Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 51
Essay (n.) An assay. See Assay, n. [Obs.]
Syn: Attempt; trial; endeavor; effort; tract; treatise; dissertation; disquisition.
Essayed (imp. & p. p.) of Essay.
Essaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essay.
Essay (v. t.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
What marvel if I thus essay to sing? -- Byron.
Essaying nothing she can not perform. -- Emerson.
A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible. -- J. C. Shairp.
Essay (v. t.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay. [Obs.] -- Locke.
Essay (n.) An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
Essay (n.) A tentative attempt.
Essay (v.) Make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay].
Essay (v.) Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" [syn: test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay].
Essayer (n.) One who essays. -- Addison.
Essayer (n.) One who tries [syn: trier, attempter, essayer]
Essayist (n.) A writer of an essay, or of essays. -- B. Jonson.
Essayist (n.) A writer of literary works [syn: essayist, litterateur].
Essence (n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
Essence (n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. -- Landor.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. -- Addison.
The essence of Addison's humor is irony. -- Courthope.
Essence (n.) Constituent substance.
And uncompounded is their essence pure. -- Milton.
Essence (n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish. -- Milton.
He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him. -- W. Irving.
Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb "to be," it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle. -- J. S. Mill.
Essence (n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
Nor let the essences exhale. -- Pope.
Essenced (imp. & p. p.) of Essence.
Essencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essence.
Essence (v. t.) To perfume; to scent. "Essenced fops." -- Addison.
Essence (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty].
Essence (n.) Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.
Essence (n.) The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist].
Essence (n.) A toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor [syn: perfume, essence].
Essenes (n. pl. ) of Essene.
Essene (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
Essene (a.) Said of or relating to the Essenes.
Essene (n.) A member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus
Essenism (n.) The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. -- De Quincey.
Essential (a.) 必要的，必不可少的；本質的 Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Essential (a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
Essential (a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Essential (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
Essential (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Essential (a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Essential (n.) Existence; being.
Essential (n.) That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion.
Essential (a.) Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker" [syn: {essential}, {indispensable}].
Essential (a.) Basic and fundamental; "the essential feature" [ant: {inessential}, {unessential}].
Essential (a.) Of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence" [syn: {all-important(a)}, {all important(p)}, {crucial}, {essential}, {of the essence(p)}].
Essential (a.) Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil".
Essential (a.) Defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law" [syn: {substantive}, {essential}] [ant: {adjective}, {procedural}].
Essential (n.) 基本的要素，要點 Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement}, {requisite}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}, {nonessential}].
Essentiality (n.) The quality of being essential; the essential part.
Esentially (adv.) In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.
Esentialness (n.) Essentiality.
Essentiated (imp. & p. p.) of Essentiate.
Essentiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essentiate.
Essentiate (v. t.) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
Essentiate (v. i.) To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.
Essoin (n.) Alt. of Essoign
Essoign (n.) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
Essoign (n.) Excuse; exemption.
Essoin (n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.
Essoiner (n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
Essonite (n.) 黃榴石（一種寶石） Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.
Compare: Cinnamon
Cinnamon (n.) [Mass noun]【植】樟屬的樹；肉桂，桂 [C]；肉桂皮；桂皮香料（調味用）[U] ；淺紅褐色；淺黃褐色 [U] An aromatic spice made from the peeled, dried, and rolled bark of a SE Asian tree.
‘A teaspoon of ground cinnamon.’
[As modifier ]‘A cinnamon cake.’
Cinnamon (n.) A yellowish-brown colour resembling that of cinnamon.
[As modifier ]‘He wore a short-sleeved shirt and pale cinnamon slacks.’
Cinnamon (n.) The tree which yields cinnamon.
Genus Cinnamomum, family Lauraceae: several species
‘A Daoist tradition in China holds that the source of immortality, or at least long life, is the cinnamon tree in the moon, a tree that no amount of chopping can fell.’
Cinnamon (n.) [C] [U] (pl. - s) (Countable) A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
Cinnamon (n.) Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
Cinnamon (n.) (Chiefly uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
True cinnamon, The product made of Cinnamomum verum.
Cinnamon (n.) (Countable) A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
Cinnamon colour.
Cinnamon (a.) (Not comparable) 用桂皮調味的；肉桂色的；淺紅褐色的；淺黃褐色的 Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.
Cinnamon (a.) (Not comparable) Of a yellowish-brown color.
Essorant (a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.
Est (n. & adv.) East.
-est () A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
ESTA (n.) What is ESTA？ESTA 是甚麼？ ESTA 代表旅遊許可電子系統（Electronic System for Travel Authorization）。ESTA 是由美國政府開發的線上申請系統，在遊客能夠搭機或乘船至美國前，預先審查其是否資格。自 2009 年一月 12 日起，任何以免簽證計劃入境美國者都須持有核准的 ESTA 旅遊許可。
ESTA stands for Electronic System for Travel Authorization. ESTA US visa waiver is an online application system developed by the United States government to pre-screen travelers before they are allowed to board an airplane or ship bound for the United States. Starting on January 12, 2009, any person entering the United States under the visa waiver program is required to hold an approved ESTA US visa waiver Travel Authorization.
Established (imp. & p. p.) of Establish.
Establishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Establish.
Establish (v. t.) 建立；設立；創辦；確立；使得到承認；使立足於 [（+as/ in）] To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
So were the churches established in the faith. -- Acts xvi. 5.
The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. -- Burke.
Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. -- Bancroft.
Establish (v. t.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates. -- Shak.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed. -- Dan. vi. 8.
Establish (v. t.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. -- Is. xlv. 18.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! -- Hab. ii. 12.
Establish (v. t.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. -- Deut. xix.
Establish (v. t.) To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
Establish (v.) Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: {establish}, {set up}, {found}, {launch}] [ant: {abolish}, {get rid of}].
Establish (v.) Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: {establish}, {found}, {plant}, {constitute}, {institute}].
Establish (v.) Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: {prove}, {demonstrate}, {establish}, {show}, {shew}] [ant: {confute}, {disprove}].
Establish (v.) Institute, enact, or establish; "make laws" [syn: {lay down}, {establish}, {make}].
Establish (v.) Bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" [syn: {establish}, {give}].
Establish (v.) Place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn: {install}, {instal}, {set up}, {establish}].
Establish (v.) Build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation" [syn: {build}, {establish}].
Establish (v.) Use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" [syn: {establish}, {base}, {ground}, {found}].
Establish (v.) [With object] Set up on a firm or permanent basis.
‘The scheme was established in 1975.’
Establish (v.) [With object] Initiate or bring about (contact or communication).
‘The two countries established diplomatic relations in 1992.’
Establish (v.) [With object] Achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for.
‘The principle of the supremacy of national parliaments needs to be firmly established.’
‘He had established himself as a film star.’
Establish (v.) [With object] Introduce (a character, set, or location) into a film or play and allow its identification.
‘Establish the location with a wide shot.’
Establish (v.) [With object] Show (something) to be true or certain by determining the facts.
[With clause] ‘The police established that the two passports were forgeries’
Establish (v.) [With object] [Bridge] Ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit.
‘The right plan would be to establish dummy's diamonds.’
Established (a.) 已建立的；已確立的；已制定的；establish的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed his prestige as an established writer; an established precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with {unestablished}. [Narrower terms: {entrenched}; {implanted, planted, rooted}; {official}; {recognized}].
Established (a.) Securely established; as, an established reputation.
Syn: firm.
Established (a.) Settled securely and unconditionally.
Syn: accomplished, effected.
Established (a.) Conforming with accepted standards.
Established (a.) Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the established facts in the case.
Syn: proved.
Established (a.) (Bot.) Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants.
Syn: naturalized.
Established (a.) Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church" [syn: {established}, {constituted}] [ant: {unestablished}].
Established (a.) Settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: {accomplished}, {effected}, {established}].
Established (a.) Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: {conventional}, {established}].
Established (a.) Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the established facts in the case".
Established (a.) Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation [syn: {established}, {naturalized}].
Establisher (n.) 創辦者，建立者 One who establishes.
Establishment (n.) 建立；設立，創立；確立，證明 [U] [（+of）]；建立的機構；公司；會社；學校；機關；企業；家庭；住宅 [C]；（大寫）國家統治集團；權勢集團；體制 [the S] [G] The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Establishment (n.) The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.
Establishment (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment.
Establishmentarian (n.) [C] 擁護現有權力機構（或現存社會體制）者；（英國）國教信徒 One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. -- Shipley.
Establishmentarian (n.) (pl. - s) A person who supports the political or social establishment.
Establishmentarian (a.) 擁護現有權力機構（或現存社會體制）的；（英國）國教的 Of, relating to, or favoring the social or political establishment.
Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
Estafet (n.) Alt. of Estafette
Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
Estancia (n.) A grazing; a country house.
Estate (n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Estate (n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
Estate (n.) A person of high rank.
Estate (n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
Estate (n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
Estate (n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
Estate (v. t.) To establish.
Estate (v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
Estate (v. t.) To endow with an estate.
Estatlich (a.) Alt. of Estatly.
Estatly (a.) Stately; dignified.
Esteemed (imp. & p. p.) of Esteem.
Esteeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Esteem.
Esteem (v. t.) 尊重，尊敬；珍重；認為，視為 [（+as）] [O2] [O8] [O9] [+that]；估價，評價 To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.
Esteem (v. t.) To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.
Esteem (v. i.) To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.
Esteem (n.) [U] 尊重，尊敬；【古】評價；意見；價值 Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.
Esteem (n.) High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.
Esteemable (a.) Worthy of esteem; estimable.
Esteemer (n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.
Ester (n.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.
Esthesiometer (n.) Same as Aesthesiometer.
Esthete (n.) Alt. of Esthetics.
Esthetic (n.) Alt. of Esthetics.
Esthetical (n.) Alt. of Esthetics.
Esthetics (n.) Same as Aesthete, Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Aesthetics, etc.
Estiferous (a.) Producing heat.
Estimable (a.) Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage.
Estimable (a.) Valuable; worth a great price.
Estimable (a.) Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
Estimable (n.) A thing worthy of regard.
Estimableness (n.) The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
Estimably (adv.) In an estimable manner.
Estimated (imp. & p. p.) of Estimate.
Estimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estimate.
Estimate (v. t.) 估計，估價；評價，判斷 To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.
Estimate (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.
Estimate (n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.
Estimate (v.) [ T ] (B2) 估計；估算；估價 To guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something.
// Government sources estimate a long-term 50 percent increase in rail fares.
// [ + (that) ] They estimate (that) the journey will take at least two weeks.
// [ + question word ] It was difficult to estimate how many trees had been destroyed.
Estimate (n.) [ C ] (B2) 估計；估算；估價 A guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something might be.
// The number of people who applied for the course was 120 compared with an initial estimate of between 50 and 100.
// We'll accept the lowest of three estimates for the building work.
// A conservative (= low) estimate.
// A rough (= not exact) estimate.
Estimation (n.) 估計，估價，評價，判斷 The act of estimating.
Estimation (n.) An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities.