Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
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Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.
A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia.
An inodorous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifera. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.
a strong pleasant feeling of well-being or happiness; it is often caused by attainment of a desired goal or other incident of accomplishment, but may irrationally accompany a pathological manic state.
a substance which may induce euporia.
strongly experiencing a feeling of well-being; feeling euphoria. Opposite of dysphoric.
A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.
The plant eyebright (Euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.
an Asia river flowing into the Persian Gulf.
A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.
Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.
To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.
A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.
A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.
A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.
An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.
Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspn/a, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.
A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneously, such as a lucifer match.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined.
Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.
Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidur/, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.
To whirl hither and thither.
A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eub/a and B/otia. Hence, a flux and reflux.
A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.
Of or relating to eurite.
A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.
A native or an inhabitant of Europe.
the process of becoming like the Europeans in manners or character; assimilation into European culture.
To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
A metallic element of the rare-earth group (Lanthanide series), discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; atomic number 63; at. wt., 151.965 (C=12.011); valence = +2 or +3.
an order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered into a hymenial layer.
The east wind.
A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (Euryale ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.
A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.
Having broad horns.
Like, or pertaining to, the genus Euryperus.
An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.
Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.
A follower of Eusebius, bishop of C/sarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.
Discovered by Eustachius. Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter.
See Intercolumnlation.
Good or established order or arrangement.
a mixture of substances having a composition providing the minimum melting point ofr mixtures of those substances. Called also a eutectic mixture.
Of or pertaining to Euterpe or to music.
The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.
An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
Same as Euthanasia.
Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called.
A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.
Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.
The doctrine of Eutyches and his followers.
Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin.
A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.
A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.
To empty.
Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. A purgative or cathartic.
To let blood
p. p. of evacuate.
The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
One who evacuates; a nullifier.
A purgative.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Capable of being evaded.
A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.
The act of unsheathing.
Relating to time or duration.
To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.
Valuation; appraisement.
exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.
an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality; an appraiser.
To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plans or hopes.
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
In a vanishing manner; imperceptibly.
Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.
Rendering thanks for favors.
Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
One of evangelical principles.
Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.
In an evangelical manner.
State of being evangelical.
Evangelical principles; evangelism.
Evangelicism.
Same as evangelize.
The preaching or promulgation of the gospel.
A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.
A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.
Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.
The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.
To preach the gospel.
Evangel.
Good tidings; evangel.
Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.
To vanish.
A vanishing; disappearance.
Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.
Dispersed in vapors.
reduced in volume by having moisture expelled before canning; same as condensed, 3; as, unsweetened evaporated milk.
The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
That may be evaded.
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.
Evening.
The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.
In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.
To happen.
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