Ephemeral.

A native of Ephesus.

The nightmare.

Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.

A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

Pertaining to an ephor.

The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors.

A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

A stage in the development of discophorous medus/, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.

The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.

Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.

Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.

Epic.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

That part of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Elegiac; funereal.

Epicedial. An epicede.

An epicede.

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra.

Lenient; assuaging.

A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

In or of the country.

A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.

Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

Epicene.

Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the humerus; the internal condyle.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as, epicranial muscles.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

A follower or Epicurus.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously.

Epicurean.

The doctrines of Epicurus.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.

Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

An epidemic disease.

Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

In an epidemic manner.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology; as, epidemiological studies.

That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control of disease.

An epidemic disease.

The epidermis.

Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.

Epidermal.

Epidermoid.

Epidermal.

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.

Epidermal.

Epidermal.

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.

Keratin.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.

Growing on, or close to, the ground.

Epigastric.

Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.

The upper part of the abdomen.

Epig/ous.

See Perigee.

Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.

Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

Same as Epig/ous.

See Perigee.

Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.

Same as Epiglottic.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.

An epigrammatist.

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

The science or study of epigraphs.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

The /falling sickness,/ so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.

One affected with epilepsy.

Epileptic.

Resembling epilepsy.

Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.

Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.

A summing up in a brief account.

Of or pertaining to an epilogue.

Enumeration; computation.

Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.

To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.

A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.