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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 A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
- 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 A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
- English Word Eccentric Definition A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
- 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.