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.

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

the act or process of enclosing something inside something else.

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

To 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.

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

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

To vie; to emulate; to strive.

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

To invigorate.

Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

About; around.

Act of environing; state of being environed.

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

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

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

The act of envisaging.

To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.

To wrap up; to envelop.

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.

The office or position of an envoy.

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

Stored or furnished with wine.

See Inwall.

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

To encircle.

To widen.

To wind about; to encircle.

To endow with the qualities of a woman.

To conceive in the womb.

To envelop. See Inwrap.

Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope.

See Inwreathe.

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

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.

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.

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.

/olian.

See /olic.

Same as /olipile.

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

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

Of or pertaining to eophytes.

Aurora, the goddess of morn.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Inductive.

Without palpi.

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./

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

Same as Anaphora.

Same as Anadiplosis.

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.

Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.

A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.

See Epencephalon.

Pertaining to the epencephalon. Situated on or over the brain.

The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.

The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

See Ependyma.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.

The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in /nimble/ from AS. n/mol.

Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.

A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

A full or additional explanation; exegesis.

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. Ten ephahs make one homer.

A fever of one day's continuance only.

Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.

One of the ephemeral flies.

Ephemeral.

A diary; a journal.

One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.

One of the ephemeral flies.

Ephemeral.

A native of Ephesus.

The nightmare.

Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.

A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

Pertaining to an ephor.

The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors.

A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

A stage in the development of discophorous medus/, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.

The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.

Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.

Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.

Epic.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

That part of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Elegiac; funereal.

Epicedial. An epicede.

An epicede.

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra.