A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.

To designate as by an ensign.

The rank or office of an ensign.

The state or rank of an ensign.

To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage.

a genus of bivalve mollusks consisting of razor clams.

To place in the sky or in heaven.

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

State of being enslaved.

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

One who enslaves.

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

To entangle.

To make sober.

To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

To place in a sphere; to envelop.

To stamp; to mark as with a stamp; to impress deeply.

See Instate.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Relating to enstatite.

To restore.

To style; to name.

Ensuing; following.

To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.

subsequent, or occurring as a result; as, ensuing events confirmed the prediction.

To make sure. See Insure.

See Insurer.

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

See Entablature.

To supply with tackle.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.

To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.

To tame.

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

in a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

One that entangles.

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

A heap; accumulation.

Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

To attend to; to apply one's self to.

To make tender.

Attentive; zealous.

To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Pain in the intestines; colic.

Mutual dealings; intercourse.

One who makes an entrance or beginning.

Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals; those of the genus Erwinia are found in plants.

An inflammation of the intestines.

See Interlace.

To interfere; to intermeddle.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Mediation.

rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals; some, such as those of the genus Erwinia, are found in plants.

a natural family of rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria, most of which occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals, and some of which grow in plants. The type genus is Escherichia. They are aerobic and facultatively anaerobic, and may be motile or non-motile. Most are easily cultured on artificial growth media. Both pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains exist.

Of or pertaining to the enterobacteria.

one of the enterobacteria; a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

a genus of nematode worms.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizoc/le, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

An intestinal concretion.

The science which treats of the viscera of the body.

The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

Disease of the intestines.

A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.

The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference.

Same as Interplead.

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

One who undertakes enterprises.

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

Entertainment.

p. p. of entertain.

One who entertains; a host.

Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

To entertain.

Same as Intertissued.

A thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; /enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work/).

Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.

Inspiration; enthusiasm.

Of godlike energy; inspired.

Divinely inspired.

Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.

Caused by a pathogenic organism implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.

held in slavery.

capturing interest as if by a spell; as, an enthralling book.

The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment.

To pierce; to thrill.

To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.

The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.

To make or become enthusiastic.

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.

An enthusiast; a zealot.

Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art.

Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.

An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.

Capable of being enticed.

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.