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.

using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware.

of or pertaining to ecology; as, an ecological disaster.

a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment.

the branch of biology concerned with the various relations of animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding environment.

of or pertaining to econometrics; as, econometric theories.

an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods.

the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data.

Pertaining to the household; domestic.

With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.

The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.

same as economize.

a person who economizes and avoids waste.

One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

The act or practice of using to the best effect.

To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.

One who, or that which, economizes.

The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

An explicit declaration.

A breaking out with some interjectional particle.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.

An animated or passionate exclamation.

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. An ecphractic medicine.

The operation performed with an /craseur.

An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

An enthusiast.

Ecstatic.

Rapturously; ravishingly.

Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.

A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the /ectental line/ or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.

The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.

External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.

One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

The outside covering of the Bryozoa.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.

Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. The ectosarc of protozoan.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.

An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.

Same as Ectopia.

An external parasitic organism.

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the am/ba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

See Epizoic.

See Epizo/n.

An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.

Same as Ectropion.

Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence: A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.

A stable.

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

an extinct heavy-bodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest.

The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge.

Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

To collect as into an eddy.

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps. It is the national flower of Austria.

Same as /dema.

Same as /dematous.

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.

A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness.

See Edentate, a. One of the Edentata.

See Edentate, a.

An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

One of the Edentata.

Same as Edentate, a.

A depriving of teeth.

Toothless.

To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

Same as Aitchbone.

having a specified kind of border or edge; as, a black-edged card; dried sweat left salt-edged patches.

Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

In the direction of the edge.

Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.

With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

Gradually; gingerly.

Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as /English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth./

Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Anything edible.

Suitableness for being eaten.

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.