ENABLE, verb transitive [Norm. enhabler; en and hable, able. See Able.]

1. To make able; to supply with power, physical or moral; to furnish with sufficient power or ability. By strength a man is enabled to work. Learning and industry enable men to investigate the laws of nature. Fortitude enables us to bear pain without murmuring.

2. To supply with means. Wealth enables men to be charitable, or to live in luxury.

3. To furnish with legal ability or competency; to authorize. The law enables us to dispose of our property by will.

4. To furnish with competent knowledge or skill, and in general, with adequate means.

ENA'BLED, participle passive Supplied with sufficient power, physical, moral or legal.

ENA'BLEMENT, noun The act of enabling; ability.

ENA'BLING, participle present tense Giving power to; supplying with sufficient power, ability or means; authorizing.

ENACT', verb transitive [en and act.] To make, as a law; to pass, as a bill into a law; to perform the last act of a legislature to a bill, giving it validity as a law; to give legislative sanction to a bill.

Shall this bill pass to be enacted?

1. To decree; to establish as the will of the supreme power.

2. To act; to perform; to effect. [Not used.]

3. To represent inaction. [Not used.]

ENACT'ED, participle passive Passed into a law; sanctioned as a law, by legislative authority.

ENACT'ING, participle present tense Passing into a law; giving legislative sanction to a bill, and establishing it as a law.

1. Giving legislative forms and sanction; as the enacting clause of a bill.

ENACT'MENT, noun The passing of a bill into a law; the act of voting, decreeing and giving validity to a law.

ENACT'OR, noun One who enacts or passes a law; one who decrees or establishes, as a law.

1. One who performs any thing. [Not used.]

ENAC'TURE, noun Purpose. [Not in use.]

ENAL'LAGE, noun enal'lajy. [Gr. change.]

A figure, in grammar, by which some change is made in the common mode of speech, or when one word is substituted for another; as exercitus victor, for victoriousus; scelus, for scelestus.

ENAM'BUSH, verb transitive [en and ambush.] To hide in ambush.

1. To ambush.

ENAM'BUSHED, participle passive Concealed in ambush, or with hostile intention; ambushed.

ENAM'EL, noun

1. In mineralogy, a substance imperfectly vitrified, or matter in which the granular appearance is destroyed, and having a vitreous gloss.

In the arts, a substance of the nature of glass, differing from it by a greater degree of fusibility or opacity.

Enamels have for their basis a pure crystal glass or frit, ground with a fine oxyd of lead and tin. These baked together are the matter of enamels, and the color is varied by adding other substances, Oxyd of gold gives a red color; that of copper, a green; manganese, a violet; cobalt, a blue; and iron, a fine black.

2. That which is enameled; a smooth, glossy surface of various colors, resembling enamel

3. In anatomy, the smooth hard substance which covers the crown of a tooth.

ENAM'EL, verb transitive To lay enamel on a metal, as on gold, silver, copper, etc.

1. To paint in enamel

2. To form a glossy surface like enamel

ENAM'ELAR, adjective Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.

ENAM'ELED, participle passive Overlaid with enamel; adorned with any thing resembling enamel.

ENAM'ELER, noun One who enamels; one whose occupation is to lay enamels, or inlay colors.

ENAM'ELING, participle present tense Laying enamel.

ENAM'ELING, noun The act or art of laying enamels.

ENAM'OR, verb transitive [Latin amor, love.] To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; with of before the person or thing; as, to be enamored of a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

[But it is now followed by with.]

ENAMORA'DO, noun One deeply in love.

ENAM'ORED, participle passive Inflamed with love; charmed; delighted.

ENAM'ORING, participle present tense Inflaming with love; charming; captivating.

EN'ARMED, adjective In heraldry, having arms, that is, horns, hoofs, etc. of a different color from that of the body.

ENARRA'TION, noun [Latin enarro, narro, to relate.] Recital; relation; account; exposition. [Little used.]

ENARTHRO'SIS, noun [Gr. a joint.] In anatomy, that species of articulation which consists in the insertion of the round end of a bone in the cup-like cavity of another, forming a movable joint; the ball and socket.

ENA'TE, adjective [Latin enatus.] Growing out.

ENAUN'TER, adverb Lest that.

ENCA'GE, verb transitive [from cage.] To shut up or confine in a cage; to coop.

ENCA'GED, participle passive Shut up or confined in a cage.

ENCA'GING, participle present tense Cooping; confining in a cage.

ENCAMP', verb intransitive [from camp.] To pitch tents or form huts, as an army; to halt on a march, spread tents and remain for a night or for a longer time, as an army or company.

They encamped in Etham. Exodus 13:20.

The Levites shall encamp about the tabernacle. Numbers 1:50.

1. To pitch tents for the purpose of a siege; to besiege.

ENCAMP against the city and take it. 2 Samuel 12:28.

ENCAMP', verb transitive To form into a camp; to place a marching army or company in a temporary habitation or quarters.

ENCAMP'ED, participle passive Settled in tents or huts for lodging or temporary habitation.

ENCAMP'ING, participle present tense Pitching tents or forming huts, for a temporary lodging or rest.

ENCAMP'MENT, noun The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

1. The place where an army or company is encamped; a camp; a regular order of tents or huts for the accommodation of an army or troop.

ENCANK'ER, verb transitive To corrode; to canker.

ENCA'SE, verb transitive To inclose or confine in a case or cover.

ENCAUS'TIC, adjective [Gr. caustic, to burn.] Pertaining to the art of enameling, and to painting in burnt wax. encaustic painting, is a method in which wax is employed to give a gloss to colors.

ENCAUS'TIC, noun Enamel or enameling.

1. The method of painting in burnt wax.

ENCA'VE, verb transitive [from cave.] To hide in a cave or recess.

ENCE'INT, noun [Latin cingo, to gird.] In fortification, inclosure; the wall or rampart which surrounds a place, sometimes composed of bastions and curtains. It is sometimes only flanked by round or square towers, which is called a Roman wall.

ENCE'INT, adjective In law, pregnant; ; with child.

ENCHA'FE, verb transitive [en and chafe.] To chafe or fret; to provoke; to enrage; to irritate. [See Chafe.]

ENCHA'FED, participle passive Chafed; irritated; enraged.

ENCHA'FING, participle present tense Chafing; fretting; enraging.

ENCHA'IN, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a chain; to bind or hold in chains; to hold in bondage.

2. To hold fast; to restrain; to confine.

3. To link together; to connect.

ENCHA'INED, participle passive Fastened with a chain; held in bondage; held fast; restrained; confined.

ENCHA'INING, participle present tense Making fast with a chain; binding; holding in chains; confining.

ENCH'ANT, verb transitive [Latin incanto; in and canto, to sing. See Chant and Cant.]

1. To practice sorcery or witchcraft on any thing; to give efficacy to any thing by songs of sorcery, or fascination.

And now about the cauldron sing,

Like elves and fairies in a ring,

Enchanting all that you put in.

2. To subdue by charms or spells.

3. To delight to the highest degree; to charm; to ravish with pleasure; as, the description enchants me; we were enchanted with the music.

ENCH'ANTED, participle passive Affected by sorcery; fascinated; subdued by charms; delighted beyond measure.

1. Inhabited or possessed by elves, witches, or other imaginary mischievous spirits; as an enchanted castle.

ENCH'ANTER, noun One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who has spirits or demons at his command; one who practices enchantment, or pretends to perform surprising things by the agency of demons.

1. One who charms or delights.

Enchanter's nightshade, a genus of plants, the Circaea.

ENCH'ANTING, participle present tense Affecting with sorcery, charms or spells.

1. Delighting highly; ravishing with delight; charming.

2. Charming; delighting; ravishing; as an enchanting voice; an enchanting face.

Simplicity in manners has an enchanting effect.

ENCH'ANTINGLY, adverb With the power of enchantment; in a manner to delight or charm; as, the lady sings enchantingly

ENCH'ANTMENT, noun The act of producing certain wonderful effects by the invocation or aid of demons, or the agency of certain supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells or charms; incantation.

The magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. Exodus 7:11.

1. Irresistible influence; overpowering influence of delight.

The warmth of fancy--which holds the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment

ENCH'ANTRESS, noun A sorceress; a woman who pretends to effect wonderful things by the aid of demons; one who pretends to practice magic.

1. A woman whose beauty or excellencies give irresistible influence.

From this enchantress all these ills are come.

ENCH'ARGE, verb transitive To give in charge or trust. [Not in use.]

ENCHA'SE, verb transitive [Eng. a case.]

1. To infix or inclose in another body so as to be held fast, but not concealed.

2. Technically, to adorn by embossed work; to enrich or beautify any work in metal, by some design or figure in low relief, as a watch case.

3. To adorn by being fixed on it.

To drink in bowls which glittering gems enchase

4. To mark by incision.

5. To delineate.

ENCHA'SED, participle passive Enclosed as in a frame or in another body; adorned with embossed work.

ENCHA'SING, participle present tense Inclosing in another body; adorning with embossed work.

ENCHE'ASON, noun Cause; occasion.

ENCHIRID'ION, noun [Gr. the hand.] A manual; a book to be carried in the hand. [Not used.]

ENCIN'DERED, adjective Burnt to cinders.

ENCIR'CLE, verb transitive ensur'cl. [from circle.]

1. To inclose or surround with a circle or ring, or with any thing in a circular form.

2. To encompass; to surround; to environ.

3. To embrace; as, to encircle one in the arms.

ENCIR'CLED, participle present tense Surrounded with a circle; encompassed; environed; embraced.

ENCIR'CLET, noun A circle; a ring.

ENCIR'CLING, participle present tense Surrounding with a circle or ring; encompassing; embracing.

ENCLIT'IC, adjective [Gr. inclined; to incline.]

1. Leaning; inclining, or inclined. In grammar, an enclitic particle or word, is one which is so closely united to another as to seem to be a part of it; as que, ne, and ve, in virumque, nonne, aliusve.

2. Throwing back the accent upon the foregoing syllable.

ENCLIT'IC, noun A word which is joined to the end of another, as que, in virumque, which may vary the accent.

1. A particle or word that throws the accent or emphasis back upon the former syllable.

ENCLIT'ICALLY, adverb In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

ENCLIT'ICS, adjective In grammar, the art of declining and conjugating words.

ENCLOSE. [See Inclose.]

ENCLOUD'ED, adjective [from cloud.] Covered with clouds.

ENCOACH, verb transitive To carry in a coach..

ENCOF'FIN, verb transitive To put in a coffin.

ENCOF'FINED, participle passive Inclosed in a coffin.

ENCOM'BER, [See Encumber.]

ENCOM'BERMENT, noun Molestation. [Not used.]

ENCO'MIAST, noun One who praises another; a panegyrist; one who utters or writes commendations.

ENCOMIAS'TIC

ENCOMIAS'TICAL, adjective Bestowing praise; praising; commending; laudatory; as an encomiastic address or discourse.

ENCOMIAS'TIC, noun A panegyric.

ENCOMIAS'TICAL, a. Bestowing praise; praising; commending; laudatory; as an encomiastic address or discourse.

ENCO'MIUM, noun plural encomiums. Praise; panegyric; commendation. Men are quite as willing to receive as to bestow encomiums.

ENCOM'PASS, verb transitive [from compass.] To encircle; to surround; as, a ring encompasses the finger.

1. To environ; to inclose; to surround; to shut in. A besieging army encompassed the city of Jerusalem.

2. To go or sail round; as Drake encompassed the globe.

ENCOM'PASSED, participle passive Encircled; surrounded; inclosed; shut in.

ENCOM'PASSING, participle present tense Encircling; surrounding; confining.

ENCOM'PASSMENT, noun A surrounding.

1. A going round; circumlocution in speaking.

ENCO'RE, adjective French word, pronounced nearly ongkore, and signifying, again, once more; used by the auditors and spectators of plays and other sports, when they call for a repetition of a particular part.

ENCO'RE, verb transitive To call for a repetition of a particular part of an entertainment.

ENCOUNT'ER, noun [Latin contra, against, or rather rencontre.]

1. A meeting, particularly a sudden or accidental meeting of two or more persons.

To shun th' encounter of the vulgar crowd.

2. A meeting in contest; a single combat, on a sudden meeting of parties; sometimes less properly, a duel.

3. A fight; a conflict; a skirmish; a battle; but more generally, a fight between a small number of men, or an accidental meeting and fighting of detachments, rather than a set battle or general engagement.

4. Eager and warm conversation, either in love or anger.

5. A sudden or unexpected address or accosting.

6. Occasion; casual incident. [Unusual.]

ENCOUNT'ER, verb transitive

1. To meet face to face; particularly, to meet suddenly or unexpectedly.

[This sense is now uncommon, but still in use.]

2. To meet in opposition, or in a hostile manner; to rush against in conflict; to engage with in battle; as, two armies encounter each other.

3. To meet and strive to remove or surmount; as, to encounter obstacles, impediments or difficulties.

4. To meet and oppose; to resist; to attack and attempt to confute; as, to encounter the arguments of opponents. Acts 17:18.

5. To meet as an obstacle. Which ever way the infidel turns, he encounters clear evidence of the divine origin of the scriptures.

6. To oppose; to oppugn.

7. To meet in mutual kindness. [Little used.]

ENCOUNT'ER, verb intransitive To meet face to face; to meet unexpectedly. [Little used.]

1. To rush together in combat; to fight; to conflict. Three armies encountered at Waterloo.

When applied to one party, it is sometimes followed by with; as, the christian army encountered with the Saracens.

2. To meet in opposition or debate.

ENCOUNT'ERED, participle passive Met face to face; met in opposition or hostility; opposed.

ENCOUNT'ERER, noun One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

ENCOUNT'ERING, participle present tense Meeting; meeting in opposition, or in battle; opposing; resisting.

ENCOUR'AGE, verb transitive enkur'rage. To give courage to; to give or increase confidence of success; to inspire with courage, spirit, or strength of mind; to embolden; to animate; to incite; to inspirit.

But charge Joshua, and encourage him. Deuteronomy 3:28.

ENCOUR'AGED, participle passive Emboldened; inspirited; animated; incited.

ENCOUR'AGEMENT, noun The act of giving courage, or confidence of success; incitement to action or to practice; incentive. We ought never to neglect the encouragement of youth in generous deeds. The praise of good men serves as an encouragement of virtue and heroism.

1. That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, rewards, profit. A young man attempted the practice of law, but found little encouragement The fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.

ENCOUR'AGER, noun One who encourages, incites or stimulates to action; one who supplies incitements, either by counsel, reward or means of execution.

The pope is a master of polite learning and a great encourager of arts.

ENCOUR'AGING, participle present tense Inspiring with hope and confidence; exciting courage.

1. Furnishing ground to hope for success; as an encouraging prospect.

ENCOUR'AGINGLY, adverb In a manner to give courage, or hope of success.

ENCRA'DLE, verb transitive [en and cradle.] To lay in a cradle.

ENCRIM'SON, verb transitive s as z. To cover with a crimson color.

ENCRIM'SONED, participle passive Covered with a crimson color.

EN'CRINITE, noun [Gr. a lily.] Stone-lily; a fossil zoophyte, formed of many joints, all perforated by some starry form.

ENCRISP'ED, adjective [from crisp] Curled; formed in curls.

ENCROACH, verb intransitive [Eng. crook.] Primarily, to catch as with a hook. Hence,

1. To enter on the rights and possession of another; to intrude; to take possession of what belongs to another, by gradual advances into his limits or jurisdiction, and usurping a part of his rights or prerogatives; with on. The farmer who runs a fence on his neighbor's land, and incloses a piece with his own, encroaches on his neighbor's property. Men often encroach in this manner, on the highway. The sea is said to encroach on the land, when it wears it away gradually; and the land encroaches on the sea, when it is extended into it by alluvion. It is important to prevent one branch of government from encroaching on the jurisdiction of another.

2. To creep on gradually without right.

Superstition--a creeping and encroaching evil.

3. To pass the proper bounds, and enter on another's rights.

Exclude th' encroaching cattle from thy ground.

ENCROACHER, noun One who enters on and takes possession of what is not his own, by gradual steps.

1. One who makes gradual advances beyond his rights.

ENCROACHING, participle present tense Entering on and taking possession of what belongs to another.

ENCROACHING, adjective Tending or apt to encroach.

The encroaching spirit of power.

ENCROACHINGLY, adverb By way of encroachment.

ENCROACHMENT, noun The entering gradually on the rights or possessions of another, and taking possession; unlawful intrusion; advance into the territories or jurisdiction of another, by silent means, or without right.

1. That which is taken by encroaching on another.

2. In law, if a tenant owes two shillings rent service to the lord, and the lord takes three, it is an encroachment

ENCRUST', verb transitive To cover with a crust. It is written also incrust.

ENCUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To load; to clog; to impede motion with a load, burden or any thing inconvenient to the limbs; to render motion or operation difficult or laborious.

2. To embarrass; to perplex; to obstruct.

3. To load with debts; as, an estate is encumbered with mortgages, or with a widow's dower.

ENCUM'BERED, participle passive Loaded; impeded in motion or operation, by a burden or difficulties; loaded with debts.

ENCUM'BERING, participle present tense Loading; clogging; rendering motion or operation difficult; loading with debts.

ENCUM'BRANCE, noun A load; any thing that impedes motion, or renders it difficult and laborious; clog; impediment.

1. Useless addition or load.

Strip from the branching Alps their piny load,

The huge encumbrance of horrific wood.

2. Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable.

ENCYC'LICAL, adjective [Gr. a circle.] Circular; sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men. [This word is not used. We now use circular.]

ENCYCLOPE'DIA

ENCYCLOPE'DIAN, adjective Embracing the whole circle of learning.

ENCYCLOPE'DIAN, a. Embracing the whole circle of learning.

ENCYCLOPE'DIST, noun The compiler of an Encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation.

ENCYCLOPE'DY, noun [Gr. in, a circle, and instruction; instruction in a circle, or circle of instruction.]

The circle of sciences; a general system of instruction or knowledge. More particularly, a collection of the principal facts, principles and discoveries, in all branches of science and the arts, digested under proper titles and arranged in alphabetical order; as the French Encyclopedia; the Encyclopedia Britannica.

ENCYST'ED, adjective [from cyst.] Inclosed in a bag, bladder or vesicle; as an encysted tumor.

END, noun

1. The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope. When bodies or figures have equal dimensions, or equal length and breadth, the extremities are called sides.

2. The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time.

At the end of two months, she returned. Judges 11:39.

3. The conclusion or cessation of an action.

Of the increase of his government there shall be no end Isaiah 9:7.

4. The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter.

5. Ultimate state or condition; final doom.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Psalms 37:37.

6. The point beyond which no progression can be made.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end Psalms 107:27.

7. Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation.

My guilt be on my head and there's an end!

8. Close of life; death; decease.

Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end

9. Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world.

10. Limit; termination.

There is no end of the store. Hahum 2.

11. Destruction. Amos 8:2.

The end of all flesh is come. Genesis 6:13.

12. Cause of death; a destroyer.

And award

Either of you to be the other's end

13. Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion.

The end of these things is death. Romans 6:21.

14. A fragment or broken piece.

Old odd ends.

15. The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends.

Two things I shall propound to you, as ends.

The end of the commandments is charity. l Tim.1.

A right to the end implies a right to the means necessary for attaining it.

16. An end for on end upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end

17. The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.

END, verb transitive To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war.

On the seventh day God ended his work. Genesis 2:2.

1. To destroy; to put to death.

King Harry, thy sword hath ended him.

END, verb intransitive To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.

1. To terminate; to close; to conclude. The discourse ends with impressive words.

2. To cease; to come to a close. Winter ends in March, and summer in September. A good like ends in peace.

END'-ALL, noun Final close. [Not used.]

ENDAM'AGE, verb transitive [from damage.] To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure; to mischief; to prejudice.

The trial hath endamaged thee no way.

So thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. Ezra 4:13.

ENDAM'AGED, participle passive Harmed; injured.

ENDAM'AGEMENT, noun Damage; loss; injury.

ENDAM'AGING, participle present tense Harming; injuring.

ENDANGER, verb transitive [from danger.] To put in hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury. We dread any thing that endangers our life, our peace or our happiness.

1. To incur the hazard of. [Unusual.]

ENDANGERED, participle passive Exposed to loss or injury.

ENDANGERING, participle present tense Putting in hazard; exposing to loss or injury.

ENDANGERING, noun Injury; damage.

ENDANGERMENT, noun Hazard; danger.

ENDE'AR, verb transitive [from dear.] To make dear; to make more beloved. The distress of a friend endears him to us, by exciting our sympathy.

1. To raise the price. [Not in use.]

ENDE'ARED, participle passive Rendered dear, beloved, or more beloved.

ENDE'ARING, participle present tense Making dear or more beloved.

ENDE'ARMENT, noun The cause of love; that which excites or increases affection, particularly that which excites tenderness of affection.

Her first endearments twining round the soul.

1. The state of being beloved; tender affection.

ENDEAV'OR, noun endev'or. An effort; an essay; an attempt; an exertion of physical strength, or the intellectual powers, towards the attainment of an object.

The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavor and application, and therefore often succeed.

Imitation is the endeavor of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject.

Labor is a continued endeavor or a succession of endeavors.

ENDEAV'OR, verb intransitive endev'or. To exert physical strength or intellectual power, for the accomplishment of an object; to try; to essay; to attempt. In a race, each man endeavors to outstrip his antagonist. A poet may endeavor to rival Homer, but without success. It is followed by after before a noun; as, the christian endeavors after more strict conformity to the example of Christ.

1. verb transitive To attempt to gain; to try to effect.

It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects.

ENDEAV'ORED, participle passive Essayed; attempted.

ENDEAV'ORER, noun One who makes an effort or attempt.

ENDEAV'ORING, participle present tense Making an effort or efforts; striving; essaying; attempting.

ENDEC'AGON, noun A plain figure of eleven sides and angles.

ENDEI'CTIC, adjective [Gr. to show.] Showing; exhibiting. An endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.

ENDE'MIAL, adjective [Gr. people.] Peculiar to a people or nation. An endemic disease, is one to which the inhabitants of a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which, for that reason, may be supposed to proceed from local causes, as bad air or water. The epithet is also applied to a disease which prevails in a particular season, chiefly or wholly in a particular place.

ENDEM'IC

ENDEM'ICAL

ENDEN'IZE, verb transitive To make free; to naturalize; to admit to the privileges of a denizen. [Little used.]

ENDEM'ICAL

ENDEN'IZE, v.t. To make free; to naturalize; to admit to the privileges of a denizen. [Little used.]

ENDEN'IZEN, verb transitive [from denizen.] To naturalize.

ENDICT, ENDICTMENT. [See Indict, Indictment.]

ENDICT, ENDICTMENT. [See Indict, Indictment.]

END'ING, participle present tense [from end.] Terminating; closing; concluding.

END'ING, noun Termination; conclusion.

1. In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word.

ENDITE. [See Indite.]

EN'DIVE, noun [Latin intybum.] A species of plant, of the genus Cichorium or succory; used as a salad.

END'LESS, adjective [See End.] Without end; having no end or conclusion; applied to length, and to duration; as an endless line; endless progression; endless duration; endless bliss.

1. Perpetual; incessant; continual; as endless praise; endless clamor.

END'LESSLY, adverb Without end or termination; as, to extend a line endlessly

1. Incessantly; perpetually; continually.

END'LESSNESS, noun Extension without end or limit.

1. Perpetuity; endless duration.

END'LONG, adverb In a line; with the end forward. [Little used.]

ENDOC'TRINE, verb transitive To teach; to indoctrinate. [See the latter word.]

ENDORSE, ENDORSEMENT. [See Indorse, Indorsement.]

ENDORSE, ENDORSEMENT [See Indorse, Indorsement.]

ENDOSS', verb transitive To engrave or carve.

ENDOW', verb transitive [Latin dos, doto, or a different Celtic root.]

1. To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower; to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow.

A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture.

2. To settle on, as a permanent provision; to furnish with a permanent fund of property; as, to endow a church; to endow a college with a fund to support a professor.

3. To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty; to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason.

ENDOW'ED, participle passive Furnished with a portion of estate; having dower settled on; supplied with a permanent fund; indued.

ENDOW'ING, participle present tense Settling a dower on; furnishing with a permanent fund; inducing.

ENDOW'MENT, noun The act of settling dower on a woman, or of settling a fund or permanent provision for the support of a parson or vicar, or of a professor, etc.

1. That which is bestowed or settled on; property, fund or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as the endowments of a church, of a hospital, or of a college.

2. That which is given or bestowed on the person or mind by the creator; gift of nature; any quality or faculty bestowed by the creator. Natural activity of limbs is an endowment of the body; natural vigor of intellect is an endowment of the mind. Chatham and Burke, in Great Britain, and Jan, Ellsworth and Hamilton, in America, possessed uncommon endowments of mind.

ENDRUDGE, verb transitive endruj'. To make a drudge or slave. [Not used.]

ENDU'E, verb transitive [Latin induo.] To indue, which see.

ENDU'RABLE, adjective That can be borne or suffered.

ENDU'RANCE, noun [See Endure.] Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness.

1. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death.

2. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.]

ENDU'RE, verb transitive [Latin durus, duro.]

1. To last; to continue in the same state without perishing; to remain; to abide.

The Lord shall endure forever. Psalms 9:7.

He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure Job 8:15.

2. To bear; to brook; to suffer without resistance, or without yielding.

How can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? Esther 8:6.

Can thy heart endure or thy hands be strong? Ezekiel 22:14.

ENDU'RE, verb transitive To bear; to sustain; to support without breaking or yielding to force or pressure. Metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting.

Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure.

As might the strokes of two such arms endure

1. To bear with patience; to bear without opposition or sinking under the pressure.

Therefore, I endure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Timothy 2:3.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. Hebrews 12:7.

2. To undergo; to sustain.

I wish to die, yet dare not death endure

3. To continue in. [Not used.]

ENDU'RED, participle passive Borne; suffered; sustained.

ENDU'RER, noun One who bears, suffers or sustains.

1. He or that which continues long.

ENDU'RING, participle present tense Lasting; continuing without perishing; bearing; sustaining; supporting with patience, or without opposition or yielding.

1. Lasting long; permanent.

END'WISE, adverb On the end; erectly; in an upright position.

1. With the end forward.

EN'ECATE, verb transitive [Latin eneco.] To kill. [Not in use.]

E'NEID, noun [Latin Eneis.] A heroic poem, written by Virgil, in which Eneas is the hero.

EN'EMY, noun [Latin inimicus.]

1. A foe; an adversary. A private enemy is one who hates another and wishes him injury, or attempts to do him injury to gratify his own malice or ill will. A public enemy or foe, is one who belongs to a nation or party, at war with another.

I way to you, love your enemies. Matthew 5:43.

Enemies in war; in peace friends.

2. One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood.

3. In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend.

4. In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy

ENERGET'IC

ENERGET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. work. See Energy.]

1. Operating with force, vigor and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious. We say, the public safety required energetic measures. The vicious inclinations of men can be restrained only by energetic laws. [Energic is not used.]

2. Moving; working; active; operative. We must conceive of God as a Being eternally energetic

ENERGET'ICAL, a. [Gr. work. See Energy.]

ENERGET'ICALLY, adverb With force and vigor; with energy and effect.

EN'ERGIZE, verb intransitive [from energy.] To act with force; to operate with vigor; to act in producing an effect.

EN'ERGIZE, verb transitive To give strength or force to; to give active vigor to.

EN'ERGIZED, participle passive Invigorated.

EN'ERGIZER, noun He or that which gives energy; he or that which acts in producing an effect.

EN'ERGIZING, participle present tense Giving energy, force or vigor; acting with force.

EN'ERGY, noun [Gr. work.]

1. Internal or inherent power; the power of operating, whether exerted or not; as men possessing energies sometimes suffer them to lie inactive. Danger will rouse the dormant energies of our natures into action.

2. Power exerted; vigorous operation; force; vigor. God, by his Almighty energy called the universe into existence. The administration of the laws requires energy in the magistrate.

3. Effectual operation; efficacy; strength or force producing the effect.

Beg the blessed Jesus to give an energy to your imperfect prayers, by his most powerful intercession.

4. Strength of expression; force of utterance; life; spirit; emphasis. The language of Lord Chatham is remarkable for its energy

ENERV'ATE, adjective [infra.] Weakened; weak; without strength or force.

1. To deprive of nerve, force or strength; to weaken; to render feeble. Idleness and voluptuous indulgences enervate the body. Vices and luxury enervate the strength of state.

2. To cut the nerves; as, to enervate a horse.

EN'ERVATED, participle passive Weakened; enfeebled; emasculated.

EN'ERVATING, participle present tense Depriving of strength, force or vigor; weakening; enfeebling.

ENERVA'TION, noun The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

1. The state of being weakened; effeminacy.

ENERVE, verb transitive everv'. To weaken; the same as enervate.

ENFAM'ISH, verb transitive To famish. [See Famish.]

ENFEE'BLE, verb transitive [from feeble.] To deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate; to enervate. Intemperance enfeebles the body, and induces premature infirmity. Excessive grief and melancholy enfeeble the mind. Long wars enfeeble a state.

ENFEE'BLED, participle passive Weakened; deprived of strength or vigor.

ENFEE'BLEMENT, noun The act of weakening; enervation.

ENFEE'BLING, participle present tense Weakening; debilitating; enervating.

ENFEL'ONED, adjective [See Felon.] Fierce; cruel.

ENFEOFF, verb transitive enfeff'. [Law Latin feaffo, feoffare, from fief, which see.]

1. To give one a feud; hence, to invest with a fee; to give to another any corporeal hereditament, in fee simple or fee tail, by livery of seizin.

2. To surrender or give up. [Not used.]

ENFEOFF'ED, participle passive Invested with the fee of any corporeal hereditament.

ENFEOFF'ING, participle present tense Giving to one the fee simple of any corporeal hereditament.

ENFEOFF'MENT, noun The act of giving the fee simple of an estate.

1. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

ENFET'TER, verb transitive To fetter; to bind in fetters.

ENFE'VER, verb transitive To excite fever in.

ENFIERCE, verb transitive enfers'. To make fierce. [Not in use.]

ENFILA'DE, noun [Latin filum.] A line or straight passage; or the situation of a place which may be seen or scoured with shot all the length of a line, or in the direction of a line.

ENFILA'DE, verb transitive [from the noun.] To pierce, scour or rake with shot, in the direction of a line, or through the whole length of a line.

In conducting approaches at a siege, care should be taken that the trenches be not enfiladed.

In a position to enfilade the works at Fort Isle.

ENFILA'DED, participle passive Pierced or raked in a line.

ENFILA'DING, participle present tense Piercing or sweeping in a line.

ENFI'RE, verb transitive To inflame; to set on fire. [Not used.]

ENFO'RCE, verb transitive

1. To give strength to; to strengthen; to invigorate. [See Def.5.]

2. To make or gain by force; to force; as, to enforce a passage.

3. To put in act by violence; to drive.

Stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings.

4. To instigate; to urge on; to animate.

5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments.

6. To compel; to constrain; to force.

7. To put in execution; to cause to take effect; as, to enforce the laws.

8. To press with a charge.

9. To prove; to evince. [Little used.]

ENFO'RCE, verb intransitive To attempt by force. [Not used.]

ENFO'RCE, noun Force; strength; power. [Not used.]

ENFO'RCEABLE, adjective That may be enforced.

ENFO'RCED, participle passive Strengthened; gained by force; driven; compelled; urged; carried into effect.

ENFO'RCEDLY, adverb By violence; not by choice.

ENFO'RCEMENT, noun The act of enforcing; compulsion; force applied.

1. That which gives energy or effect; sanction. The penalties of law are enforcements.

2. Motive of conviction; urgent evidence.

3. Pressing exigence; that which urges or constrains.

4. In a general sense, any thing which compels or constrains; any thing which urges either the body or the mind.

5. A putting in execution; as the enforcement of law.

ENFO'RCER, noun One who compels, constrains or urges; one who effects by violence; one who carries into effect.

ENFO'RCING, participle present tense Giving force or strength; compelling; urging; constraining; putting in execution.

ENFORM', verb transitive To form; to fashion. [See Form.]

ENFOUL'DERED, adjective Mixed with lightning. [Not in use.]

1. To make free of a city, corporation or state; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. The English colonies were enfranchised by special charters.

2. To free or release from custody.

3. To naturalize; to denizen; to receive as denizens; as, to enfranchise foreign words.

ENFRAN'CHISED, participle passive Set free; released from bondage.

1. Admitted to the rights and privileges of freemen.

ENFRAN'CHISEMENT, noun Release from slavery or custody.

1. The admission of persons to the freedom of a corporation or state; investiture with the privileges of free citizens; the incorporating of a person into any society or body politic.

ENFRAN'CHISER, noun One who enfranchises.

ENFRAN'CHISING, participle present tense Setting free from slavery or custody; admitting to the rights and privileges of denizens or free citizens in a state, or to the privileges of a free man in a corporation.

ENFRO'WARD, verb transitive To make froward or perverse. [Not used.]

ENFRO'ZEN, adjective Frozen; congealed. [Not used.]

ENGA'GE, verb transitive

1. To make liable for a debt to a creditor; to bind one's self as surety.

2. To pawn; to stake as a pledge.

3. To enlist; to bring into a party; as, to engage men for service; to engage friends to aid in a cause.

4. To embark in an affair; as, be not hasty to engage yourself in party disputes.

5. To gain; to win and attach; to draw to.

Good nature engages every one to its possessor.

To very duty he could minds engage

6. To unite and bind by contract or promise. Nations engage themselves to each other by treaty. The young often engage themselves to their sorrow.

7. To attract and fix; as, to engage the attention.

8. To occupy; to employ assiduously. We were engaged in conversation. The nation is engaged in war.

9. To attack in contest; to encounter. The army engaged the enemy at ten o'clock. The captain engaged the ship, at point blank distance.

ENGA'GE, verb intransitive To encounter; to begin to fight; to attack in conflict. The armies engaged at Marengo, in a general battle.

1. To embark in any business; to take a concern in; to undertake. Be cautious not to engage in controversy, without indispensable necessity.

2. To promise or pledge one's word; to bind one's self; as, a friend has engaged to supply the necessary funds.

ENGA'GED, participle passive or adjective Pledged; promised; enlisted; gained and attached; attracted and fixed; embarked; earnestly employed; zealous.

ENGA'GEDLY, adverb With earnestness; with attachment.

ENGA'GEDNESS, noun The state of being seriously and earnestly occupied; zeal; animation.

ENGA'GEMENT, noun The act of pawning, pledging or making liable for debt.

1. Obligation by agreement or contract. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfil them.

2. Adherence to a party or cause; partiality.

3. Occupation; employment of the attention.

Play, by too long or constant engagement becomes

like an employment or profession.

4. Employment in fighting; the conflict of armies or fleets; battle; a general action; appropriately the conflict of whole armies or fleets, but applied to actions between small squadrons or single ships, rarely to a fight between detachments of land forces.

5. Obligation; motive; that which engages.

ENGA'GER, noun One that enters into an engagement or agreement.

ENGA'GING, participle present tense Pawning; making liable for debt; enlisting; bringing into a party or cause; promising; binding; winning and attaching; encountering; embarking.

1. Winning; attractive; tending to draw the attention or the affections; pleasing; as engaging manners or address.

ENGA'GINGLY, adverb In a manner to win the affections.

ENGAL'LANT, verb transitive To make a gallant of. [Not used.]

ENGAOL, verb transitive enja'le. To imprison. [not used.]

ENG'ARBOIL, verb transitive To disorder. [Not in used.]

ENG'ARLAND, verb transitive To encircle with a garland.

ENGAR'RISON, verb transitive To furnish with a garrison; to defend or protect by a garrison.

ENGAS'TRIMUTH, noun A ventriloquist.

ENGEN'DER, verb transitive [Latin gener, genero, geno, gigno. See Generate.]

1. To beget between the different sexes; to form in embryo.

2. To produce; to cause to exist; to cause to bring forth. Meteors are engendered in the atmosphere; worms are sometimes engendered in the stomach; intemperance engenders fatal maladies; angry words engender strife.

ENGEN'DER, verb intransitive To be caused or produced.

Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.

ENGEN'DERED, participle passive Begotten; caused; produced.

ENGEN'DERER, noun He or that which engenders.

ENGEN'DERING, participle present tense Begetting; causing to be; producing.

ENGILD', verb transitive To gild; to brighten.

EN'GINE, noun [Latin ingenium.]

1. In mechanics, a compound machine, or artificial instrument, composed of different parts, and intended to produce some effect by the help of the mechanical powers; as a pump, a windlas, a capstan, a fire engine a steam engine

2. A military machine; as a battering ram, etc.

3. Any instrument; that by which any effect is produced. An arrow, a sword, a musket is an engine of death.

4. A machine for throwing water to extinguish fire.

5. Means; any thing used to effect a purpose.

6. An agent for another; usually in an ill sense.

ENGINEE'R, noun In the military art, a person skilled in mathematics and mechanics, who forms plans of works for offense or defense, and marks out the ground for fortifications. Engineers are also employed in delineating plans and superintending the construction of other public works, as aqueducts and canals. The latter are called civil engineers.

1. One who manages engines or artillery.

EN'GINERY, noun en'ginry. The act of managing engines or artillery.

1. Engines in general; artillery; instruments of war.

2. Machination.

ENGIRD', verb transitive [See Gird.] To surround; to encircle; to encompass.

ENGIRD'ED

ENGIRD'ING, participle present tense Encircling; surrounding.

ENGIRD'ING, ppr. Encircling; surrounding.

ENGIRT', participle passive Surrounded; encompassed.

ENGLAD', verb transitive To make glad; to cause to rejoice.

ENGLA'IMED, adjective Furred; clammy. [Not used.]

ENGLAND, noun [See English.]

ENGLISH, adjective ing'glish. [Latin ango, from the sense of pressing, depression, laying, which gives the sense of level.]

Belonging to England, or to its inhabitants.

ENGLISH, noun The people of England.

1. The language of England or of the english nation, and of their descendants in India, America and other countries.

ENGLISH, verb transitive To translate into the english language.

ENGLISHED, participle passive Rendered into English.

ENGLISHRY, noun The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Not used.]

ENGLUT', verb transitive [Latin glutio.]

1. To swallow.

2. To fill; to glut. [This word is little used. See Glut.]

ENGO'RE, verb transitive To pierce; to gore. [See Gore.]

ENGORGE, verb transitive engorj'. To swallow; ; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness, or in large quantities.

ENGORGE, verb transitive engorj'. To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity.

ENGORG'ED, participle passive Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

ENGORGEMENT, noun engorj'ment. the act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.

ENGORG'ING, participle present tense Swallowing with voracity.

ENGR'AFT, verb transitive To ingraft, which see.

ENGRA'IL, verb transitive In heraldry, to variegate; to spot as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curve lines.

ENGRA'ILED, participle passive Variegated; spotted.

ENGRA'IN, verb transitive [from grain.] To dye in grain, or in the raw material to dye deep.

ENGRA'INED, participle passive Dyed in the grain; as engrained carpets.

ENGRA'INING, participle present tense Dyeing in the grain.

ENGRAP'PLE, verb transitive [from grapple. To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [See Grapple, which is generally used.]

ENGR'ASP, verb transitive [from grasp.] To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. [See Grasp, which is generally used.]

ENGRA'VE, verb transitive preterit tense engraved; participle passive engraved or engraven.

Literally, to scratch or scrape. Hence,

1. To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incision.

Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Exodus 28:11.

2. To picture or represent by incisions.

3. To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix.

Let the laws of God and the principles of morality be engraved on the minds in early years.

4. To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.]

ENGRA'VED

ENGRA'VEMENT, noun engraved work; act of engraving.

ENGRA'VEMENT, n. Engraved work; act of engraving.

ENGRA'VEN, participle passive Cut or marked, as with a chisel or graver; imprinted; deeply impressed.

ENGRA'VER, noun One who engraves; a cutter of letters, figures or devices, on stone, metal or wood; a sculptor; a carver.

ENGRA'VERY, noun The work of an engraver. [Little used.]

ENGRA'VING, participle present tense Cutting or marking stones or metals, with a chisel or graver; imprinting.

ENGRA'VING, noun The act or art of cutting stones, metals and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters and devices; a branch of sculpture.

ENGRIE'VE, verb transitive To grieve; to pain. [See Grieve.]

ENGRO'SS, verb transitive

1. Primarily, to make thick or gross; to thicken. [Not now used.]

2. To make larger; to increase in bulk. [Not used.]

3. To seize in the gross; to take the whole; as, worldly cares engross the attention of most men, but neither business nor amusement should engross our whole time.

4. To purchase, with a view to sell again, either the whole or large quantities of commodities in market, for the purpose of making a profit by enhancing the price. Engrossing does not necessarily imply the purchase of the whole of any commodity, but such quantities as to raise the price, by diminishing the supplies in open market, and taking advantage of an increased demand.

5. To copy in a large hand; to write a fair, correct copy, in large or distinct, legible characters, for preservation or duration; as records of public acts, on paper or parchment.

6. To take or assume in undue quantities or degrees; as, to engross power.

ENGRO'SSED, participle passive Made thick; taken in the whole; purchased in large quantities for sale; written in large fair characters.

ENGRO'SSER, noun He or that which takes the whole; a person who purchases the whole or such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price.

1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

ENGRO'SSING, participle present tense Taking the whole; buying commodities in such quantities as to raise the price in market.

1. Writing correct copies in large, fair characters.

ENGRO'SSMENT, noun The act of engrossing; the act of taking the whole.

1. The appropriation of things in the gross, or in exorbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition.

ENGU'ARD, verb transitive [See Guard.] To guard; to defend.

ENGULF', verb transitive To throw or to absorb in a gulf.

ENGULF'ED, participle passive Absorbed in a whirlpool, or in a deep abyss or gulf.

ENGULF'MENT, noun An absorption in a gulf, or deep cavern, or vortex.

ENH'ANCE, verb transitive enh'ans.

1. To raise; to lift; applied to material things by Spenser, but this application is entirely obsolete.

2. To raise; to advance; to highthen; applied to price or value. War enhances the price of provisions; it enhances rents, and the value of lands.

3. To raise; applied to qualities, quantity, pleasures, enjoyments, etc. Pleasure is enhanced by the difficulty of obtaining it.

4. To increase; to aggravate. The guilt of a crime may be enhanced by circumstances.

ENH'ANCE, verb intransitive enh'ans. To be raised; to swell; to grow larger. A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

ENH'ANCED, participle passive Raised; advanced; highthened; increased.

ENH'ANCEMENT, noun Rise; increase; augmentation; as the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty.

1. Increase; aggravation; as the enhancement of evil, grief, punishment, guilt or crime.

ENH'ANCER, noun One who enhances; he or that which raises price, etc.

ENH'ANCING, participle present tense Raising; increasing; augmenting; aggravating.

ENH'ARBOR, verb intransitive To dwell in or inhabit.

ENH'ARDEN, verb transitive To harden; to encourage.

ENHARMON'IC, adjective [from harmonic, harmony.] In music, an epithet applied to such species of composition, as proceed on very small intervals, or smaller intervals that the diatonic and chromatic. An enharmonic interval is the eighth of a tone.

ENIG'MA, noun [Latin oenigma; Gr. to hint.] A dark saying, in which some known thing is concealed under obscure language; an obscure question; a riddle. A question, saying or painting, containing a hidden meaning, which is proposed to be guessed.

ENIGMAT'IC

ENIGMAT'ICAL, adjective Relating to or containing a riddle; obscure; darkly expressed; ambiguous.

1. Obscurely conceived or apprehended.

ENIGMAT'ICAL, a. Relating to or containing a riddle; obscure; darkly expressed; ambiguous.

ENIGMAT'ICALLY, adverb In an obscure manner; in a sense different from that which the words in common acceptation imply.

ENIG'MATIST, noun A maker or dealer in enigmas and riddles.

ENIG'MATIZE, verb intransitive To utter or form enigmas; to deal in riddles.

ENIGMATOG'RAPHY

ENIGMATOL'OGY, noun The art of making riddles; or the art of solving them.

ENIGMATOL'OGY, n. The art of making riddles; or the art of solving them.

ENJOIN', verb transitive [Latin injungo. See Join. We observe that the primary sense of join is to set, extend or lay to, to throw to or on; otherwise the sense of order or command could not spring from it.To enjoin is to set or lay to or on.]

1. To order or direct with urgency; to admonish or instruct with authority; to command. Says Johnson, 'this word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command.' It has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command; as the duties enjoined by God in the moral law.

2. In law, to forbid judicially; to issue or direct a legal injunction to stop proceedings.

This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.

ENJOIN'ED, participle passive Ordered; directed; admonished with authority; commanded.

ENJOIN'ER, noun One who enjoins.

ENJOIN'ING, participle present tense Ordering; directing.

ENJOIN'MENT, noun Direction; command; authoritative admonition.

ENJOY', verb transitive

1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of. We enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, and our own meditations.

I could enjoy the pangs of death,

And smile in agony.

2. To possess with satisfaction; to take pleasure or delight in the possession of.

Thou shalt beget sons, but thou shalt not enjoy them. Deuteronomy 28:41.

3. To have, possess and use with satisfaction; to have, hold or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable. We enjoy a free constitution and inestimable privileges.

That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Numbers 36:8.

The land shall enjoy her sabbaths. Leviticus 26:34.

To enjoy one's self, is to feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's own mind, or to relish the pleasures in which one partakes; to be happy.

ENJOY', verb intransitive To live in happiness. [Unusual.]

ENJOY'ABLE, adjective Capable of being enjoyed.

ENJOY'ED, participle passive Perceived with pleasure or satisfaction; possessed or used with pleasure; occupied with content.

ENJOY'ER, noun One who enjoys.

ENJOY'ING, participle present tense Feeling with pleasure; possessing with satisfaction.

ENJOY'MENT, noun Pleasure; satisfaction; agreeable sensations; fruition.

1. Possession with satisfaction; occupancy of any thing good or desirable; as the enjoyment of an estate; the enjoyment of civil and religious privileges.

ENKIN'DLE, verb transitive [from kindle.] To kindle; to set on fire; to inflame; as, to enkindle sparks into a flame. In this literal sense, kindle is generally used.

1. To excite; to rouse into action; to inflame; as, to enkindle the passions into a flame; to enkindle zeal; to enkindle war or discord, or the flames of war.

ENKIN'DLED, participle passive Set on fire; inflamed; roused into action; excited.

ENKIN'DLING, participle present tense Setting on fire; inflaming; rousing; exciting.

ENL'ARD, verb transitive To cover with lard or grease; to baste.

ENL'ARGE, verb transitive enlarj. [from large.] To make greater in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth or side; to expand in bulk. Every man desires to enlarge his possessions; the prince, his dominions. and the landholder, his farm. The body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence.

God shall enlarge Japhet. Genesis 9:27.

1. To dilate; to expand; as with joy or love.

O ye, Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our

heart is enlarged.

2. To expand; to make more comprehensive. Science enlarges the mind.

3. To increase in appearance; to magnify to the eye; as by a glass.

4. To set at liberty; to release from confinement or pressure.

5. To extend in a discourse; to diffuse in eloquence.

They enlarged themselves on this subject.

In this application, the word is generally intransitive.

6. To augment; to increase; to make large or larger, in a general sense; a word of general application.

To enlarge the heart, may signify to open and expand in good will; to make free, liberal and charitable.

ENL'ARGE, verb intransitive enlarj. To grow large or larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand. A plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

1. To be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate. I might enlarge on this topic.

2. To exaggerate.

ENL'ARGED, participle passive Increased in bulk; extended in dimension; expanded; dilated; augmented; released from confinement or straits.

ENL'ARGEDLY, adverb With enlargement.

ENL'ARGEMENT, noun Increase of size or bulk, real or apparent; extension of dimensions or limits; augmentation; dilatation; expansion. The enlargement of bulk may be by accretion or addition; of dimensions, by spreading, or by additions to length and breadth; of a sum or amount, by addition, collection or accumulation.

1. Expansion or extension, applied to the mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual powers, by which the mind comprehends a wider range of ideas or thought.

2. Expansion of the heart, by which it becomes more benevolent and charitable.

3. Release from confinement, servitude, distress or straits. Esther 4:14.

4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument.

ENL'ARGER, noun He or that which enlarges, increases, extends or expands; an amplifier.

ENL'ARGING, participle present tense Increasing in bulk; extending in dimension; expanding; making free or liberal; speaking diffusively.

ENL'ARGING, noun Enlargement.

ENLI'GHT, verb transitive enli'te. To illuminate; to enlighten.

[See Enlighten. enlight is rarely used.]

ENLI'GHTEN, verb transitive enli'tn. [from light.]

1. To make light; to shed light on; to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

His lightnings enlightened the world. Psalms 97:4.

2. To quicken in the faculty of vision; to enable to see more clearly.

Jonathan's--eyes were enlightened. 1 Samuel 14:27.

3. To give light to; to give clearer views; to illuminate; to instruct; to enable to see or comprehend truth; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

4. To illuminate with divine knowledge, or a knowledge of the truth.

Those who were once enlightened. Hebrews 6:4.

ENLI'GHTENED, participle passive Rendered light; illuminated; instructed; informed; furnished with clear views.

ENLI'GHTENER, noun One who illuminates; he or that which communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

ENLI'GHTENING, participle present tense Illuminating; giving light to; instructing.

ENLINK', verb transitive [from link.] To chain to; to connect.

ENLIST', verb transitive [See List.] To enroll; to register; to enter a name on a list.

1. To engage in public service, by entering the name in a register; as, an officer enlists men.

ENLIST', verb intransitive To engage in public service, by subscribing articles, or enrolling one's name.

ENLIST'MENT, noun The act of enlisting; the writing by which a soldier is bound.

ENLI'VEN, verb transitive enli'vn. [from life, live.] Literally, to give life. Hence,

1. To give action or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

2. To give spirit or vivacity to; to animate; to make sprightly. social mirth and good humor enliven company; they enliven the dull and gloomy.

3. To make cheerful, gay or joyous.

ENLI'VENED, participle passive Made more active; excited; animated; made cheerful or gay.

ENLI'VENER, noun He or that which enlivens or animates; he or that which invigorates.

ENLI'VENING, participle present tense Giving life, spirit or animation; inspiriting; invigorating; making vivacious, springtly or cheerful.

ENLU'MINE, verb transitive To illumine; to enlighten. [See the latter words.]

ENMAR'BLE, verb transitive To make hard as marble; to harden.

ENMESH', verb transitive [from mesh.] To net; to entangle to entrap.

EN'MITY, noun

1. The quality of being an enemy; the opposite of friendship; ill will; hatred; unfriendly dispositions; malevolence. It expresses more than aversion and less than malice, and differs from displeasure in denoting a fixed or rooted hatred, whereas displeasure is more transient.

I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Genesis 3:15.

The carnal mind is enmity against God.Romans 8:7.

2. A state of opposition.

The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James 4:4.

ENNEACONTAHE'DRAL, adjective Having ninety faces.

EN'NEAGON, noun [Gr. nine, an angle.] In geometry, a polygon or figure with nine sides or nine angles.

ENNEAN'DER, noun [Gr. nine, a male.] In botany, a plant having nine stamens.

ENNEAN'DRIAN, adjective Having nine stamens.

ENNEAPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. nine, a leaf.] Having nine petals or flower-leaves.

ENNEAT'ICAL, adjective [Gr. nine.] enneatical days, are every ninth day of a disease. enneatical years, are every ninth year of a man's life.

ENNEW' verb transitive To make new. [Not in use.]

ENNO'BLE, verb transitive

1. To make noble; to raise to nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

2. To dignify; to exalt; to aggrandize; to elevate in degree, qualities or excellence.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?

3. To make famous or illustrious.

ENNO'BLED, participle passive Raised to the rank of nobility; dignified; exalted in rank, excellence or value.

ENNO'BLEMENT, noun The act of advancing to nobility.

1. Exaltation; elevation in degree or excellence.

ENNO'BLING, participle present tense Advancing to the rank of a nobleman; exalting; dignifying.

ENNUI, noun Weariness; heaviness; lassitude of fastidiousness.

ENODA'TION, noun [Latin enodatio, from enodo, to clear from knots; e and nodus, a knot.]

1. The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying.

2. Solution of a difficulty. [Little used.]

ENO'DE, adjective [Latin enodis; e and nodus, knot.] In botany, destitute of knots or joints; knotless.

ENOM'OTARCH, noun The commander of an enomoty.

ENOM'OTY, noun [Gr. to swear.] In Lacedaemon, anciently, a body of soldiers, supposed to be thirty two; but the precise number is uncertain.

ENORM', adjective [Not used. See Enormous.]

ENOR'MITY, noun [Latin enormitas. See Enormous.]

1. Literally, the transgression of a rule, or deviation from right. Hence, any wrong, irregular, vicious or sinful act, either in government or morals.

We shall speak of the enormities of the government.

This law will not restrain the enormity

1. Atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; a crime which exceeds the common measure.

2. Atrociousness; excessive degree of crime or guilt. Punishment should be proportioned to the enormity of the crime.

ENOR'MOUS, adjective [Latin enormis; e and norma, a rule.]

1. Going beyond the usual measure or rule.

Enormous in their gait.

2. Excursive; beyond the limits of a regular figure.

The enormous part of the light in the circumference of every lucid point.

3. Great beyond the common measure; excessive; as enormous crime or guilt.

4. Exceeding, in bulk or highth, the common measure; as an enormous form; a man of enormous size.

5. Irregular; confused; disordered; unusual.

ENOR'MOUSENESS, noun The state of being enormous or excessive; greatness beyond measure.

ENOR'MOUSLY, adverb Excessively; beyond measure; as an opinion enormously absurd.

ENOUGH', adjective enuf'. [Heb. to rest, to be quiet or satisfied.]

That satisfies desire, or gives content; that may answer the purpose; that is adequate to the wants.

She said, we have straw and provender enough Genesis 24:25.

How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare. Luke 15:17.

[Note. This word, in vulgar language, is sometimes placed before its noun, like most other adjectives. But in elegant discourse or composition, it always follows the noun, to which it refers; as, bread enough; money enough ]

ENOUGH', noun enuf'. A sufficiency; a quantity of a thing which satisfies desire, or is adequate to the wants. We have enough of this sort of cloth.

And Esau said, I have enough my brother. Genesis 33:9.

Israel said, it is enough; Joseph is yet alive. Gen 45.

1. That which is equal to the powers or abilities. He had enough to do to take care of himself.

ENOUGH', adverb enuf'. Sufficiently; in a quantity or degree that satisfies, or is equal to the desires or wants.

The land, behold, it is large enough for them. Gen 34.

Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. Deuteronomy 1:6.

1. Fully; quite; denoting a slight augmentation of the positive degree. He is ready enough to embrace the offer. It is pleasure enough to consider the different notions of different men respecting the same thing.

2. Sometimes it denotes diminution, delicately expressing rather less than is desired; such a quantity or degree as commands acquiescence, rather than full satisfaction. The song or the performance is well enough

3. An exclamation denoting sufficiency. enough enough I'll hear no more.

ENOUNCE, verb transitive enouns'. [Latin enuncio; e and nuncio, to declare.]

To utter; to pronounce; to declare. [Little used.]

ENOUN'CED, participle passive Uttered; pronounced.

ENOUN'CING, participle present tense Uttering; pronouncing.

ENOW, the old plural of enough, is nearly obsolete.

EN PASSANT. In passing; by the way.

ENQUICK'EN, verb transitive To quicken; to make alive. [Not used.]

ENQUIRE, usually written inquire, which see and its derivatives.

ENRA'CE, verb transitive To implant. [Not used.]

ENRA'GE, verb transitive To excite rage in; to exasperate; to provoke to fury or madness; to make furious.

ENRA'GED, participle passive Made furious; exasperated; provoked to madness.

ENRA'GING, participle present tense Exasperating; provoking to madness.

ENRA'NGE, verb transitive To put in order; to rove over. [Not in use.]

ENRANK', verb transitive To place in ranks or order.

ENRAP'TURE, verb transitive [from rapture.] To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure. Enrapt, in a like sense, is little used, and is hardly legitimate.

ENRAP'TURED, participle passive Transported with pleasure; highly delighted.

ENRAP'TURING, participle present tense Transporting with pleasure; highly delighting.

ENRAV'ISH, verb transitive [from ravish.] To throw into ecstasy; to transport with delight; to enrapture.

ENRAV'ISHED, participle passive Transported with delight or pleasure; enraptured.

ENRAV'ISHING, participle present tense Throwing into ecstasy; highly delighting.

ENRAV'ISHMENT, noun Ecstasy of delight; rapture.

ENREG'ISTER, verb transitive To register; to enroll or record.

ENRHEUM, verb intransitive To have rheum through cold.

ENRICH', verb transitive

1. To make rich, wealthy or opulent; to supply with abundant property. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures enrich a nation. War and plunder seldom enrich more generally they impoverish a country.

2. To fertilize; to supply with the nutriment of plants and render productive; as, to enrich land by manures or irrigation.

3. To store; to supply with an abundance of any thing desirable; as, to enrich the mind with knowledge, science or useful observations.

4. To supply with any thing splendid or ornamental; as, to enrich a pointing with elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or oration with striking metaphors or images; to enrich a garden with flowers or shrubbery.

ENRICH'ED, participle passive Made rich or wealthy; fertilized; supplied with that which is desirable, useful or ornamental.

ENRICH'ER, noun One that enriches.

ENRICH'ING, participle present tense Making opulent; fertilizing; supplying with what is splendid, useful or ornamental.

ENRICH'MENT, noun Augmentation of wealth; amplification; improvement; the addition of fertility or ornament.

ENRIDGE, verb transitive enrij'. To form into ridges.

ENRING', verb transitive To encircle; to bind.

ENRI'PEN, verb transitive To ripen; to bring to perfection.

ENRI'VE, verb transitive To rive; to cleave.

ENRO'BE, verb transitive [from robe.] To clothe with rich attire; to attire; to invest.

ENRO'BED, participle passive Attired; invested.

ENRO'BING, participle present tense Investing; attiring.

ENROLL, verb transitive

1. To write in a roll or register; to insert a name or enter in a list or catalogue; as, men are enrolled for service.

2. To record; to insert in records; to leave in writing.

3. To wrap; to involve.

ENROLLED, participle passive Inserted in a roll or register; recorded.

ENROLLER, noun He that enrolls or registers.

ENROLLING, participle present tense Inserting in a register; recording.

ENROLLMENT, noun A register; a record; a writing in which any thing is recorded.

1. The act of enrolling.

ENROOT', verb transitive [from root.] To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

ENROOT'ED, participle passive Fixed by the root; planted or fixed deep.

ENROOT'ING, participle present tense Fixing by the root; planting deep.

ENROUND', verb transitive To environ; to surround; to inclose. [Not used.]

ENS, noun [Latin ens part. present of esse, to be.]

Entity; being; existence. Among the old chimists, the power, virtue or efficacy, which certain substances exert on our bodies; or the things which are supposed to contain all the qualities or virtues of the ingredients they are drawn from, in little room. [little used.]

ENSAM'PLE, noun [ Latin exemplum.] An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

Being ensamples to the flock. 1 Peter 5:3.

ENSAM'PLE, verb transitive To exemplify; to shew by example. This word is seldom used, either as a noun or a verb. [See Example.]

ENSAN'GUINE, verb transitive [Latin sanguis, blood; Eng. sanguine.]

To stain or cover with blood; to smear with gore; as an ensanguined field.

ENSAN'GUINED, participle passive Suffused or stained with blood.

EN'SATE, adjective [Latin ensis, a sword.] Having sword-shaped leaves.

ENSCHED'ULE, verb transitive To insert in a schedule. [See Schedule.]

ENSCONCE, verb transitive enscons'. [from sconce.]

To cover, or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to protect; to secure.

I will ensconce me behind the arras.

ENSCON'CED, participle passive Covered, or sheltered, as by a sconce or fort; protected; secured.

ENSCON'CING, participle present tense covering, or sheltering, as by a fort.

ENSE'AL, verb transitive [from seal.] To seal; to fix a seal on; to impress.

ENSE'ALED, participle passive Impressed with a seal.

ENSE'ALING, participle present tense Sealing; affixing a seal to.

ENSE'ALING, noun The act of affixing a seal to.

ENSE'AM, verb transitive [from seam.] To sew up; to inclose by a seam or juncture of needlework.

ENSE'AMED, adjective Greasy. [Not in use.]

ENSE'AR, verb transitive [from sear.] To sear; to cauterize; to close or stop by burning to hardness.

ENSEARCH', verb intransitive enserch'. To search for; to try to find. [Not used.]

ENSEM'BLE, noun One with another; on an average.

ENSHIE'LD, verb transitive [from shield.] To shield; to cover; to protect.

ENSHRI'NE, verb transitive [from shrine.] To inclose in a shrine or chest; to deposit for safe-keeping in a cabinet.

ENSHRI'NED, participle passive Inclosed or preserved in a shrine or chest.

1. Inclosed; placed as in a shrine.

ENSHRI'NING, participle present tense Inclosing in a shrine or cabinet.

ENSIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin ensis, sword, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or carrying a sword.

EN'SIFORM, adjective [Latin ensiformis; ensis, sword, and forma, form.]

Having the shape of a sword; as the ensiform or xiphoid cartilage; an ensiform leaf.

EN'SIGN, noun en'sine. [Latin insigne, insignia, from signum, a mark impressed, a sign.]

1. The flag or banner of a military band; a banner of colors; a standard; a figured cloth or piece of silk, attached to a staff, and usually with figures, colors or arms thereon, borne by an officer at the head of a company, troop or other band.

2. Any signal to assemble or to give notice.

He will lift up an ensign to the nations. Isaiah 5:26.

Ye shall be left as an ensign on a hill. Isaiah 30:17.

3. A badge; a mark of distinction, rank or office; as ensigns of power or virtue.

4. The officer who carries the flag or colors, being the lowest commissioned officer in a company of infantry.

5. Naval ensign is a large banner hoisted on a staff and carried over the poop or stern of a ship; used to distinguish ships of different nations, or to characterize different squadrons of the same navy.

EN'SIGNCY, noun The rank, office or commission of an ensign.

ENSKI'ED, adjective Placed in heaven; made immortal. [Not in use.]

ENSLA'VE, verb transitive [from slave.] To reduce to slavery or bondage; to deprive of liberty and subject to the will of a master. Barbarous nations enslave their prisoners of war, but civilized men barbarously and wickedly purchase men to enslave them.

1. To reduce to servitude or subjection. Men often suffer their passions and appetites to enslave them. They are enslaved to lust, to anger, to intemperance, to avarice.

ENSLA'VED, participle passive Reduced to slavery or subjection.

ENSLA'VEMENT, noun The state of being enslaved; slavery; bondage; servitude.

ENSLA'VER, noun He who reduces another to bondage.

ENSLA'VING, participle present tense Reducing to bondage; depriving of liberty.

ENSNARE, [See Insnare.]

ENSO'BER, verb transitive [from sober.] To make sober.

ENSPHE'RE, verb transitive [from sphere.] To place in a sphere.

1. To make into a sphere.

ENSTAMP', verb transitive [from stamp.] To impress as with a stamp; to impress deeply.

God enstamped his image on man.

ENSTAMP'ED, participle passive Impressed deeply.

ENSTAMP'ING, participle present tense Impressing deeply.

ENSTY'LE, verb transitive To style; to name; to call. [Little used.]

ENSU'E, verb transitive [Latin sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

To follow; to pursue.

Seek peace, and ensue it. l Pet.3.

[In this sense, it is obsolete.]

ENSU'E, verb intransitive To follow as a consequence of premises; as, from these facts or this evidence, the argument will ensue

1. To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events.

ENSU'ING, participle present tense Following as a consequence; succeeding.

ENSURE, and its derivatives. [See Insure.]

ENSWEE'P, verb intransitive To sweep over; to pass over rapidly.

ENTAB'LATURE

ENTAB'LEMENT, [Latin tabula, a board or table.]

In architecture, that part of the order of a column, which is over the capital, including the architrave, frieze and cornice, being the extremity of the flooring.

ENTAB'LEMENT, [L. tabula, a board or table.]

In architecture, that part of the order of a column, which is over the capital, including the architrave, frieze and cornice, being the extremity of the flooring.

ENTACK'LE, verb transitive To supply with tackle. [Not used.]

ENTA'IL, noun

1. An estate or fee entailed, or limited indescent to a particular heir or heirs. Estates-tail are general, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body begotten; or special, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body by a particular wife.

2. Rule of descent settled for an estate.

3. Engraver's work; inlay.

ENTA'IL, verb transitive To settle the descent of lands and tenements, by gift to a man and to certain heirs specified, so that neither the donee nor any subsequent possessor can alienate or bequeath it; as, to entail a manor to AB and to his eldest son, or to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs by a particular wife.

1. To fix unalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants. By the apostasy misery is supposed to be entailed on mankind. The intemperate often entail infirmities, diseases and ruin on their children.

2. [from the French verb.] To cut; to carve for ornament.

ENTA'ILED, participle passive Settled on a man and certain heirs specified.

1. Settled on a person and his descendants.

ENTA'ILING, participle present tense Settling the descent of an estate; giving, as lands and tenements, and prescribing the mode of descent; settling unalienably on a person or thing.

ENTA'ILMENT, noun The act of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent, or of limiting the descent to a particular heir or heirs.

1. The act of settling unalienable on a man and his heirs.

ENTA'ME, verb transitive [from tame.] To tame; to subdue.

ENTAN'GLE, verb transitive [from tangle.] To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make confused or disordered; as, thread, yarn or ropes may be entangled; to entangle the hair.

1. To involve in any thing complicated, and from which it is difficult to extricate one's self; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

2. To lose in numerous or complicated involutions, as in a labyrinth.

3. To involve in difficulties; to perplex; to embarrass; as, to entangle a nation in alliances.

4. To puzzle; to bewilder; as, to entangle the understanding.

5. To insnare by captious questions; to catch; to perplex; to involve in contradictions.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Matthew 22:15.

6. To perplex or distract, as with cares.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Timothy 2:4.

7. To multiply intricacies and difficulties.

ENTAN'GLED, participle passive or adjective Twisted together; interwoven in a confused manner; intricate; perplexed; involved; embarrassed; insnared.

ENTAN'GLEMENT, noun Involution; a confused or disordered state; intricacy; perplexity.

ENTAN'GLER, noun One who entangles.

ENTAN'GLING, participle present tense Involving; interweaving or interlocking in confusion; perplexing; insnaring.

ENTEN'DER, verb transitive To treat with tenderness or kindness.

EN'TER, verb transitive [Latin inter, intra, whence intro, to enter The Latin inter seems to be in, with the termination ter, as in subter, from sub.]

1. To move or pass into place, in any manner whatever; to come or go in; to walk or ride in; to flow in; to pierce or penetrate. A man enters a house; an army enters a city or a camp; a river enters the sea; a sword enters the body; the air enters a room at every crevice.

2. To advance into, in the progress of life; as, a youth has entered his tenth year.

3. To begin in a business, employment or service; to enlist or engage in; as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age.

4. To become a member of; as, to enter college; to enter a society.

5. To admit or introduce; as, the youth was entered a member of College.

6. To set down in writing; to set an account in a book or register; as, the clerk entered the account or charge in the journal; he entered debt and credit at the time.

7. To set down, as a name; to enroll; as, to enter a name in the enlistment.

8. To lodge a manifest of goods at the custom-house, and gain admittance or permission to land; as, to enter goods. We say also, to enter a ship at the custom-house.

EN'TER, verb intransitive To go or come in; to pass into; as, to enter a country.

1. To flow in; as, water enters into a ship.

2. To pierce; to penetrate; as, a ball or an arrow enters into the body.

3. To penetrate mentally; as, to enter into the principles of action.

4. To engage in; as, to enter into business or service; to enter into visionary projects.

5. To be initiated in; as, to enter into a taste of pleasure or magnificence.

6. To be an ingredient; to form a constituent part. Lead enters into the composition of pewter.

EN'TERDEAL, noun Mutual dealing. [Not in use.]

EN'TERED, participle passive Moved in; come in; pierced; penetrated; admitted; introduced; set down in writing.

EN'TERING, participle present tense Coming or going in; flowing in; piercing; penetrating; setting down in writing; enlisting; engaging.

EN'TERING, noun Entrance; a passing in. Latin Thes. 1.

ENTERLACE, [See Interlace.]

EN'TEROCELE, noun [Gr. intestine, and tumor.] In surgery, intestinal hernia; a rupture of the intestines.

ENTEROL'OGY, noun [Gr. intestine, and discourse.] A treatise or discourse on the bowels or internal parts of the body, usually including the contents of the head, breast and belly.

ENTEROM'PHALOS, noun [Gr. intestine, and navel.] Navel rupture; umbilical rupture.

ENTERP'ARLANCE, noun Parley; mutual talk or conversation; conference.

ENTERPLEAD, [See Interplead.]

EN'TERPRISE, noun s as z. That which is undertaken, or attempted to be performed; an attempt; a project attempted; particularly, a bold, arduous or hazardous undertaking, either physical or moral. The attack on Stoney-Point was a bold, but successful enterprise The attempts to evangelize the heathen are noble enterprises.

Their hands cannot perform their enterprise Job 5:12.

EN'TERPRISE, verb transitive To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform.

The business must be enterprised this night.

EN'TERPRISED, participle passive Undertaken; attempted; essayed.

EN'TERPRISER, noun An adventurer; one who undertakes any projected scheme, especially a bold or hazardous one; a person who engages in important or dangerous designs.

EN'TERPRISING, participle present tense Undertaking, especially a bold design.

1. Bold or forward to undertake; resolute, active, or prompt to attempt great or untried schemes. enterprising men often succeed beyond all human probability.

ENTERTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin tenco.]

1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2.

2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.

3. To keep in one's service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics.

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]

4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men.

5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital.

6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.

7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.

ENTERTA'IN, noun Entertainment. [Not in use.]

ENTERTA'INED, participle passive Received with hospitality, as a guest; amused; pleased and engaged; kept in the mind; retained.

ENTERTA'INER, noun He who entertains; he who received company with hospitality, or for reward.

1. He who retains others in his service.

2. He that amuses, pleases or diverts.

ENTERTA'INING, participle present tense Receiving with hospitality; receiving and treating with provisions and accommodations, for reward; keeping or cherishing with favor; engaging the attention; amusing.

1. Pleasing; amusing; diverting; as an entertaining discourse; an entertaining friend.

ENTERTA'ININGLY, adverb In an amusing manner.

ENTERTA'INMENT, noun The receiving and accommodating of guests, either with or without reward. The hospitable man delights in the entertainment of his friends.

1. Provisions of the table; hence also, a feast; a superb dinner or supper.

2. The amusement, pleasure or instruction, derived from conversation, discourse, argument, oratory, music, dramatic performances, etc.; the pleasure which the mind receives from any thing interesting, and which holds or arrests the attention. We often have rich entertainment in the conversation of a learned friend.

3. Reception; admission.

4. The state of being in pay or service. [Not used.]

5. Payment of those retained in service.

6. That which entertains; that which serves for amusement; the lower comedy; farce.

ENTERTIS'SUED, adjective Interwoven; having various colors intermixed.

ENTHEAS'TIC, adjective [Gr. god.] Having the energy of God.

ENTHEAS'TICALLY, adverb According to deific energy.

EN'THEAT, adjective Enthusiastic. [Not in use.]

ENTHRALL', verb transitive To enslave. [See Inthrall.]

ENTHRILL', verb transitive To pierce. [See Thrill.]

ENTHRO'NE, verb transitive [from throne.] To place on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty.

Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned.

1. To exalt to an elevated place or seat.

2. To invest with sovereign authority.

ENTHRO'NING, participle present tense Seating on a throne; raising to an exalted seat.

ENTHUN'DER, verb intransitive To make a loud noise, like thunder.

ENTHU'SIASM, noun enthuziazm. [Gr. to infuse a divine spirit, inspired, divine; God.]

1. A belief or conceit of private revelation; the vain confidence or opinion of a person, that he has special divine communications from the Supreme Being, or familiar intercourse with him.

Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination.

2. Heat of imagination; violent passion or excitement of the mind, in pursuit of some object, inspiring extravagant hope and confidence of success. Hence the same heat of imagination, chastised by reason or experience, becomes a noble passion, an elevated fancy, a warm imagination, an ardent zeal, that forms sublime ideas, and prompts to the ardent pursuit of laudable objects. Such is the enthusiasm of the poet, the orator, the painter and the sculptor. Such is the enthusiasm of the patriot, the hero and the christian.

Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular government are destroyed.

ENTHU'SIAST, noun enthu'ziast.

1. One who imagines he has special or supernatural converse with God, or special communications from him.

2. One whose imagination is warmed; one whose mind is highly excited with the love or in the pursuit of an object; a person of ardent zeal; as an enthusiast in poetry or music.

3. One of elevated fancy or exalted ideas.

ENTHUSIAS'TIC

ENTHUSIAS'TICAL, adjective Filled with enthusiasm, or the conceit of special intercourse with God or revelations from him.

1. Highly excited; warm and ardent; zealous in pursuit of an object; heated to animation. Our author was an enthusiastic lover of poetry and admirer of Homer.

2. Elevated; warm; tinctured with enthusiasm. The speaker addressed the audience in enthusiastic strains.

ENTHUSIAS'TICAL, a. Filled with enthusiasm, or the conceit of special intercourse with God or revelations from him.

ENTHUSIAS'TICALLY, adverb With enthusiasm.

ENTHYMEMAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an enthymeme; including an enthymeme.

EN'THYMEME, noun [Gr. to think or conceive; mind.] In rhetoric, an argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and a consequent deduced from it; as, we are dependent, therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed; the complete syllogism would be, dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.

ENTI'CE, verb transitive [Latin titio, a firebrand.]

1. To incite or instigate, by exciting hope or desire; usually in a bad sense; as, to entice one to evil. Hence, to seduce; to lead astray; to induce to sin, by promises or persuasions.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Proverbs 1:10.

2. To tempt; to incite; to urge or lead astray.

Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. James 1:14.

3. To incite; to allure; in a good sense.

ENTI'CED, participle passive Incited; instigated to evil; seduced by promises or persuasions; persuaded; allured.

ENTI'CEMENT, noun The act or practice of inciting to evil; instigation; as the enticements of evil companions.

1. Means of inciting to evil; that which seduces by exciting the passions. Flattery often operates as an enticement to sin.

2. Allurement.

ENTI'CER, noun One who entices; one who incites or instigates to evil; one who seduces.

ENTI'CING, participle present tense Inciting to evil; urging to sin by motives, flattery or persuasion; alluring.

1. Having the qualities that entice or allure.

ENTI'CINGLY, adverb Charmingly; in a winning manner.

She sings most enticingly

ENTI'RE, adjective [Latin integer, said to be in neg. and tango, to touch.]

1. Whole; undivided; unbroken; complete in its parts.

2. Whole; complete; not participated with others. This man has the entire control of the business.

3. Full; complete; comprising all requisites in itself.

An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts.

4. Sincere; hearty.

He run a course more entire with the king of Arragon.

5. Firm; solid; sure; fixed; complete; undisputed.

Entire and sure the monarch's rule must prove,

Who founds her greatness on her subjects' love.

6. Unmingled; unalloyed.

In thy presence joy entire

7. Wholly devoted; firmly adherent; faithful.

No man had a heart more entire to the king.

8. In full strength; unbroken.

9. In botany, an entire stem is one without branches; an entire leaf is without any opening in the edge, not divided.

ENTI'RELY, adverb Wholly; completely; fully; as, the money is entirely lost.

1. In the whole; without division.

Euphrates--falls not entirely into the Persian sea.

2. With firm adherence or devotion; faithfully.

ENTI'RENESS, noun Completeness; fullness; totality; unbroken form or state; as the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

1. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.

ENTI'RETY, noun Wholeness; completeness; as entirety of interest.

1. The whole.

EN'TITATIVE, adjective [from entity.] considered by itself. [This word, and entitatively, rarely or never used.]

ENTI'TLE, verb transitive [Latin titulus, a title.]

1. To give a title to; to give or prefix a name or appellation; as, to entitle a book, Commentaries on the laws of England.

2. To superscribe or prefix as a title. Hence as titles are evidences of claim or property, to give a claim to; to give a right to demand or receive. The labor of the servant entitles him to his wages. Milton is entitled to fame. Our best services do not entitle us to heaven.

3. To assign or appropriate by giving a title.

4. To qualify; to give a claim by the possession of suitable qualifications; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

5. To dignify by a title or honorable appelation. In this sense, title is often used.

6. To ascribe.

ENTI'TLED, participle passive Dignified or distinguished by a title; having a claim as, every good man is entitled to respect.

ENTI'TLING, participle present tense Dignifying or distinguishing by a title; giving a title; giving a claim.

EN'TITY, noun [Low Latin entitas.] Being; existence.

Fortune is no real entity

1. A real being, or species of being.

ENTOIL', verb transitive [See Toil.] To take with toils; to ensnare; to entangle.

ENTOMB, verb transitive entoom'. [from tomb.] To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body.

1. To bury in a grave; to inter.

ENTOMBED, participle passive Deposited in a tomb; buried; interred.

ENTOMBING, participle present tense Depositing in a tomb; burying; interring.

ENTOMBMENT, noun Burial.

EN'TOMOLITE, noun [Gr. insect, stone.]

A fossil substance bearing the figure of an insect, or a petrified insect.

ENTOMOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the science of insects.

ENTOMOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the science of insects.

ENTOMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. insect, to cut, discourse.]

That part of zoology which treats of insects; the science or history and description of insects.

ENTORTILA'TION, noun A turning into a circle.

EN'TRAIL

EN'TRAILS, noun

1. The internal parts of animal bodies; particularly, the guts or intestines; the bowels; used chiefly in the plural.

2. The internal parts; as the entrails of the earth.

The dark entrails of America.

ENTRA'IL, verb transitive To interweave; to diversify. [Not in use.]

EN'TRAILS, n.

ENTRAM'MELED, adjective [from trammel.] Curled; frizzed. [Not used.]

EN'TRANCE, noun [Latin intrans, intro.]

1. The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.

2. The power of entering. Let the porter give no entrance to strangers.

Where diligence opens the door of the understanding, and impartiality keeps it, truth is sure to find an entrance and a welcome too.

3. The door, gate, passage or avenue, by which a place may be entered.

They said, show us the entrance into the city. Judges 1:24.

4. Commencement; initiation; beginning. A youth at his entrance on a difficult science, is apt to be discouraged.

5. The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.

6. The act of taking possession, as of an office. Magistrates at their entrance into office, usually take an oath.

7. The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.

8. The beginning of any thing.

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.

ENTR'ANSE, verb transitive or i. [Latin transeo.]

1. To put in a transe; to withdraw the soul, and leave the body in a kind of dead sleep or insensibility; to make insensible to present objects. The verb is seldom used, but the participle, entransed, is common.

2. To put in an ecstasy; to ravish the soul with delight or wonder.

And I so ravish'd with her heavenly note,

I stood entransed, and had no room for thought.

ENTR'ANSED, participle passive Put in a transe; having the soul withdrawn, and the body left in a state of insensibility; enraptured; ravished.

ENTR'ANSING, participle present tense Carrying away the soul; enrapturing; ravishing.

ENTRAP', verb transitive To catch as in a trap; to insnare; used chiefly or wholly in a figurative sense. To catch by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to entangle; to catch or involve in contradictions; in short, to involve in any difficulties from which an escape is not easy or possible. We are entrapped by the devices of evil men. We are sometimes entrapped in our own words.

ENTRAP'PED, participle passive Ensnared; entangled.

ENTRAP'PING, participle present tense Ensnaring; involving in difficulties.

ENTREA'AT, verb transitive [Latin tracto, to handle, feel, treat, use, manage.]

1. To ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to solicit pressingly; to importune.

Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife. Genesis 25:1.

2. To prevail on by prayer or solicitation. Hence in the passive form, to be prevailed on; to yield to entreaty.

It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power, whom no prayers could entreat.

3. To treat, in any manner; properly, to use or manage; but I believe, entreat is always applied to persons, as treat is to persons or things. Applied to persons, to entreat is to use, or to deal with; to manifest to others any particular deportment, good or ill.

I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jeremiah 15:1.

The Egyptians evil-entreated us. Deuteronomy 26:1.

[In this application, the prefix en is now dropped, and treat is used.]

4. To entertain; to amuse.

5. To entertain; to receive.

ENTRE'AT, verb intransitive To make an earnest petition or request.

The Janizaries entreated for them, as valiant men.

1. To offer a treaty. [Not used.]

2. To treat; to discourse. [Not used.]

ENTRE'ATANCE, noun Entreaty; solicitation.

ENTRE'ATED, participle passive Earnestly supplicated, besought or solicited; importuned; urgently requested.

1. Prevailed on by urgent solicitation; consenting to grant what is desired.

2. Used; managed.

ENTRE'ATER, noun One that entreats, or asks earnestly.

ENTRE'ATING, participle present tense Earnestly asking; pressing with request or prayer; importuning.

1. Treating; using.

ENTRE'ATIVE, adjective Pleading; treating.

ENTRE'ATY, noun Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication.

The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. Proverbs 18:1.

ENTREMETS, noun [Latin intromissum.] Small plates set between the principal dishes at table, or dainty dishes.

ENTREPOT, noun A warehouse, staple or magazine, for the deposit of goods.

ENTRHO'NED, participle passive Seated on a throne; exalted to an elevated place.

ENTRICK, verb transitive [from trick.] To trick; to deceive; to entangle.

EN'TROCHITE, noun [Gr. a wheel.] A kind of extraneous fossil, usually about an inch in length, and made up of round joints, which, when separated, are called trochites. These seem to be composed of the same kind of substance as the fossil shells of the echini. They are striated from the center to the circumference and have a cavity in the middle. They appear to be the petrified arms of the seastar, called stella arborescens.

EN'TRY, noun The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.

1. The act of entering; entrance; ingress; as the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea or a lake; the entry of air into the blood; the entry of a spear into the flesh.

2. The act of entering and taking possession of lands or other estate.

3. The act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book. Make an entry of every sale, of every debt and credit.

4. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom house, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.

ENTU'NE, verb transitive [from tune.] To tune.

ENTWINE, verb transitive [from twine.] To twine; to twist round.

ENTWIST', verb transitive [from twist.] To twist or wreath round.

ENU'BILATE, verb transitive [Latin e and nubila, mist, clouds.]

To clear from mist, clouds or obscurity. [Not in use.]

ENU'BILOUS, adjective Clear from fog, mist or clouds.

ENU'CLEATE, verb transitive [Latin enucleo; e and nucleus, a kernel.] Properly, to take out the kernel. Hence,

1. To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disentangle.

2. To open as a nucleus; hence, to explain; to clear from obscurity; to make manifest.

ENU'CLEATED, participle passive Cleared from knots; disclosed; explained.

ENU'CLEATING, participle present tense Clearing from knots; explaining.

ENUCLEA'TION, noun The act of clearing from knots; a disentangling.

Neither air, nor water, nor food seem directly to contribute any thing to the enucleation of this disease [the plica Polonica.]

1. Explanation; full exposition.

ENU'MERATE, verb transitive [Latin enumero; e and numero, numerus, number.]

To count or tell, number by number; to reckon or mention a number of things, each separately; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation; to enumerate particular acts of kindness; we cannot enumerate our daily mercies.

ENU'MERATED, participle passive Counted or told, number by number; reckoned or mentioned by distinct particulars.

ENU'MERATING, participle present tense Counting or reckoning any number, by the particulars which compose it.

ENUMERA'TION, noun [Latin enumeratio.] The act of counting or telling a number, by naming each particular.

1. An account of a number of things, in which mention is made of every particular article.

2. In rhetoric, a part of a peroration, in which the orator recapitulates the principal points or heads of the discourse or argument.

ENU'MERATIVE, adjective Counting; reckoning up.

ENUN'CIATE, verb transitive [Latin enuncio; e and nuncio, to tell.]

To utter; to declare; to proclaim; to relate.

ENUN'CIATED, participle passive Uttered; declared; pronounced; proclaimed.

ENUN'CIATING, participle present tense Uttering; declaring; pronouncing.

ENUNCIA'TION, noun The act of uttering or pronouncing; expression; manner of utterance. In a public discourse, it is important that the enunciation should be clear and distinct.

1. Declaration; open proclamation; public attestation.

2. Intelligence; information.

ENUN'CIATIVE, adjective Declarative; expressive.

ENUN'CIATIVELY, adverb Declaratively.

ENUN'CIATORY, adjective Containing utterance or sound.

ENVAS'SAL, verb transitive [from vassal.] To reduce to vassalage.

1. To make over to another as a slave.

ENVEL'OP, verb transitive

1. To cover by wrapping of folding; to inwrap; to invest with a covering. Animal bodies are usually enveloped with skin; the merchant envelops goods with canvas; a letter is enveloped with paper.

2. To surround entirely; to cover on all sides; to hide. A ship was enveloped in fog; the troops were enveloped in dust.

3. To line; to cover on the inside.

His iron coat--enveloped with gold.

ENVEL'OP, noun A wrapper; an inclosing cover; an integument; as the envelop of a letter, or of the heart.

1. In fortification, a work of earth, in form of a parapet or of a small rampart with a parapet.

ENVEL'OPED, participle passive Inwrapped; covered on all sides; surrounded on all sides; inclosed.

ENVEL'OPING, participle present tense Inwrapping; folding around; covering or surrounding on all sides, as a case or integument.

ENVEL'OPMENT, noun A wrapping; as inclosing or covering on all sides.

ENVEN'OM, verb transitive [from venom.] To poison; to taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; never applied, in this sense, to persons, but to meat, drink or weapons; as an envenomed arrow or shaft; an envenomed potion.

1. To taint with bitterness or malice; as the envenomed tongue of slander.

2. To make odious.

O what a world is this, when what is comely

Envenoms him that bears it!

ENVEN'OMED, participle passive Tainted or impregnated with venom or poison; embittered; exasperated.

ENVEN'OMING, participle present tense Tainting with venom; poisoning; embittering; enraging.

ENVER'MEIL, verb transitive To dye red.

EN'VIABLE, adjective [See Envy.] That may excite envy; capable of awakening ardent desire of possession. The situation of men in office is not always enviable

EN'VIED, participle passive [See Envy, the verb.] Subjected to envy.

EN'VIER, noun One who envies another; one who desires what another possesses, and hates him because his condition is better than his own, or wishes his downfall.

EN'VIOUS, adjective Feeling or harboring envy; repining or feeling uneasiness, at a view of the excellence, prosperity or happiness of another; pained by the desire of possessing some superior good which another possesses, and usually disposed to deprive him of that good, to lessen it or to depreciate it in common estimation. Sometimes followed by against, but generally and properly by at, before the person envied.

Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Proverbs 14:1.

Be not envious of the blessings or prosperity of others.

1. Tinctured with envy; as an envious disposition.

2. Excited or directed by envy; as an envious attack.

EN'VIOUSLY, adverb With envy; with malignity excited by the excellence or prosperity of another.

How enviously the ladies look.

When they surprise me at my book.

ENVI'RON, verb transitive [Eng. to veer.]

1. To surround; to encompass; to encircle; as a plain environed with mountains.

2. To involve; to envelop; as, to environ with darkness, or with difficulties.

3. To besiege; as a city environed with troops.

4. To inclose; to invest.

That soldier, that man of iron,

Whom ribs of horror all environ

ENVI'RONED, participle passive Surrounded; encompassed; besieged; involved; invested.

ENVI'RONING, participle present tense Surrounding; encircling; besieging; inclosing; involving; investing. The appropriation of different parts of the globe to some particular specles of stone environing it.

ENVI'RONS, noun plural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood, on different sides; as the environs of a city or town.

EN'VOY, noun [Latin via; Eng. way, contracted from viag, vag, or wag.]

1. A person deputed by a prince or government, to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign prince or government. We usually apply the word to a public minister sent on a special occasion, or for one particular purpose; hence an envoy is distinguished from an embassador or permanent resident at a foreign court, and is of inferior rank. But envoys are ordinary and extraordinary, and the word may sometimes be applied to resident ministers.

2. A common messenger. [Not in use.]

3. Formerly, a postscript sent with compositions, to enforce them.

EN'VOYSHIP, noun The office of an envoy.

EN'VY, verb transitive [Latin invideo, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]

1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior excellence, reputation or happiness enjoyed by another; to repine at another's prosperity; to fret or grieve one's self at the real or supposed superiority of another, and to hate him on that account.

Envy not thou the oppressor. Proverbs 3:31.

Whoever envies another, confesses his superiority.

2. To grudge; to withhold maliciously.

To envy at, used by authors formerly, is now obsolete.

Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?

EN'VY, noun Pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by the sight of another's superiority or success, accompanied with some degree of hatred or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure in seeing him depressed. envy springs from pride, ambition or love, mortified that another has obtained what one has a strong desire to possess.

Envy and admiration are the Scylla and Charybdis of authors.

All human virtue, to its latest breath,

Finds envy never conquered, but by death.

Emulation differs from envy in not being accompanied with hatred and a desire to depress a more fortunate person.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,

Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

It is followed by of or to. They did this in envy of Caesar, or in envy to his genius. The former seems to be preferable.

1. Rivalry; competition. [Little used.]

2. Malice; malignity.

You turn the good we offer into envy

3. Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.

To discharge the king of the envy of that opinion.

EN'VYING, participle present tense Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another.

EN'VYING, noun Mortification experienced at the supposed prosperity and happiness of another.

1. Ill will at others, on account of some supposed superiority. Galatians 5:21.

ENWAL'LOWED, adjective [from wallow.] Being wallowed or wallowing.

ENWHEE'L, verb transitive [from wheel.] To encircle.

ENWI'DEN, verb transitive [from wide.] To make wider. [Not used.]

ENWOMB, verb transitive enwoom'. [from womb.] To make pregnant. [Not used.]

1. To bury; to hide as in a gulf; pit or cavern.

ENWOMBED, participle passive Impregnated; buried in a deep gulf or cavern.

ENWRAP', verb transitive enrap'. To envelop. [See Inwrap.]

ENWRAP'MENT, noun A covering; a wrapping or wrapper.