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 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.

Relating to erethism.

Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore.

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

A garden plot, usually about half an acre.

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.

Potential energy; negative value of the force function.

To deduce logically, as conclusions.

An instrument for measuring energy in ergs.

Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.

vitamin D2, one of the D vitamins, a group of related substances that prevent rickets.

An instrument for measuring and recording the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc.

A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer.

Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent. same as Erg.

biological science applied to study the relation between workers and their environments.

a plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.

An extract made from ergot.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.

a genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs.

A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.

A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

an order including the Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; and Monotropaceae.

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the /Authorized Version/ is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.

A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericace/), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

a cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with asterlike flowers; the leaves were formerly used medicinally, but now are only occasionally so used.

Capable of being erected.

a genus including the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus.

An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

a natural family including the true hedgehogs.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

the type genus of the family Erinaceidae, composed of hedgehogs.

The sea holly. See Eryngo.

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.

An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

a genus of hairy herbs and shrubs of Western North America.

a genus of plant lice of the family Aphididae, consisting of one type of the wooly aphids.

A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larv/) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.