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- English Word Erf Definition A garden plot, usually about half an acre.
- English Word Erg Definition 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 energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.
- English Word Ergat Definition To deduce logically, as conclusions.
- English Word Ergo Definition Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.
- English Word Ergot Definition A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
- English Word Ergot Definition The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
- English Word Ergot Definition A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
- English Word Ergot Definition See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
- English Word Ergotic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.
- English Word Ergotin Definition An extract made from ergot.
- English Word Ergotine Definition A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.
- English Word Ergotism Definition A logical deduction.
- English Word Ergotism Definition A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.
- English Word Ergotized Definition Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.
- English Word Eriach Definition Alt. of Eric
- English Word Eric Definition A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
- English Word Erica Definition A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
- English Word Ericaceous Definition Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.
- English Word Ericinol Definition A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.
- English Word Ericius Definition The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.
- English Word Ericolin Definition A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.
- English Word Eridanus Definition A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.
- English Word Erigible Definition Capable of being erected.
- English Word Erin Definition An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.
- English Word Erinaceous Definition Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
- English Word Eringo Definition The sea holly. See Eryngo.
- English Word Erinite Definition A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.
- English Word Erinyes Definition of Erinys
- English Word Erinys Definition An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.
- English Word Eriometer Definition An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.