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.

Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.

Damage; injury; harm.

To damnify; to injure.

To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

Being in a condition or situation where life or serious harm is possible; in danger; at risk.

A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to a point where further irreversible decline and extinction{3} has a significant chance. Lists of endangered species are maintained by government agencies, and in many cases the killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is prohibited by law.

Hazard; peril.

To darken.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

To dazzle.

To make dear or beloved.

With affection or endearment; dearly.

Making dear or beloved; causing love.

The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.

An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

One who makes an effort or attempt.

Act of endeavoring; endeavor.

A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.

Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.

Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.

An indication.

Endemic.

An endemic disease.

Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

In an endemic manner.

The science which treats of endemic affections.

The act of naturalizing.

To endenizen.

To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.

One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.

Endermic.

Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.

By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

Diademed.

To decorate with a diaper pattern.

See Indict.

See Indictment.

Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

See Indite.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.

Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

In an endless manner.

The quality of being endless; perpetuity.

Lengthwise; along.

Farthest; remotest; at the very end.

Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,

Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer.

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

To teach; to indoctrinate.

The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal. The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp.

a dentist specializing in endodontics.

occurring with absorption of energy.

fertilized by pollen from another flower of the same plant.

Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.

Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

Endogeny.

Relating to or arising from an internal process; same as endogenous.

Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

By endogenous growth.