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.
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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.
a native or inhabitant of Estonia.
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.
Ethereality.
The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
An ethereal or spiritlike state.
To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
In an ethereal manner.
Ethereality.
Formed of ether; ethereal.
The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
Having the form of ether.
A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
The administration of ether to produce insensibility. The state of the system under the influence of ether.
To convert into ether.
An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character.
One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.
Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.
Ethylidene.
Acetylene.
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.
A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.
The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.
Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.
The ethmoid bone.
Like a sieve; cribriform. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
See Turbinal. An ethmoturbinal bone.
Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.
The governor of a province or people.
The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
A heathen; a pagan.
Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
In an ethnical manner.
Heathenism; paganism; idolatry.
centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own; exhibiting ethnocentrism (in both senses).
belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
One who investigates ethnography.
pertaining to ethnography.
In an ethnographical manner.
That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Of or pertaining to ethnology.
In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.
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