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Earthling

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.

Earthly

In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.

Earthly-minded

Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.

Earthnut

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.

Earthpea

A species of pea (Amphicarp/a monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

Earthquake

Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.

Earthstar

A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

Earthwork

Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.

Earthworm

Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.

Earthy

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

Earwig

To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.

Earwitness

A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.

Ease

To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquillity to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; to ease the body or mind.

eased

made less severe or intense; mitigated.

Easeful

Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.

Easel

A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.

Easement

That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

Easily

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

Easiness

The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

easing

a change for the better.

East

To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

East Indian

Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.

east-central

of a region of the U. S. generally including Kentucky and West Virginia.

eastbound

moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.

Easter

To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.

Easterling

Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.

Easterly

Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

Eastern

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.

easterner

an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the eastern U. S.

Easting

The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

Eastwards Eastward

Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

Easy

At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

easy-going easygoing

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; relaxed and casual; ease-loving; inactive. Contrasted with tense.

Eat

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

Eatable

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. Something fit to be eaten.

Eatage

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

eaten

ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with uneaten.

Eater

One who, or that which, eats.

Eating

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Eavedrop

A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

Eaves

The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

Eavesdrop

The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.

Eavesdropper

One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.

Eavesdropping

The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet for private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.

Ebb

Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

EBCDIC

a 8-bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium. It was used expecially on IBM mainframes, and differed substantially from the ASCII code.

Ebionite

One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

Ebionitism

The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.

Eblis

The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.

Ebola virus

an exceptionally virulent hemorrhaic virus with a high mortality rate, first recognized in an outbreak on the Ebola river in africa.

Ebonite

A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

Ebonize

To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

Ebony

Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.

Ebracteolate

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Ebriety

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.

Ebrillade

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

Ebriosity

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

Ebrious

Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.

Ebullient

Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.

Ebullioscope

An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.

Ebullition

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Eburin

A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.

Eburnation

A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

Eburnification

The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

Ecardines

An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.

ecarte

A game at cards for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.

Ecballium

A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Ecbasis

A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

Ecbatic

Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase "i`na plhrw`qh, if rendered /so that it was fulfilled,/ is ecbatic; if rendered /in order that it might be./ etc., is telic.

Ecbole

A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

Ecbolic

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

Ecboline

An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.

Eccaleobion

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

Eccentric

A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.

Eccentricity

The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

Ecchymose

To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.

Ecchymosis

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

Eccle

The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle.

Ecclesia

The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

Ecclesiarch

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

Ecclesiastes

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

Ecclesiastic

A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.

Ecclesiastical

Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.

Ecclesiology

The science or theory of church building and decoration.

Eccritic

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

Ecdysis

The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

Ecgonine

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

echauguette

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

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