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.
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The deification of self.
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.
One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.
Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism; having an exaggerated view of one's own importance or good qualities.
With egotism.
To talk or write as an egotist.
Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions.
See Eager, and Eagre.
Sharp; bitter; acid; sour.
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated.
The state of being egregious.
Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria).
To go out; to depart; to leave.
The act of going; egress.
One who goes out.
The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea egretta syn. Herodias egretta); the great egret (Ardea alba); the little egret (Ardea garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (Ardea candidissima).
Same as Egret, n., 2.
Sorrow.
A kind of sour cherry.
Sickness; ailment; sorrow.
a country at the northeastern corner of Africa. At one time it was joined with Syria to form the United Arab Republic.
A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.
To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.
Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.
One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.
The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.
An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.
A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.
An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.
An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
An exclamation expressing delight.
The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
a playing card with eight pips on the face; an eight.
The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
See Octodecimo.
The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.
Eighteenth.
Eight times a quantity.
The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
As the eighth in order.
the decade from 1980 to 1989.
The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
eight people considered as a unit; as, there was an eightsome ahead of us on the golf course.
the size of a book (ca. 16 x 23 cm) whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves. The pages have about half the area of a quarto. Symbolized as 8vo, and 8/.
The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
Eldest; firstborn.
See Eking.
An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer.
A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffin series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
Age.
Air.
the Irish name for Ireland; the name used in 1937 to 1949 for the Republic of Ireland.
A justice of the peace; irenarch.
Pacific. See Irenic.
See Aerie, and Eyrie.
Vinegar; verjuice.
An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
Either precedes two, or more, co/rdinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
A muscle which helps ejaculation.
Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.
An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford.
Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.
A wailing; lamentation.
The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.
The name given by Mendeleev to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table.
The name of a hypothetical element predicted by Mendeleev and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table.
An addition.
A variety of scapolite.
An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
The capital city of Western Sahara. Population (2000) = 20,010.
cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar.
To produce with labor
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
One who, or that which, elaborates.
A laboratory.
A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.
A genus of palms.
A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.
A salt of elaidic acid.
Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.
A solid isomeric modification of olein.
Same as Olein.
Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.
An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.
Shining.
Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.
A kite of the genus Elanus.
See El/olite.
See El/optene.
a genus of snakes comprising the Old World and American rat snakes.
Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.
A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
a venomous snake of the family Elapidae, including the .
a natural family of snakes including the cobras, kraits, mambas, the New World coral snakes, and Australian taipan and tiger snakes.
A clearing away of stones.
Like or pertaining to the Elapid/, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.
A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
The act of elapsing.
To disentangle.
An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.
Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. One of the Elasmobranchii.
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