Webster's Dictionary 1913

3052

Erect (2)

E‐rect″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Erected; p. pr. & vb. n.Erecting.] 1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a fl...

3053

Erect (3)

E‐rect″, v. i. To rise upright.By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.

3054

Erectable

E‐rect″a‐ble (?) a. Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

3055

Erecter

E‐rect″er (?), n. An erector; one who raises or builds.

3056

Erectile

E‐rect″ile (?), a. [Cf. F. érectile.] Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.Erectile tissue(Anat.), a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilate...

3057

Erectility

E′rec‐til″i‐ty (?), n. The quality or state of being erectile.

3058

Erection

E‐rec″tion (?), n. [L. erectio: cf. F. érection.] 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts ...

3059

Erective

E‐rect″ive (?), a. Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

3060

Erectly

E‐rect″ly, adv. In an erect manner or posture.

3061

Erectness

E‐rect″ness, n. Uprightness of posture or form.

3062

Erecto-patent

E‐rec″to–pat″ent (?), a. 1. (Bot.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.2. (Zoöl.) Standing partially spread and erect; — said of the wings of c...

3063

Erector

E‐rec″tor (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, erects.2. (Anat.) A muscle which raises any part.3. (Physics) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument,...

3064

Erelong

Ere′long″ (?; 115), adv. Before the �apse of a long time; soon; — usually separated, ere long.A man,... following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser.The world, erelong, a world...

3065

Eremacausis

‖Er′e‐ma‐cau″sis (?), n. A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

3066

Eremitage

Er″e‐mit‐age (?), n. See Hermitage.

3067

Eremite

Er″e‐mite (?), n. [See Hermit.] A hermit.Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

3068

Eremitic

{ Er′e‐mit″ic (?), Er′e‐mit″ic‐al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. “An eremitical life in the woods.” Fuller. “The eremitic instinct.” L...

3069

Eremitish

Er″e‐mi′tish (?), a. Eremitic. Bp. Hall.

3070

Eremitism

Er″e‐mit‐ism (?), n. The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

3071

Ereptation

E′rep‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. erepere to creep out; e out + repere to creep.] A creeping forth.

3072

Ereption

E‐rep″tion (?), n. [L. ereptio, fr. eripere to snatch away; e out + rapere to snatch.] A snatching away. Cockeram.

3073

Erethism

Er″e‐thism (?), n. [Gr. � irritation, fr. � to stir, rouse, fr. � to stir: cf. F. éréthisme.] (Med.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

3074

Erethistic

Er′e‐this″tic (?), a. Relating to erethism.

3075

Erewhile

{ Ere′while″ (?), Ere′whiles″ (?), } adv. Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore.I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.

3076

Erf

‖Erf (?), n.; pl.Erven (#). A garden plot, usually about half an acre.

3077

Erg

Erg (?), n.(Physics) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energ...

3078

Ergal

Er″gal (?), n.(Physics) Potential energy; negative value of the force function.