A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.

Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious.

A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.

An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.

The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

Bleeding at the nose.

of or pertaining to epistemology; as, epistemic modal.

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Of or pertaining to the episternum.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

Epistolary.

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

A little epistle.

Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.

To write epistles.

A writer of epistles.

Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.

The art or practice of writing epistles.

The region between the antenn/ and the mouth, in Crustacea. A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.

A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., /Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I./

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism.

To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

A writer of epitaphs.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. An epitaph.

An epitapher.

That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.

A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.

Epithalamium.

A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.

Like epithelium; as, epithelioid cells.

A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.

Epithelioid.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles.

To describe by an epithet.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets.

A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant.

Epithumetical.

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.

The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

An epitomist.

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer.

To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

An epitomist.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

Relating to the epitrochlea.

A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.

A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., /He that is unjust, let him be unjust still./

A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: --

An epizo/n.

Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozo/n. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Of or pertaining to an epizo/n.

A contagious disease which attacks many animals at the same time; an epizootic disease; an epidemic among animals.

A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.

See Epoch.

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.

The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.

The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.

Same as Eponymous.

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.

The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

See Parovarium.

An epic poem; epic poetry.

One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.

An epic.

A drinking up; a quaffing.

An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet.

A feasting or feast; banquet.

A hard tumor developed from the gums.

Feasting to excess.

A feasting to excess.

Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. An epulotic agent.

Purification.

A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.

The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind.

Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

Quality or state of being equable.

In an equable manner.

To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.

p. p. of equalise; same as equalized.

an electronic circuit which reduces frequency distortion.

One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.

the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality.

The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.

The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

One who, or that which, equalizes anything.

In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

Equality; evenness.

Having equal angles; equiangular.

Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.

Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed.

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.

the act of regarding as equal.

A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.

So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.

A large stable or lodge for horses.