EBB, noun The reflux of the tide; the return of tidewater towards the sea; opposed to flood or flowing.
1. Decline; decay; a falling from a better to a worse state; as the ebb of life; the ebb of prosperity.
EBB, verb intransitive To flow back; to return as the water of a tide towards the ocean; opposed to flow. The tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty four hours.
1. To decay; to decline; to return or fall back from a better to a worse state.
EBB'ING, participle present tense Flowing back; declining; decaying.
EBB'ING, noun The reflux of the tide.
EBB'TIDE, noun The reflux of tide-water; the retiring tide.
EB'IONITE, noun The ebionites were heretics who denied the divinity of Christ and rejected many parts of the scriptures.
EB'ON, adjective [See Ebony.] Consisting of ebony; like ebony; black.
EB'ONIZE, verb transitive [See Ebony.] To make black or tawny; to tinge with the color of ebony; as, to ebonize the fairest complexion.
EB'ONY, noun [Latin ebenus.] A species of hard, heavy and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss; said to be brought from Madagascar. The most usual color is black, red or green. The best is a jet black, free from veins and rind, very heavy, astringent and of an acrid pungent taste. On burning coals it yields an agreeable perfume, and when green it readily takes fire from its abundance of fat. It is wrought into toys, and used for mosaic and inlaid work.
EBRAC'TEATE, adjective [e priv. and bractea.] In botany, without a bractea or floral leaf.
EBRI'ETY, noun [Latin ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.]
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.
EBRIL'LADE, noun A check given to a horse, by a sudden jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn.
EBRIOS'ITY, noun [Latin ebriositas.] Habitual drunkenness.
EBUL'LIENCY, noun [See Ebullition.] A boiling over.
EBUL'LIENT, adjective Boiling over, as a liquor.
EBULLI'TION, noun [Latin ebullitio, from ebullio, bullio; Eng. to boil, which see.]
1. The operation of boiling; the agitation of a liquor by heat, which throws it up in bubbles, or more properly, the agitation produced in a fluid by the escape of a portion of it, converted into an aeriform state by heat. ebullition is produced by the heat of fire directly applied, or by the heat or caloric evolved by any substance in mixture. Thus, in slaking lime, the caloric set at liberty by the a absorption of water, produces ebullition
2. Effervescence, which is occasioned by fermentation, or by any other process which causes the extrication of an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.