Equal distance.
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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.
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.
To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
Same as Equivalence.
To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
In an equal manner.
To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing.
Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.
Equivocalness.
A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
In an equivocal manner.
The state of being equivocal.
To render equivocal or ambiguous.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
One who equivocates.
Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.
A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.
the chemical symbol for erbium, a rare earth element. It has atomic number 68 and an atomic weight of 167.26.
A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.
Emission of radiance.
Capable of being eradicated.
To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
A medicine that effects a radical cure.
a genus of annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics.
A genus of plants of the buttercup family including the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis.
Capable of being erased.
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State.
The principles of the Erastains.
The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.
The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
A rare earth element of the lanthanide series associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. It has atomic number 68 and an atomic weight of 167.26. The pure element is metallic with a bright, silvery luster. It is relatively stable in air, not oxidizing as quickly as some other rare earths. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra, and the pink oxide has been added as a colorant in glass and porcelain enamel glazes. Its sesquioxide Er2O3 is called erbia.
An archdeacon.
The earth.
To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t.
A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's /Paradise Lost,/ Book II., line 883.
To rise upright.
Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather.
An erector; one who raises or builds.
Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue.
The quality or state of being erectile.
the act of building or putting up.
The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
In an erect manner or posture.
Uprightness of posture or form.
Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
One who, or that which, erects.
Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
See Hermitage.
A hermit.
Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.
Eremitic.
The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
A creeping forth.
A snatching away.
A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
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