Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 38
Entrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entrap.
Entrap (v. t.) 使投羅網；欺騙；使陷入 To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. -- Shak.
Syn: To insnare; inveigle; tangle; decoy; entangle.
Entrap (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}].
Entrap (v.) Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: {trap}, {entrap}, {snare}, {ensnare}, {trammel}].
Entreated (imp. & p. p.) of Entreat.
Entreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entreat.
Entreat (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.]
Fairly let her be entreated. -- Shak.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. -- Jer. xv. 11.
Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune. "Entreat my wife to come." "I do entreat your patience." -- Shak.
I must entreat of you some of that money. -- Shak.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. -- Poe.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. -- Gen. xxv. 21.
Entreat (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. -- Rogers.
Entreat (v. t.) To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] "Pleasures to entreat." -- Spenser.
Syn: To beseech; beg; solicit; crave; implore; supplicate.
See Beseech.
Entreat (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty. [Obs.]
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat. -- Hakewill.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them. -- 1 Mac. x. 47.
Entreat (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men. -- Knolles.
Entreat (n.) Entreaty. [Obs.] -- Ford.
Entreat (v.) Ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure].
Entreatable (a.) That may be entreated.
Entreatance (n.) Entreaty. [Obs.] -- Fairfax.
Entreater (n.) One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
Entreatful (a.) Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.
Compare: Intreatful
Intreatful (a.) Full of entreaty. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Entreatingly (adv.) In an entreating manner.
Entreatingly (adv.) In a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said imploringly" [syn: beseechingly, importunately, imploringly, pleadingly, entreatingly].
Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." -- A. Brewer.
Entreatment (n.) Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Entreaties (n. pl. ) of Entreaty.
Entreaty (n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Entreaty (n.) 【文】懇求；乞求 [C] [U] The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. -- Spenser.
Syn: Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.
Compare: Beseech
Beseech (v.) (besought, beseeched) (v. t.) 懇求；哀求 [（+for）] [O2]；乞求，急切地要求得到 [Literary] [R eporting verb] Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.
[With object and infinitive] ‘They beseeched him to stay.’
[With object and direct speech ]‘“You have got to believe me,” Gloria beseeched him.’
[With object] ‘They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.’
[As adjective beseeching] ‘A beseeching gaze.’
Entreaty (n.) Earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" [syn: entreaty, prayer, appeal].
Entree (n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
Entree (n.) (Cookery) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc. [obsolescent]
Entree (n.) The dish which comprises the main course of a meal, especially in a restaurant; as, there were many entrees on the menu.
Entree (n.) The principal dish of a meal [syn: entree, main course].
Entree (n.) The right to enter [syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance].
Entree (n.) Something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree].
Entree (n.) The act of entering; "she made a graceful entree into the ballroom."
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) Any small entertainment between two greater ones.
Entrench (v. t.) See Intrench.
Entrenchment (n.) 掘壕溝，壕溝，防衛工事 The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched. [syn: {Intrenchment}].
Entrenchment (n.) An entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches. [syn: {Intrenchment}].
Entrenchment (n.) The act or process of entrenching.
Entrenchment (n.) An entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches [syn: {entrenchment}, {intrenchment}].
Entrepot (n.) A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.
Entrepreneur (n.) 企業家；事業創辦者；承包人 One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken. -- F. A. Walker.
Entrepreneur (n.) Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it [syn: {entrepreneur}, {enterpriser}].
Entresol (n.) 【法】【建】半樓（底層與二樓之間的低矮閣樓） A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
Entresol (n.) Intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: {mezzanine}, {mezzanine floor}, {entresol}].
Compare: Mezzanine
Mezzanine (n.) (Arch.) (a) Same as Entresol.
Mezzanine (n.) (Arch.) (b) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
Mezzanine (n.) A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
Mezzanine (n.) Also Mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
Mezzanine (n.) The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
Mezzanine (n.) First or lowest balcony [syn: mezzanine, first balcony].
Mezzanine (n.) Intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: mezzanine, mezzanine floor, entresol].
Entrick (v. t.) To trick, to perplex. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.
Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Entropion (n.) [NL.] (Med.) Same as Entropium.
Entropium (n.) (Med.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Entropy (n.) (Thermodynamics) 【物】熵（熱力學函數） A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.
The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. -- Clausius.
Entrust (v. t.) 信託，委託；託管 [（+to/ with）] See {Intrust}.
Entrust (v.) Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: {entrust}, {intrust}, {trust}, {confide}, {commit}].
Entrust (v.) Put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care" [syn: {entrust}, {leave}].
Entries (n. pl. ) of Entry.
Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
Entry (n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
A notary made an entry of this act. -- Bacon.
Entry (n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
A straight, long entry to the temple led. -- Dryden.
Entry (n.) (Com.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
Entry (n.) (Law) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
Entry (n.) (Law) A putting upon record in proper form and order.
Entry (n.) (Law) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. -- Burrill.
Bill of entry. See under Bill.
Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping.
Entry clerk (Com.), A clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business.
Writ of entry (Law), A writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. -- Bouvier.
Entry (n.) An item inserted in a written record
Entry (n.) The act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry].
Entry (n.) A written record of a commercial transaction [syn: entry, accounting entry, ledger entry].
Entry (n.) Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission, entry].
Entry (n.) Something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree].
Entry (n.) The act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming].
Entry. () criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. In cases of burglary, the least entry with the whole or any part of the body, hand, or foot, or with any instrument or weapon, introduced for the purpose of committing a felony, is sufficient to complete the offence. 3 Inst. 64.
Entry, () estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner.
Entry, () A person having a right of possession may assert it by a peaceable entry, and being in possession may retain it, and plead that it is his soil and freehold; and this will not break in upon any rule of law respecting the mode of obtaining the possession of lands. 3 Term Rep. B. R. 295. When another person has taken possession of lands or tenements, and the owner peaceably makes an entry thereon, and declares that be thereby takes possession of the same, he shall, by this notorious act of ownership, which is equal to a feodal investiture, be restored to his original right. 3 Bl. Com. 174.
Entry, () A right of entry is not assignable at common law. Co. Litt. 214 a. As to the law on this subject in the United States, vide Buying of titles; 4 Kent, Com. 439 2 Hill. Ab. c. 33, Sec. 42 to 52; also, article ReEntry; Bac. Ab. Descent, G; 8 Vin. Ab. 441.
Entry, () In another sense, entry signifies the going upon another man's lands or his tenements. An entry in this sense may be justifiably made on another's land or house, first, when the law confers an authority; and secondly, when the party has authority in fact.
Entry, () First, 1. An officer may enter the close of one against whose person or property he is charged with the execution of a writ. In a civil case, the officer cannot open (even by unlatching) the outer inlet to a house, as a door or window opening into the street 18 Edw. IV., Easter, 19, pl. 4; Moore, pl. 917, p. 668 Cooke's case, Wm. Jones, 429; although it has been closed for the purpose of excluding him. Cowp. 1. But in a criminal case, a constable may break open an outer door to arrest one within suspected of felony. 13 Edw. IV., Easter, 4, p. 9. If the outer door or window be open, he may enter through it to execute a civil writ; Palin. 52; 5 Rep. 91; and, having entered, he may, in every case, if necessary, break open an inner door. 1 Brownl. 50.
Entry, () The lord may enter to distrain, and go into the house for that purpose, the outer door being open. 5 Rep. 91.
Entry, () The proprietors of goods or chattels may enter the land of another upon which they are placed, and remove them, provided they are there without his default; as where his tree has blown down into the adjoining close by the wind, or his fruit has fallen from a branch which overhung it. 20 Vin. Abr. 418.
Entry, () If one man is bound to repair bridge, he has a right of entry given him by law for that purpose. Moore, 889.
Entry, () A creditor has a right to enter the close of his debtor to demand the duty owing, though it is not to be rendered there. Cro. Eliz. 876.
Entry, () If trees are excepted out of a demise, the lessor has the right of entering, to prune or fell them. Cro. Eliz. 17; 11. Rep. 53.
Entry, () Every traveller has, by law, the privilege of entering a common inn, at all seasonable times, provided the host has sufficient accommodation, which, if he has not, it is for him to declare.
Entry, () Ever man may throw down a public nuisance, and a private one may be thrown down by the party grieved, and this before an prejudice happens, but only from the probability that it may happen. 5 Rep, 102 and see 1 Brownl. 212; 12 Mod. 510 Wm. Jones, 221; 1 Str. 683. To this end, the abator has authority to enter the close in which it stands. See Nuisance.
Entry, () An entry may be made on the land of another, to exercise or enjoy therein an incorporeal right or hereditament to which he is entitled. Hamm. N. P. 172. See general Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 627; License.
Entry, () commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant's or tradesman's account books; such entries are, in general, prima facie evidence of the sale and delivery, and of work, done; but unless the entry be the original one, it is not evidence. Vide Original entry.
Entry, () WRIT OF. The name of a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has entered unlawfully, and continues in possession. This is a mere possessor action, and does not decide the right of property.
Entry, () The writs of entry were commonly brought, where the tenant or possessor of the land entered lawfully; that is, without fraud or force; 13 Edw. I. c. 25; although sometimes they were founded upon an entry made by wrong. The forms of these writs are very various, and are adapted to the, title and estate of the demandant. Booth enumerates and particularly discusses twelve varieties. Real Actions, pp. 175-200. In general they contain an averment of the manner in which the defendant entered. At the common law these actions could be brought only in the degrees, but the Statute of Marlbridge, c. 30; Rob. Dig. 147, cited as c. 29; gave a writ adapted to cases beyond the degrees, called a writ of entry in the post. Booth, 172, 173. The denomination of these writs by degrees, is derived from the circumstance that estates are supposed by the law to pass by degrees from one person to another, either by descent or purchase. Similar to this idea, or rather corresponding with it, are the gradations of consanguinity, indicated by the very common term pedigree. But in reference to the writs of entry, the degrees recognized were only two, and the writs were quaintly termed writs in the per, and writs in the per and cui. Examples of these writs are given in Booth on R. A. pp. 173, 174. The writ in the, per runs thus: "Command A, that be render unto B, one messuage, &c., into which he has not entry except (per) by &c. The writ in the per and cui contains another gradation in the transmission of the estate, and read thus: Command A, that he render, &c., one messuage, into which he hath not entry but (per) by C, (cui) to whom the aforesaid B demised it for a term of years, now expired," &c. 2 Institute, 153; Co. Litt. b, 239, a. Booth, however, makes three degrees, by accounting the estate in the per, the second degree. The difference is not substantial. If the estate had passed further, either by descent or conveyance, it was said to be out of the degrees, and to such cases the writ of entry on the. statute of Marlbridge, only, was applicable. 3 Bl. Com. 181, 182; Report of Com. to Revise Civil Code of Penna. January 15, 1835, p. 85. Vide Writ of entry.
Entryng (n.) Am entrance. [Obs.]
So great an entryng and so large. -- Chaucer.
Entune (v. t.) To tune; to intone. -- Chaucer.
Compare: Intwine
Intwine (v. t.) [Cf. Entwine.] To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]
Entwine (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.]
Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. -- Shelley.
Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. -- Herbert.
Entwine (v. i.) To be twisted or twined.
With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. -- De Quincey.
Entwine (v.) Tie or link together [syn: knit, entwine]
Entwine (v.) Spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts" [syn: intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace] [ant: untwine].
Entwinement (n.) A twining or twisting together or round; union. -- Bp. Hacket.
Compare: Intwist
Intwist (v. t.) To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]
Entwist (v. t.) 纏結，捻，搓 To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. -- Shak.
Enubilate (v. t.) To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
Enubilous (a.) Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
Enucleated (imp. & p. p.) of Enucleate.
Enucleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enucleate.
Enucleate (v. t.) 【古】解釋；【醫】摘出（腫瘤等）；【生】除去細胞核 To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
Enucleate (v. t.) (Med.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring to light; to make clear. -- Sclater (1654).
Enucleate (v.) Remove the nucleus from (a cell).
Enucleate (v.) Remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover.
Enucleation (n.) The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. -- Tooke.
Enucleation (n.) Surgical removal of something without cutting into it; "the enucleation of the tumor."
Enumerated (imp. & p. p.) of Enumerate.
Enumerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enumerate.
Enumerate (v. t.) To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
Enumerating the services he had done. -- Ludlow.
Syn: To reckon; compute; calculate; count; estimate; relate; rehearse; recapitulate; detail.
Enumerate (v.) Specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise].
Enumerate (v.) Determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number, enumerate, numerate].
Enumeration (n.) 計數；列舉；細目 The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
Enumeration (n.) A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. -- Paley.
Enumeration (n.) (Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
Enumeration (n.) A numbered list [syn: {enumeration}, {numbering}].
Enumeration (n.) The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: {count} {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning}, {tally}].
Enumerative (a.) Counting, or reckoning up, one by one.
Enumerative of the variety of evils. -- Jer. Taylor.
Enumerator (n.) One who enumerates.
Enumerator (n.) Someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes [syn: census taker, enumerator].
Enunciable (a.) Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Enunciated (imp. & p. p.) of Enunciate.
Enunciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enunciate.
Enunciate (v. t.) 清晰地發（音）；發表；宣布；明確表明 To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. -- Coleridge.
Enunciate (v. t.) To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
Enunciate (v. i.) 清晰地發音 To utter words or syllables articulately.
Enunciate (v.) Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say].
Enunciate (v.) Express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise].
Enunciation (n.) 清晰的發音；表明；宣言 The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
By way of interpretation and enunciation. -- Jer. Taylor.
Enunciation (n.) Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
Enunciation (n.) That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false. -- A. Clarke.
Enunciation (n.) The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction].
Enunciative (a.) 發音的；宣布的；說明的 Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. -- Ayliffe. -- E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.
Enunciator (n.) 發音者；宣布者；說明者 One who enunciates or proclaims.
Enunciatory (a.) 表明的；宣言的；發音清晰的 Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
Enure (v. t.) See Inure.
Enuresis (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of. [Obs.]
Envault (v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb. [R.] -- Swift.
Enveigle (v. t.) To entice. See Inveigle.
Compare: Inveigle
Inveigle (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Inveigled; p. pr. & vb. n. Inveigling.] To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. -- Milton.
Inveigle (v.) Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle].
Compare: Wheedle
Wheedle (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Wheedled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheedling.] 以甜言蜜語誘惑；用甜言蜜語欺騙 [O] [（+into/ out of）] To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
The unlucky art of wheedling fools. -- Dryden.
And wheedle a world that loves him not. -- Tennyson.
Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. -- Congreve.
Wheedle (v. i.) 用甜言蜜語哄騙 To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
Wheedle (v.) Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle].
Enveloped (imp. & p. p.) of Envelop.
Enveloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envelop.
Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
Nocturnal shades this world envelop. -- J. Philips. Envelope
Envelope (n.) Alt. of Envelop.
Envelop (n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
Envelop (n.) (Astron.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
Envelop (n.) (Fort.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. -- Wilhelm.
Envelop (n.) (Geom.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
Envelop (n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
Push the envelope To increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usually by technological development.
Envelop (v.) Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose].
Envelopment (n.) [U] 包，裹；封；封皮；包圍 The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Envelopment (n.) That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
Envelopment (n.) The act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: {enclosure}, {enclosing}, {envelopment}, {inclosure}].
Envenime (v. t.) To envenom. [Obs.]
Envenomed (imp. & p. p.) of Envenom.
Envenoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envenom.
Envenom (v. t.) 使有毒；毒化；使含惡意 To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. -- Milton.
O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it! -- Shak.
Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
The envenomed tongue of calumny. -- Smollett.
On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed. -- Sir G. C. Lewis.
Envenom (v.) Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more" [syn: {embitter}, {envenom}, {acerbate}].
Envenom (v.) Add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her" [syn: {poison}, {envenom}].
Envermeil (v. t.) To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.] -- Milton.