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Ennui

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

Ennuye

One who is affected with ennui.

Ennuyee

A woman affected with ennui.

Enodation

The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.

Enode

To clear of knots; to make clear.

Enomoty

A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

Enopla

One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

Enormity

The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

Enormous

Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.

Enorthotrope

An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

Enough

A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.

enough

An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Enounce

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

Enpatron

To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.

Enrage

To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

enraged

filled with or indicating extreme anger; as, an enraged bull.

Enragement

Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.

Enrange

To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.

Enrank

To place in ranks or in order.

Enrapt

Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.

Enrapture

To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.

Enravish

To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

Enravishment

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.

Enregister

To register; to enroll or record; to inregister.

Enrich

To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

Enrichment

The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

Enrobe

To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

Enrockment

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

Enroll

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

enrollee

one who is enrolled, especially a learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study.

Enroot

To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

Ens

Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

Ensample

To exemplify, to show by example.

Ensanguine

To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue.

Ensate

Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

Ensconce

To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

Enseal

To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

Enseam

To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

Ensearch

To make search; to try to find something. To search for.

Enseel

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk.

Enseint

With child; pregnant. See Enceinte.

Enshrine

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.

Enshroud

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.

Ensiform

Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.

ensign

A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.

Ensign

To designate as by an ensign.

Ensigncy

The rank or office of an ensign.

Ensilage

To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

Ensile

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage.

Ensis

a genus of bivalve mollusks consisting of razor clams.

Ensky

To place in the sky or in heaven.

Enslave

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

Enslavement

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

Ensnare

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

Ensoul

To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

Ensphere

To place in a sphere; to envelop.

Enstamp

To stamp; to mark as with a stamp; to impress deeply.

Enstatite

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Ensue

To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.

ensuing

subsequent, or occurring as a result; as, ensuing events confirmed the prediction.

Ensure

To make sure. See Insure.

Enswathe

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.

Enswathement

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

Ensweep

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

Entablature

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

Entad

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.

Entail

To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

Entailment

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

Ental

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.

Entangle

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

entangled

in a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled.

Entanglement

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

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