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Enticement

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

Enticer

One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.

Entire-wheat

Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran; whole-wheat.

Entirely

In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.

Entireness

The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

Entirety

The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.

Entitative

Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.

Entitle

To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book /Commentaries;/ to entitle a man /Honorable./

entitlement

a right granted by law or contract, especially to financial benefits from the government.

Entity

A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

Entoblast

The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.

Entoderm

See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

Entogastric

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

Entoglossal

Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

Entoil

To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.

Entomb

To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

Entombment

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.

Entomere

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Entomoid

Resembling an insect. An object resembling an insect.

Entomologize

To collect specimens in the study of entomology.

Entomology

That part of zo/logy which treats of insects.

Entomophaga

a group of hymenopterous insects whose larv/ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.

Entomophagan

Relating to the Entomophaga. One of the Entomophaga.

Entomophilous

Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

Entomophthora

the type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects.

Entomophthoraceae

a natural family of mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects.

Entomophthorales

an order of fungi coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae.

Entomostraca

One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

Entomostracan

Relating to the Entomostraca. One of the Entomostraca.

Entomotomy

The science of the dissection of insects.

Entonic

Having great tension, or exaggerated action.

Entoperipheral

Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

Entophyte

A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

Entophytic

Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

Entoplasm

The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. Endosarc.

Entoplastic

Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

Entoplastron

The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

Entoprocta

A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.

Entoptic

Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.

Entosthoblast

The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.

Entotic

Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

Entourage

Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

Entozoa

A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.

Entr'acte

The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.

Entrails

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

Entrain

To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.

Entrance

To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

Entrancement

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.

entranceway

a passage allowing entry or exit; an entryway.

Entrap

To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

Entreater

One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.

Entreaty

Treatment; reception; entertainment.

Entree

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entr/e of a house.

Entremets

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

entrench

To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet. Same as intrench.

entrenchment

an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches.

Entrepreneur

One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken.

entrepreneurial

of or pertaining to an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship; as, entrepreneurial risks.

entrepreneurship

the activity of organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business enterprise.

Entresol

A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.

Entrochal

Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.

Entropium

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

Entropy

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.

Entry

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

Entwinement

A twining or twisting together or round; union.

Entwist

To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

Enubilate

To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.

Enubilous

Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.

Enucleate

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

Enucleation

The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.

Enumerate

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.

Enumeration

The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

Enunciable

Capable of being enunciated or expressed.

Enunciate

To utter words or syllables articulately.

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