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.

State of being endeared.

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.

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.

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

Pertaining to the endognath.

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

Within a lymphatic vessel.

Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct. Within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.

To cover as with a dome.

Inflammation of the endometrium.

The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.

The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo/n.

The inner layer of the bark of trees.

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.

Of or pertaining to the endophragma.

Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.

Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc.

See Nucleus.

A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba.

See Nucleolus.

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.

The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

Same as Indorsee.

Same as Indorsement.

Same as Indorser.

The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the am/ba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

An instrument for examining the interior of the body, consisting of a flexible tube with lenses and optical fibers permitting illumination of the interior site to be inspected, and visualization of the interior site from outside the body; it often has small surgical instruments attached to the end and manipulable from the outside, permitting biopsy or surgery. It is used as a non-invasive or minimally invasive tool for diagnosis or treatment, especially in organs having an external opening such as the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

Of or pertaining to endoscopy or an endoscope.

The art or process of examination or treatment by means of an endoscope.