Hernia of the brain.

An encephaloid cancer.

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

The contents of the cranium; the brain.

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

The encephalon.

The act or art of dissecting the brain.

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

To chafe; to enrage; to heat.

Heating; burning.

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

To seat in a chair.

To make run in a channel.

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

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

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

Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.

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.

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

A charge.

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.

One who enchases.

To chasten.

Occasion, cause, or reason.

To inclose in a chest.

Handbook; a manual of devotions.

To cut with a chisel.

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

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

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.

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.

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

A cincture.

Burnt to cinders.

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.

A small circle; a ring.

surrounding.

To clasp. See Inclasp.

To inclose within an alien territory.

The state of being an enclave.

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

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.

In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

The art of declining and conjugating words.

To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

To inclose. See Inclose.

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

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

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

To clothe.

To envelop in clouds; to cloud.

To carry in a coach.

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

To put in a coffin.

To render cold.

To furnish or surround with a collar.

To color.

The neck of horse.

See Encumber.

One who praises; a panegyrist.

A panegyric.

Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse.

Encomium; panegyric.

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

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.

closely enveloping or surrounding on all sides.

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

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

Incorporation.

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

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

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

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.

made to feel more courage, hope, or optimism.

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

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

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

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

To lay in a cradle.

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

See Increase.

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

Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.

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

Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.

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.

A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

Curled.

Encroachment.

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

By way of encroachment.

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

To incrust. See Incrust.

covered with or hardened into a crust.

That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.

To convert ordinary language or other data into code; to hide the meaning of a message by converting it into a form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key; to encode.

converted into a coded form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key; -- of messages or other forms of information.

the process of converting messages in ordinary language, or other information into a secret coded form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key.

To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.

Encumbrance.

That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

Same as Incumbrancer.

To inclose with curtains.

An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.

The full circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

Encyclopedic.

Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects; as, a person having encyclopedic knowledge of a subject.

The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.

The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.

To inclose in a cyst.

Encystment.

Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

Complete termination.

a person who uses an item of commerce for its designed purpose; -- contrasted with those who produce or resell the item or incorporate the item into another product.

That may be ended; terminable.

To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.