Webster's Dictionary 1828

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EBONY-TREE

EB'ONY-TREE, noun The Ebenus, a small tree constituting a genus, growing in Crete and other isles of the Archipelago.

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EBRACTEATE

EBRAC'TEATE, adjective [e priv. and bractea.] In botany, without a bractea or floral leaf.

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EBRIETY

EBRI'ETY, noun [Latin ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.]Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.

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EBRILLADE

EBRIL'LADE, noun A check given to a horse, by a sudden jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn.

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EBRIOSITY

EBRIOS'ITY, noun [Latin ebriositas.] Habitual drunkenness.

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EBULLIENCY

EBUL'LIENCY, noun [See Ebullition.] A boiling over.

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EBULLIENT

EBUL'LIENT, adjective Boiling over, as a liquor.

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EBULLITION

EBULLI'TION, noun [Latin ebullitio, from ebullio, bullio; Eng. to boil, which see.]1. The operation of boiling; the agitation of a liquor by heat, which throws it up in bubbles,...

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ECAUDATE

ECAU'DATE, adjective [e priv. and Latin cauda, a tail.] In botany, without a tail or spur.

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ECCENTRIC

ECCEN'TRIC,ECCEN'TRICAL, adjective [Latin eccentricus; ex, from, and centrum, center.]1. Deviating or departing from the center.2. In geometry, not having the same center; a ter...

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ECCENTRICAL

ECCEN'TRICAL, a. [L. eccentricus; ex, from, and centrum, center.]1. Deviating or departing from the center.2. In geometry, not having the same center; a term applied to circles ...

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ECCENTRICITY

ECCENTRIC'ITY, noun Deviation from a center.1. The state of having a center different from that of another circle.2. In astronomy, the distance of the center of a planet's orbit...

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ECCHYMOSIS

ECCHYM'OSIS, noun In medicine, an appearance of livid spots on the skin, occasioned by extravasated blood.

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ECCLESIASTES

ECCLESIAS'TES, noun [Gr.] a canonical book of the old testament.

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ECCLESIASTIC

ECCLESIAS'TIC, ECCLESIAS'TICAL,. [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical disci...

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ECCLESIASTICAL

ECCLESIAS'TICAL,. [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or govern...

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ECCLESIASTICUS

ECCLESIAS'TICUS, noun A book of the aprocrypha.

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ECCOPROTIC

ECCOPROT'IC, adjective [Gr. out or from, and stercus.] Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.ECCOPROT'IC, noun A medicine whic...

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ECHELON

ECHELON', noun In military tactics, the position of an army in the form of steps, or with one division more advanced than another.

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ECHINATE

ECH'INATEECH'INATED, adjective [Latin echinum, a hedgehog.] Set with prickles, prickly, like a hedgehog; having sharp points; bristled; as an echinated pericarp.Echinated pyrite...

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ECHINITE

ECH'INITE, noun [See Echinus.] A fossil found in chalk pits, called centronia; a petrified shell set with prickles or points; a calcarious petrifaction of the echinus or sea-hed...

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ECHINUS

ECH'INUS, noun [Latin from Gr.] A hedgehog.1. A shell-fish set with prickles or spines. The echinus in natural history, forms a genus of Mollusca. The body is roundish, covered ...

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ECHO

ECH'O, noun [Latin echo; Gr.sound, to sound.]1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body; sound returned; repercussion of sound; as an echo from a distant hill.The so...

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ECHOED

ECH'OED, participle passive Reverberated, as sound.

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ECHOING

ECH'OING, participle present tense Sending back sound; as echoing hills.

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ECHOMETER

ECHOM'ETER, noun [Gr. sound, and measure.] Among musicians, a scale or rule, with several lines thereon, serving to measure the duration of sounds, and to find their intervals a...

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ECHOMETRY

ECHOM'ETRY, noun The art or act of measuring the duration of sounds.The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.