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Effete

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.

Efficacious

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

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.

efficiency apartment

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.

efficiency efficience

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

efficient

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.

Effigiate

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

Effigiation

The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.

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.

Efflate

To fill with breath; to puff up.

Efflation

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

Efflorescence

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

Efflorescency

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

Efflorescent

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

Efflower

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

Effluent

A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

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.

Efflux

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

Efforce

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

effortful

requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.

Effrontery

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

Effulgence

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

Effulgent

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

Effusion

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

effusive

Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

effusiveness

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

Eft

Again; afterwards; soon; quickly.

Egad

An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

Egal

Equal; impartial.

Egence

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

Eger

An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.

Egest

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.

Egesta

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

Egestion

Act or process of egesting; a voiding.

Egg

To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

egg and dart egg-and-dart

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

egg-beater egg beater

a small device having one or usually two blades, each having several stiff oval wires at the tip. The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream. The electrical variety typically have two such blades, which are arranged so that the tips of the blades interlace while rotating.

Egg-bird

A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Pha/thon flavirostris.

Egg-cup

A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

Egg-glass

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

egg-plant eggplant

A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, glossy, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. It is widely cultivated for its fruit, commonly eaten as a vegetable.

Eggar

Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

Egger

One who eggs or incites.

Eggery

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.

Egghot

A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

Eggler

One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

Eggnog

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

eggshell

of a pale, yellowish-white color; as, an eggshell ceiling and light green walls.

Egilopical

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an /gilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.

Eglantine

A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa).

Egling

The European perch when two years old.

ego

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; the subject consciously considered as /I/ by a person; -- opposed to non-ego.

egocentric

a self-centered person with little regard for others.

egocentrism

the personality trait that causes one to attempt to get personal recognition for oneself (especially by unacceptable means).

Egoism

The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

Egoist

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.

Egoistical Egoistic

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.

Egophonic

Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

Egophony

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

Egotism

The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.

Egotist

One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

Egotistical Egotistic

Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism; having an exaggerated view of one's own importance or good qualities.

Egotize

To talk or write as an egotist.

Egranulose

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions.

Egre

See Eager, and Eagre.

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