An earthquake.

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.

Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.

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

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.

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

See Cerumen.

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

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

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.

made less severe or intense; mitigated.

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

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

Without ease.

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

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

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

a change for the better.

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

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

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

Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.

moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.

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

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

Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

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

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

Most eastern.

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

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

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.

An armchair for ease or repose.

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

being without worry or concern.

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

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

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

ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with uneaten.

One who, or that which, eats.

Easy or easily.

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

A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

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.

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

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

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.

Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

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.

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.

The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.

See Pyroxanthin.

The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.

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

Ebony.

One who works in ebony.

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.

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

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

Without bracts.

Hebrew.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.

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

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.

To boil or bubble up.

A boiling up or over; effervescence.

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

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.

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

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

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

Made of or relating to ivory.

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

Of or pertaining to ivory.

An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.

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.

Without a tail or spur.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

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

See Eccentric.

In an eccentric manner.

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

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.

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

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

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

The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

Ecclesiastical.

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

An ecclesiastic.

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

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

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

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

A book of the Apocrypha.

Belonging to ecclesiology.

One versed in ecclesiology.

The science or theory of church building and decoration.

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

See Ecteron.

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.

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

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

Each.

To take position in echelon.

a natural family of fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.

the type genus of the Echeneididae; they are typical remoras.

A monster, half maid and half serpent.

The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.

a genus of fleas including the stick-tight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea), which is a serious pest in subtropical America, infesting poultry and frequently attacking man and domestic animals.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Same as Echinoid.