Webster's Dictionary 1828

1810

ESTIMATED

ES'TIMATED, participle passive Valued; rated in opinion or judgment.

1811

ESTIMATING

ES'TIMATING, participle present tense Valuing; rating; forming an opinion or judgment of the value, extent, quantity, or degree of worth of any object; calculating; computing.

1812

ESTIMATION

ESTIMA'TION, noun [Latin oestimatio.] The act of estimating.1. Calculation; computation; an opinion or judgment of the worth, extent or quantity of any thing, formed without usi...

1813

ESTIMATIVE

ES'TIMATIVE, adjective Having the power of comparing and adjusting the worth or preference. [Little used.]1. Imaginative.

1814

ESTIMATOR

ES'TIMATOR, noun One who estimates or values.

1815

ESTIVAL

ES'TIVAL, adjective [Latin oestivus, from oestas, summer. See Heat.]Pertaining to summer, or continuing for the summer.

1816

ESTIVATE

ES'TIVATE, verb intransitive To pass the summer.

1817

ESTIVATION

ESTIVA'TION, noun [Latin oestivatio, from oestas, summer, oestivo, to pass the summer.]1. The act of passing the summer.2. In botany, the disposition of the petals within the fl...

1818

ESTOP

ESTOP', verb transitive In law, to impede or bar, by one's own act.A man shall always be estopped by his own deed, or not permitted to aver or prove any thing in contradiction t...

1819

ESTOPPED

ESTOP'PED, participle passive Hindered; barred; precluded by one's own act.

1820

ESTOPPEL

ESTOP'PEL, noun In law, a stop; a plea in bar, grounded on a man's own act or deed, which estops or precludes him from averring any thing to the contrary.If a tenant for years l...

1821

ESTOPPING

ESTOP'PING, participle present tense Impeding; barring by one's own act.

1822

ESTOVERS

ESTO'VERS, noun In law, necessaries, or supplies; a reasonable allowance out of lands or goods for the use of a tenant; such as sustenance of a felon in prison, and for his fami...

1823

ESTRADE

ESTRA'DE, noun An even or level place.

1824

ESTRANGE

ESTRANGE, verb transitive1. To keep at a distance; to withdraw; to cease to frequent and be familiar with.Had we estranged ourselves form them in things indifferent.I thus estra...

1825

ESTRANGED

ESTRANGED, participle passive Withdrawn; withheld; alienated.

1826

ESTRANGEMENT

ESTRANGEMENT, noun Alienation; a keeping at a distance; removal; voluntary abstraction; as an estrangement of affection.An estrangement of desires from better things.

1827

ESTRANGING

ESTRANGING, participle present tense Alienating; withdrawing; keeping at or removing to a distance.

1828

ESTRAPADE

ESTRAPA'DE, noun The defense of a horse that will not obey, and which, to get rid of his rider, rises before and yerks furiously with his hind legs.

1829

ESTRAY

ESTRA'Y, verb intransitive To stray. [See Stray.]ESTRA'Y, noun A tame beast, as a horse, ox or sheep, which is found wandering or without an owner; a beast supposed to have stra...

1830

ESTREAT

ESTRE'AT, noun [Latin extractum, extraho, to draw out.]In law, a true copy or duplicate of an original writing, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of c...

1831

ESTREATED

ESTRE'ATED, participle passive Extracted; copied.

1832

ESTREPEMENT

ESTRE'PEMENT, noun [Eng. to strip.] In law, spoil; waste; a stripping of land by a tenant, to the prejudice of the owner.

1833

ESTRICH

ES'TRICH, noun The ostrich, which see.

1834

ESTUANCE

ES'TUANCE, noun [Latin oestus.] Heat. [Not in use.]

1835

ESTUARY

ES'TUARY, noun [Latin oestuarium, from oestuo, to boil or foam, oestus, heat, fury, storm.]1. An arm of the sea; a frith; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, wher...

1836

ESTUATE

ES'TUATE, verb intransitive [Latin oestuo, to boil.] To boil; to swell and rage; to be agitated.