Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 49
Erythronium (n.) (Chem.) A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium. [R.]
Erythronium (n.) Perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily [syn: Erythronium, genus Erythronium].
Erythrophleine (n.) (Chem.) [化] 格木鹼 A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark ({Erythrophleum Guineense). Erythrophy l
Erythrophyll (n.) Alt. of Erythrophyllin
Erythrophyllin (n.) (Physiol. Bot.) The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.
Erythrosin (n.) (Chem.) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.
Erythrosin (n.) (Chem.) A red dyestuff obtained from fluorescein by the action of iodine.
Erythroxylon (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
Erythroxylon (n.) A large genus of South American shrubs and small trees of the family Erythroxylaceae [syn: Erythroxylon, genus Erythroxylon, Erythroxylum, genus Erythroxylum].
Erythrozyme (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.
Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
Escaladed (imp. & p. p.) of Escalade
Escalading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escalade
Escalade (v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
Escalate (v.) (v. t.) 使逐步上升（增強或擴大）；使（戰爭）逐步升級；乘自動扶梯爬登 (v. i.) 逐步上升（增強或擴大）；（戰爭）逐步升級；在自動扶梯上向前移動 Increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: escalate, intensify, step up] [ant: de-escalate, step down, weaken].
Escalation (n.) 逐步上升；逐步擴大 [U] [C] An increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; "higher wages caused an escalation of prices"; "there was a gradual escalation of hostilities".
Escallop (n.) See Escalop.
Escalloped (a.) See Escaloped.
Escalop (n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Escalop (n.) A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.
Escaloped (a.) Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
Escaloped (a.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales.
Escambio (n.) A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
Escapable (a.) Avoidable.
Escapade (n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
Escapade (n.) 越軌行為；惡作劇 Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. -- Carlyle.
Escapade (n.) A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) [syn: adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking].
Escapade (n.) Any carefree episode [syn: escapade, lark].
Escaped (imp. & p. p.) of Escape
Escaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escape
Escape (v. i.) 逃跑；逃脫 [（+from）] ；避免 [（+from/ out of）]； 漏出；流出 [（+from/ out of）] To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind?? -- Keble.
Escape (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. -- Macaulay.
Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
To escape out of these meshes. -- Thackeray.
Escape (n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. -- Ps. lv. 8.
Escape (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. [Obs.]
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes. -- Burton.
Escape (n.) A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit." -- Shak.
Escape (n.) (Law) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
Escape (n.) (Bot.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation.
Note: Escape is technically distinguishable from prison breach, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, escape being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term escape, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force. -- Wharton.
Escape (n.) (Arch.) An apophyge.
Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
Escape (n.) (Elec.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
{Escape pipe} (Steam Boilers), A pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve.
{Escape valve} (Steam Engine), A relief valve; a safety valve. See under {Relief}, and {Safety}.
{Escape wheel} (Horol.), The wheel of an escapement.
Escape (v. t.) 逃避；逃脫；避免 [+v-ing]； 沒有被……注意到；被……忘掉 To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." -- Shak.
Escape (v. t.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
They escaped the search of the enemy. -- Ludlow.
Escape (n.) The act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" [syn: {escape}, {flight}].
Escape (n.) An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism" [syn: {escape}, {escapism}].
Escape (n.) Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" [syn: {evasion}, {escape}, {dodging}].
Escape (n.) An avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape".
Escape (n.) A means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route".
Escape (n.) A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
Escape (n.) The discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" [syn: {escape}, {leak}, {leakage}, {outflow}].
Escape (n.) A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level [syn: {safety valve}, {relief valve}, {escape valve}, {escape cock}, {escape}].
Escape (v.) Run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" [syn: {escape}, {get away}, {break loose}].
Escape (v.) Fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" [syn: {miss}, {escape}].
Escape (v.) Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" [syn: {get off}, {get away}, {get by}, {get out}, {escape}].
Escape (v.) Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" [syn: {elude}, {escape}].
Escape (v.) Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer" [syn: {escape}, {get away}].
Escape (v.) Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: {scat}, {run}, {scarper}, {turn tail}, {lam}, {run away}, {hightail it}, {bunk}, {head for the hills}, {take to the woods}, {escape}, {fly the coop}, {break away}].
Escape (v.) Issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom".
Escape (n.) An escape is tho deliverance of a person who is lawfully imprisoned, out of prison, before such a person is entitled to such deliverance by law. 5 Mass. 310.
Escape (n.) It will be proper to consider, first, what is a lawful imprisonment; and, secondly, the different kinds of escapes.
Escape (n.) When a man is imprisoned in a proper place under the process of a court having jurisdiction in the case, he is lawfully imprisoned, notwithstanding the proceedings may be irregular; but if the court has not jurisdiction the imprisonment is unlawful, whether the process be regular or otherwise. Bac. Ab. Escape. in civil cases, A 1; 13 John. 378; 5 John. 89; 1 Cowen, 309 8 Cowen, 192; 1 Root, R. 288.
Escape (n.) Escapes are divided into voluntary and negligent; actual or constructive; civil and criminal and escapes on mesne process and execution.
Escape (n.) A voluntary escape is the giving to a prisoner, voluntarily, any liberty not authorized by law. 5 Mass. 310; 2 Chipm. 11. Letting a prisoner confined under final process, out of prison for any, even the shortest time, is an escape, although he afterwards return; 2 Bl. Rep. 1048; 1 Roll. Ab. 806; and this may be, (as in the case of imprisonment under a ca. sa.) although an officer may accompany him. 3 Co. 44 a Plowd. 37; Hob. 202; 1 Bos. & Pull. 24 2 Bl. Rep. 1048.
Escape (n.) The effect of a voluntary escape in a civil case, when the prisoner is confined under final process, is to discharge the debtor, so that he cannot be retaken by the sheriff; but he may be again arrested if he was confined only on mesne process. 2 T. R. 172; 2 Barn. & A. 56. And the plaintiff may retake the prisoner in either case. In a criminal case, on the contrary, the officer not only has a right to recapture his prisoner, but it is his duty to do so. 6 Hill, 344; Bac. Ab. Escape in civil cases, C.
Escape (n.) A negligent escape takes place when the prisoner goes at large, unlawfully, either because the building or prison in which he is confined is too weak to hold him, or because the keeper by carelessness lets him go out of prison.
Escape (n.) The consequences of a negligent escape are not so favorable to the prisoner confined under final process, as they are when the escape is voluntary, because in this case, the prisoner is to blame. He may therefore be retaken.
Escape (n.) The escape is actual, when the prisoner in fact gets out of prison and unlawfully regains his liberty.
Escape (n.) A constructive escape takes place when the prisoner obtains more liberty than the law allows, although he still remains in confinement The following cases are examples of such escapes: When a man marries his prisoner. Plowd. 17; Bac. Ab. Escape, B 3. If an underkeeper be taken in execution, and delivered at the prison, and neither the sheriff nor any authorized person be there to receive him. 5 Mass. 310. And when the keeper of a prison made one of the prisoners confined for a debt a turnkey, and trusted him with the keys, it was held that this was a constructive escape. 2 Mason, 486.
Escape (n.) Escapes in civil cases are, when the prisoner is charged in execution or on mesne process for a debt or duty, and not for a criminal offence, and he unlawfully gains his liberty. In this case, we have seen, the prisoner may be retaken, if the escape have not been voluntary; and that he may be retaken by the plaintiff when the escape has taken place without his fault, whether the defendant be confined in execution or not; and that the sheriff may retake the prisoner, who has been liberated by him, when he was not confined on final process.
Escape (n.) Escapes in criminal cases take place when a person lawfully in prison, charged with a crime or under sentence, regains his liberty unlawfully. The prisoner being to blame for not submitting to the law, and in effecting his escape, may be retaken whether the escape was voluntary or not. And he may be indicted, fined and imprisoned for so escaping. See Prison.
Escape (n.) Escape on mesne process is where the prisoner is not confined on final process, but on some other process issued in the course of the proceedings, and unlawfully obtains his liberty, such escape does not make the officer liable, provided that on the return day of the writ, the prisoner is forthcoming.
Escape (n.) Escape on final process is when the prisoner obtains his liberty unlawfully while lawfully confined, and under an execution or other final decree. The officer is then, in general, liable to the plaintiff for the amount of the debt.
Escape (n.) Warrant, A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large. Jacob's L. D. h.t.
Escape (v.) (Get free) (B1) [ I or T ] 逃走，逃脫，逃離；逃避，避開 To get free from something, or to avoid something.
// Two prisoners have escaped.
// A lion has escaped from its cage.
// She was lucky to escape serious injury.
// He narrowly (= only just) escaped a fine.
// His name escapes me (= I have forgotten his name).
// Nothing important escapes her notice/attention.
Escape (v.) (Computer) [ I ] (Specialized) (Computing) 退出，結束（運行程式） To press the key on a computer keyboard that allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process.
// Escape from this window and return to the main menu.
Idiom:
There's no escaping the fact 不可否認的是；毫無疑問 Used to mean that something is certain.
// There's no escaping the fact (that) we won't be able to complete these orders without extra staff.
Escape (n.) (Get free) (C1) [ C or U ] 逃脫，逃離 The act of successfully getting out of a place or a dangerous or bad situation.
// He made his escape on the back of a motorcycle.
// An escape route.
// They had a narrow escape (= only just avoided injury or death) when their car crashed.
Escape (n.) (Get free) [ C ] 漏出；洩漏；溢出 A loss that happens by accident.
// An escape of radioactivity. 放射線外泄
Escape (n.) (Forget) (B2) [ S ] （對現實的）逃避，迴避；解脫之物 Something that helps you to forget about your usual life or problems.
// Romantic novels provide an escape from reality.
Escape (n.) (Computer) [ U ] (Also escape key,) (Written abbreviation Esc) (Specialized) （電腦鍵盤上的）退出鍵 The key on a computer keyboard that allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process.
// Press Esc to return to the main menu.
Escapement (n.) The act of escaping; escape.
Escapement (n.) Way of escape; vent.
Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
Escarbuncle (n.) See Carbuncle, 3.
Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
Escarp (n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
Escarped (imp. & p. p.) of Escarp
Escarping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escarp
Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
Escarpment (n.) A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
-escent () A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
Eschalot (n.) See Shallot.
Eschar (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
Eschara (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Escharine (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
Escharotic (a.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
Escharotic (n.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
Eschatological (a.) Pertaining to the last or final things.
Eschatology (n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Eschaunge (n.) Exchange.
Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
Escheat (n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Escheat (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
Escheat (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return
Esheated (imp. & p. p.) of Escheat
Escheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escheat
Escheat (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
Escheat (v. t.) To forfeit.
Escheatable (a.) Liable to escheat.
Escheatage (n.) The right of succeeding to an escheat.
Escheator (n.) An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
Eschevin (n.) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
Eshewed (imp. & p. p.) of Eschew
Eshewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eschew
Eschew (a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
Eschew (a.) To escape from; to avoid.
Eschewer (n.) One who eschews.
Eschewment (n.) The act of eschewing.
Eschscholtzia (n.) A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.
Eschynite (n.) A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.
Escocheon (n.) Escutcheon.
Escopet (n.) Alt. of Escopette
Escopette (n.) A kind of firearm; a carbine.
Escorial (n.) See Escurial.
Escort (n.) 護送者，護衛者，護航艦 A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
Escort (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
Escorted (imp. & p. p.) of Escort
Escorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escort
Escort (v. t.) 護衛，護送 To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Escot (n.) See Scot, a tax.
Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Escouade (n.) See Squad,
Escout (n.) See Scout.
Escribed (a.) Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
Escript (n.) A writing.
Escritoire (n.) 有抽屜的寫字臺 A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.
Escritoire (n.) A desk used for writing [syn: secretary, writing table, escritoire, secretaire].
Escritorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
Escritorial (a.) (In British) Relating to an escritoire.
Escrod (n.) See Scrod, a young cod.
Escrol (n.) Alt. of Escroll