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.

Same as Equerry.

One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.

To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.

Having equal legs or sides; isosceles.

Equicrural.

Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.

Equal distance.

Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line.

Having the same form; uniform.

A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.

To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.

Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.

Evenly poised; balanced.

One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.

The state of being balanced; equality of weight.

Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Having equal moments of inertia.

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are equimultiples of 2 and 4.

See Equine.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.

Glanders.

The equinoctial line.

Towards the equinox.

The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal.

Equal as to number.

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops.

Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.

Furnished with equipage.

Comparable.

To compare.

Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.

To weigh equally; to esteem alike.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application.

Having equal power or force; equivalent.

With equal power.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

Being of the same weight.

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance.

Having equal weight.

Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

Having the same potential.

Equally radical.

Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.

Belonging to the Equisetace/, or Horsetail family.

Having the form of the equisetum.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Of the same or like sound.

Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as, an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men.

The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.

In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.

Horsemanship.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship.

Contemporaneous.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.