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.

Controversial.

a genus of songbirds, consisting of certain of the Old World thrushes.

a province of N Ethiopia on the Red Sea.

of or pertaining to Eritrea; as, Eritrean civil war.

Slothful.

A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit or natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

To grieve; to feel sad.

See Ermine.

An Armenian.

To clothe with, or as with, ermine.

Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine.

See Note under Ermine, n., 4.

A hermit.

To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]

A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Hali/etus albicilla).

See Earnest.

Serious.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.

The act of giving out or bestowing.

causing sexual excitement when stimulated.

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.

Without a beak.

A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation.

A figure of speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form of an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -

An amorous composition or poem.

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Erotic quality.

Herpetology.

To wander; to roam; to stray.

Liable to error; fallible.

Liability to error.

Erratic.

A wandering; state of being in error.

A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

One who wanders about.

A group of ch/topod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Ch/topoda.

A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.

Plural of erratum. See Erratum.

One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.

Erratic.

A wandering; a roving about.

An error or mistake in writing or printing.

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.

capable of making an error.

Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.

inadvertent incorrectness.

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

Full of error; wrong.

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).

Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.

See Arrish.

First.

Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.

The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.

Red, or reddish; blushing.

See Bornite.

An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc.

Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larv/.

To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

To instruct; to educate; to teach.

Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.

profound knowledge.

The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.

Freed from wrinkles; smooth.

Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust of copper; resembling the rust of copper or verdigris; /ruginous.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

To eject something, esp. lava, water, etc., as a volcano or geyser; as, when Mount Saint Helens erupted, some people were taken by surprise.

currently undergoing eruption; -- of volcanoes.

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano or a fissure in the earth's crust. A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. A violent commotion.

Eruptive.

An eruptive rock.

a genus of rod-shaped motile bacteria, classed among the Enterobacteriaceae, that may attack plants. Species of Erwinia may also be cultured on artificial growth media.

A large genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance, cosmopolitan in distribution. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied.

A plant of the genus Eryngium.

a large genus of annual or perennial herbs of the Old World and North America; some are grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves.

St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms. It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), is contagious, and formerly often occured epidemically.

Resembling erysipelas.

Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature.

a usually self-limiting cellulitis of the hand somewhat resembling erysipelas, caused by the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. It may start at the site of a wound obtained while handling meat or fish, and may occasionally become generalizd with protracted illness and severe toxemia.

a genus of non-motile, rod-shaped Gram-positive bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae. They are facultatively anaerobic and produce acid but no gas from glucose. Members of this genus are parasitic on fish, birds, and mammals, including man. The type species of the genus, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, causes erysipeloid in man.

Erysipelatous.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.