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.

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

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.

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.

One the Echinoidea.

Of, or like, an echinite.

A fossil echinoid.

annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions.

infestation with echinococci (tapeworms). An infection with the larval form is called hydatid disease.

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the T/nia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. The adult form is not found in man.

a red blood cell which has become crenated.

One of the Echinodermata.

Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.

Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. One of the Echinoidea.

The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous shell, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.

The Echinodermata.

Set with small spines or prickles.

A hedgehog.

A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.

To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.

One who, or that which, echoes.

Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.

Reflecting sounds so as to create multiple echoes; as, a hotel with echoing halls.

Without echo or response.

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

Each one.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.

A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.

Same as Eclampsia.

Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.

One who follows an eclectic method.

In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.

Theory or practice of an eclectic.

A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups.

To suffer an eclipse.

the omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences.

A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23/ 28/. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.

A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.