The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.

The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.

The inner lining of an anther cell.

Of, or relating to, endothelium.

The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.

Like endothelium.

Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; -- opposed to exothermic.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.

One who endows.

The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

See Entozoa.

Living within a living animal, usually as a parasite; as, endozoic worms. Contrasted with epizoic.

A point of termination or completion.

To make a drudge or slave of.

An older spelling of Endow.

Act of enduing; induement.

Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.

In an endurable manner.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.

To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

Endurance.

One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.

On end; erectly; in an upright position.

See Ependyma.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

To kill off; to destroy.

Same as /neid.

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

Hostile; inimical.

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.

That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.

In a state of action; acting; operating.

Same as energize.

Same as energizing.

To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.

One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.

imparting or capable of imparting vitality and energy.

One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

capable of absorbing energy; as, energy-absorbing bumpers reduce injury and damage in vehicle collisions.

releasing energy.

anabolic.

Weakened; weak; without strength of force.

lacking strength or vigor.

causing the loss of strength or vigor.

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.

To weaken; to enervate.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

To famish; to starve.

Contaminated with illegality.

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

same as debilitated, 2.

One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

To enfeeble.

Rendered fierce or frantic.

To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.

The act of enfeoffing. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

To fester.

To bind in fetters; to enchain.

To excite fever in.

To make fierce.

To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be /enfiled of/ the thing which it pierces.

To set on fire.

To clothe with flesh.

A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.

To cover or deck with flowers.

To infold. See Infold.

The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

Force; strength; power.

Capable of being enforced.

Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

The act of enforcing; compulsion.

One who enforces.

That may be enforced.

Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

To turn into a forest.

To form; to fashion.

Mixed with, or emitting, lightning.

To inclose, as in a frame.

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.

endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote.

Releasing from slavery or custody.

One who enfranchises.

To set free.

To set free.

To freeze; to congeal.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable.

To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

Occupied; employed; busy.

With attachment; with interest; earnestly.

The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address.

To make a gallant of.

To put in jail; to imprison.

To throw into disorder; to disturb.

To encircle with a garland, or with garlands.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.

An ventriloquist.

One who, or that which, engenders.

The act of generation.

To gild; to make splendent.

To assault with an engine.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer. In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing software (software engineering).

A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

Pertaining to an engine.