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- English Word Euphuize Definition To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.
- English Word Eupione Definition A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.
- English Word Eupittone Definition A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
- English Word Eupittonic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
- English Word Euplastic Definition Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person.
- English Word Euplastic Definition Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.
- English Word Euplectella Definition A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.
- English Word Euplexoptera Definition An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.
- English Word Eupnaea Definition Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.
- English Word Eupryion Definition A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match.
- English Word Eurasian Definition A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
- English Word Eurasian Definition One born of European parents in Asia.
- English Word Eurasian Definition Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
- English Word Eurasiatio Definition Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.
- English Word Eureka Definition The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.
- English Word Eurhipidurous Definition Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.
- English Word Euripize Definition To whirl hither and thither.
- English Word Euripus Definition A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.
- English Word Euritic Definition Of or pelating to eurite.
- English Word Euritte Definition A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.