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Espalier

To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.

espanole

a rich beef stock with tomatoes and madeira and minced carrots and onions and celery.

Esparcet

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

Esparto

A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

Espauliere

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette.

Especial

Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree.

Especially

In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.

Esperanto

An artificial language, intended to be universal, devised by Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym /Dr. Esperanto/ in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in 1887. The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common to the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any one language are eliminated. The spelling is phonetic, and the accent (stress) is always on the penult. A revised and simplified form, called Ido was developed in 1907, but Esperanto remained at the end of the 20th century the most popular artificial language designed for normal human linguistic communication.

Espial

The act of espying; notice; discovery.

Espionage

The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.

Esplanade

A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.

Esplees

The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like.

Espousal

The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.

Espouse

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

Espousement

The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.

Espouser

One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.

Espringal

An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.

Esquire

To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.

Esquisse

The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

Essay

To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

Essayist

A writer of an essay, or of essays.

Essene

One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

Essenism

The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.

Essentiality

The quality of being essential; the essential part.

Essentially

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Essentiate

To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.

Essoign Essoin

An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.

Essoin

To excuse for nonappearance in court.

Essoiner

An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

Essonite

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

Essorant

Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

Establish

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

established

brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed his prestige as an established writer; an established precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with unestablished.

Establishment

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

establishmentarian

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.

establishmentarianism

the doctrine or political position that advocates establishment of a church as the official state religion; -- applied especially to the Church of England.

Estacade

A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.

Estafette Estafet

A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.

Estaminet

A caf/, or room in a caf/, in which smoking is allowed.

Estancia

A grazing farm; a country house.

Esteem

Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.

Esteemer

One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.

Ester

An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.

Esthesiometer AEsthesiometer

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Esthetics AEsthetics

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

Estimate

A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.

estimated

calculated approximately; as, an estimated mass of 25 g.

Estimative

Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.

Estimator

One who estimates or values; a valuer.

Estoile

A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.

Estonian

a native or inhabitant of Estonia.

Estop

To impede or bar by estoppel.

Estoppel

A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission. The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.

Estovers

Necessaries or supplies; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.

Estrade

A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.

Estramacon

A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Estrange

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

Estrangement

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.

Estrapade

The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

Estray

Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.

Estre

The inward part of a building; the interior.

Estreat

To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.

Estrepe

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

Estrepement

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.

Estuary

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

Estuate

To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

Estuation

The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.

Estufa

An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.

Esurine

A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

Etacism

The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.

etagere

A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.

Etamine

A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting.

etape

A public storehouse.

Etch

To practice etching; to make etchings.

etched

Cut or impressed into a surface.

Etching

The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

Eternal

One of the appellations of God.

Eternalist

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.

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