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Encage

To confine in a cage; to coop up.

Encamp

To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

Encampment

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

Encapsulation

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

Encarpus

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.

Encase

To inclose in or as if in a case. See Incase.

encased

covered or protected with or as if with a case; as, products encased in leatherette.

Encasement

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

Encash

To turn into cash; to cash.

Encashment

The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.

Encauma

An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.

Encaustic

The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.

Encave

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.

Encenia

A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.

Encense

To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.

encephalartos

any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long, often spiny pinnate leaves.

Encephalology

The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.

Encephalopathy

Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

Encephalous

Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

Enchafe

To chafe; to enrage; to heat.

Enchain

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

Enchainment

The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

Enchant

To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

Enchanted

Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

Enchanter

One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.

Enchanting

Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.

Enchantment

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.

Enchantress

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.

Enchase

To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

Enchodus

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

Enchondroma

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

Enchoric Enchorial

Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

Enchylemma

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

Enchyma

The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

Encircle

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

Enclave

To inclose within an alien territory.

Enclitic

A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

Enclitical Enclitic

Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.

Enclitically

In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

Enclitics

The art of declining and conjugating words.

enclosed

surrounded or closed in, usually on all sides. Opposite of unenclosed.

enclosing

the act of surrounding something with something else, so that it is inside the surrounding object.

Encloud

To envelop in clouds; to cloud.

encode

To convert (a text, data) into a series of secret symbols by means of a code{5}; to encrypt.

Encollar

To furnish or surround with a collar.

Encomium

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

Encompass

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.

Encompassment

The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.

Encore

To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

Encoubert

One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

Encounter

A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.

Encounterer

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

Encourage

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.

encouraged

made to feel more courage, hope, or optimism.

Encouragement

The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.

Encourager

One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.

Encouraging

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Encowl

To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.

Encratite

One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

Encrimson

To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.

Encrinite

A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

Encrinoidea

That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

Encrinus

A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

Encroacher

One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.

Encroachment

The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.

encrusted

covered with or hardened into a crust.

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