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.

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.

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.

That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control of disease.

An epidemic disease.

The epidermis.

Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.

Epidermal.

Epidermoid.

Epidermal.

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.

Epidermal.

Epidermal.

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.

Keratin.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.

Growing on, or close to, the ground.

Epigastric.

Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.

The upper part of the abdomen.

Epig/ous.