Engraver – Enthymematical

Engraver

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

Engravery

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

Engraving

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.

Engrieve

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

Engross

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.

Engrossed

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

Engrosser

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.

Engrossing

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.

Engrossment

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.

Enguard

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

Engulf

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

Engulfed

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

Engulfment

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

Enhance

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.

Enhanced

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

Enhancement

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.

Enhancer

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

Enhancing

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

Enharbor

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

Enharden

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

Enharmonic

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.

Enigma

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.

Enigmatic

ENIGMAT'IC

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

1. Obscurely conceived or apprehended.

Enigmatical

ENIGMAT'ICAL, a. Relating to or containing a riddle; obscure; darkly expressed; ambiguous. 1. Obscurely conceived or apprehended.

Enigmatically

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

Enigmatist

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

Enigmatize

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

Enigmatography

ENIGMATOG'RAPHY

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

Enigmatology

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

Enjoin

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.

Enjoined

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

Enjoiner

ENJOIN'ER, noun One who enjoins.

Enjoining

ENJOIN'ING, participle present tense Ordering; directing.

Enjoinment

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

Enjoy

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.]

Enjoyable

ENJOY'ABLE, adjective Capable of being enjoyed.

Enjoyed

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

Enjoyer

ENJOY'ER, noun One who enjoys.

Enjoying

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

Enjoyment

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.

Enkindle

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.

Enkindled

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

Enkindling

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

Enlard

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

Enlarge

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.

Enlarged

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

Enlargedly

ENL'ARGEDLY, adverb With enlargement.

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.

Enlarger

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

Enlarging

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

ENL'ARGING, noun Enlargement.

Enlight

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

[See Enlighten. enlight is rarely used.]

Enlighten

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.

Enlightened

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

Enlightener

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

Enlightening

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

Enlink

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

Enlist

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.

Enlistment

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

Enliven

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.

Enlivened

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

Enlivener

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

Enlivening

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

Enlumine

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

Enmarble

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

Enmesh

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

Enmity

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.

Enneacontahedral

ENNEACONTAHE'DRAL, adjective Having ninety faces.

Enneagon

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

Enneander

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

Enneandrian

ENNEAN'DRIAN, adjective Having nine stamens.

Enneapetalous

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

Enneatical

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

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

Ennoble

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.

Ennobled

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

Ennoblement

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

1. Exaltation; elevation in degree or excellence.

Ennobling

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

Ennui

ENNUI, noun Weariness; heaviness; lassitude of fastidiousness.

Enodation

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.]

Enode

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

Enomotarch

ENOM'OTARCH, noun The commander of an enomoty.

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

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

Enormity

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.

Enormous

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.

Enormouseness

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

Enormously

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

Enough

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

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

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

Enounced

ENOUN'CED, participle passive Uttered; pronounced.

Enouncing

ENOUN'CING, participle present tense Uttering; pronouncing.

Enow

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

EN PASSANT. In passing; by the way.

Enquicken

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

Enquire

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

Enrace

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

Enrage

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

Enraged

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

Enraging

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

Enrange

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

Enrank

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

Enrapture

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.

Enraptured

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

Enrapturing

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

Enravish

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

Enravished

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

Enravishing

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

Enravishment

ENRAV'ISHMENT, noun Ecstasy of delight; rapture.

Enregister

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

Enrheum

ENRHEUM, verb intransitive To have rheum through cold.

Enrich

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.

Enriched

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

Enricher

ENRICH'ER, noun One that enriches.

Enriching

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

Enrichment

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

Enridge

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

Enring

ENRING', verb transitive To encircle; to bind.

Enripen

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

Enrive

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

Enrobe

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

Enrobed

ENRO'BED, participle passive Attired; invested.

Enrobing

ENRO'BING, participle present tense Investing; attiring.

Enroll

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

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

Enroller

ENROLLER, noun He that enrolls or registers.

Enrolling

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

Enrollment

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

1. The act of enrolling.

Enroot

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

Enrooted

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

Enrooting

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

Enround

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

Ens

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.]

Ensample

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.]

Ensanguine

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

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

Ensanguined

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

Ensate

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

Enschedule

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

Ensconce

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.

Ensconced

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

Ensconcing

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

Enseal

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

Ensealed

ENSE'ALED, participle passive Impressed with a seal.

Ensealing

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

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

Enseam

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

Enseamed

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

Ensear

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

Ensearch

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

Ensemble

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

Enshield

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

Enshrine

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

Enshrined

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

1. Inclosed; placed as in a shrine.

Enshrining

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

Ensiferous

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

Bearing or carrying a sword.

Ensiform

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.

Ensign

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.

Ensign-Bearer

EN'SIGN-BEARER, noun He that carries the flag; an ensign.

Ensigncy

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

Enskied

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

Enslave

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.

Enslaved

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

Enslavement

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

Enslaver

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

Enslaving

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

Ensnare

ENSNARE, [See Insnare.]

Ensober

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

Ensphere

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

1. To make into a sphere.

Enstamp

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

God enstamped his image on man.

Enstamped

ENSTAMP'ED, participle passive Impressed deeply.

Enstamping

ENSTAMP'ING, participle present tense Impressing deeply.

Enstyle

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

Ensue

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.

Ensuing

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

Ensure

ENSURE, and its derivatives. [See Insure.]

Ensweep

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

Entablature

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.

Entablement

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.

Entackle

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

Entail

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.

Entailed

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

1. Settled on a person and his descendants.

Entailing

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.

Entailment

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.

Entame

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

Entangle

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.

Entangled

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

Entanglement

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

Entangler

ENTAN'GLER, noun One who entangles.

Entangling

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

Entender

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

Enter

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.

Enterdeal

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

Entered

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

Entering

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

ENTERLACE, [See Interlace.]

Enterocele

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

Enterology

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.

Enteromphalos

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

Enterparlance

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

Enterplead

ENTERPLEAD, [See Interplead.]

Enterprise

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.

Enterprised

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

Enterpriser

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.

Enterprising

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.

Entertain

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.]

Entertained

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

Entertainer

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.

Entertaining

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.

Entertainingly

ENTERTA'ININGLY, adverb In an amusing manner.

Entertainment

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.

Entertissued

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

Entheastic

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

Entheastically

ENTHEAS'TICALLY, adverb According to deific energy.

Entheat

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

Enthrall

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

Enthrill

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

Enthrone

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.

Enthroning

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

Enthunder

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

Enthusiasm

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.

Enthusiast

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.

Enthusiastic

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.

Enthusiastical

ENTHUSIAS'TICAL, a. 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.

Enthusiastically

ENTHUSIAS'TICALLY, adverb With enthusiasm.

Enthymematical

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