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- English Word Ebullient Definition Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
- English Word Ebullioscope Definition An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
- English Word Ebullition Definition A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
- English Word Ebullition Definition Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
- English Word Ebullition Definition A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
- English Word Eburin Definition A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
- English Word Eburnation Definition A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
- English Word Eburnean Definition Made of or relating to ivory.
- English Word Eburnification Definition The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
- English Word Eburnine Definition Of or pertaining to ivory.
- English Word Ecardines Definition An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.
- English Word Ecarte Definition A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
- English Word Ecaudate Definition Without a tail or spur.
- English Word Ecaudate Definition Tailless.
- English Word Ecballium Definition A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
- English Word Ecbasis Definition A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
- English Word Ecbatic Definition Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
- English Word Ecbole Definition A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
- English Word Ecbolic Definition A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
- English Word Ecboline Definition An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
- English Word Eccaleobion Definition A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
- English Word Ecce homo Definition A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
- English Word Eccentric Definition Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
- English Word Eccentric Definition Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
- English Word Eccentric Definition Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
- English Word Eccentric Definition Not coincident as to motive or end.
- English Word Eccentric Definition Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
- English Word Eccentric Definition A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
- English Word Eccentric Definition One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
- English Word Eccentric Definition In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.