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.

One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.

One who studies or writes upon ethology.

A treatise on morality; ethics.

The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.

the organic compound C2H5.OH, which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; it is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel.

A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.

To treat in such a way as to cause the introduction of one or more ethyl groups, C2H5-; as, to ethylate alcohol.

A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.

Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.

Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.

To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.

The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.

A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.

Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; /tiological.

The science of causes. Same as /tiology.

The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.

A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.

Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.

See Estoile.

Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.

Of or relating to Etruria. A native or inhabitant of Etruria.

The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).

A giant.

To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn.

A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.

A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are carried.

See Etymon.

Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.

An etymologist.

Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.

An etymological dictionary or manual.

One who investigates the derivation of words.

To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.

That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.

An original form; primitive word; root.

Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

the chemical symbol for Europium, an element with atomic number 63 and atomic weight 151.96.

one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications it is considered an order of Schizomycetes.

an order of mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules.

A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.

An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.

a tree of the genus Eucalyptus.

A volatile, terpenelike oil (C10H18O), which is the main constituent of the oil of eucalyptus. It has cockroach repellent activity and is used as a flavoring aid in pharmaceuticals. Chemically it is 1,3,3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo-[2,2,2]-octane.

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.

quandong trees.

an organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane. Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae. Contrasted with prokaryote.

of or pertaining to eukaryotes; same as eukaryotic. Contrasted with prokaryotic.

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.

Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.

One who resolves religion into prayer.

Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric gas.

A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.

Euchology.

A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.

To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

Having a fine color.

A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.

A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.

A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.

A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.

Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.

A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

A good angel.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics.

That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.

One who believes in eudemonism.

Of or pertaining to eudemonism.

Eudemonistic.

A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.

The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.

The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves.

A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.

A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.

Applause.

The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.

Well-born; of high birth.

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.

A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove camphor.

A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.

Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.

The yew.