Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 35

Ensilage (n.) The fodder preserved in a silo.

Ensilaged (imp. & p. p.) of Ensilage.

Ensilaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ensilage.

Ensilage (v. t.) 將未乾秣草保藏於地窖 To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

Ensilage (n.) Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: {silage}, {ensilage}].

Ensky (v. t.) To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." -- Shak.

Ensky (v.) Exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise.

Enslaved (imp. & p. p.) of Enslave.

Enslaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enslave.

Enslave (v. t.) 奴役,束縛,沈溺,征服 To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. -- Milton.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. -- Cowper.

Enslave (v.) Make a slave of; bring into servitude.

Enslavedness (n.) 被奴役之狀態 State of being enslaved.

Enslavement (n.) 奴役;奴隸化 The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

A fresh enslavement to their enemies. -- South.

Enslavement (n.) The state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity" -- Shakespeare [syn: enslavement, captivity].

Enslavement (n.) The act of making slaves of your captives.

Enslaver (n.) 奴役人者,迷惑男人的女人,蕩婦 One who enslaves. -- Swift.

Ensnare (v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

Ensnare (v.) Take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" [syn: ensnare, entrap, frame, set up].

Ensnare (v.) Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel].

Ensnarl (v. t.) To entangle. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Ensnarl (v.) Entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh [syn: enmesh, mesh, ensnarl].

Ensober (v. t.) To make sober. [Obs.]

Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. -- Jer. Taylor.

Ensoul (v. t.) To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [R.] -- Emerson.

Ensphere (v. t.) To place in a sphere; to envelop.

His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. -- Chapman.

Ensphere (v. t.) To form into a sphere.

Enstamp (v. t.) To stamp; to mark as with a stamp; to impress deeply.

It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. -- Gogan.

Enstate (v. t.) See Instate.

Enstatite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Enstatitic (a.) Relating to enstatite.

Enstore (v. t.) To restore. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.

Enstyle (v. t.) To style; to name. [Obs.]

Ensuable (a.) Ensuing; following.

Ensued (imp. & p. p.) of Ensue.

Ensuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ensue.

Ensue (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake. [Obs.] "Seek peace, and ensue it." -- 1 Pet. iii. 11.

To ensue his example in doing the like mischief. -- Golding.

Ensue (v. i.) To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.

So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued. -- Pope.

Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. -- I. Taylor.

Syn: To follow; pursue; succeed. See Follow.

Ensue (v.) Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end; "result in tragedy" [syn: result, ensue].

Compare: Insure

Insure (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Insured; p. pr. & vb. n. Insuring.] [Written also ensure.] To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

Ensure (v. t.) To make sure. See Insure.

Ensure (v. t.) To betroth. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.

Ensure (v.) Make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure].

Ensure (v.) Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure].

Ensurer (n.) See Insurer.

Enswathe (v. t.) To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. --Shak.

Enswathement (n.) The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

Ensweep (v. t.) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] -- Thomson.

Ent- () A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.

-ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.

Entablature (n.) (Arch.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

Note: It is commonly divided into architrave, the part immediately above the column; frieze, the central space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings. -- Parker.

Entablature (n.) 1: (Architecture) The structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof.

Entablement (n.) See Entablature.

Entackle (v. t.) To supply with tackle.

Entad (adv.) Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.

Entail (n.) That which is entailed.

Entail (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Entail (n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Entailed (imp. & p. p.) of Entail.

Entailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entail.

Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

Entail (n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

Entail (n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

Entailment (n.) The condition of being entailed.

Entailment (n.) A thing entailed.

Ental (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.

Entame (v. t.) To tame.

Entangled (imp. & p. p.) of Entangle.

Entangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entangle.

Entangle (v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

Entangle (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

Entangled (a.) 捲入的;陷入的;被纏住的 Caught in or as if in a tangle.

Entangled (a.) Involved in an undesirable situation from which it is difficult to escape:  entangled in crime..

Entanglement (n.) 糾纏,捲入,纏繞物 State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

Entanglement (n.) (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.

Entanglement (n.) (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance.

Entanglement (n.) An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: {web}, {entanglement}].

Entangler (n.) One that entangles.

Entasia (n.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Entasis (n.) Same as Entasia.

Entassment (n.) A heap; accumulation.

Entastic (a.) Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

Entelechy (n.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

Entellus (n.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

Entend (v. i.) To attend to; to apply one's self to.

Entender (v. t.) To make tender.

Entender (v. t.) To treat with tenderness.

Ententive (a.) Attentive; zealous.

Enter- () A prefix signifying between, among, part.

Entered (imp. & p. p.) of Enter.

Entering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enter.

Enter (v. t.) To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.

That darksome cave they enter. -- Spenser.

I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. -- Milton.

Enter (v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

Enter (v. t.) To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.

Enter (v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.

Enter (v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

Enter (v. t.) To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

Enter (v. t.) (Law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

Enter (v. t.) (Law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment. -- Burrill.

Enter (v. t.) To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See {Entry}, 4.

Enter (v. t.) To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf pre["e]mption. [U.S.] -- Abbott.

Enter (v. t.) To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

Enter (v. t.) To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Enter (v. i.) To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps. "The year entering." -- Evelyn.

No evil thing approach nor enter in. -- Milton.

Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. -- Is. lix. 14.

For we which have believed do enter into rest. -- Heb. iv. 3.

Enter (v. i.) To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

Enter (v. i.) To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.

He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action. -- Addison.

Enter (v.) To come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes" [syn: {enter}, {come in}, {get into}, {get in}, {go into}, {go in}, {move into}] [ant: {exit}, {get out}, {go out}, {leave}].

Enter (v.) Become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations" [syn: {enter}, {participate}] [ant: {chuck up the sponge}, {drop by the wayside}, {drop out}, {fall by the wayside}, {give up}, {quit}, {throw in}, {throw in the towel}].

Enter (v.) Register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: {enroll}, {inscribe}, {enter}, {enrol}, {recruit}].

Enter (v.) Be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: {figure}, {enter}].

Enter (v.) Make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: {record}, {enter}, {put down}].

Enter (v.) Come on stage.

Enter (v.) Take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" [syn: {accede}, {enter}].

Enter (v.) Put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text" [syn: {insert}, {infix}, {enter}, {introduce}].

Enter (v.) Set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career" [syn: {embark}, {enter}].

Enteradenography (n.) A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

Enteradenology (n.) The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Enteralgia (n.) Pain in the intestines; colic.

Enterdeal (n.) Mutual dealings; intercourse.

Enterer (n.) One who makes an entrance or beginning.

Enteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

Enteritis (n.) An inflammation of the intestines.

Enterlace (v. t.) See Interlace.

Entermete (v. i.) To interfere; to intermeddle.

Entermewer (n.) A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Entermise (n.) Mediation.

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