Enviable (a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Envie (v. i.) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
Envier (n.) One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Envigor (v. t.) To invigorate.
Envious (a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
Envious (a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
Envious (a.) Inspiring envy.
Envious (a.) Excessively careful; cautious.
Environed (imp. & p. p.) of Environ
Environing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Environ
Environ (v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
Environ (adv.) About; around.
Environment (n.) Act of environing; state of being environed.
Environment (n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
Environs (n. pl.) The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
Envisaged (imp. & p. p.) of Envisage
Envisaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envisage
Envisage (v. t.) To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
Envisagement (n.) The act of envisaging.
Envolume (v. t.) To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.
Envolup (v. t.) To wrap up; to envelop.
Envoy (n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
Envoy (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
Envoyship (n.) The office or position of an envoy.
Envies (pl. ) of Envy
Envy (n.) Malice; ill will; spite.
Envy (n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
Envy (n.) Emulation; rivalry.
Envy (n.) Public odium; ill repute.
Envy (n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
Envied (imp. & p. p.) of Envy
Envying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envy
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
Envy (v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
Envy (v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
Envy (v. t.) To hate.
Envy (v. t.) To emulate.
Envy (v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Envy (v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
Envyned (a.) Stored or furnished with wine.
Enwall (v. t.) See Inwall.
Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.
Enwheel (v. t.) To encircle.
Enwiden (v. t.) To widen.
Enwind (v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.
Enwoman (v. t.) To endow with the qualities of a woman.
Enwombed (imp. & p. p.) of Enwomb
Enwombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enwomb
Enwomb (v. t.) To conceive in the womb.
Enwomb (v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.
Enwrap (v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.
Enwrapment (n.) Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.
Enwreathe (v. t.) See Inwreathe.
Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Enzyme (n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.
Eocene (a.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits.
Eocene (n.) The Eocene formation.
Eolian (a.) Aeolian.
Eolian (a.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.
Eolic (a. & n.) See Aeolic.
Eolipile (n.) Same as Aeolipile.
Eolis (n.) A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.
Eon (n.) Alt. of Aeon
Aeon (n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
Aeon (n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Eophyte (n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.
Eophytic (a.) Of or pertaining to eophytes.
Eos (n.) Aurora, the goddess of morn.
Eosaurus (n.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
Eosin (n.) A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.
Eosphorite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.
Eozoic (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.
Eozoons (pl. ) of Eozoon
Eozoa (pl. ) of Eozoon
Eozoon (n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
Eozoonal (a.) Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.
Ep- () See Epi-.
Epacris (n.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.
Epact (n.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.
Epagoge (n.) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.
Epagogic (a.) Inductive.
Epalate (a.) Without palpi.
Epanadiplosis (n.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
Epanalepsis (n.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.
Epanaphora (n.) Same as Anaphora.
Epanastrophe (n.) Same as Anadiplosis.
Epanodos (n.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order
Epanody (n.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.
Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!
Epanthous (a.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.
Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
Eparchy (n.) A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
Eparterial (a.) Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
Epaule (n.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
Epaulement (n.) A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.
Epaulet (n.) Alt. of Epaulette
Epaulette (n.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.
Epauleted (a.) Alt. of Epauletted
Epauletted (a.) Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.