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Ear
The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
Easter
An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of , , , or .
easygoingness
being without worry or concern.
Ebrious
Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.
Economization
The act or practice of using to the best effect.
Effectuate
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.
Effigy
The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
Effuse
Poured out freely; profuse.
Egoism
The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the and the relations which it implies or provides for.
eire
Air.
Eisteddfod
An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
Elective
In an American college, an optional study or course of study; a course that is not required.
Electorate
The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
Electro-
A prefix or combining form signifying , , or , etc.;
Electro-capillary
Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
Electro-telegraphic
Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
Eleutherodactylus
a genus of completely terrestrial robber frogs.
Eliminant
The result of eliminating variables between homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also .
Elocutive
Pertaining to oratorical expression.
Embase
To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
embedded
enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; .
Emmove
To move; to rouse; to excite.
Emotive
Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.
Emulatory
Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.
Enascent
Coming into being; nascent.
Encircle
To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround;
Encomiast
One who praises; a panegyrist.
Ender
One who, or that which, makes an end of something; .
Enfeeblish
To enfeeble.
Ennation
The ninth segment in insects.
Enounce
To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
Ensafe
To make safe.
Enshrine
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; .
Envyned
Stored or furnished with wine.
Ephemeral
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
Epicoene
Epicene.
Epidermeous
Epidermal.
Epigraphist
A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
Epileptogenous
Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
Epileptoid
Resembling epilepsy; .
Epulose
Feasting to excess.
Equable
Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; .
Equally
In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly;
Equation
A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.
Equinia
Glanders.
Equipendency
The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.
Equivorous
Feeding on horseflesh; .
Ergometer
A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer.
Erode
To eat into or away; to corrode; .
Eruptive
Breaking out or bursting forth.
Esemplastic
Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
Estuate
To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Ethereal
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial;
Ethylsulphuric
Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.
Euharmonic
Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.
Eupittone
A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also .
Euplastic
Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.
evaluative
exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.
Evigilation
A waking up or awakening.
Examplary
Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.
Exauthoration
Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.
Excellency
Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
Excellent
Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.
Excentral
Out of the center.
Exchequer
One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
Exclamatory
Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; .
Executor
One who executes or performs; a doer; .
Exfoliative
Having the power of causing exfoliation.
Exhaustless
Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; .
Exheredate
To disinherit.
Exogyra
A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.
Exolete
Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.
Exorbitant
Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate;
Expertness
Skill derived from practice; readiness; .
Explosion
The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas;
Explosive
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; .
Export
The act of exporting; exportation; .
Extensibleness
Extensibility.
Extensor
A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to .
Externalistic
Pertaining to externalism.
Extortioner
One who practices extortion; an extortionist.
Exundate
To overflow; to inundate.