant (än päs-sän). [Fr.] In passing; by the way.

Enpierce (en-pers'), v. t. Same as Empierce. Enquicken (en-kwik'n), v.t. [Prefix en, and quicken, to make quick -quick, a. and en, verb-forming suffix.] To quicken; to make alive.

Enquire (en-kwir), v.t. and i. Same as
Inquire.
Enquirer (en-kwir'èr), n. Same as Inquirer.
Same as Inquiry.
Enquiry (en-kwi'ri), n.

ENRACE

Enrace + (en-rās), v.t. [Prefix en, and race.] To enroot; to implant; to give race or origin to. 'In fleshly seed . . . enraced.' Spenser. Enrage (en-raj), v.t. pret. & pp. enraged; ppr. enraging. [Prefix en, and rage.] To excite rage in; to exasperate; to provoke to fury or madness; to make furious.

Shak.

This land, like an offensive wife, Hath enraged him on to offer strokes. Enraged (en-rājd'), p. and a. 1. Angry; furious; exhibiting anger or fury; as, an enraged countenance.-2. Aggravated; heightened; passionate. She loves him with an enraged affection. Shak.-3. In her. applied by some heralds to a horse when borne in the position which, in the case of beasts of prey, would be called saliant.

Enragement (en-raj'ment), n. The act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. Spenser.

Enrange (en-ranj'), v.t. pret. & pp. enranged; ppr. enranging. [Prefix en, and range.] 1. To put in order.

Fair Diana, in fresh summer's day, Beholds her nymphs enrang'd in shady wood. Spenser.

Spenser. [Prefix en, and

2. To rove over; to range. Enrank (en-rangk'), v. t.

rank.] To place in ranks or order.

Shak.

No leisure had he to enrank his men. Enrap (en-rap'), v. t. [Prefix en, and L. rapio, to snatch.] To bear away in an ecstasy; to transport with enthusiasm. 'Like a prophet suddenly enrapt.' Shak. Enrapture (en-rap'tūr), v. t. pret. & pp. enraptured; ppr. enrapturing. [Prefix en, and rapture] To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.

As long as the world has such lips and such eyes, As before me this moment enraptured I see, They may say what they will of their orbs in the skies,

But this earth is the planet for you, love, and me. Moore. Enravish (en-ra'vish), v.t. [Prefix en, and ravish.] To throw into ecstasy; to transport with delight; to enrapture.

What wonder,

Frail men, whose eyes seek heavenly things to see, At sight thereof so much enravish'd be. "Spenser. Enravishingly (en-ra'vish-ing-li), adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. Enravishment (en-ra'vish-ment), n. Ecstasy of delight; rapture. Enregister (en-re'jis-tér), v. t. and register.] To register; to cord. Enrheum (en-röm'), v.i. [Prefix en, and rheum; Fr. enrhumer.] To have rheum through cold.

[Prefix en, enrol or re

Enrich (en-rich'), v. t. [Prefix en, and rich; Fr. enrichir.] 1. To make rich, wealthy, or opulent; to supply with abundant property; as, agriculture,commerce, and manufactures enrich a nation.-2. To fertilize; to supply with the nutriment of plants and render productive.

See the sweet brooks in silver mazes creep.
Enrich the meadows, and supply the deep.
Sir R. Blackmore.

3. To supply with an abundance of anything desirable; to fill or store; as, to enrich the mind with knowledge, science, or useful observations.-4. To supply with anything splendid or ornamental; to adorn; as, to enrich a painting with elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or oration with striking metaphors or images; to enrich a garden with flowers or shrubbery; to enrich a capital with sculpture.

Enricher (en-rich'èr), n. One that enriches. Enrichment (en-rich'ment), n. Augmentation of wealth; amplification; improvement by the abundant supply of what is useful or desirable; the addition of fertility or ornament.

I grant that no labour tends to the permanent en richment of society, which is employed in producing things for the use of unproductive consumers. F. S. Mill

Enridge (en-rij), v. t. pret. & pp. enridged; ppr. enridging. [Prefix en, and ridge.] To form into ridges. 'The enridged sea.' Shak.

Enring (en-ring), v.t. [Prefix en, and ring.] To form a circle about; to encircle; to inclose.

Ivy . . . enrings the barky fingers of the elm. Shak. The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enring'd a billowing fountain in the midst. Tennyson. Enripen (en-rip'n), v.t. [Prefix en, and ripen, to become ripe-ripe, a. and en, verbforming suffix] To ripen; to bring to perfection. Donne.

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Enrivet (en-riv'), v. t. pret. enrived; pp. enrived or enriven; ppr. enriving. [Prefix en, and rive.] To rive; to cleave. A griesly wound in his enriven side.' Spenser. Enrobe (en-rōb'), v.t. pret. & pp. enrobed; ppr. enrobing. Prefix en, and robe.] To clothe with rich attire; to attire; to invest. 'In flesh and blood enrob'd.' J. Baillie. Enrockment (en-rok'ment), n. A mass of large stones thrown in at random to form the bases of piers, quays, breakwaters, &c. Enroll, Enrol (en-rol), v. t. pret. & pp. enrolled; ppr. enrolling. [Prefix en, and roll; Fr. enroler.] 1. To write in a roll or register; to insert or enter the name of in a list or catalogue; as, to enrol men for service.

One who enrols or

Enroller (en-rōl'èr), n. registers. Enrolment (en-rōl'ment), n. 1. The act of enrolling; specifically, the registering, recording, or entering a deed, judgment, recognizance, acknowledgment, &c., in Chancery, or any other of the superior or inferior courts, being a court of record.-2. That in which anything is enrolled; a register.

The king himself caused them to be enrolled, and testified by a notary public; and delivered the enrol ments, with his own hands, to the Bishop of Salisbury. Sir J. Davies.

Enroot (en-röt), v. t. [Prefix en, and root.] To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

Enround (en-round'), v. t. [Prefix en, and round.] To environ; to surround; to inclose.

Upon his royal face there is no note

How dread an army hath enrounded him. Shak.

En route (än röt). [Fr.] On the way; upon the road; in progress.

Ens (enz), n. [L. ens, being or thing, originally neuter of ppr. of verb esse, to be] 1. Entity; being; existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of beings.-2. Among the old chemists, that recondite part of a substance from which Ensafe (en-saf'), v. t.' [Prefix en, and safe.] all its qualities flow; essence. To render safe. [Rare.] Ensample (en-sam'pl), n. [O.E. and O. Fr., from L. exemplum, example. See EXAMPLE.] An example; a pattern or model for imitation. Being ensamples to the flock.' 1 Pet. v. 3. 'Drawing foul ensample from foul names.' Tennyson.

Ensamplet (en-sam'pl), v. t. pret. & pp. ensampled; ppr. ensampling. To exemplify; to show by example.

nour.

Homer in Agamemnon ensampled a good gover. Spenser. Ensanguine (en-sang'gwin), v. t. pret. & pp. ensanguined; ppr. ensanguining. [Prefix en, and L. sanguis, sanguinis, blood.] To stain or cover with blood; to smear with gore. 'The ensanguined field.' Milton. Ensate (en'sāt), a. [L. ensis, a sword.] In bot. ensiform (which see.) Enscale (en-skäl), v. t. pret. & pp. enscaled; ppr. enscaling. [Prefix en, and scale.] To carve or form with scales. Clarke. [Rare.] Enschedule (en-she'dül or en-se'dül), v.t. pret. & pp. enscheduled; ppr. enscheduling. [Prefix en, and schedule.] To insert in a schedule.

Ensconce (en-skons), v.t. pret. & pp. ensconced; ppr. ensconcing. [Prefix en, and sconce (which see).] 1. To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to protect; to hide securely.

A fort of error to ensconce Absurdity and ignorance.

Hudibras.

2. (With the reflexive pronoun.) To seek security in a fastness or fortification; to take shelter behind something; to hide. Shak.

I will ensconce me behind the arras.
Convey him to the sanctuary of rebels,
Nestorius house, where our proud brother has
Ensconc'd himself.
Beau. & Fl.

Enseal (en-sel), v.t. [Prefix en, and seal.]

ENSIGN

To seal; to fix a seal on; to impress with a seal. With soft steps enseal'd the meekend vallies.' W. Browne.

Enseam (en-sem'), v. t. [Prefix en, and seam ] 1. To sew up; to inclose by a seam or juneture of needle-work. Camden-21 To clude; to contain; to comprehend.

And bounteous Trent, that in himself enseams Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streams Spenser Enseamt (en-sēm), v. t. [Prefix en, and seam lard, grease.] 1. To make greasy. The rank sweat of an enseamed bed.' Shak. -2 To purge from glut and grease: said of a hawk Ensear (en-ser'), v.t. [Prefix en, and sear 1 To sear; to cauterize; to close or stop by burning to hardness.

Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak Ensearch (en-sêrch'), v.i. [Prefix en, and search.] To make a search. Sir T. Elvot Ensearch (en-sèrch'), n. Inquiry; search.

I pray you make some good exsearch what my poor neighbours have loste, and bid them take no thought therefor. Sir T. More

Enseel (en-sel), v.t. To close the eyes of; to
seel, as a hawk.
Enseint (en-sånt), a.
Blackstone.

Same as Enceinte.

Enseled, pp. Sealed up; kept secret Chaucer.

Ensemble (äf-säñ-bl), n. (Fr., from L. insimul, at the same time-in, and simul, together.] 1. All the parts of anything taken together so that each part is considered only in relation to the whole; the general effect of a whole work of art, as a picture. piece of music, drama, &c.; as, the ensemble of a picture; this drama is excellent in its different parts, yet deficient in its ensemble, that is, as a whole.-2. In music, the union of all the performers in a concerted composition, as in a chorus with full orchestral accompaniments.

Ensemble (añ-säñ-bl), adv. [Fr] Together; all at once; simultaneously. Enshawl (en-shal'), v. t. [Prefix en, and shawl.] To cover or invest with a shawi Quinn.

Ensheath (en-shĕTH), v. t. [Prefix en, and sheath.] To put into a sheath.

The terminal half ensheaths itself in the half sta ated next the base, as it by degrees returns into the cavity. Lindity.

Enshield (en-sheld'), v.t. [Prefix en, and shield.] To shield; to cover; to protect [Rare.]

Enshield (en-sheld'), pp. [Contr. for enshielded another reading in the passage quoted being inshelled.] Enshielded. These black masks Proclaim an enshield beauty, ten times louder Than beauty could display. Shak

Enshrine (en-shrin'), v.t. pret. & pp. en shrined; ppr. enshrining. [Prefix en, and shrine.] To inclose in or as in a shrine or chest; to deposit for safe keeping in or as in a cabinet; hence, to preserve with care and affection; to cherish. 'Wisdom enshrined in beauty. Percival.

The men who demolished the images in cathedralhave not always been able to demolish those whic were enshrined in their minds. Macaulay Enshroud (en-shroud'), v. t. [Prefix en, and shroud.] To cover with or as with a shroud, hence, to envelop with anything which conceals from observation; as, the sun en shrouded in mist; to enshroud one's purpose in mystery.

They lurk enshrouded in the vale of night. Churchill Ensiferous (en-sif'èr-us), a. [L. ensis, sword, and fero, to bear] Bearing or car rying a sword. Ensiform (en'si-form), a. [L. ensi formis - ensis, sword, and forma, form.] Having the shape of a sword; quite straight with the point acute, like the blade of a broadsword; as, an ensiform leaf

Ensiform cartilage, in anat a sword-shaped appendage to the lower part of the sternum or breastbone. Ensign (en'sin), n. [Fr. enseigne; Ensiform L. insigne-in, and signum, a mark, a sign.] 1. The flag or banner dis tinguishing a company of soldiers an army, or vessel; the colours, a standard Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be stil Shak

Leaf.

Specifically-2. In the royal navy, a fag composed of a field of white, blue, or red, with the union in the upper corner, next the staff. Formerly flags with fields of all