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.

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

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.

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.

Lenient; assuaging.

A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

In or of the country.

A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.

Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

Epicene.

Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the humerus; the internal condyle.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as, epicranial muscles.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

A follower or Epicurus.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously.

Epicurean.

The doctrines of Epicurus.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.

Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

An epidemic disease.

Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

In an epidemic manner.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology; as, epidemiological studies.

A person skilled in epidemiology.