Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 25
Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.
Enactment (n.) The passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: enactment, passage].
Enactment (n.) A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body [syn: act, enactment].
Enactment (n.) Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture [syn: portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation].
Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. -- Atterbury.
Enacture (n.) Enactment; resolution. [Obs.] -- Shak
Enaliosaur (n.) (Paleon.) One of the Enaliosauria.
Enaliosauria (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
Enaliosaurian (a.) (Paleon.) Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
Enaliosaurian (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.
Enallage (n.) (Gram.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
Enallage (n.) A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
Enambush (v. t.) To ambush. [Obs.]
Enamel (n.) A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.
Enamel (n.) (Min.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
Enamel (n.) That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.
Enamel (n.) (Anat.) The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.
Enamel (n.) Any one of various preparations for giving a smooth, glossy surface like that of enamel.
Enamel (n.) A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.
Enamel painting, Painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire.
Enamel paper, Paper glazed a metallic coating.
Enamel (n.) [ C or U ] 搪瓷；琺瑯 A decorative glass-like substance that is melted onto clay, metal, or glass objects, and then left to cool and become hard, or an object covered with this substance.
Enamel (n.) 瓷漆；瓷釉 A type of paint that forms a shiny surface when dry.
Enamel (n.) （牙齒的）琺瑯質，釉質 The hard, white, shiny substance that forms the covering of a tooth.
Enamel (v.) [ T ] ( -ll- or US usually -l-) 塗瓷釉（或搪瓷、瓷漆）於；給…上琺瑯 To cover something with enamel.
Enamel painting (Ph.) Painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire.
Enamel paper (Ph.) Paper glazed a metallic coating.
Enamel (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Enameled or Enamelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enameling or Enamelling.]: To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
Enamel (v. t.) To variegate with colors as if with enamel.
Of the [the serpent] bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck. -- Milton.
Enamel (v. t.) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.
Enamel (v. t.) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
Enamel (v. t.) To cover something with enamel.
Enamel (v. t.) To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.
Enamel (v. t.) To variegate with colors as if with enamel.
Enamel (v. t.) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.
Enamel (v. t.) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
Enamel (v. i.) To practice the art of enameling.
Enamel (a.) Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting. -- Tomlinson.
Enameled (imp. & p. p.) of Enamel.
Enamelled () of Enamel.
Enameling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enamel.
Enamelling () of Enamel.
Enamel (n.) Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth [syn: enamel, tooth enamel].
Enamel (n.) A colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection.
Enamel (n.) A paint that dries to a hard glossy finish.
Enamel (n.) Any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze.
Enamel (v.) Coat, inlay, or surface with enamel.
Enamelar (a.) Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy. -- Craig.
Enameled (a.) Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.] Enameler
Enameler (n.) Alt. of Enamelist.
Enamelist (n.) One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]
Enamored (imp. & p. p.) of Enamor.
Enamoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enamor.
Enamor (v. t.) 使迷戀，使傾心 To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.]
Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. -- W. Irving.
Enamor (v.) Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {trance}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor}, {captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch}, {entrance}, {enchant}].
Enamored (a.) Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: enamored, infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)].
Enamorment (n.) The state of being enamored. [R.]
Enamour (v.) 迷住，使迷戀 Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {trance}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor}, {captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch}, {entrance}, {enchant}].
Enantiomorphous (a.) (Crystallog.) Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.
Enantiopathic (a.) (Med.) Serving to palliate; palliative. -- Dunglison.
Enantiopathy (n.) An opposite passion or affection. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Enantiopathy (n.) (Med.) Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.
Enantiosis (n.) (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
Enarch (v. t.) To arch. [Obs.] -- Lydgate.
Enarched (a.) (Her.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.
Enargite (n.) (Min.) An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
Enarmed (a.) (Her.) Same as Armed, 3.
Enarration (n.) A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] -- Hakewill.
Enarthrodia (n.) (Anat.) See Enarthrosis. -- En`ar*thro"di*al, a.
Enarthrosis (n.) (Anat.) A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.
Enascent (a.) Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] -- Bp. Warburton.
Enatation (n.) A swimming out. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Enate (a.) Growing out.
Enation (n.) (Bot.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.
Enation (n.) Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family [syn: matrilineage, enation, cognation].
Enation (n.) A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ [syn: plant process, enation].
Enaunter (adv.) Lest that. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Enavigate (v. t.) To sail away or over. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Enbattled (a.) Embattled. [Obs.]
Enbibe (v. t.) To imbibe. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Enbroude (v. t.) See Embroude.
Compare: Incage
Incage (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Incaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Incaging.] [Cf. Encage.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." -- Shak.
Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encage.
Engaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encage.
Encage (v. t.) 關入籠中 To confine in a cage; to coop up. -- Shak.
Encalendar (v. t.) To register in a calendar; to calendar. -- Drayton.
Encamped (imp. & p. p.) of Encamp.
Encamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encamp.
Encamp (v. i.) 紮營，露營 To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. -- 1 Chron. xi. 15.
Encamp (v. t.) 使宿營 To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
Bid him encamp his soldiers. -- Shak.
Encamp (v.) Live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp}, {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}].
Encamp, () An encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter period of an army or company of travellers (Ex. 13:20; 14:19; Josh. 10:5; 11:5).
The manner in which the Israelites encamped during their march through the wilderness is described in Num. 2 and 3. The order of the encampment (see CAMP) was preserved in the march (Num. 2:17), the signal for which was the blast of two silver trumpets. Detailed regulations affecting the camp for sanitary purposes are given (Lev. 4:11, 12; 6:11; 8:17; 10:4, 5; 13:46; 14:3; Num. 12:14, 15; 31:19; Deut. 23:10, 12).
Criminals were executed without the camp (Lev. 4:12; comp. John 19:17, 20), and there also the young bullock for a sin-offering was burnt (Lev. 24:14; comp. Heb. 13:12).
In the subsequent history of Israel frequent mention is made of their encampments in the time of war (Judg. 7:18; 1 Sam. 13:2, 3, 16, 23; 17:3; 29:1; 30:9, 24). The temple was sometimes called "the camp of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:2, R.V.; comp. Ps. 78:28). The multitudes who flocked to David are styled "a great host (i.e., "camp;" Heb. mahaneh), like the host of God" (1 Chr. 12:22).
Encampment (n.) 露營，宿營 The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
Encampment (n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. -- Gibbon.
A green encampment yonder meets the eye. -- Guardian.
Encampment (n.) A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite}, {campground}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac}, {encampment}, {camping area}].
Encampment (n.) Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: {camp}, {encampment}, {cantonment}, {bivouac}].
Encampment (n.) The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: {camping}, {encampment}, {bivouacking}, {tenting}].
Encanker (v. t.) To canker. [Obs.]
Encapsulate (v. t.) 裝入膠囊,封進內部,壓縮 (v. i.) 形成膠囊 Enclose in a capsule or other small container.
Encapsulate (v.) Put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news" [syn: {encapsulate}, {capsule}, {capsulize}, {capsulise}].
Encapsulation (n.) (Physiol.) The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
Encapsulation (n.) The condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule); "the encapsulation of tendons in membranous sheaths".
Encapsulation (n.) The process of enclosing (as in a capsule).
Encapsulation, () The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information to the protocol data unit (PDU) from the layer above. As an example, in Internet terminology, a packet would contain a header from the physical layer, followed by a header from the network layer (IP), followed by a header from the transport layer (TCP), followed by the application protocol data.
Encapsulation, () The ability to provide users with a well-defined interface to a set of functions in a way which hides their internal workings. In object-oriented programming, the technique of keeping together data structures and the methods (procedures) which act on them. (1998-09-07)
Encarnalize (v. t.) To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] "Encarnalize their spirits." -- Tennyson.
Encarpus (n.) (Arch.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]
Encase (v. t.) To inclose as in a case. See Incase. -- Beau. & Fl.
Encase (v.) Enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" [syn: encase, incase, case].
Encasement (n.) The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
Encasement (n.) (Biol.) An old theory of generation similar to embo[^i]tement. See Ovulist.
Encasement (n.) The act of enclosing something in a case [syn: encasement, incasement].
Encash (v. t.) (Eng. Banking) To turn into cash; to cash. -- Sat. Rev.
Encashment (n.) (Eng. Banking) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
Encauma (n.) (Med.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. -- Dunglison.
Encaustic (a.) (Fine Arts) Prepared by means of heat; burned in.
Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors.
Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), An earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.
Encaustic (n.) The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
Encaustic (n.) A paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application.
Encave (v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." -- Shak.
-ence () A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.
Enceinte (n.) (Fort.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.
Enceinte (n.) The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.
The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte. -- S. W. Williams.
Enceinte (a.) Pregnant; with child.
Enceinte (a.) In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)].
Enceinte, () med. jur. A French word, which signifies pregnant.
Enceinte, () When a woman is pregnant, and is convicted of a capital crime, she cannot lawfully be punished till after her delivery.
Enceinte, () In the English law, where a widow is suspected to feign herself with child, in order to produce a supposititious heir to the estate, the presumptive heir may have a writ de ventre inspiciendo, to examine whether she be with child or not. Cro. Eliz. 566; 4 Bro. C. C. 90. As to the signs of pregnancy, see 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 157. See, generally, 4 Bl. Com. 894; 2 P. Wms. 591; 1 Cox, C. C. 297 and Pregnancy; Privement enceinte.
Encenia (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.
Encense (v. t. & i.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Encephalic (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.
Encephalitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.
Encephalitis (n.) Inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) [syn: encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis].
Encephalocele (n.) (Med.) Hernia of the brain.
Encephaloid (a.) Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
Encephaloid cancer (Med.), A very malignant form of cancer of brainlike consistency. See under Cancer.
Encephaloid (n.) An encephaloid cancer.
Encephalology (n.) The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.
Encephalon (n.; pl. encephala.) (Anat.) The contents of the cranium; the brain.
Encephalopathy (n.) (Med.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
Encephalopathy (n.) Any disorder or disease of the brain [syn: brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease].
Encephalos (n.) (Anat.) The encephalon.
In man the encephalos reaches its full size about seven years of age. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Encephalotomy (n.) (Surg.) The act or art of dissecting the brain.
Encephalous (a.) (Zool.) Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.
Enchafe (v. t.) To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Enchafing (n.) Heating; burning. [Obs.]
The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. -- Chaucer.
Enchain (v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
Enchain (v. t.) To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.
Enchain (v. t.) To link together; to connect. -- Howell.
Enchain (v.) Restrain or bind with chains.
Enchainment (n.) The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
Enchair (v. t.) To seat in a chair. -- Tennyson.