Espousal.

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

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

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

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

With expression.

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

Spirit.

A spy; a scout.

Same as Eskimo.

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

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

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.

One who essays.

A writer of an essay, or of essays.

To perfume; to scent.

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

The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.

Existence; being.

The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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

Essentiality.

To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.

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

To excuse for nonappearance in court.

An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

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

East.

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.

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.

One who establishes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A grazing farm; a country house.

To establish.

Stately; dignified.

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

Worthy of esteem; estimable.

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

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.

Same as /sthesiometer.

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.

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.

Same as /sthete, /sthetic, /sthetical, /sthetics, etc.

Producing heat.

A thing worthy of regard.

The quality of deserving esteem or regard.

In an estimable manner.

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.

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

The act of estimating.

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

One who estimates or values; a valuer.

Same as /stival, /stivate, etc.

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

To impede or bar by 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.

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.

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.

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

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

State of being estranged; estrangement.

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

One who estranges.

To strangle.

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

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

The inward part of a building; the interior.

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.

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

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

Ostrich.

Heat.

Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.

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

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

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

An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.

Commotion.

One who is hungry or greedy.

A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

The blue buck.

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

One who favors etacism.

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

A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting.

A public storehouse.

To practice etching; to make etchings.

Cut or impressed into a surface.

One who etches.

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.

A kind of chronogram.

Interminable.

One of the appellations of God.

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

To make eternal.

In an eternal manner.

See Etern.

Eternal.

To make eternal.

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

To make eternal or endless.

Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetyl alcohol and cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol (ethyl alcohol), acetaldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.

The organic compound C2H5.OH, the common alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; called also ethyl alcohol. It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions, or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles, and as a rocket fuel (as in the V-2 rocket).

Easy.

Noble.

Ethylene; olefiant gas.

Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.

A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C. A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl.

Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma. Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known, including the rare snail darter (Percina tanasi), 3 inches long, found only in the Tennessee River and classified as a threatened species. See Darter.

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, once supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether. It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves; the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space, or for literary effect, and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium. However. modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero, in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning.

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.