ESTUATION
ESTUA'TION, noun A boiling; agitation; commotion of a fluid.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ESTURE
ES'TURE, noun [Latin oestuo.] Violence; commotion. [Not used.]
ESURIENT
ESU'RIENT, adjective [Latin esuriens, esurio.] Inclined to eat; hungry.
ESURINE
ES'URINE, adjective Eating; corroding. [Little used.]ET CAETERA, and the contraction etc., denote the rest, or others of the kind; and so on; and so forth.
ETCH
ETCH, verb transitive1. To make prints on copper-plate by means of lines or strokes first drawn, and then eaten or corroded by nitric acid. The plate is first covered with a pro...
ETCHED
ETCH'ED, participle passive Marked and corroded by nitric acid.
ETCHING
ETCH'ING, participle present tense Marking or making prints with nitric acid.ETCH'ING, noun The impression taken from an etched copper-plate.
ETEOSTIC
ETEOS'TIC, noun [Gr. true, and a verse.]A chronogrammatical composition.
ETER
BAROM, 'ETER, noun [Gr.weight, and measure.]An instrument for measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, consisting of a glass tube, hermetically sealed at one end, fil...
ETERN
ETERN', adjective Eternal; perpetual; endless. [Not used.]
ETERNAL
ETER'NAL, adjective [Latin oeternus, composed of oevum and ternus, oeviternus, Varro. The origin of the last component part of the word is not obvious. It occurs in diuturnus, a...
ETERNALIST
ETER'NALIST, noun One who holds the past existence of the world to be infinite.
ETERNALIZE
ETER'NALIZE, verb transitive To make eternal; to give endless duration to. [We now use eternize.]
ETERNALLY
ETER'NALLY, adverb Without beginning or end of duration, or without end only.1. Unchangeably; invariably; at all times.That which is morally good must be eternally and unchangea...
ETERNITY
ETER'NITY, noun [Latin oeternitas.] Duration or continuance without beginning or end.By repeating the idea of any length of duration, with the endless addition of number, we com...
ETERNIZE
ETER'NIZE, verb transitive [Low Latin oeterno.]1. To make endless.2. To continue the existence or duration of indefinitely; to perpetuate; as, to eternize woe.So we say, to eter...
ETERNIZED
ETER'NIZED, participle passive Made endless; immortalized.
ETERNIZING
ETER'NIZING, participle present tense Giving endless duration to; immortalizing.
ETESIAN
ETE'SIAN, adjective ete'zhan. [Latin etesius; Gr. a year.]Stated; blowing at stated times of the year; periodical. etesian winds are yearly or anniversary winds, answering to th...
ETHE
ETHE, adjective Easy.
ETHEL
E'THEL, adjective Noble.
ETHER
E'THER, noun [Latin oether; Gr. to burn, to shine; Eng. weather.]1. A thin, subtil matter, much finer and rarer than air, which, some philosophers suppose, begins from the limit...
ETHEREAL
ETHE'REAL, adjective Formed of ether; containing or filled with ether; as ethereal space; ethereal regions.1. Heavenly; celestial; as ethereal messenger.2. Consisting of ether o...
ETHEREOUS
ETHE'REOUS, adjective Formed of ether; heavenly.
ETHERIALIZE
ETHERIALIZE, verb transitive To convert into ether, or into a very subtil fluid.
ETHERIALIZED
ETHERIALIZED, participle passive Converted into ether or a very subtil fluid; as an etherialized and incorporeal substrate.
ETHERIZE
E'THERIZE, verb transitive To convert into ether.