Epaxial (a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.
Epeira (n.) A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.
Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.
Epencephalic (a.) Pertaining to the epencephalon.
Epencephalic (a.) Situated on or over the brain.
Epencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.
Ependyma (n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.
Ependymis (n.) See Ependyma.
Epenetic (a.) Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.
Epentheses (pl. ) of Epenthesis
Epenthesis (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. n/mol.
Epenthetic (a.) Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.
Epergne (n.) A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.
Eperlan (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Epexegesis (n.) A full or additional explanation; exegesis.
Epexegetical (a.) Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.
Ephah (n.) Alt. of Epha
Epha (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.
Ephemera (n.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
Ephemera (n.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
Ephemeral (a.) Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
Ephemeral (a.) Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
Ephemeral (n.) Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
Ephemeran (n.) One of the ephemeral flies.
Ephemeric (a.) Ephemeral.
Ephemerides (pl. ) of Ephemeris
Ephemeris (n.) A diary; a journal.
Ephemeris (n.) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."
Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.
Ephemeris (n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.
Ephemerist (n.) One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
Ephemerist (n.) One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
Ephemera (pl. ) of Ephemeron
Ephemeron (n.) One of the ephemeral flies.
Ephemerous (a.) Ephemeral.
Ephesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
Ephesian (n.) A native of Ephesus.
Ephesian (n.) A jolly companion; a roisterer.
Ephialtes (n.) The nightmare.
Ephippial (a.) Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
Ephippium (n.) A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
Ephippium (n.) A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera.
Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.
Ephors (pl. ) of Ephor
Ephori (pl. ) of Ephor
Ephor (n.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.
Ephoral (a.) Pertaining to an ephor.
Ephoralty (n.) The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors.
Ephraim (n.) A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.
Ephyra (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.
Epi- () A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral.
Epiblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
Epiblastic (a.) Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
Epiblema (n.) The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
Epibolic (a.) Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
Epiboly (n.) Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.
Epibranchial (a.) Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch.
Epibranchial (n.) An epibranchial cartilage or bone.
Epic (a.) Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
Epic (n.) An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
Epical (a.) Epic.
Epicardiac (a.) Of or relating to the epicardium.
Epicardium (n.) That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.
Epicarican (n.) An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.
Epicarp () The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.
Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.
Epicedial (a.) Elegiac; funereal.
Epicedian (a.) Epicedial.
Epicedian (n.) An epicede.
Epicedium (n.) An epicede.
Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
Epicene (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
Epicentral (a.) Arising from the centrum of a vertebra.
Epicerastic (a.) Lenient; assuaging.
Epichiremata (pl. ) of Epichirema
Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.
Epichordal (a.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.
Epichorial (a.) In or of the country.
Epicleidium (n.) A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.
Epiclinal (a.) Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.
Epicoele (n.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.
Epicoene (a.) Epicene.
Epicolic (a.) Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
Epicondylar (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.
Epicondyle (n.) A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.
Epicoracoid (n.) A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
Epicranial (a.) Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.
Epicranium (n.) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
Epicranium (n.) The dorsal wall of the head of insects.
Epictetain (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.
Epicure (n.) A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.
Epicure (n.) One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Epicurean (a.) Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy.
Epicurean (a.) Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating.
Epicurean (n.) A follower or Epicurus.
Epicurean (n.) One given to epicurean indulgence.
Epicureanism (n.) Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
Epicurely (adv.) Luxuriously.
Epicureous (a.) Epicurean.
Epicurism (n.) The doctrines of Epicurus.