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Equilibration

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

Equilibrist

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

Equilibrity

The state of being balanced; equality of weight.

Equilibrium

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

Equimultiple

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.

Equine

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.

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.

Equip

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.

Equipage

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.

Equipedal

Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.

Equipendency

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

Equipment

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

Equipoise

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.

Equirotal

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

Equisetum

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

Equisonance

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

Equitable

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.

Equitableness

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

Equitably

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

Equitant

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

Equitation

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

Equites

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

Equity

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.

Equivalence

To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.

Equivalent

To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.

Equivalue

To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing.

Equivocal

A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.

Equivocation

The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.

Equivorous

Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.

Equus

A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.

Er

the chemical symbol for erbium, a rare earth element. It has atomic number 68 and an atomic weight of 167.26.

Era

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

Eradiate

To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.

Eradicate

To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

Eradication

The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

Eragrostis

a genus of annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics.

Eranthis

A genus of plants of the buttercup family including the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis.

Erase

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.

Erased

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

Erasement

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.

Eraser

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

Erasion

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

Erastian

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.

Erasure

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Erative

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.

Erato

The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

Erbium

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.

Ere

To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t.

Erebus

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.

Erectable

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather.

Erecter

An erector; one who raises or builds.

Erectile

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue.

erecting

the act of building or putting up.

Erection

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.

Erective

Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

Erectly

In an erect manner or posture.

Erecto-patent

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

Erector

One who, or that which, erects.

Erelong

Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.

Eremacausis

A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

Eremitism

The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

Erethism

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.

Erewhon

the fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

Erf

A garden plot, usually about half an acre.

Erg

The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne (981 dynes exert the same force as a one gram mass in the earth's gravitational field). One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs. The absolute Joule is equivalent to 107 ergs, which are equivalent to 0.2389 gram-calories at 15/ C. See also mechanical equivalent of heat under equivalent.

Ergal

Potential energy; negative value of the force function.

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