Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

A ruler; a governor; a prince.

A tyrant.

Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

Dynastic.

One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (Dynastus Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.

The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.

An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.

Dycrasia.

Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient.

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ.

Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another.

A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

of or pertaining to dysgenics.

the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.

an abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Suffering from dyslexia; having impaired ability to comprehend written words; a condition usually associated with a neurologic disorder.

Any of various reading disorders caused by a damaged or congenitally faulty structure within the central nervous system, and causing an impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information. A common example is when letter sequences are interpreted as inverted in order, as in bat/tab.

Of or pertaining to dyslexia.

Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

A person afflicted with dyspepsia.

Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.

Difficulty in swallowing, or inability to swallow.

A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Difficulty of breathing.

Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspn/a.

An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.

The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.

Difficult delivery pr parturition.

Cleaving with difficulty.

Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Tibet, and China.

The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Tibet (Asinus hemionus).

Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.

to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.

A contraction for even. See Even.

A contraction for ever. See Ever.

the Akkadian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki.

Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

Everywhere.

a genus of moths including the imperial moth (Eacles imperialis).

See Eddish.

Same as Eagre.

In an eager manner.

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali/etus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysa/tus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Hali/etus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Hali/etus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

Sharp-sighted as an eagle.

Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.

A female or hen eagle.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; a/tites.

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

See Eddish.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore or tidal bore. See Bore.

An alderman.

Ale.

Uncle.

To bring forth, as young; to yean.

A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.

To plow or till; to cultivate.

Having the ear perforated.

Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

The earwig.

having the shape of an ear.

any of various large edible marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Haliotis, having a flattened ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

Arable; tillable.

Ache or pain in the ear.

Receiving by the ear.

A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm. On some hats the earflaps may be adjusted or tied to the top of the hat, and lowered when needed in colder weather.

Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.

A plowing of land.

The needlefish.

The lobe of the ear.

The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

Alderman.

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.

An earring.

occurring at a prior time; as, on earlier occasions.

preceding all others in time.

The state of being early or forward; promptness.

A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

being somewhat early.

To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

To curdle, as milk.

Gained as a result of effort or action; -- used especially of income; as, earned income. Contrasted with unearned.

someone who earns wages in return for labor.

Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

Serious.

In an earnest manner.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.

Full of anxiety or yearning.

That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

a device for converting electric signals into sounds, designed to be held over or inserted into the ear; as, The common telephone handset has a speaker and an earpiece.

Earshot.

An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

See Arrish.

Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.

A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.