Essay (n.) An assay. See Assay, n.
Essayed (imp. & p. p.) of Essay
Essaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essay
Essay (n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
Essay (n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
Essayer (n.) One who essays.
Essayist (n.) A writer of an essay, or of essays.
Essence (n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
Essence (n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
Essence (n.) Constituent substance.
Essence (n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
Essence (n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
Essenced (imp. & p. p.) of Essence
Essencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essence
Essence (v. t.) To perfume; to scent.
Essenes (pl. ) of Essene
Essene (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
Essenism (n.) The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.
Essential (a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Essential (a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
Essential (a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Essential (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
Essential (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Essential (a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Esential (n.) Existence; being.
Esential (n.) That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion.
Essentiality (n.) The quality of being essential; the essential part.
Esentially (adv.) In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.
Esentialness (n.) Essentiality.
Essentiated (imp. & p. p.) of Essentiate
Essentiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essentiate
Essentiate (v. t.) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
Essentiate (v. i.) To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.
Essoin (n.) Alt. of Essoign
Essoign (n.) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
Essoign (n.) Excuse; exemption.
Essoin (n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.
Essoiner (n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
Essonite (n.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.
Essorant (a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.
Est (n. & adv.) East.
-est () A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
Established (imp. & p. p.) of Establish
Establishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Establish
Establish (a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
Establish (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
Establish (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
Establish (a.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
Establish (a.) To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
Establisher (n.) One who establishes.
Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Establishment (n.) The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.
Establishment (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment.
Establishmentarian (n.) One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.
Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
Estafet (n.) Alt. of Estafette
Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
Estancia (n.) A grazing; a country house.
Estate (n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Estate (n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
Estate (n.) A person of high rank.
Estate (n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
Estate (n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
Estate (n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
Estate (v. t.) To establish.
Estate (v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
Estate (v. t.) To endow with an estate.
Estatlich (a.) Alt. of Estatly
Estatly (a.) Stately; dignified.
Esteemed (imp. & p. p.) of Esteem
Esteeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Esteem
Esteem (v. t.) To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.
Esteem (v. t.) To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.
Esteem (v. i.) To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.
Esteem (v. t.) Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.
Esteem (v. t.) High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.
Esteemable (a.) Worthy of esteem; estimable.
Esteemer (n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.
Ester (n.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.
Esthesiometer (n.) Same as Aesthesiometer.
Esthete (n.) Alt. of Esthetics
Esthetic (n.) Alt. of Esthetics
Esthetical (n.) Alt. of Esthetics
Esthetics (n.) Same as Aesthete, Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Aesthetics, etc.
Estiferous (a.) Producing heat.
Estimable (a.) Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage.
Estimable (a.) Valuable; worth a great price.
Estimable (a.) Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
Estimable (n.) A thing worthy of regard.
Estimableness (n.) The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
Estimably (adv.) In an estimable manner.
Estimated (imp. & p. p.) of Estimate
Estimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estimate
Estimate (v. t.) To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.
Estimate (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.
Estimate (n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.
Estimation (v. t.) The act of estimating.
Estimation (v. t.) An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities.