Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 9
Effigies (n.) [L.] See Effigy. -- Dryden.
Effigy (n.) 肖像；模擬像 The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
{To burn in effigy}, or {To hang in effigy}, To burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.
Effigy (n.) A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: effigy, image, simulacrum].
Effigy, () crim. law. The figure or representation of a person.
Effigy, () To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. (q.v.) Hawk. b. 1, c. 7 3, s. 2 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 866.
Effigy, () In France an execution by effigy or in effigy is adopted in the case of a criminal who has fled from justice. By the public exposure or exhibition of a picture or representation of him on a scaffold, on which his name and the decree condemning him are written, he is deemed to undergo the punishment to which he has been sentenced. Since the adoption of the Code Civil, the practice has been to affix the names, qualities or addition, and the residence of the condemned person, together with an extract from the sentence of condemnation, to a post set upright in the ground, instead of exhibiting a portrait of him on the scaffold. Repertoire de Villargues; Biret, Vo cab.
Efflagitate (v. t.) To ask urgently. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Efflate (v. t.) To fill with breath; to puff up. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Efflation (n.) The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
A soft efflation of celestial fire. -- Parnell.
Effloresced (imp. & p. p.) of Effloresce.
Efflorescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effloresce.
Effloresce (v. i.) 開花；展開 To blossom forth. -- Carlyle.
Effloresce (v. i.) (Chem.) 【化】風化 To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
Effloresce (v.) Come into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past" [syn: effloresce, burst forth].
Effloresce (v.) Assume crystalline form; become crystallized [syn: crystallize, crystalize, crystalise, effloresce].
Effloresce (v.) Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation.
Efflorescence (n.) (Bot.) 開花；發展；全盛期 Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
Efflorescence (n.) (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
Efflorescence (n.) (Chem.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.
Efflorescence (n.) (Chem.) The powder or crust thus formed.
Efflorescence (n.) The period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush].
Efflorescence (n.) Any red eruption of the skin [syn: rash, roseola, efflorescence, skin rash].
Efflorescence (n.) The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence].
Efflorescence (n.) A powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence, bloom].
Efflorescency (n.) The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
Efflorescent (a.) 【化】風化的 That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
Efflorescent (a.) Covered with an efflorescence.
Efflorescent (a.) 開花的 Bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn: abloom, efflorescent].
Efflower (v. t.) (Leather Making) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.
Effluence (n.) 流出；流出物 A flowing out, or emanation.
Effluence (n.) That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.
Bright effluence of bright essence increate! -- Milton.
And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. -- Hawthorne.
Effluence (n.) The process of flowing out [syn: outflow, effluence, efflux] [ant: inflow, influx].
Effluency (n.) Effluence.
Effluent (a.) 流出的 Flowing out; as, effluent beams. -- Parnell.
Effluent (n.) (Geog.) 流出物 A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Effluent (a.) That is flowing outward [syn: effluent, outflowing].
Effluent (n.) 廢水 Water mixed with waste matter [syn: effluent, wastewater, sewer water].
Effluviable (a.) Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." -- Boyle.
Effluvial (a.) 惡臭的 Belonging to effluvia.
Effluviate (v. i.) To give forth effluvium. [R.] "An effluviating power." -- Boyle.
Effluvia (n. pl. ) of Effluvium.
Effluvium (n.) 臭氣 Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.
Effluvium (n.) A foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste).
Efflux (v. i.) To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Efflux (n.) 流出；流出物 The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.
It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. -- I. Taylor.
Efflux (n.) That which flows out; emanation; effluence.
Prime cheerer, light! . . . Efflux divine. -- Thomson.
Efflux (n.) The process of flowing out [syn: outflow, effluence, efflux] [ant: inflow, influx].
Effluxion (n.) 流出；流出物 The act of flowing out; effusion.
Effluxion (n.) That which flows out; effluvium; emanation.
Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. -- Bacon.
Effodient (a.) Digging up.
Efforced (imp. & p. p.) of Efforce.
Efforcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Efforce.
Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Efform (v. t.) To form; to shape. [Obs.]
Efforming their words within their lips. -- Jer. Taylor.
Efformation (n.) The act of giving shape or form. [Obs.] -- Ray.
Effort (n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.
We prize the stronger effort of his power. -- Pope.
Effort (n.) (Mech.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. -- Rankine.
Syn: Endeavor; exertion; struggle; strain; straining; attempt; trial; essay. See Attempt.
Effort (v. t.) To stimulate. [Obs.] "He efforted his spirits." -- Fuller.
Effort (n.) Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try" [syn: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try].
Effort (n.) Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat].
Effort (n.) A notable achievement; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort" [syn: feat, effort, exploit].
Effort (n.) A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort].
Effortless (a.) Making no effort. -- Southey.
Effortless (a.) Requiring little or no effort; as, an effortless victory.
Effortless (a.) Requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air" [ant: effortful].
Effortless (a.) Not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: casual, effortless].
Effossion (n.) A digging out or up. [R.] "The effossion of coins." -- Arbuthnot.
Effranchise (v. t.) To enfranchise.
Effray (v. t.) To frighten; to scare. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Effrayable (a.) Frightful. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Effrenation (n.) Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Effront (v. t.) To give assurance to. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Effronteries (n. pl. ) of Effrontery.
Effrontery (n.) 厚顏無恥；放肆 Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. -- Bancroft.
Syn: Impudence; sauciness. See {Impudence}.
Effrontery (n.) Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: {presumption}, {presumptuousness}, {effrontery}, {assumption}].
Effrontit (a.) Marked by impudence. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Effrontuously (adv.) Impudently. [Obs.] -- R. North.
Effulged (imp. & p. p.) of Effulge.
Effulging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effulge.
Effulge (v. t.) To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam. [R.]
His eyes effulging a peculiar fire. -- Thomson.
Effulge (v. i.) To shine forth; to beam.
Effulgence (n.) The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
The effulgence of his glory abides. -- Milton.
The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. --Beattie.
Effulgence (n.) The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency].
Effulgent (a.) Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." -- Cowper.
Effulgent (a.) Radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent].
Effulgent (a.) (Literary) Shining brightly.
// An effulgent canopy of stars.
Effulgent (a.) (Literary) Looking very beautiful or full of goodness.
// Her effulgent beauty.
// An effulgent smile.
Effulgence (n.) [ U ] (Literary) The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
// The dazzling effulgence of her beauty.
Effulgently (adv.) In an effulgent manner.
Effumability (n.) The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Effume (v. t.) To breathe or puff out. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Effund (v. t.) To pour out. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Effuse (a.) Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.]
So should our joy be very effuse. -- Barrow.
Effuse (a.) Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] -- Young.
Effuse (a.) (Bot.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.
Effuse (a.) (Zool.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.
Effuse (n.) Effusion; loss. "Much effuse of blood." -- Shak.
Effused (imp. & p. p.) of Effuse.
Effusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effuse.
Effuse (v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. [R.]
With gushing blood effused. -- Milton.
Effuse (v. i.) To emanate; to issue. -- Thomson.
Effuse (v.) Pour out; "effused brine" [syn: effuse, pour out].
Effuse (v.) Flow or spill forth [syn: flow out, effuse].
Effuse (v.) Give out or emit (also metaphorically); "The room effuses happiness."
Effusion (n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.
To save the effusion of my people's blood. -- Dryden.
Effusion (n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.
Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than sow. -- Eikon Basilike.
The light effusions of a heedless boy. -- Byron.
Effusion (n.) (Pathol.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.
Effusion (n.) (Pathol.) The liquid escaping or exuded.
Effusion (n.) An unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullition].
Effusion (n.) Flow under pressure.
Effusive (a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely. [archaic] "Washed with the effusive wave." -- Pope.
Effusive (a.) (Geol.) formed by an outpouring of molten lava, or pertaining to rocks so formed.
Effusive (a.) Overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm; -- of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with reserved.
Syn: gushing, gushy, burbling, burbly.
Effusive rocks (Geol.), Volcanic rocks formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava in molten or plastic form; in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. -- Ef*fu"sive*ly, adv. -- Ef*fu"sive*ness, n.
Effusive (a.) Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" [syn: burbling, burbly, effusive, gushing].
Effusive (a.) Extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn: effusive, gushing(a), gushy].
Effusive (a.) Excessively demonstrative; giving or involving extravagant or excessive emotional expression; gushing. Effusive, at root meaning "pouring out," comes from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere, "to pour out," from ex-, "out" fundere, "to pour."
Effet (n.) [See Eft, n.] (Zool.) The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.
Eft (n.) (Zool.) A European lizard of the genus Seps.
Eft (n.) (Zool.) A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt ({Triton punctatus).
Eft (adv.) Again; afterwards; soon; quickly. [Obs.]
I wold never eft comen into the snare. -- Spenser. Eftsoon
Eft (n.) A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
EFT, () Electronic Funds Transfer.
EFT, () Euro-FileTransfer (ISDN, ETS 300 075).
Electronic funds transferEFTEFTSElectronic funds transfer system
(EFT, EFTS, - system) Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. In the late 1990s, this increasingly includes transfer initiated via the web. The term also applies to credit card and automated bill payments.
(1999-12-08)Eftsoon (adv.) Alt. of Eftsoons.
Eftsoons (adv.) Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic]
And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. -- Chaucer.
The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. -- Spenser.
e.g. (adv.) e.g. 從拉丁文的 “exempli gratia” 演化而來，有「舉例來說、譬如」的意思 As an example; "take ribbon snakes, for example" [syn: for example, for instance, e.g.]
EG, () Evil Grin (slang, Usenet, IRC).
Egad (interj.) An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
Egal (a.) Equal; impartial. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Egality (n.) Equality. -- Chaucer. -- Tennyson.
Egality (n.) Social and political equality; "egality represents an extreme leveling of society" [syn: egality, egalite].
Egean (a.) See Aegean.
Egence (n.) The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. [R.] -- J. Grote. Eger
Eger (a.) Alt. of Egre.
Egre (a.) Sharp; bitter; acid; sour. [Obs.]
The egre words of thy friend. -- Chaucer.
Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Egerminate (v. i.) To germinate. [Obs.]
Compare: Germinate
Germinate (v. i.) 發芽；生長；形成；產生 (Of a seed or spore) Begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy.
Germinate (v. t.) 使發芽；使生長；形成；產生 Cause (a seed or spore) to germinate.
Germinate (v. i.) Come into existence and develop.
‘The idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession.’
Egest (v. t.) (Physiol.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
Egest (v.) Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass].
Egesta (n. pl.) (Physiol.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.
Egestion (n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding. -- Sir M. Hale.
Compare: Gamete
Gamete (n.) (Biol.) 【生】配偶子，配子 A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore.
The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
Gamete (n.) (Biology.) (Specialized.) 配子（指精子或卵子） A cell connected with sexual reproduction, either a male sperm or a female egg.
Egg (n.) (Popularly) 蛋；雞蛋 [C] [U]；卵；卵細胞 [C] The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
Egg (n.) (Biol.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
Egg (n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.
Note: Egg is used adjectively, or as the first part of self-explaining compounds; as, egg beater or egg-beater, egg case, egg ladle, egg-shaped, etc.
{Egg and anchor} (Arch.), See {egg-and-dart} in the vocabulary, below; -- called also {egg and dart}, and {egg and tongue}. See {Anchor}, n., 5. -- Ogilvie.
{Egg cleavage} (Biol.), A process of cleavage or segmentation, by which the egg undergoes endogenous division with formation of a mass of nearly similar cells, from the growth and differentiation of which the new organism is ultimately formed. See {Segmentation of the ovum}, under {Segmentation}.
{Egg development} (Biol.), The process of the development of an egg, by which the embryo is formed.
{Egg mite} (Zool.), Any mite which devours the eggs of insects, as {Nothrus ovivorus}, which destroys those of the canker worm.
{Egg parasite} (Zool.), Any small hymenopterous insect, which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other insects. Many genera and species are known.
Egged (imp. & p. p.) of Egg.
Egging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Egg.