Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 52
Estimation (v. t.) 評價；判斷；意見 [U]；估計；預算 [C] [U]；尊重，尊敬 [U] Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.
I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders. -- Wisdom viii. 10.
Estimation (v. t.) Supposition; conjecture.
I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know. -- Shak.
Syn: Estimate; calculation; computation; appraisement; esteem; honor; regard. See Estimate, n.
Estimation (n.) A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) [syn: appraisal, estimate, estimation].
Estimation (n.) The respect with which a person is held; "they had a high estimation of his ability" [syn: estimate, estimation].
Estimation (n.) An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation, idea].
Estimation (n.) A judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; "many factors are involved in any estimate of human life"; "in my estimation the boy is innocent" [syn: estimate, estimation].
Estimative (a.) 有估計能力的；估計的 Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.
We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. -- Sir M. Hale.
Estimative (a.) Pertaining to an estimate. [R.]
Estimator (n.) 評價者 One who estimates or values; a valuer. -- Jer. Taylor. Estivate Estival
Estimator (n.) An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) [syn: calculator, reckoner, figurer, estimator, computer].
Compare: AEstival
AEstival (a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, [ae]stival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]
Estival (n.) Alt. of Estivation.
Estivate (n.) Alt. of Estivation.
Estivation (n.) Same as Aestival, Aestivate, etc.
Estival (a.) (Rare) Of or occurring in summer; "the sky was a burnished aestival blue"; "estival winds" [syn: aestival, estival].
Estoile (n.) (Her.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
Estoile of eight points, A star which has four straight and four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under Cross.
Estonia (Proper noun) 愛沙尼亞共和國 A Baltic country on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland; population 1,300,000 (estimated 2015); capital, Tallinn; languages, Estonian (official) and Russian.
Previously ruled by the Teutonic Knights and then by Sweden, Estonia was ceded to Russia in 1721. It was proclaimed an independent republic in 1918 but was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 as a constituent republic, the Estonian SSR. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, Estonia regained its independence in 1991. In 2004 it joined both NATO and the EU.
Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of Estop
Estopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estop
Estop (v. t.) 【律】禁止翻供；禁止；【古】塞住 To impede or bar by estoppel.
A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself. -- Abbott.
Estoppel (n.) (Law) 【律】禁止翻供 A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.
Estoppel (n.) (Law) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. -- Wharton. -- Stephen. -- Burrill.
Estoppel (n.) A rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled.
Estoppel, () Pleading. An estoppel is a preclusion, in law, which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact, in consequence o his own previous act, allegation or denial of a contrary tenor. Steph. Pl. 239. Lord Coke says, "an estoppel is, when a man is concluded by his own act or acceptance, to say the truth." Co. Litt. 352, a. And Blackstone defines "an estoppel to be a special plea in bar, which happens where a man has done some act, or executed some deed, which estops or precludes him from averring any thing to the contrary. 3 Cora. 308. Estoppels are odious in law; 1 Serg. & R. 444; they are not admitted in equity against the truth. Id. 442. Nor can jurors be estopped from saying the truth, because they are sworn to do so, although they are estopped from finding against the admission of the parties in their pleadings. Estoppel, () An estoppel may, arise either from matter of record; from the deed of the party; or from matter in Pays; that is, matter of fact.
Estoppel, () Thus, any confession or admission made in pleading, in a court of record, whether it be express, or implied from pleading over without a traverse, will forever preclude the party from afterwards contesting the same fact in any subsequent suit with his adversary. Com. Dig. Estoppel, A 1. This is an estoppel by matter of record.
Estoppel, () As an instance of an estoppel by deed, may be mentioned the case of a bond reciting a certain fact. The party executing that bond, will be precluded from afterwards denying in any action brought upon that instrument, the fact, so recited. 5 Barn. & Ald. 682.
Estoppel, () An example of an estoppel by matter in pays occurs when one man has accepted rent of another. He will be estopped from afterwards. denying, in any action, with that person, that he was, at the time of such acceptance, his tenant. Com. Dig. Estoppel, A 3 Co. Litt. 352, a.
Estoppel, () This doctrine of law gives rise to a kind of pleading that is neither by way of traverse, nor confession. and avoidance: viz. a pleading, that, waiving any question of fact, relies merely on the estoppel, and, after stating the previous act, allegation, or denial, of the opposite party, prays judgment, if he shall be received or admitted to aver contrary to what he before did or said. This pleading is called pleading by way of estoppel. Steph. 240a
Estoppel, () Every estoppel ought to be reciprocal, that is, to bind both parties: and this is the reason that regularly a stranger shall neither take advantage or be bound by an estoppel. It should be directly affirmative, and not by inference nor against an estoppel. Estovers (n. pl.) (Law) （常複數）法律規定的生活必需品 Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. -- Blackstone.
Common of estovers. See under Common, n.
ESTOVERS, estates. The right of taking necessary wood for the use or furniture of a house or farm, from off another's estate. The word bote is used synonymously with the word estovers.
Estrade (n.) (Arch.) 臺子；講壇 A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.
He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. -- J. G. Fitch.
Estramacon (n.) [F.] A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Estramacon (n.) A blow with edge of a sword. -- Farrow.
Estranged (imp. & p. p.) of Estrange
Estranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estrange
Estrange (v. t.) 使疏遠；使感情失和[（+from）] To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. -- Glanvill.
Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. -- Hooker.
Estrange (v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.
They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. -- Jer. xix. 4.
Estrange (v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.
I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. -- Pope.
He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. -- Macaulay.
Estrange (v.) Remove from customary environment or associations; "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home".
Estrange (v.) Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect].
Estrange (v.) [ T ] (Formal) To cause someone to no longer have a friendly relationship with another person or other people.
// Her lifestyle estranged her from her parents.
Estrange (v.) [ T ] (Formal) To cause you to feel that you do not understand someone or something, or do not have any connection with him, her, or it.
// Cultural changes can estrange the reader from old texts.
Estrangedness (n.) State of being estranged; estrangement. -- Prynne.
Estrangement (n.) 疏遠；失和，不和 [U] [C][（+from/ between）] The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.
An estrangement from God. -- J. C. Shairp.
A long estrangement from better things. -- South.
Estrangement (n.) Separation resulting from hostility [syn: {alienation}, {estrangement}].
Estrangement (n.) The feeling of being alienated from other people [syn: {alienation}, {disaffection}, {estrangement}].
Estranger (n.) One who estranges.
Estrangle (v. t.) To strangle. [Obs.]
Estrapade (n.) (Man.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
Estray (v. i.) To stray. [Obs.] -- Daniel.
Estray (n.) (Law) 迷失的人；迷失的家畜 Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray. -- Burrill.
Estre (n.) The inward part of a building; the interior. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Estreat (n.) (Law) 【律】裁判記錄，摘錄或副本 A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. -- Cowell.
Estreat of a recognizance, The extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. -- Burrill.
Estreated (imp. & p. p.) of Estreat
Estreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estreat
Estreat (v. t.) (Law) 摘錄 [法] 筆錄的副本或抄本, 筆錄或副本 To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.
Estreat (v. t.) (Law) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.
Estrepe (v. t.) (Law) 作不必要之破壞 To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.
Estrepe. () This word is derived from the French, estropier, to cripple. It signifies an injury to lands, to the damage of another, as a reversioner.
This is prevented by a writ of estrepement.
Estrepement (n.) (Law) （佃農之）濫墾 A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. -- Cowell.
Ostrich (n.) [Formerly written also estrich.] (Zool.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.
Note: The South African ostrich ({Struthio australis) and the Asiatic ostrich are considered distinct species by some authors. Ostriches are now domesticated in South Africa in large numbers for the sake of their plumes.
The body of the male is covered with elegant black plumose feathers, while the wings and tail furnish the most valuable white plumes.
Ostrich farm, A farm on which ostriches are bred for the sake of their feathers, oil, eggs, etc.
Ostrich farming, The occupation of breeding ostriches for the sake of their feathers, etc.
Ostrich fern (Bot.) A kind of fern ({Onoclea Struthiopteris), the tall fronds of which grow in a circle from the rootstock. It is found in alluvial soil in Europe and North America.
Estrich (n.) Ostrich. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Estrich (n.) (Com.) The down of the ostrich. -- Brande & C.
Estuance (n.) Heat. [Obs.]
Estuarine (a.) 入海的；在入海口形成的 Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.
Estuarine (a.) Of or relating to or found in estuaries [syn: estuarine, estuarial].
Estuaries (n. pl. ) of Estuary
Estuary (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Estuary (n.) 河口；海口灣 [C] A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
It to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. -- Dana.
Estuary (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. -- Lyell.
Estuary (n.) The wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix.
Estuated (imp. & p. p.) of Estuate
Estuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estuate
Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. --Bacon.
Estuation (n.) The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
The estuations of joys and fears. -- W. Montagu.
Estufas (n. pl. ) of Estufa
Estufa (n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. -- L. H. Morgan.
Esture (n.) Commotion. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Esurient (a.) 飢餓的 Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] -- Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." -- Carlyle.
Esurient (n.) One who is hungry or greedy. [R.]
An insatiable esurient after riches. -- Wood.
Esurient (a.) Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient].
Esurient (a.) (Often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring(a), esurient, greedy].
Esurient (a.) Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish].
Esurine (a.) Causing hunger; eating; corroding. [Obs.] -- Wiseman.
Esurine (n.) (Med.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger. [Obs.]
Eswatini (n.) 史瓦帝尼王國 [5] [6]（史瓦濟語：Umbuso weSwatini；官方英語：Kingdom of Eswatini [7]；普遍仍稱Swaziland），是非洲南部的一個內陸國家，北、西、南三面為南非共和國所包圍，東北面與莫三比克為鄰。舊英語官方國名為「Swaziland」，其拼寫與歐洲的瑞士（Switzerland）相近，且同屬內陸國，因而有「非洲小瑞士」之稱。[8] 然而也因為拼寫相近的關係，英文國名已經於2018年4月19日改為現名。
Officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west and south. At no more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) north to south and 130 kilometres (81 mi) east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
-et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
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Etaac (n.) (Zool.) The blue buck.
Etacism (n.) (Greek Gram.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.
Etacist (n.) One who favors etacism.
Etagere (n.) 【法】（陳設裝飾品等之）架子 A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. -- Fairholt.
Etagere (n.) A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
Etat Major () (Mil.) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers. et cetera
Et cetera ()【拉】等等，及其他等等 Alt. of Et caetera
Et caetera () Others of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c). -- Shak.
Etch (v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.
Etch (n.) A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
Etched (imp. & p. p.) of Etch
Etching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Etch
Etch (v. t.) （用酸類在金屬板上）蝕刻；蝕鏤；深印；鮮明地描述 To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare.
Etch (v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. -- Hamerton.
Etch (v. t.) To sketch; to delineate. [R.]
There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. -- Locke.
Etch (v.) Make an etching of; "He etched her image into the surface".
Etch (v.) Cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible; "a face etched with pain"; "the leafless branches etched against the sky".
Etch (v.) Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter" [syn: engrave, etch].
Etch (v.) Carve or cut a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name" [syn: engrave, etch].
Etch (v.) Selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons.
Etcher (n.) 蝕刻師 One who etches.
Etcher (n.) Someone who etches.
Etching (n.) 蝕刻；蝕刻術[U]；蝕刻畫；蝕刻版 [C] The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.
Etching (n.) A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching.
Etching (n.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate.
Etching figures (Min.), Markings produced on the face of a crystal by the action of an appropriate solvent. They have usually a definite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure.
Etching needle, A sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching.
Etching stitch (Needlework), A stitch used outline embroidery.
Etching (n.) An impression made from an etched plate.
Etching (n.) An etched plate made with the use of acid.
Etching (n.) Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them [syn: engraving, etching].
Eteostic (n.) A kind of chronogram. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Eterminable (a.) Interminable. [Obs.] -- Skelton. Etern
Etern (a.) Alt. of Eterne
Eterne (a.) 永久的，永恆的；無窮的；永存的，不朽的；【口】（閒談等）無休止的 Eternal. [Poetic] -- Shak.
Built up to eterne significance. -- Mrs. Browning.
Eternal (n.) 永恆的事物；Eternal 上帝，與定冠詞 the 連用 One of the applications of God.
Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. -- Hooker.
Compare: Application
Application (n.) [C] (Formal) 名號，名稱 A name or title.
// As a child, he received the application “Mouse”.
// Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. -- Hooker.
Eternal (n.) That which is endless and immortal. -- Young.
Eternal (a.) 永恆的，永久的；似乎不停的，沒完沒了的；不朽的；永生的 Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
The eternal God is thy refuge. -- Deut. xxxiii. 27.
To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. -- Locke.
Eternal (a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. -- 2 Tim. ii. 10.
Eternal (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
And fires eternal in thy temple shine. -- Dryden.
Eternal (a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.
Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. -- Dryden.
What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times? -- M. Arnold.
Eternal (a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain."
The Eternal City, An appellation of Rome.
Syn: Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.
Eternal (a.) Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing].
Eternal (a.) Tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: endless, eternal, interminable].
Eternalist (n.) One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. -- T. Burnet.
Eternalize (v. t.) 使永恆；使不滅；使不朽 To make eternal. -- Shelton.
Eternalize (v.) Make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise].
Eternally (adv.) 永恆地；常常；不絕地 In an eternal manner.
That which is morally good or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so. -- South.
Where western gales eternally reside. -- Addison.
Eternally (adv.) For a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss [syn: everlastingly, eternally, forever, evermore].
Eterne (a.) See Etern.
Etern or Eterne (a.) Eternal. [Poetic] -- Shak.
Built up to eterne significance. -- Mrs. Browning.
Eternify (v. t.) To make eternal. [Obs.]
Fame . . . eternifies the name. -- Mir. for Mag.
Eternities (n. pl. ) of Eternity
Eternity (n.) 永遠，永恆；不朽 [U]；（死後的）永世；來世 [U]；（似乎）無終止的一段時間 [S] Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. -- Is. lvii. 15.
Eternity (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. -- Shak.
Eternity (n.) Time without end [syn: {eternity}, {infinity}].
Eternity (n.) A state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife [syn: {eternity}, {timelessness}, {timeless existence}].
Eternity (n.) A seemingly endless time interval (waiting).
Eternization (n.) The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.
Eternized (imp. & p. p.) of Eternize
Eterniziing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eternize
Eternize (v. t.) 使永恆；使不朽 To make eternal or endless.
This other [gift] served but to eternize woe. -- Milton.
Eternize (v. t.) To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits.
St. Alban's battle won by famous York,
Shall be eternized in all age to come. -- Shak.
Eternize (v.) Cause to continue indefinitely.
Eternize (v.) Make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise].