Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.
Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Enacture (n.) Enactment; resolution.
Enaliosaur (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.
Enaliosauria (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
Enaliosaurian (a.) Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
Enaliosaurian (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.
Enallage (n.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
Enambush (v. t.) To ambush.
Enamel (v. t.) A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.
Enamel (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
Enamel (v. t.) That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.
Enamel (v. t.) The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.
Enameled (imp. & p. p.) of Enamel
Enamelled () of Enamel
Enameling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enamel
Enamelling () of Enamel
Enamel (v. t.) To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
Enamel (v. t.) To variegate with colors as if with enamel.
Enamel (v. t.) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.
Enamel (v. t.) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
Enamel (v. i.) To practice the art of enameling.
Enamel (a.) Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.
Enamelar (a.) Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
Enameled (a.) Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
Enameler (n.) Alt. of Enamelist
Enamelist (n.) One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.
Enamored (imp. & p. p.) of Enamor
Enamoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enamor
Enamor (v. t.) To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
Enamorment (n.) The state of being enamored.
Enantiomorphous (a.) Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.
Enantiopathic (a.) Serving to palliate; palliative.
Enantiopathy (n.) An opposite passion or affection.
Enantiopathy (n.) Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.
Enantiosis (n.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
Enarch (v. t.) To arch.
Enarched (a.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.
Enargite (n.) An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
Enarmed (a.) Same as Armed, 3.
Enarration (n.) A detailed exposition; relation.
Enarthrodia (n.) See Enarthrosis.
Enarthrosis (n.) A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.
Enascent (a.) Coming into being; nascent.
Enatation (n.) A swimming out.
Enate (a.) Growing out.
Enation (n.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.
Enaunter (adv.) Lest that.
Enavigate (v. t.) To sail away or over.
Enbattled (a.) Embattled.
Enbibe (v. t.) To imbibe.
Enbroude (v. t.) See Embroude.
Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encage
Engaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encage
Encage (v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Encalendar (v. t.) To register in a calendar; to calendar.
Encamped (imp. & p. p.) of Encamp
Encamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encamp
Encamp (v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
Encamp (v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
Encampment (n.) The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
Encampment (n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
Encanker (v. t.) To canker.
Encapsulation (n.) The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
Encarnalize (v. t.) To carnalize; to make gross.
Encarpus (n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
Encase (v. t.) To inclose as in a case. See Incase.
Encasement (n.) The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
Encasement (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.
Encash (v. t.) To turn into cash; to cash.
Encashment (n.) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
Encauma (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.
Encaustic (a.) Prepared by means of heat; burned in.
Encaustic (a.) The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
Encave (v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.
-ence () A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.
Enceinte (n.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.
Enceinte (n.) The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.
Enceinte (a.) Pregnant; with child.
Encenia (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.
Encense (n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.
Encephalic (a.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.
Encephalitis (n.) Inflammation of the brain.
Encephalocele (n.) Hernia of the brain.
Encephaloid (a.) Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
Encephaloid (n.) An encephaloid cancer.
Encephalology (n.) The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.
Encephalon (n.) The contents of the cranium; the brain.
Encephalopathy (n.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
Encephalos (n.) The encephalon.
Encephalotomy (n.) The act or art of dissecting the brain.
Encephalous (a.) Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.
Enchafe (v. t.) To chafe; to enrage; to heat.
Enchafing (n.) Heating; burning.
Enchain (v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
Enchain (v. t.) To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
Enchain (v. t.) To link together; to connect.
Enchainment (n.) The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
Enchair (v. t.) To seat in a chair.