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Economic

ECONOM'IC

ECONOM'ICAL, adjective [See Economy.] Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns; as the economic art.

1. Managing domestic or public pecuniary concerns with frugality; as an economical housekeeper; an economical minister or administration.

2. Frugal; regulated by frugality; not wasteful or extravagant; as an economical use of money.

Economical

ECONOM'ICAL, a. [See Economy.] Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns; as the economic art. 1. Managing domestic or public pecuniary concerns with frugality; as an economical housekeeper; an economical minister or administration.2. Frugal; regulated by frugality; not wasteful or extravagant; as an economical use of money.

Economically

ECONOM'ICALLY, adverb With economy; with frugality.

Economist

ECON'OMIST, noun One who manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time or labor judiciously, and without waste.

1. One who writes on economy; the writer of a treatise on economy.

Economize

ECON'OMIZE, verb intransitive To manage pecuniary concerns with frugality; to make a prudent use of money, or of the means of saving or acquiring property. It is our duty to economize in the use of public money, as well as of our own.

ECON'OMIZE, verb transitive To use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.

To manage and economize the use of circulating medium.

Economized

ECON'OMIZED, participle passive Used with frugality.

Economizing

ECONOMIZING, participle present tense Using with frugality.

Economy

ECON'OMY, noun [Latin oeconomia; Gr. house, and law, rule.]

1. Primarily, the management, regulation and government of a family or the concerns of a household.

2. The management of pecuniary concerns or the expenditure of money. Hence,

3. A frugal and judicious use of money; that management which expends money to advantage, and incurs no waste; frugality in the necessary expenditure of money. It differs from parsimony, which implies an improper saving of expense. economy includes also a prudent management of all the means by which property is saved or accumulated; a judicious application of time, of labor, and of the instruments of labor.

4. The disposition or arrangement of any work; as the economy of a poem.

5. A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies; as the Jewish economy

6. The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants; as animal economy; vegetable economy

7. Distribution or due order of things.

8. Judicious and frugal management of public affairs; as political economy

9. System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.

Ecphractic

ECPHRAC'TIC, adjective [Gr.] In medicine, deobstruent; attenuating.

ECPHRAC'TIC, noun A medicine which dissolves or attenuates viscid matter, and removes obstructions.

Ecstasied

EC'STASIED, adjective [See Ecstasy.] Enraptured; ravished; transported; delighted.

Ecstasy

EC'STASY, noun [Gr. to stand.]

1. Primarily, a fixed state; a trance; a state in which the mind is arrested and fixed, or as we say, lost; a state in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object.

Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined.

2. Excessive joy; rapture; a degree of delight that arrests the whole mind; as a pleasing ecstasy; the ecstasy of love; joy may rise to ecstasy

3. Enthusiasm; excessive elevation and absorption of mind; extreme delight.

He on the tender grass

Would sit and hearken even to ecstasy

4. Excessive grief or anxiety. [Not used.]

5. Madness; distraction. [Not used.]

6. In medicine, a species of catalepsy, when the person remembers, after the paroxysm is over, the ideas he had during the fit.

EC'STASY, verb transitive To fill with rapture or enthusiasm.

Ecstatic

ECSTAT'IC

ECSTAT'ICAL, adjective Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing.

In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit.

1. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as ecstatic bliss or joy.

2. Tending to external objects. [Not used.]

Ecstatical

ECSTAT'ICAL, a. Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing. In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit.1. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as ecstatic bliss or joy.2. Tending to external objects. [Not used.]

Ectypal

EC'TYPAL, adjective [infra.] Taken from the original.

Ectype

EC'TYPE, adjective [Gr.] A copy. ]Not used.]

Ecumenic

ECUMEN'IC

ECUMEN'ICAL, adjective [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.

Ecumenical

ECUMEN'ICAL, a. [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.

Ecurie

EC'URIE, noun A stable; a covered place for horses.

Ed

EAD, ED, in names, is a Saxon word signifying happy, fortunate; as in Edward, happy preserver; Edgar, happy power; Edwin, happy conqueror; Eadulph, happy assistance; like Macarius and Eupolemus in Greek and Fausta, Fortunatus, Felicianus, in Latin.

Edacious

EDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin edax, from edo, to eat.] Eating; given to eating; greedy; voracious.

Edacity

EDAC'ITY, noun [Latin edacitas, from edax, edo, to eat.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

Edder

ED'DER, noun In husbandry, such wood as is worked into the top of hedge-stakes to bind them together.

ED'DER, verb transitive To bind or make tight by edder; to fasten the tops of hedge-stakes, by interweaving edder

Edders

ED'DERS, noun A name given to a variety of the Arum esculentum, an esculent root.

Eddish

ED'DISH

ED'DOES

ED'DY, noun [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.]

1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction.

2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

ED'DY, verb intransitive To move circularly, or as an eddy.

ED'DY, adjective Whirling; moving circularly.

Eddoes

ED'DOES

Eddy

ED'DY, n. [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.] 1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction.2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. ED'DY, v.i. To move circularly, or as an eddy.

ED'DY, a. Whirling; moving circularly.

Eddy-Water

ED'DY-WATER, noun Among seamen, the water which falls back on the rudder of a ship under sail, called dead-water.

Eddy-Wind

ED'DY-WIND, noun The wind returned or beat back from a sail, a mountain or any thing that hinders its passage.

Edelite

ED'ELITE, noun A siliceous stone of a light gray color.

Edematous

EDEM'ATOUS, adjective [Gr. a tumor; to swell.] Swelling with a serous humor; dropsical. An edematous tumor is white, soft and insensible.

Eden

E'DEN, noun [Heb. pleasure, delight.] The country and garden in which Adam and Eve were placed by God himself.

Edenized

E'DENIZED, adjective Admitted into paradise.

Edentated

EDEN'TATED, adjective [Latin edentatus, e and dens.] Destitute or deprived of teeth.

Edge

EDGE, noun [Latin acies, acus.]

1. In a general sense, the extreme border or point of any thing; as the edge of the table; the edge of a book; the edge of cloth. It coincides nearly with border, brink, margin. It is particularly applied to the sharp border, the thin cutting extremity of an instrument, as the edge of an ax, razor, knife or scythe; also, to the point of an instrument, as the edge of a sword.

2. Figuratively, that which cuts or penetrates; that which wounds or injures; as the edge of slander.

3. A narrow part rising from a broader.

Some harrow their ground over, and then plow it upon an edge

4. Sharpness of mind or appetite; keenness; intenseness of desire; fitness for action or operation; as the edge of appetite or hunger.

Silence and solitude set an edge on the genius.

5. Keenness; sharpness; acrimony.

Abate the edge of traitors.

To set the teeth on edge to cause a tingling or grating sensation in the teeth.

EDGE, verb transitive

1. To sharpen.

To edge her champion's sword.

2. To furnish with an edge

A sword edged with flint.

3. To border; to fringe.

A long descending train,

With rubies edged.

4. To border; to furnish with an ornamental border; as, to edge a flower-bed with box.

5. To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter.

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.

6. To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward, when arguments fail.

7. To move sideways; to move by little and little; as, edge your chair along.

EDGE, verb intransitive To move sideways; to move gradually. edge along this way.

1. To sail close to the wind.

To edge away, in sailing, is to decline gradually from the shore or from the line of the course.

To edge in with, to draw near to, as a ship in chasing.

Edged

EDG'ED, participle passive Furnished with an edge or border.

1. Incited; instigated.

2. adjective Sharp; keen.

Edgeless

EDGELESS, adjective Not sharp; blunt; obtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate; as an edgeless sword or weapon.

Edgetool

EDGETOOL, noun An instrument having a sharp edge.

Edgewise

EDGEWISE, adverb [edge and wise.] With the edge turned forward, or towards a particular point; in the direction of the edge.

1. Sideways; with the side foremost.

Edging

EDG'ING, participle present tense Giving an edge; furnishing with an edge.

1. Inciting; urging on; goading; stimulating; instigating.

2. Moving gradually or sideways.

3. Furnishing with a border.

EDG'ING, noun That which is added on the border, or which forms the edge; as lace, fringe, trimming, added to a garment for ornament.

Bordered with a rosy edging

1. A narrow lace.

2. In gardening, a row of small plants wet along the border of a flower-bed; as an edging of box.

Edible

ED'IBLE, adjective [from Latin edo, to eat.] Eatable; fit to be eaten as food; esculent. Some flesh is not edible

Edict

E'DICT, noun [Latin edictum, from edico, to utter or proclaim; e and dico, to speak.]

That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a prince to his subjects, as a rule or law requiring obedience; a proclamation of command or prohibition. An edict is an order or ordinance of a sovereign prince, intended as a permanent law, or to erect a new office, to establish new duties, or other temporary regulation; as the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.

Edificant

ED'IFICANT, adjective [infra.] Building. [Little used.]

Edification

EDIFICA'TION, noun [Latin oedificatio. See Edify.]

1. A building up, in a moral and religious sense; instruction; improvement and progress of the mind, in knowledge, in morals, or in faith and holiness.

He that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification 1 Corinthians 14:3.

2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge.

Edificatory

ED'IFICATORY, adjective Tending to edification.

Edifice

ED'IFICE, noun [Latin oedificium. See Edify.] A building; a structure; a fabric; but appropriately, a large or splendid building. The word is not applied to a mean building, but to temples, churches or elegant mansion-houses, and to other great structures.

Edificial

EDIFI'CIAL, adjective Pertaining to edifices or to structure.

Edified

ED'IFIED, participle passive Instructed; improved in literary, moral or religious knowledge.

Edifier

ED'IFIER, noun One that improves another by instructing him.

Edify

ED'IFY, verb transitive [Latin oedifico; oedes, a house, and facio, to make.]

1. To build, in a literal sense. [Not now used.]

2. To instruct and improve the mind in knowledge generally, and particularly in moral and religious knowledge, in faith and holiness.

Edify one another. 1 Thessalonians 5:11.

3. To teach or persuade. [Not used.]

Edifying

ED'IFYING, participle present tense Building up in christian knowledge; instructing; improving the mind.

Edifyingly

ED'IFYINGLY, adverb In an edifying manner.

Edile

E'DILE, noun [Latin oedilis, from oedes, a building.] A Roman magistrate whose chief business was to superintend buildings of all kinds, more especially public edifices, temples, bridges, aqueducts, etc. The ediles had also the care of the highways, public places, weights and measures, etc.

Edileship

E'DILESHIP, noun The office of Edile in ancient Rome.

Edit

ED'IT, verb transitive [from Latin edo, to publish; e and do, to give.]

1. Properly, to publish; more usually, to superintend a publication; to prepare a book or paper for the public eye, by writing, correcting or selecting the matter.

Those who know how volumes of the fathers are generally edited.

2. To publish.

Abelard wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited.

Edited

ED'ITED, participle passive Published; corrected; prepared and published.

Editing

ED'ITING, participle present tense Publishing; preparing for publication.

Edition

EDI'TION, noun [Latin editio, from edo, to publish.]

1. The publication of any book or writing; as the first edition of a new work.

2. Republication, sometimes with revision and correction; as the second edition of a work.

3. Any publication of a book before published; also, one impression or the whole number of copies published at once; as the tenth edition

Editor

ED'ITOR, noun [Latin from edo, to publish.] A publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an impression of a book; the person who revises, corrects and prepares a book for publication; as Erasmus, Scaliger, etc.

1. One who superintends the publication of a newspaper.

Editorial

EDITO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to an editor, as editorial labors; written by an editor, as editorial remarks.

Editorship

ED'ITORSHIP, noun The business of an editor; the care and superintendence of a publication.

Edituate

EDIT'UATE, verb transitive [Low Latin oedituor, from oedes, a temple or house.]

To defend or govern the house or temple. [Not in use.]

Educate

ED'UCATE, verb transitive [Latin educo, educare; e and duco, to lead.]

To bring up, as a child; to instruct; to inform and enlighten the understanding; to instill into the mind principles of arts, science, morals, religion and behavior. To educate children well is one of the most important duties of parents and guardians.

Educated

ED'UCATED, participle passive Brought up; instructed; furnished with knowledge or principles; trained, disciplined.

Educating

ED'UCATING, participle present tense Instructing; enlightening the understanding, and forming the manners.

Education

EDUCA'TION, noun [Latin educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

Educational

EDUCA'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to education; derived from education; as educational habits.

Educator

ED'UCATOR, noun One who educates.

Educe

EDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin educo, eduxi; e and duco, to lead.]

To bring or draw out; to extract; to produce from a state of occultation.

Th' eternal art educing good from ill.

Educed

EDU'CED, participle passive Drawn forth, extracted; produced.

Educing

EDU'CING, participle present tense Drawing forth; producing.

Educt

E'DUCT, noun [Latin eductum, from educo.] Extracted matter; that which is educed; that which is brought to light, by separation, analysis or decomposition.

We must consider the educts of its analysis by Bergman, etc.

Eduction

EDUC'TION, noun The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

Eductor

EDUCT'OR, noun That which brings forth, elicits or extracts.

Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

Edulcorate

EDUL'CORATE, verb transitive [Low Latin edulco, from dulcis, sweet.]

1. To purify; to sweeten. In chimistry, to render substances more mild, by freeing them from acids and salts or other soluble impurities, by washing.

2. To sweeten by adding sugar, syrup, etc.

Edulcorated

EDUL'CORATED, participle passive Sweetened; purified from acid or saline substances, and rendered more mild.

Edulcorating

EDUL'CORATING, participle present tense Sweetening; rendering more mild.

Edulcoration

EDULCORA'TION, noun The act of sweetening or rendering more mild, by freeing from acid or saline substances, or from any soluble impurities.

1. The act of sweetening by admixture of some saccharine substance.

Edulcorative

EDUL'CORATIVE, adjective Having the quality of sweetening.

Eek

EEK. [See Eke.]

Eel

EEL, noun A species of Muraena, a genus of fishes belonging to the order of apodes. The head is smooth; there are ten rays in the membrane of the gills; the eyes are covered with a common skin; the body is cylindrical and slimy. Eels, in some respects, resemble reptiles, particularly in their manner of moving by a serpentine winding of the body; and they often creep upon land and wander about at night in search of snails or other food. In winter, they lie buried in mud, being very impatient of cold. They grow to the weight of 15 or 20 pounds; and the conger eel is said to grow to a hundred pounds in weight, and to 10 feet in length. They are esteemed good food.

Eel-Fishing

EE'L-FISHING, noun The act or art of catching eels.

Eelpot

EE'LPOT, noun A kind of basket used for catching eels.

Eelpout

EE'LPOUT, noun A species of Gadus, somewhat resembling an eel, but shorter in proportion, seldom exceeding a foot in length. It is a delicate fish.

Eelskin

EE'LSKIN, noun The skin of an eel.

Eelspear

EE'LSPEAR, noun A forked instrument used for stabbing eels.

Een

E'EN, contracted from even, which see.

I have e'en done with you.

Eff

EFF, noun A lizard.

Effable

EF'FABLE, adjective [Latin effabilis, from effor; ex and for, to speak.]

Utterable; that may be uttered or spoken. [This word is not used; but ineffable is in common use.]

Efface

EFFA'CE, verb transitive [Latin ex and facio or facies.]

1. To destroy a figure on the surface of any thing, whether painted or carved, so as to render it invisible or not distinguishable; as, to efface the letters on a monument.

2. To blot out; to erase, strike or scratch out, so as to destroy or render illegible; as, to efface a writing; to efface a name.

3. To destroy any impression on the mind; to wear away; as, to efface the image of a person in the mind; to efface ideas or thoughts; to efface gratitude.

To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to effect is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

Effaced

EFFA'CED, participle passive Rubbed or worn out; destroyed, as a figure or impression.

Effacing

EFFA'CING, participle present tense Destroying a figure, character or impression on any thing.

Effect

EFFECT', noun [Latin effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make.]

1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance.

Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.

2. Consequence; event.

To say that a composition is imperfect, is in effect to say the author is a man.

3. Purpose; general intent.

They spoke to her to that effect 2 Chronicles 34:22.

4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage.

Christ is become of no effect to you. Galatians 5:4.

5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect

6. Completion; perfection.

Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.

7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact.

No other in effect than what it seems.

8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EFFECT', verb transitive [from the Noun.] To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.

1. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.

Effected

EFFECT'ED, participle passive Done; performed; accomplished.

Effectible

EFFECT'IBLE, adjective That may be done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

Effecting

EFFECT'ING, participle present tense Producing; performing; accomplishing.

Effective

EFFECT'IVE, adjective Having the power to cause or produce; efficacious.

They are not effective of any thing.

1. Operative; active; having the quality of producing effects.

Time is not effective nor are bodies destroyed by it.

2. Efficient; causing to be; as an effective cause.

3. Having the power of active operation; able; as effective men in any army; an effective force.

Effectively

EFFECT'IVELY, adverb With effect; powerfully; with real operation.

This effectively resists the devil.

[In this sense, effectually is generally used.]

Effectless

EFFECT'LESS, adjective Without effect; without advantage; useless.

Effector

EFFECT'OR, noun One who effects; one who produces or causes; a maker or creator.

Effectual

EFFECT'UAL, adjective Producing an effect, or the effect desired or intended; or having adequate power or force to produce the effect. The means employed were effectual

According to the gift of the grace of God given me by the effectual working of his power. Ephesians 3:7.

1. Veracious; expressive of facts. [Not used.]

2. effectual assassin, in Mitford, is unusual and not well authorized.

Effectually

EFFECT'UALLY, adverb With effect; efficaciously; in a manner to produce the intended effect; thoroughly. The weeds on land for grain must be effectually subdued. The city is effectually guarded.

Effectuate

EFFECT'UATE, verb transitive To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfil; as, to effectuate a purpose or desire.

Effectuated

EFFECT'UATED, participle passive Accomplished.

Effectuating

EFFECT'UATING, participle present tense Achieving; performing to effect.

Effeminacy

EFFEM'INACY, noun [from effeminate.] The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly delicacy; womanish softness or weakness.

1. Voluptuousness; indulgence in unmanly pleasures; lasciviousness.

Effeminate

EFFEM'INATE, adjective [Latin effoeminatus, from effoeminor, to grow or make womanish, from foemina, a woman. See Woman.]

1. Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; tender; womanish; voluptuous.

The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate and less sensible of honor.

2. Womanish; weak; resembling the practice or qualities of the sex; as an effeminate peace; an effeminate life.

3. Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful.

EFFEM'INATE, verb transitive To make womanish; to unman; to weaken; as to effeminate children.

EFFEM'INATE, verb intransitive To grow womanish or weak; to melt into weakness.

In a slothful peace courage will effeminate

Effeminately

EFFEM'INATELY, adverb In a womanish manner; weakly; softly.

1. By means of a woman; as effeminately vanquished.

Effeminateness

EFFEM'INATENESS, noun Unmanlike softness.

Effemination

EFFEMINA'TION, noun The state of one grown womanish; the state of being weak or unmanly. [Little used.]

Effervesce

EFFERVESCE, verb intransitive efferves'. [Latin effervesco, from ferveo, to be hot, to rage.See Fervent.] To be in natural commotion, like liquor when gently boiling; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in an elastic form; to work, as new wine.

Effervescence

EFFERVES'CENCE, noun A kind ofnatural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid, which takes place, when some part of the mass flies off in an elastic form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as the effervescence or working of new wine, cider or beer; the effervescence of a carbonate with nitric acid.

Effervescent

EFFERVES'CENT, adjective Gently boiling or bubbling by means of the disengagement of an elastic fluid.

Effervescible

EFFERVES'CIBLE, adjective That has the quality of effervescing; capable of producing effervescence.

A small quantity of effervescible matter.

Effervescing

EFFERVES'CING, participle present tense Boiling; bubbling, by means of an elastic fluid extricated in the dissolution of bodies.

Effete

EFFE'TE, adjective [Latin effoetus, effetus; ex and foetus, embryo.]

1. Barren; not capable of producing young, as

animal, or fruit, as the earth. An animal becomes effete by losing the power of conception. The earth may be rendered effete by drouth, or by exhaustion of fertility.

2. Worn out with age; as effete sensuality.

Efficacious

EFFICA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin efficax, from efficio. See Effect.]

Effectual; productive of effects; producing the effect intended; having power adequate to the purpose intended; powerful; as an efficacious remedy for disease.

Efficaciously

EFFICA'CIOUSLY, adverb Effectually; in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. We say, a remedy has been efficaciously applied.

Efficaciousness

EFFICA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being efficacious.

Efficacy

EF'FICACY, noun [Latin efficax.] Power to produce effects; production to the effect intended; as the efficacy of the gospel in converting men from sin; the efficacy of prayer; the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of manure in fertilizing land.

Efficience

EFFI'CIENCE

EFFI'CIENCY, noun [Latin efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]

1. The act of producing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency.

The manner of this divine efficiency is far above us.

Gravity does not proceed from the efficiency of any contingent or unstable agent.

2. Power of producing the effect intended; active competent power.

Efficiency

EFFI'CIENCY, n. [L. efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.] 1. The act of producing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency.The manner of this divine efficiency is far above us.Gravity does not proceed from the efficiency of any contingent or unstable agent.2. Power of producing the effect intended; active competent power.

Efficient

EFFI'CIENT, adjective Causing effects; producing; that causes any thing to be what is is. The efficient cause is that which produces; the final cause is that for which it is produced.

EFFI'CIENT, noun The agent or cause which produces or causes to exist.

1. He that makes.

Efficiently

EFFI'CIENTLY, adverb With effect; effectively.

Effierce

EFFIERCE, verb transitive effers'. To make fierce or furious. [Not used.]

Effigy

EF'FIGY, noun [Latin effigies, from effingo, to fashion; ex and fingo, to form or devise.]

1. The image or likeness of a person; resemblance; representation; any substance fashioned into the shape of a person.

2. Portrait; likeness; figure, in sculpture or painting.

3. On coins, the print or impression representing the head of the prince who struck the coin.

To burn or hang in effigy is to burn or hang an image or picture of the person intended to be executed, disgraced or degraded. In France, when a criminal cannot be apprehended, his picture is hung on a gallows or gibbet, at the bottom of which is written his sentence of condemnation.

Efflate

EFFLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin efflo.] To fill with breath or air. [Little used.]

Effloresce

EFFLORESCE, verb transitive efflores'. [Latin effloresco, from floresco, floreo, to blossom, flos, a flower. See Flower.

1. In chimistry, to form a mealy powder on the surface; to become pulverulent or dusty on the surface. Substances effloresce by losing their water of crystallization.

Those salts whose crystals effloresce belong to the class which is most soluble, and crystalize by cooling.

2. To form saline vegetation on the surface; or rather to shoot out minute spicular crystals; as the efflorescence of salts on plaster.

Efflorescence

EFFLORES'CENCE, noun In botany, the time of flowering; the season when a plant shows its first blossoms.

1. Among physicians, a redness of the skin; eruptions; as in rash, measles, small pox, scarlatina, etc.

2. In chimistry, the formation of small white threads, resembling the sublimated matter called flower, on the surface of certain bodies, as salts. This is properly a shooting out of minute spicular crystals, called sometimes a saline vegetation, as that of the sulphate of magnesia on the deserts of Siberia, and of natron in Egypt. In butter much salted, the salt shoots in spiculae, and an efflorescence is often seen on walls formed with plaster. In some species of salts, as in sulphate and carbonate of soda, the efflorescence consists of a fine white dust. This kind of efflorescence is the contrary of deliquescence. In the latter, the saline crystals decompose the air, or rather abstract moisture from it; in the former, the atmosphere decomposes the saline crystals, and the water of crystallization is abstracted from the salts.

Efflorescent

EFFLORES'CENT, adjective Shooting into white threads or spiculae; forming a white dust on the surface.

Effluence

EF'FLUENCE, noun [Latin effluens, effluo; ex and fluo, to flow. See Flow.] A flowing out; that which flows or issues from any body or substance.

Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

Effluvium

EFFLU'VIUM, noun plural effluvia. [Latin from effluo, to flow out. See Flow.] The minute and often invisible particles which exhale from most, if not all terrestrial bodies, such as the odor or smell of plants, and the noxious exhalations from diseased bodies or putrefying animal or vegetable substances.

Efflux

EF'FLUX, noun [Latin effluxus, from effluo, to flow out.]

1. The act of flowing out, or issuing in a stream; as an efflux of matter from an ulcer.

2. Effusion; flow; as the first efflux of men's piety.

3. That which flows out; emanation.

Light--efflux divine.

EFFLUX', verb intransitive To run or flow away. [Not used.]

Effluxion

EFFLUX'ION, noun [Latin effluxum, from effluo.]

1. The act of flowing out.

2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation.

Efforce

EFFO'RCE, verb transitive

1. To force; to break through by violence.

2. To force; to ravish.

3. To strain; to exert with effort.

[This word is now rarely used; perhaps never, except in poetry. We now use force.]

Efform

EFFORM', verb transitive [from form.] To fashion; to shape.

[For this we now use form.]

Efformation

EFFORMA'TION, noun The act of giving shape or form.

[We now use formation.]

Effort

EF'FORT, noun [Latin fortis. See Force.] A straining; an exertion of strength; endeavor; strenuous exertion to accomplish an object; applicable to physical or intellectual power. The army, by great efforts, scaled the walls. Distinction in science is gained by continued efforts of the mind.

Effossion

EFFOS'SION, noun [Latin effossus, from effodio, to dig out.] The act of digging out of the earth; as the effossion of coins.

Effray

EFFRA'Y, verb transitive To frighten. [Not in use.]

Effrayable

EFFRA'YABLE, adjective Frightful; dreadful. [Not in use.

Effrenation

EFFRENA'TION, noun [Latin effroenatio, from froenum, a rein.]

Unbridled rashness or license; unruliness. [Not in use.]

Effrontery

EFFRONT'ERY, noun Impudence; assurance; shameless boldness; sauciness; boldness transgressing the bounds of modesty and decorum. Effrontry is a sure mark of ill breading.

Effulge

EFFULGE, verb intransitive effulj'. [Latin effulgeo; ex and fulgeo, to shine.]

To send forth a flood of light; to shine with splendor.

Effulgence

EFFUL'GENCE, noun A flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor; as the effulgence of divine glory. It is a word of superlative signification, and applied, with peculiar propriety, to the sun and to the Supreme Being.

Effulgent

EFFUL'GENT, adjective Shining; bright; splendid; diffusing a flood of light; as the effulgent sun.

Effulging

EFFUL'GING, participle present tense Sending out a flood of light.

Effumability

EFFUMABIL'ITY, noun The quality of flying off in fumes or vapor.

Effume

EFFU'ME, verb transitive To breathe out. [Not used.]

Effuse

EFFU'SE, verb transitive effu'ze. [Latin effusus, from effundo; ex and fundo, to pour.] To pour out as a fluid; so spill; to shed.

With gushing blood effused.

EFFU'SE, adjective Dissipated; profuse. [Not in used.]

Effused

EFFU'SED, participle passive effu'zed. Poured out; shed.

Effusing

EFFU'SING, participle present tense effu'zing. Pouring out; shedding.

Effusion

EFFU'SION, noun effu'zhon. The act of pouring out as a liquid.

1. The act of pouring out; a shedding or spilling; waste; as the effusion of blood.

2. The pouring out of words.

3. The act of pouring out or bestowing divine influence; as the effusions of the Holy Spirit; effusions of grade.

4. That which is poured out.

Wash me with that precious effusion and I shall be whiter than snow.

5. Liberal donation. [Not used.]

Effusive

EFFU'SIVE, adjective Pouring out; that pours forth largely.

Th' effusive south.

Eft

EFT, noun A newt; an evet; the common lizard.

EFT, adverb After; again; soon; quickly.

Eftsoons

EFTSOONS', adverb Soon afterwards; in a short time.

E.G. [exempli gratia.] For the sake of an example; for instance.

Egad

EGAD', exclamation A lucky star, good fortune, as we say, my stars!

Eger

E'GER, or E'AGARE, noun An impetuous flood; an irregular tide.

Egeran

E'GERAN, noun [from Eger, in bohemia.] A subspecies of pyramidical garnet, of a reddish brown color. It occurs massive or crystallized.

Egerminate

EGERM'INATE. [Not used. See Germinate.]

Egest

EGEST', verb transitive [Latin egestum, from egero.] To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement.

Egestion

EGES'TION, noun [Latin egestio.] The act of voiding digested matter at the natural vent.

Egg

EGG, noun [Latin ovum, by a change of g into v.] A body formed in the females of fowls and certain other animals, containing an embryo or fetus of the same species, or the substance from which a like animal is produced. The eggs of fowls when laid are covered with a shell, and within is the white or albumen, which incloses the yolk or yellow substance. The eggs of fish and some other animals are united by a viscous substance, and called spawn. Most insects are oviparous.

EGG, to incite, is a more blunder. [See Edge.]

Eggbird

EGG'BIRD, noun A fowl, a species of tern.

Egilopical

EGILOP'ICAL, adjective Affected with the egilops.

Egilops

E'GILOPS, noun Goat's eye; an abscess in the inner canthus of the eye; fistula lachrymalis.

Eglandulous

EGLAND'ULOUS, adjective [e neg. and glandulous. See Gland.]

Destitute of glands.

Eglantine

EG'LANTINE, noun A species of rose; the sweet brier; a plant bearing an odoriferous flower.

Egoist

E'GOIST, noun [from Latin ego.] A name given to certain followers of Des Cartes, who held the opinion that they were uncertain of every thing except their own existence and the operations and ideas of their own minds.

Egoity

EGO'ITY, noun Personality. [Not authorized.]

Egotism

E'GOTISM, noun [Latin ego.] Primarily, the practice of too frequently using the word I. Hence, a speaking or writing much of one's self; self-praise; self-commendation; the act or practice of magnifying one's self, or making one's self of importance.

A deplorable egotism of character.

Egotist

E'GOTIST, noun One who repeats the word I very often in conversation or writing; one who speaks much of himself, or magnifies his own achievements; one who makes himself the hero of every tale.

Egotistic

EGOTIST'IC, adjective Addicted to egotism.

1. Containing egotism.

Egotize

E'GOTIZE, verb transitive To talk or write much of one's self; to make pretension to self-importance.

Egregious

EGRE'GIOUS, adjective [Latin egregius, supposed to be from e or ex grege, from or out of or beyond the herd, select, choice.]

1. Eminent; remarkable; extraordinary; distinguished; as egregious exploits; an egregious prince. But in this sense it is seldom applied to persons.

2. In a bad sense, great; extraordinary; remarkable; enormous; as an egregious mistake; egregious contempt. In this sense it is often applied to persons; as an egregious rascal; an egregious murderer.

Egregiously

EGRE'GIOUSLY, adverb Greatly; enormously; shamefully; usually in a bad sense; as, he is egregiously mistaken; they were egregiously cheated.

Egregiousness

EGRE'GIOUSNESS, noun The state of being great or extraordinary.

Egress

E'GRESS, noun [Latin egressus, from egredior; e and gradior, to step.]

The act of going or issuing out, or the power of departing from any inclosed or confined place.

Gates of burning adamant,

Barr'd over us, prohibit all egress

Egression

EGRES'SION, noun [Latin egressio.] The act of going out from any inclosure or place of confinement.

Egret

E'GRET, noun The lesser white heron, a fowl of the genus Ardea; an elegant fowl with a white body and a crest on the head.

1. In botany, the flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds, as the down of the thistle.

Egriot

E'GRIOT, noun A kind of sour cherry.

Egyptian

EGYP'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to Egypt in Africa.

EGYP'TIAN, noun A native of Egypt; also, a gypsy.

Eigh

EIGH, exclamation An expression of sudden delight.

Eight

EIGHT, adjective [Latin octo.] Twice four; expressing the number twice four. Four and four make eight

Eighteen

EIGHTEEN, a 'ateen. Eight and ten united.

Eighteenth

EIGHTEENTH, adjective 'ateenth. The next in order after the seventeenth.

Eightfold

EIGHTFOLD, adjective 'atefold. Eight times the number or quantity.

Eighth

EIGHTH, adjective aitth. Noting the number eight; the number next after seven; the ordinal of eight.

EIGHTH, noun In music, an interval composed of five tones and two semitones.

Eighthly

EIGHTHLY, adverb aithly. In the eighth place.

Eightieth

EIGHTIETH, adjective 'atieth. [from eighty.] The next in order to the seventy ninth; the eighth tenth.

Eights-Core

EIGHTS-CORE, adjective or noun 'atescore. [eight and score; score is a notch noting twenty.] Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

Eighty

EIGHTY, adjective 'aty. Eight times ten; four score.

Eigne

EIGNE, adjective Eldest; an epithet, used in law to denote the eldest son; as bastard eigne

1. Unalienable; entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Not used.]

Eisel

E'ISEL, noun Vinegar. [Not in use.]

Eisenrahm

EI'SENRAHM, noun The red and brown eisenrahm the scaly red and brown hematite.

Either

E'ITHER, adjective or pronoun

1. One or another of any number. Here are ten oranges; take either orange of the whole number, or take either of them. In the last phrase, either stands as a pronoun or substitute.

2. One of two. This sense is included in the foregoing.

Lepidus flatters both,

Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,

Nor either cares for him.

3. Each; every one separately considered.

On either side of the river. Revelation 22:2.

4. This word, when applied to sentences or propositions, is called a distributive or a conjunction. It precedes the first of two or more alternatives, and is answered by or before the second, or succeeding alternatives.

Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleepeth. l Kings 18.

In this sentence, either refers to each of the succeeding clauses of the sentence.

Ejaculate

EJAC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin ejaculor, from jaculor, to throw or dart, jaculum, a dart, from jacio, to throw.]

To throw out; to cast; to shoot; to dart; as rays of light ejaculated.

It is now seldom used, except to express the utterance of a short prayer; as, he ejaculated a few words.

Ejaculation

EJACULA'TION, noun The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight; as the ejaculation of light. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]

1. The uttering of a short prayer; or a short occasional prayer uttered.

Ejaculatory

EJAC'ULATORY, adjective Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as an ejaculatory prayer or petition.

1. Sudden; hasty; as ejaculatory repentance.

2. Casting; throwing out.

Eject

EJECT', verb transitive [Latin ejicio, ejectum; e and jacio, to throw; jacto.]

1. To throw out; to cast forth; to thrust out, as from a place inclosed or confined.

2. To discharge through the natural passages or emunctories; to evacuate.

3. To throw out or expel from an office; to dismiss from an office; to turn out; as, to eject a clergyman.

4. To dispossess of land or estate.

5. To drive away; to expel; to dismiss with hatred.

6. To cast away; to reject; to banish; as, to eject words from a language.

Ejected

EJECT'ED, participle passive Thrown out; thrust out; discharged; evacuated; expelled; dismissed; dispossessed; rejected.

Ejecting

EJECT'ING, participle present tense Casting out; discharging; evacuating; expelling; dispossessing; rejecting.

Ejection

EJEC'TION, noun [Latin ejectio.] The act of casting out; expulsion.

1. Dismission from office.

2. Dispossession; a turning out from possession by force or authority.

3. The discharge of any excrementitious matter through the pores or other emunctories; evacuation; vomiting.

4. Rejection.

Ejectment

EJECT'MENT, noun Literally, a casting out; a dispossession.

1. In law, a writ or action which lies for the recovery of possession of land from which the owner has been ejected, and for trial of title. ejectment may be brought by the lessor against the lessee for rent in arrear, or for holding over his term; also by the lessee for years, who has been ejected before the expiration of his term.