Ebrauke (a.) Hebrew.
Ebrieties (pl. ) of Ebriety
Ebriety (n.) Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
Ebrillade (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
Ebriosity (n.) Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
Ebrious (a.) Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.
Ebulliate (v. i.) To boil or bubble up.
Ebullience (n.) Alt. of Ebulliency
Ebulliency (n.) A boiling up or over; effervescence.
Ebullient (a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
Ebullioscope (n.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
Ebullition (n.) A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
Ebullition (n.) Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
Ebullition (n.) A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
Eburin (n.) A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
Eburnation (n.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
Eburnean (a.) Made of or relating to ivory.
Eburnification (n.) The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
Eburnine (a.) Of or pertaining to ivory.
Ecardines (n. pl.) An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.
Ecarte (n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
Ecaudate (a.) Without a tail or spur.
Ecaudate (a.) Tailless.
Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Ecbatic (a.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
Ecbole (n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Ecbolic (n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
Ecboline (n.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
Eccaleobion (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Ecce homo () A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
Eccentric (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
Eccentric (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
Eccentric (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
Eccentric (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end.
Eccentric (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
Eccentric (n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
Eccentric (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
Eccentric (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
Eccentric (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
Eccentrical (a.) See Eccentric.
Eccentrically (adv.) In an eccentric manner.
Eccentricities (pl. ) of Eccentricity
Eccentricity (n.) The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
Eccentricity (n.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
Ecchymose (v. t.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
Ecchymoses (pl. ) of Ecchymosis
Ecchymosis (n.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
Ecchymotic (a.) Pertaining to ecchymosis.
Eccle (n.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle.
Ecclesiae (pl. ) of Ecclesia
Ecclesia (n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
Ecclesia (n.) A church, either as a body or as a building.
Ecclesial (a.) Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiarch (n.) An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Ecclesiast (n.) An ecclesiastic.
Ecclesiast (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.
Ecclesiastes (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.
Ecclesiastic (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiastic (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
Ecclesiastically (adv.) In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Ecclesiasticism (n.) Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.
Ecclesiasticus (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.
Ecclesiological (a.) Belonging to ecclesiology.
Ecclesiologist (n.) One versed in ecclesiology.
Ecclesiology (n.) The science or theory of church building and decoration.
Eccritic (n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
Ecderon (n.) See Ecteron.
Ecdyses (pl. ) of Ecdysis
Ecdysis (n.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.
Ecgonine (n.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
Echauguette (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.
Eche (a. / a. pron.) Each.
Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
Echelon (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
Echelon (v. i.) To take position in echelon.
Echidna (n.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
Echidna (n.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.
Echidnine (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
Echinate (a.) Alt. of Echinated
Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
Echinid (a. & n.) Same as Echinoid.
Echinidan (n.) One the Echinoidea.
Echinital (a.) Of, or like, an echinite.
Echinite (n.) A fossil echinoid.
Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.
Echinoderm (n.) One of the Echinodermata.
Echinodermal (a.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
Echinodermata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.
Echinodermatous (a.) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
Echinoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.
Echinoid (n.) One of the Echinoidea.
Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
Echinozoa (n. pl.) The Echinodermata.
Echinulate (a.) Set with small spines or prickles.