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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.

Enunciation

The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.

Enunciative

Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.

Enunciatory

Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.

Enuresis

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Envault

To inclose in a vault; to entomb.

Envelop

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.

Envelop Envelope

That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.

enveloped

enclosed or surrounded completely; as, the fog-enveloped city.

enveloping

the act or process of enclosing something inside something else.

Envelopment

The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.

Envenom

To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.

Envermeil

To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.

Enviable

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

Envie

To vie; to emulate; to strive.

Envier

One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.

Envious

Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

Environment

Act of environing; state of being environed.

environmental

of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors.

Environs

The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

Envisage

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

Envolume

To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.

Envoy

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

Envy

To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

Envyned

Stored or furnished with wine.

Enwallow

To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.

Enwind

To wind about; to encircle.

Enwoman

To endow with the qualities of a woman.

Enwomb

To conceive in the womb.

Enwrapment

Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.

Enzootic

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

enzyme

A protein produced by a living organism, capable of catalyzing a chemical reaction. Almost all processes in living organisms require some form of enzyme to cause the reactions to occur at a rate sufficient to support life. There are a very wide variety of enzymes, each specifically catalyzing a different chemical reaction, the sum of which cause the bulk of the physiological changes observed as life processes. Enzymes, like most proteins, are synthesized by the protein-synthetic mechanism of the living cell, at special sites on ribosomes, using the genetic information in messenger RNA transcribed from the genetic instructions stored as nuleotide sequences in the DNA (or in some viruses, the RNA) of the genome. Some examples of enzymes are: pepsin, diastase, rennet, DNA polymerase, invertase, glucose oxidase, protease, and ribonuclease. There are many other types of enzyme.

Eocene

Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits. The Eocene formation.

eohippus

an extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene mammal, the earliest horse known in the line of descent of the modern horse. It is classed in the extinct genus Hydracotherium. Called also dawn horse.

Eolis

A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papill/ along the back. See Ceratobranchia.

Eophyte

A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

Eos

Aurora, the goddess of morn.

Eosaurus

An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

Eosin

A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluoresce/n, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

Eosphorite

A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.

Eozoic

Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozo/n has been found.

Eozoon

A peculiar structure found in the Arch/an limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

Eozoonal

Pertaining to the eozo/n; containing eozo/ns; as, eozo/nal limestone.

Epacris

A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

Epact

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.

Epagoge

The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

Epanadiplosis

A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, /Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice./

Epanalepsis

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.

Epanodos

A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order

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