Etesian (a.) Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.
Ethal (n.) A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.
Ethane (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.
Ethe (a.) Easy.
Ethel (a.) Noble.
Ethene (n.) Ethylene; olefiant gas.
Ethenic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.
Ethenyl (n.) A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C.
Ethenyl (n.) A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl.
Etheostomoid (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.
Etheostomoid (n.) Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter.
Ether (n.) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
Ether (n.) Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
Ether (n.) A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
Ether (n.) Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
Ethereal (a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
Ethereal (a.) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
Ethereal (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
Etherealism (n.) Ethereality.
Ethereality (n.) The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
Etherealization (n.) An ethereal or spiritlike state.
Etherealize (v. t.) To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
Etherealize (v. t.) To render ethereal or spiritlike.
Ethereally (adv.) In an ethereal manner.
Etherealness (n.) Ethereality.
Ethereous (a.) Formed of ether; ethereal.
Ethereous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, ether.
Etherification (n.) The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
Etheriform (a.) Having the form of ether.
Etherin (n.) A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
Etherization (n.) The administration of ether to produce insensibility.
Etherization (n.) The state of the system under the influence of ether.
Etherized (imp. & p. p.) of Etherize
Etherizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Etherize
Etherize (v. t.) To convert into ether.
Etherize (v. t.) To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.
Etherol (n.) An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
Ethic (a.) Alt. of Ethical
Ethical (a.) Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
Ethically (adv.) According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character.
Ethicist (n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
Ethics (n.) The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.
Ethide (n.) Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.
Ethidene (n.) Ethylidene.
Ethine (n.) Acetylene.
Ethionic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.
Ethiop (n.) Alt. of Ethiopian
Ethiopian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.
Ethiopian (a.) Alt. of Ethiopic
Ethiopic (a.) Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
Ethiopic (n.) The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.
Ethiops (n.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.
Ethmoid (a.) Alt. of Ethmoidal
Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.
Ethmoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
Ethmoid (n.) The ethmoid bone.
Ethmotrubinal (a.) See Turbinal.
Ethmotrubinal (n.) An ethmoturbinal bone.
Ethmovomerine (n.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.
Ethnarch (n.) The governor of a province or people.
Ethnarchy (n.) The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
Ethnic (a.) Alt. of Ethnical
Ethnical (a.) Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
Ethnical (a.) Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.
Ethnic (n.) A heathen; a pagan.
Ethnically (adv.) In an ethnical manner.
Ethnicism (n.) Heathenism; paganism; idolatry.
Ethnographer (n.) One who investigates ethnography.
Ethnographic (a.) Alt. of Ethnographical
Ethnographical (a.) pertaining to ethnography.
Ethnographically (adv.) In an ethnographical manner.
Ethnography (n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Ethnologic (a) Alt. of Ethnological
Ethnological (a) Of or pertaining to ethnology.
Ethnologically (adv.) In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.
Ethnologist (n.) One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.
Ethnology (n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
Ethologic (a) Alt. of Ethological
Ethological (a) treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
Ethologist (n.) One who studies or writes upon ethology.
Ethology (n.) A treatise on morality; ethics.
Ethology (n.) The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.
Ethopoetic () Expressing character.
Ethule () Ethyl.
Ethyl (n.) A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
Ethylamine (n.) A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.
Ethylate (n.) A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.
Ethylene (n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.
Ethylic () Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.
Ethylidene () An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.
Ethylin () Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
Ethylsulphuric (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.
Etiolated (imp. & p. p.) of Etiolate
Etiolating (p. pr. & vb. n) of Etiolate
Etiolate (v. i.) To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
Etiolate (v. i.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.
Etiolate (v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
Etiolate (v. t.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
Etiolate (a.) Alt. of Etiolated
Etiolated (a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.