ENVIRONS
ENVI'RONS, nounplural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood, on different sides; as the environs of a city or town.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ENVOY
EN'VOY, noun [Latin via; Eng. way, contracted from viag, vag, or wag.]1. A person deputed by a prince or government, to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a fo...
ENVOYSHIP
EN'VOYSHIP, noun The office of an envoy.
ENVY
EN'VY, verb transitive [Latin invideo, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior e...
ENVYING
EN'VYING, participle present tense Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another.EN'VYING, noun Mortification experienced at the supposed prosperity and ...
ENWALLOWED
ENWAL'LOWED, adjective [from wallow.] Being wallowed or wallowing.
ENWHEEL
ENWHEE'L, verb transitive [from wheel.] To encircle.
ENWIDEN
ENWI'DEN, verb transitive [from wide.] To make wider. [Not used.]
ENWOMB
ENWOMB, verb transitive enwoom'. [from womb.] To make pregnant. [Not used.]1. To bury; to hide as in a gulf; pit or cavern.
ENWOMBED
ENWOMBED, participle passive Impregnated; buried in a deep gulf or cavern.
ENWRAP
ENWRAP', verb transitive enrap'. To envelop. [See Inwrap.]
ENWRAPMENT
ENWRAP'MENT, noun A covering; a wrapping or wrapper.
EOLIAN
EO'LIANEOL'IC, adjective Pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, inhabited by Greeks.The Eolic dialect of the Greek language, was the dialect used by the inhabitants of t...
EOLIC
EOL'IC, a. Pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, inhabited by Greeks.The Eolic dialect of the Greek language, was the dialect used by the inhabitants of that country.Eo...
EOLIPILE
EOL'IPILE, noun [Aeolus, the deity of the winds, and pila, a ball.]A hollow ball of metal, with a pipe or slender neck, used in hydraulic experiments. The ball being filled with...
EON
E'ON, noun [Gr. age, duration.] In the platonic philosophy, a virtue, attribute or perfection. The Platonists represented the deity as an assemblage of eons. The Gnostics consid...
EP
EP, EPI, [Gr. in composition, usually signifies on.]
EPACT
E'PACT, noun [Gr. adscititious, to adduce or bring; to drive.]In chronology, the excess of the solar month above the lunar synodical month, and of the solar year above the lunar...
EPARCH
EP'ARCH, noun [Gr. dominion.] The governor or prefect of a province.
EPARCHY
EP'ARCHY, noun [Gr. a province; government.] A province, prefecture or territory under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor.
EPAULET
EP'AULET, noun A shoulder-piece; an ornamental badge worn on the shoulder by military men. Officers, military and naval, wear epaulets on one shoulder, or on both, according to ...
EPAULMENT
EPAUL'MENT, noun In fortification, a side-work or work to cover sidewise, made of gabions, fascines or bags of earth. It sometimes denotes a semi-bastion and a square orillon, o...
EPENETIC
EPENET'IC, adjective Laudatory; bestowing praise.
EPENTHESIS
EPEN'THESISEPEN'THESY, noun [Gr. to put.] The insertion of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word, as alituum for alitum.
EPENTHESY
EPEN'THESY, n. [Gr. to put.] The insertion of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word, as alituum for alitum.
EPENTHETIC
EPENTHET'IC, adjective Inserted in the middle of a word.
EPHA
E'PHA, noun [Heb. properly a baking.] A Hebrew measure of three pecks and three pints, or according to others, of seven gallons and four pints, or about 15 solid inches.