A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

The old plural of Eye.

In a strange, unearthly way.

Causing fear; eerie.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

imp. of Eat.

Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

Capable of being effaced.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

To charm; to bewitch.

A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.

To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

One who effects.

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

Creation; a doing.

That which produces a given effect; a cause.

With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

The quality of being effective.

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.

An effecter.

Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

the power to be effective.

With effect; efficaciously.

The quality of being effectual.

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

Act of effectuating.

Effective.

Effectively.

Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.

To grow womanish or weak.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

Effeminacy; womanishness.

To make effeminate.

Master; sir; -- a Turkish title of respect, applied esp. to a state official or man of learning, as one learned in the law, but often simply as the courtesy title of a gentleman.

An efferent duct or stream.

Like a wild beast; fierce.

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.

A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

Capable of effervescing.

Tending to produce effervescence.

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

the capacity or power to produce a desired effect.

Efficacy.

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

a small apartment{4}, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.

The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.

An efficient cause; a prime mover.

With effect; effectively.

To make fierce.

Relating to an effigy.

To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.

The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

To ask urgently.

To fill with breath; to puff up.

The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.

To blossom forth.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

A flowing out, or emanation.

Effluence.

A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium.

Belonging to effluvia.

To give forth effluvium.

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.

The act of flowing out; effusion.

Digging up.

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

To form; to shape.

The act of giving shape or form.

To stimulate.

requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.

Making no effort.

A digging out or up.

To enfranchise.

To frighten; to scare.

Frightful.

Unbridled license; unruliness.

To give assurance to.

Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.

Marked by impudence.

Impudently.

To shine forth; to beam.

The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.

Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.

In an effulgent manner.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.

To breathe or puff out.

To pour out.

To emanate; to issue.

The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

a friendly open trait of a talkative person; enthusiasm exhibited with little restraint.

See Afrit.

Again; afterwards; soon; quickly.

Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.

An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

Equal; impartial.

Equality.

See /gean.

The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.

An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.

To germinate.

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

Act or process of egesting; a voiding.

To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

a decorative ovolo molding, having a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape in the form of a dart or anchor. Also used attributively; as, an egg-and-dart molding; an egg-and-dart design. Called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue