Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 4
Ebrauke (a.) Hebrew. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ebrieties (n. pl. ) of Ebriety
Ebriety (n.) 酒醉 Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." -- Cowper.
Compare: Drunkenness
Drunkenness (n.) 酩酊，醉態，醉 [U] The state of being intoxicated; intoxication.
‘A growing problem of drunkenness.’
Compare: Intoxication
Intoxication (n.) [U] 醉；陶醉；極度興奮；狂喜；【醫】中毒 The state of being intoxicated, especially by alcohol.
‘Signs of intoxication.’
Intoxicate (v. t.) 使喝醉；使陶醉；使狂喜 [H] [（+by）]；使中毒 (Of alcoholic drink or a drug) Cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behavior.
‘We don't allow people into sessions if they are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.’
Intoxicate (v. t.) Excite or exhilarate (someone).
‘Except for NYC and LA, no American city has so intoxicated and infuriated writers.’
Intoxicate (v. t.) [Archaic] Poison (someone).
Compare: Exhilarate
Exhilarate (v. t.) 使振奮；使高興 [H] Make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.
‘The children were exhilarated by a sense of purpose.’
Ebrillade (n.) (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
Ebriosity (n.) Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
Ebrious (a.) Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] -- M. Collins.
Ebulliate (v. i.) To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] -- Prynne. Ebullience
Ebullience (n.) （感情等的）奔放；興高采烈；沸 Alt. of Ebulliency
Ebulliency (n.) 沸騰；迸發；狂熱 A boiling up or over; effervescence. -- Cudworth.
Ebulliency (n.) Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn: exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience].
Ebullient (a.) （感情等的）奔放的；興高采烈的；沸騰的 Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited.
// The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
Ebullient (a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." -- De Quincey.
The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. -- Carlyle.
Ebullient (a.) Joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited].
Ebullioscope (n.) (Phys. Chem.) 沸點測定計；沸點計 An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
Ebullition (n.) （感情等的）迸發；【物】沸騰 A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
Ebullition (n.) Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]
Ebullition (n.) A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
Ebullition (n.) An unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullition].
Eburin (n.) 類象牙之 A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. -- Knight.
Eburnation (n.) (Med) 【醫】象牙質變性 A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
Eburnean (a.) 象牙的 Made of or relating to ivory.
Eburnification (n.) 象牙質化 The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
Eburnine (a.) Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." -- Sir W. Scott.
Eburnine (a.) (Rare) Like ivory.
Ecardines (n. pl.) 無鉸綱 An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.
Compare: Inarticulata
Inarticulata (n.) 無鉸綱〔腕足類〕Inarticulata was historically defined as one of the two classes of the phylum Brachiopoda and referred to those having no hinge. The other class was Articulata, meaning articulated -- having a hinge between the dorsal and ventral valves. [1] These classifications have now been superseded, see brachiopod classification.
Compare: Brachiopod
Brachiopod (n.) (Zoology) 腕足動物門 A marine invertebrate of the phylum Brachiopoda, which comprises the lamp shells.
‘Most such particles are echinoderm stem ossicles, brachiopods, bryozoans or other corals.’
Ecarte (n.) 埃卡泰牌戲（兩人玩的一種紙牌遊戲）；埃卡泰（芭蕾的一種基本姿勢） A game at cards for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
Ecarte (n.) A card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high.
Ecarte (n.) A card game for two players, played originally in 19th-century France, in which thirty-two cards are used, and certain cards may be discarded in exchange for others.
Ecarte (n.) [Ballet] A position in which the dancer, facing diagonally toward the audience, extends one leg in the air to the side with the arm of the same side raised above the head and the other arm extended to the side.
Ecaudate (a.) (Bot.) 【動】無尾的 Without a tail or spur.
Ecaudate (a.) (Zool.) Tailless.
Compare: Tailless
Tailless (a.) 無尾的；【律】無限定繼承財產的 Having no tail. -- H. Spencer.
Tailless (a.) Not having a tail; "anurous toads and frogs" [syn: anurous, tailless].
Ecballium (n.) (Bot.) 噴瓜屬 A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
Ecballium (n.) Exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn: Ecballium, genus Ecballium].
Ecbasis (n.) (Rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Ecbatic (a.) (Gram.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase "i`na plhrw`qh, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
Ecbole (n.) (Rhet.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Ecbolic (n.) (Med.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
Ecboline (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
Eccaleobion (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Ecce homo () (Paint.) A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
Ecce homo (n.) A representation (a picture or sculpture) of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns.
Eccentric (a.) （人、行為等）古怪的，反常的；不同圓心的 Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
Eccentric (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
Eccentric (a.) (Math.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
Eccentric (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end.
His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. -- Bacon.
Eccentric (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." -- Macaulay.
He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. -- Savage.
Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly.
Eccentric chuck (Mach.), A lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles.
Eccentric gear. (Mach.) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine.
Eccentric gear. (Mach.) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation.
Eccentric hook or Eccentric gab, A hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap.
Eccentric rod, The rod that connects an eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric.
Eccentric sheave, or Eccentric pulley, An eccentric.
Eccentric strap, The ring, operating as a journal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called also eccentric hoop.
Syn: Irregular; anomalous; singular; odd; peculiar; erratic; idiosyncratic; strange; whimsical.
Eccentric (n.) [C] 古怪的人；偏心圓 A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
Eccentric (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
Eccentric (n.) (Astron.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
Eccentric (n.) (Astron.)A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
Eccentric (n.) (Mach.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
Back eccentric, The eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine.
Fore eccentric, The eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.
Eccentric (a.) Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre].
Eccentric (a.) Not having a common center; not concentric; "eccentric circles" [syn: eccentric, nonconcentric] [ant: concentric, concentrical, homocentric].
Eccentric (n.) A person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek].
Eccentric (n.) A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" [syn: character, eccentric, type, case].
Eccentrical (a.) See Eccentric.
Eccentrically (adv.) 古怪地，離奇地 In an eccentric manner.
Drove eccentrically here and there. -- Lew Wallace.
Eccentrically (adv.) In an eccentric or bizarre manner
Eccentrically (adv.) Not symmetrically with respect to the center.
Eccentricities (n. pl. ) of Eccentricity
Eccentricity (n.) 古怪，怪癖 [U]；古怪的行為或習慣 [C] The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
Eccentricity (n.) (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
Eccentricity (n.) (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
Eccentricity (n.) (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
Eccentricity (n.) Strange and unconventional behavior.
Eccentricity (n.) (Geometry) A ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; "a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity".
Eccentricity (n.) A circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path [ant: concentricity].
Eccentricity (n.) A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Ecchymose (v. t.) (Med.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
Ecchymoses (n. pl. ) of Ecchymosis
Ecchymosis (n.) 【醫】 瘀血；瘀斑 A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
Ecchymotic (a.) Pertaining to ecchymosis.
Compare: Yaffle
Yaffle (n.) (Zool.) 【英】綠色啄木鳥 The European green woodpecker ({Picus viridis syn. Genius viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.
Compare: Woodpecker
Woodpecker (n.) 啄木鳥 [C] A bird with a strong bill and a stiff tail, which climbs tree trunks to find insects and drums on dead wood to mark territory.
Family Picidae (the woodpecker family): many genera and numerous species. The woodpecker family also includes the wrynecks, piculets, flickers, and sapsuckers ‘Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.’
Eccle (n.) (Zool.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]
Ecclesiae (n. pl. ) of Ecclesia
Ecclesia (n.) (Gr. Antiq.)（古希臘城邦的）市民議會；教堂會眾 The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
Ecclesia (n.) (Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building.
Ecclesia. () In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly, and in this sense it is used in Acts xix. 39. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church. It occurs thrice only in, the Gospels, viz. in Matt. xvi. 18, and xviii. 17; but very frequently in the other parts of the New Testament, beginning with Acts ii. 47. In Acts xix. 37, the word churches, in the common English version, seems to be improperly used to denote heathen temples. Figuratively, the word church is employed to signify the building set apart for the Christian assemblies; but the word eclesia is not used in the New Testament in that sense.
Ecclesial (a.) Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiarch (n.) An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Ecclesiast (n.) An ecclesiastic.
Ecclesiast (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.
Ecclesiastes (n.) 訓道篇；傳道書（基）舊約智慧書之一，主題為「虛而又虛，萬事皆虛」，因而勸人敬畏上主。相傳為撒羅滿（所羅門）王所寫。 One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.
Ecclesiastes (n.) An Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC [syn: {Ecclesiastes}, {Book of Ecclesiastes}].
Ecclesiastes (n.) The Greek rendering of the Hebrew _Koheleth_, which means "Preacher." The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes it to Solomon. This view can be satisfactorily maintained, though others date it from the Captivity. The writer represents himself implicitly as Solomon (1:12). It has been appropriately styled The Confession of King Solomon. "The writer is a man who has sinned in giving way to selfishness and sensuality, who has paid the penalty of that sin in satiety and weariness of life, but who has through all this been under the discipline of a divine education, and has learned from it the lesson which God meant to teach him." "The writer concludes by pointing out that the secret of a true life is that a man should consecrate the vigour of his youth to God." The key-note of the book is sounded in ch. 1:2, "Vanity of vanities! saith the Preacher, Vanity of vanities! all is vanity!" i.e., all man's efforts to find happiness apart from God are without result.
Ecclesiastes (n.) A preacher.
Ecclesiastic (a.) （基督）教會的；教士的 Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. "Ecclesiastic government." -- Swift.
Ecclesiastic (n.) （基督教）傳教士；（天主教）神職人員 A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. -- Prescott.
Ecclesiastic (a.) Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church); "ecclesiastic history" [syn: ecclesiastical, ecclesiastic].
Ecclesiastic (n.) A clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic].
Ecclesiastic (n.) A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon. Dom. Lois Civ. liv. prel. t. 2, s. 2, n. 14.
Ecclesiastical (a.) （基督）教會的；教士的 Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. -- Cowper.
Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, A permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church.
Ecclesiastical courts, Courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [Eng.]
Ecclesiastical law, A combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [Eng.]
Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), The church modes, or the scales anciently used.
Ecclesiastical States, The territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.
Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church); "ecclesiastic history" [syn: ecclesiastical, ecclesiastic].
Ecclesiastical, () Belonging to, or set apart for the church; as, distinguished from civil or secular. Vide Church.
Ecclesiastically (adv.) 教會地 In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Ecclesiastically (adv.) In an ecclesiastic manner; "the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed".
Ecclesiasticism (n.)
拘泥教規，教會主義 Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.Ecclesiasticism (n.) Excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities; "their ecclesiasticism overwhelmed their religion".
Ecclesiasticism (n.) Religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices.
Ecclesiasticus (n.) 聖經中一書；德訓篇；息辣書；舊約智慧書之一；詳見 Sirach, Book of 。 A book of the Apocrypha.
Ecclesiasticus (n.) An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) [syn: Ben Sira, Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach].
Compare: Sirach
Sirach (n.) （聖經）德訓篇 Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) [syn: {Ben Sira}, {Sirach}, {Ecclesiasticus}, {Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach}].
Ecclesiological (a.) Belonging to ecclesiology.
Ecclesiologist (n.) One versed in ecclesiology.
Ecclesiology (n.) The science or theory of church building and decoration.
Eccritic (n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
Ecderon (n.) See Ecteron.
Ecdyses (n. pl. ) of Ecdysis
Ecdysis (n.) (Biol.) 【動】（蛇等之）蛻皮；（甲殼類之）脫殼 The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.
Ecdysis (n.) Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis].
Ecgonine (n.) (Chem.) 芽子鹼；艾克寧；顛茄醇甲酸 A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
Echauguette (n.) 守望臺；瞭望臺；哨樓 A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.
Eche (a. or a. pron.) Each. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Echelon (n.) 【軍】梯次編隊；階層；等級 An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
Echelon (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
Echelon (v. i.) （使）列成梯隊 To take position in echelon.
Echidna (n.) (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
Echidna (n.) (Zool.) 【動】針鼴蝟 A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.
Echidna (n.) A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater].
Echidna (n.) A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater].
Echidna, () Constraint logic programming embedded in an object-oriented language. The syntax is an extension of Edinburgh Prolog.
["Hierarchical Arc Consistency Applied to Numeric Processing in Constraint Logic Programming", G. Sidebottom et al, TR-91-06, CSS-IS, Simon Fraser U, and Comp Intell 8(4) (1992)]. (1994-12-08)
Echidnine (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
Echinate (a.) Alt. of Echinated
Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
Syn: echinulate.
Echinid (a. & n.) (Zool.) Same as Echinoid.
Echinidan (n.) (Zool.) One the Echinoidea.
Echinital (a.) Of, or like, an echinite.
Echinite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil echinoid.
Echinococcus (n.) (Zool.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. The adult form is not found in man.
Echinococcus (n.) Tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
Echinoderm (n.) (Zool.) 【動】棘皮動物 One of the Echinodermata.
Echinoderm (n.) Marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies.
Echinodermal (a.) (Zool.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
Echinodermata (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]
Note: The species usually have an exterior calcareous skeleton, or shell, made of many pieces, and often covered with spines, to which the name. They may be star-shaped, cylindrical, disk-shaped, or more or less spherical. The body consists of several similar parts (spheromeres) repeated symmetrically around a central axis, at one end of which the mouth is situated. They generally have suckers for locomotion. The group includes the following classes: Crinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, and Holothurioidea. See these words in the Vocabulary, and also Ambulacrum.
Echinodermata (n.) Radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers [syn: Echinodermata, phylum Echinodermata].
Echinodermatous (a.) (Zool.) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
Echinoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.
Echinoid (n.) One of the Echinoidea.
Echinoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]
Echinoidea (n.) Sea urchins and sand dollars [syn: Echinoidea, class Echinoidea].
Echinozoa (n. pl.) The Echinodermata.
Echinulate (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Set with small spines or prickles.
Syn: echinate.