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- English Word Esquiring Definition of Esquire
- English Word Esquisse Definition The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
- English Word Essay Definition An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
- English Word Essay Definition A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
- English Word Essay Definition An assay. See Assay, n.
- English Word Essay Definition To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
- English Word Essay Definition To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
- English Word Essayed Definition of Essay
- English Word Essayer Definition One who essays.
- English Word Essaying Definition of Essay
- English Word Essayist Definition A writer of an essay, or of essays.
- English Word Essays Definition of Essay
- English Word Essence Definition The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
- English Word Essence Definition The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
- English Word Essence Definition Constituent substance.
- English Word Essence Definition A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
- English Word Essence Definition The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
- English Word Essence Definition Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
- English Word Essence Definition To perfume; to scent.
- English Word Essenced Definition of Essence
- English Word Essencing Definition of Essence
- English Word Essene Definition One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
- English Word Essenes Definition of Essene
- English Word Essenism Definition The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.
- English Word Essential Definition Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
- English Word Essential Definition Hence, really existing; existent.
- English Word Essential Definition Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
- English Word Essential Definition Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
- English Word Essential Definition Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
- English Word Essential Definition Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.