To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

To engird.

A kind of reflecting microscope.

Clammy.

To cajole or coax, as favorite.

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

able to communicate in English.

a South African bulbous wood sorrel (Oxalis cernua) with showy yellow flowers.

Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.

A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman.

Fem. of Englishman.

To make gloomy.

To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

To swallow or gulp down.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Same as Engouled.

To graft; to fix deeply.

See Ingraftment.

See Ingraft.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

To grapple.

To grasp; to grip.

To cut in; to make by incision.

Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

Engraving.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

The trade or work of an engraver.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.

To grieve.

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

capable of holding the attention completely; very interesting.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

To surround as with a guard.

To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

A swallowing up as if in a gulf.

To surround with a halo.

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

improved. Contrasted with unenhanced.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.

To harden; to embolden.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.

To surround as with a hedge.

To encourage.

To make hungry.

A variety of chalcedony containing water.

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer; I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning has been disputed for centuries.

Darkly; obscurely.

One who makes, or talks in, enigmas.

To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.

The art of making or of solving enigmas.

Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.

To put into jail; to imprison.

To join or unite.

One who enjoins.

Direction; command; authoritative admonition.

To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.

One who enjoys.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

To put into a kennel.

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered.

the Sumerian legendary friend of Gilgamish.

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

set on fire.

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.

To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

Made large or larger; extended; swollen.

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

One who or that which enlarges.

See Inlay.

To lengthen.

Eleven.

To illumine; to enlighten.

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.

To chain together; to connect, as by links.

To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

designating to those members of the armed forces not commissioned as an officer; as, an enlisted man.

any new member of an organization or supporter of a cause.

the act of getting recruits; convincing people to join the army, take a job, support a cause etc.

The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

To enliven.

To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.

To lock; to inclose.

To illumine.

To coat with clay; to lute.

Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

To make hard as marble; to harden.

To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

See Emmew.

To infold, as in a mist.

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

Covered with moss; mossed.

See Emmove.

To muffle up.

To immure.

The ninth segment in insects.

The number nine or a group of nine.