ETCH, verb transitive
1. To make prints on copper-plate by means of lines or strokes first drawn, and then eaten or corroded by nitric acid. The plate is first covered with a proper varnish or ground, which is capable of resisting the acid, and the ground is then scored or scratched by a needle or similar instrument, in the places where the hatchings or engravings are intended to be; the plate is then covered with nitric acid, which corrodes or eats the metal in the lines thus laid bare.
2. To sketch; to delineate. [Not in use.]
ETCH'ED, participle passive Marked and corroded by nitric acid.
ETCH'ING, participle present tense Marking or making prints with nitric acid.
ETCH'ING, noun The impression taken from an etched copper-plate.
ETEOS'TIC, noun [Gr. true, and a verse.]
A chronogrammatical composition.
BAROM, 'ETER, noun [Gr.weight, and measure.]
An instrument for measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, consisting of a glass tube, hermetically sealed at one end, filled with quicksilver, well defecated and purged of air, and inverted in a basin of quicksilver. A column of quicksilver is then supported in the tube, of equal weight with the incumbent
atmosphere. This instrument was invented by Torricelli, of Florence, in 1643. Its uses are to indicate changes of weather, and to determine the altitude of mountains, by the falling and rising of the mercury. For this purpose, the tube is fixed to a graduated scale, so that the smallest variation in the column is visible.
ETERN', adjective Eternal; perpetual; endless. [Not used.]
ETER'NAL, adjective [Latin oeternus, composed of oevum and ternus, oeviternus, Varro. The origin of the last component part of the word is not obvious. It occurs in diuturnus, and seems to denote continuance.]
1. Without beginning or end of existence.
The eternal God is thy refuge. Deuteronomy 33:27.
2. Without beginning of existence.
To know whether there is any real being, whose duration has been eternal
3. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
That they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2 Timothy 2:10.
What shall I do, that I may have eternal life? Matthew 19:16.
Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7.
4. Perpetual; ceaseless; continued without intermission.
And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
5. Unchangeable; existing at all times without change; as eternal truth.
ETER'NAL, noun An appellation of God.
ETER'NALIST, noun One who holds the past existence of the world to be infinite.
ETER'NALIZE, verb transitive To make eternal; to give endless duration to. [We now use eternize.]
ETER'NALLY, adverb Without beginning or end of duration, or without end only.
1. Unchangeably; invariably; at all times.
That which is morally good must be eternally and unchangeably so.
2. Perpetually; without intermission; at all times.
Where western gales eternally reside.
ETER'NITY, noun [Latin oeternitas.] Duration or continuance without beginning or end.
By repeating the idea of any length of duration, with the endless addition of number, we come by the idea of eternity
The high and lofty one who inhabiteth eternity Isaiah 57:15.
We speak of eternal duration preceding the present time. God has existed from eternity We also speak of endless or everlasting duration in future, and dating from present time or the present state of things. Some men doubt the eternity of future punishment, though they have less difficulty in admitting the eternity of future rewards.
ETER'NIZE, verb transitive [Low Latin oeterno.]
1. To make endless.
2. To continue the existence or duration of indefinitely; to perpetuate; as, to eternize woe.
So we say, to eternize fame or glory.
3. To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize a name; to eternize exploits.
ETER'NIZED, participle passive Made endless; immortalized.
ETER'NIZING, participle present tense Giving endless duration to; immortalizing.
ETE'SIAN, adjective ete'zhan. [Latin etesius; Gr. a year.]
Stated; blowing at stated times of the year; periodical. etesian winds are yearly or anniversary winds, answering to the monsoons of the East Indies. The wind is applied, in Greek and Roman writers, to the periodical winds in the Mediterranean, from whatever quarter they blow.
ETHE, adjective Easy.
E'THEL, adjective Noble.
E'THER, noun [Latin oether; Gr. to burn, to shine; Eng. weather.]
1. A thin, subtil matter, much finer and rarer than air, which, some philosophers suppose, begins from the limits of the atmosphere and occupies the heavenly space.
There fields of light and liquid ether flow.
2. In chimistry, a very light, volatile and inflammable fluid, produced by the distillation of alcohol or rectified spirit of wine, with an acid. It is lighter than alcohol, of a strong sweet smell, susceptible of great expansion, and of a pungent taste. It is so volatile, that when shaken it is dissipated in an instant.
ETHE'REAL, adjective Formed of ether; containing or filled with ether; as ethereal space; ethereal regions.
1. Heavenly; celestial; as ethereal messenger.
2. Consisting of ether or spirit.
Vast chain of being, which from God began,
Natures ethereal human, angel, man.
ETHE'REOUS, adjective Formed of ether; heavenly.
ETHERIALIZE, verb transitive To convert into ether, or into a very subtil fluid.
ETHERIALIZED, participle passive Converted into ether or a very subtil fluid; as an etherialized and incorporeal substrate.
E'THERIZE, verb transitive To convert into ether.
E'THERIZED, participle passive Converted into ether.
E'THERIZING, participle present tense Converting into ether.
ETH'IC
ETH'ICAL, adjective [Latin ethicus; Gr. manners.]
Relating to manners or morals; treating of morality; delivering precepts of morality; as ethic discourses or epistles.
ETH'ICALLY, adverb According to the doctrines of morality.
ETH'ICS, noun The doctrines of morality or social manners; the science of moral philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
1. A system of moral principles; a system of rules for regulating the actions and manners of men in society.
Ethiops martial, black oxyd of iron; iron in the form of a very fine powder, and in the first state of calcination.
Ethiops mineral, a combination of mercury and sulphur, of a black color; black sulphuret of mercury.
ETH'MOID
ETHMOID'AL, adjective Gr. a sieve, and form.] Resembling a sieve.
ETH'MOID, noun A bone at the top of the root of the nose.
ETHMOID'AL, adjective Gr. a sieve, and form.] Resembling a sieve.
ETH'NIC
ETH'NICAL, adjective [Latin ethnicus; Gr. from nation from the root of G. heide, heath, woods, whence heathen. See Heathen.]
Heathen; pagan; pertaining to the gentiles or nations not converted to christianity; opposed to Jewish and Christian.
ETH'NIC, noun A heathen; a pagan.
ETH'NICISM, noun Heathenism; paganism; idolatry.
ETHNOL'OGY, noun [Gr. nation, and discourse.] A treatise on nations.
ETHOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Ethology.] Treating of ethics or morality.
ETHOL'OGIST, noun One who writes on the subject of manners and morality.
ETHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. manners, morals, and discourse.]
A treatise on morality or the science of ethics.
E'TIOLATE, verb intransitive [Gr. to shine.] To become white or whiter; to be whitened by excluding the light of the sun, as plants.
E'TIOLATE, verb transitive To blanch; to whiten by excluding the sun's rays.
E'TIOLATED, participle passive Blanched; whitened by excluding the sun's rays.
E'TIOLATING, participle present tense Blanching; whitening by excluding the sun's rays.
ETIOLA'TION, noun The operation of being whitened or of becoming white by excluding the light of the sun.
In gardening, the rendering plants white, crisp and tender, by excluding the action of light from them.
ETIOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to etiology.
ETIOL'OGY, noun [Gr. cause, and discourse.]
An account of the causes of any thing, particularly of diseases.
ETIQUET', noun etiket'. [Eng. to dock. Originally, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents.]
Primarily, an account of ceremonies. Hence in present usage, forms of ceremony or decorum; the forms which are observed towards particular persons, or in particular places, especially in courts, levees, and on public occasions. From the original sense of the word, it may be inferred that it was formerly the custom to deliver cards containing orders for regulating ceremonies on public occasions.
E'TITE, noun [Gr. an eagle.] Eagle-stone, a variety of bog iron. [See Eaglestone.]
ETNE'AN, adjective [from Aetna.] Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.
ET'TIN, noun A giant.
ET'TLE, verb transitive To earn. [Not in use.]
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ETWEE'
ETWEE'-CASE, noun A case for pocket instruments.
ETWEE'
ETYMOL'OGER, noun An etymologist. [Not in use.]
ETYMOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Etymology.] Pertaining to etymology or the derivation of words; according to or by means of etymology.
ETYMOLOG'ICALLY, adverb According to etymology.
ETYMOL'OGIST, noun One versed in etymology or the deduction of words from their originals; one who searches into the original of words.
ETYMOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
ETYMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. true, and discourse.]
1. That part of philology which explains the origin and derivation of words, with a view to ascertain their radical or primary signification.
In grammar, etymology comprehends the various inflections and modifications of words, and shows how they are formed from their simple roots.
2. The deduction of words from their originals; the analysis of compound words into their primitives.
ET'YMON, noun [Gr. from true.] An original root, or primitive word.