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.

Herpetologist.

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, 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.

Red in color.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.

A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.

a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop.

a genus of consisting of patas.

Having, or subject to, erythrochroism.

An unusual redness, esp. in the plumage of birds, or hair of mammals, independently of age, sex, or season.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances. A substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers. A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

A term applied by Br/cke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.

Of a red color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle).

Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.

A red substance obtained from litmus.

Erythrolein.

A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium.

A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin. A red dyestuff obtained from fluoresce/n by the action of iodine.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.

the chemical symbol for einsteinium, a transuranic element with atomic number 99. The atomic weight of the longest-lived isotope, with a half-life of 276 days, is 254. The first isotope discovered, having atomic weight 253 and a half-life of 20 days, was recognized in 1952 in the debris from a hydrogen bomb test. As much as 3 micrograms of einsteinium were produced by a complex process involving long irradiation of plutonium isotopes in nuclear reactors. Its chemical properties are those of a trivalent actinide element.

To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.

A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- originally a trade term, which has become the generic name for such devices. Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores, and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors.

See Escalop.

See Escaloped.

A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.

A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.

Avoidable.

The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

The minimum velocity at which an object must be moving in order for it to overcome the gravitational attraction of a massive celestial body, such as the earth or the sun, and escape beyond its gravitational field into free space. The velocity is calculated as though attained instantaneously at the surface of the celestial body, and is pointed directly away from its center, and neglecting effects of atmospheric friction. Rockets, which accelerate gradually and are moving rapidly at a high altitude when their fuel is exhausted or their engines shut off, may escape even if moving slightly slower at that point than the surface escape velocity. Compare orbital velocity.

The rotating wheel in an escapement mechanism which has notches that are periodically engaged and disengaged by the anchor.

The act of escaping; escape.

One who escapes.

See Carbuncle, 3.

A nursery of snails.

any edible terrestrial snail prepared as food; as a dish, it is usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.

a variety of endive (Cichorium endivia) often used in salads, having leaves with irregular frilled edges.

To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

See Shallot.

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country, deposited by streams in meltwater channels under glaciers. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. The spelling form esker is now the most commonly used, and the term is applied in geology to similar ridges created by glaciers anywhere in the world. Eskers vary in size and extent, but can be 100 feet high and up to 100 miles long.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharid/.

A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.

Pertaining to the last or final things.

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

Exchange.

To forfeit.