Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 26

Enchannel (v. t.) To make run in a channel.

Enchanted (imp. & p. p.) of Enchant

Enchanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enchant

Enchant (v. t.) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

Enchant (v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.

Enchanted (a.) Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

Enchanter (n.) One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.

Enchanting (a.) Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating.

Enchantment (n.) The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.

Enchantment (n.) The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.

Enchantment (n.) That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.

Enchantress (n.) A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.

Encharged (imp. & p. p.) of Encharge

Encharging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encharge

Encharge (v. t.) To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.

Encharge (n.) A charge.

Enchased (imp. & p. p.) of Enchase

Enchasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enchase

Enchase (v. t.) To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

Enchase (v. t.) To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.

Enchase (v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing.

Enchaser (n.) One who enchases.

Enchasten (v. t.) To chasten.

Encheson (n.) Alt. of Encheason

Encheason (n.) Occasion, cause, or reason.

Enchest (v. t.) To inclose in a chest.

Enchiridion (n.) Handbook; a manual of devotions.

Enchisel (v. t.) To cut with a chisel.

Enchodus (n.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

Enchondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

Enchorial (a.) Alt. of Enchoric

Enchoric (a.) Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

Enchylemma (n.) The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

Enchyma (n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

Encincture (n.) A cincture.

Encindered (a.) Burnt to cinders.

Encircled (imp. & p. p.) of Encircle

Encircling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encircle

Encircle (v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

Encirclet (n.) A small circle; a ring.

Enclasp (v. t.) To clasp. See Inclasp.

Enclave (n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.

Enclave (v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.

Enclavement (n.) The state of being an enclave.

Enclitic (v. i.) Alt. of Enclitical

Enclitical (v. i.) Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.

Enclitic (n.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

Enclitically (adv.) In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

Enclitics (n.) The art of declining and conjugating words.

Encloister (v. t.) To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

Enclose (v. t.) To inclose. See Inclose.

Enclosure (n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.

Enclothe (v. t.) To clothe.

Encloud (v. t.) To envelop in clouds; to cloud.

Encoach (v. t.) To carry in a coach.

Encoffin (v. t.) To put in a coffin.

Encolden (v. t.) To render cold.

Encollar (v. t.) To furnish or surround with a collar.

Encolor (v. t.) To color.

Encolure (n.) The neck of horse.

Encomber (v. t.) See Encumber.

Encomberment (n.) Hindrance; molestation.

Encomiast (n.) One who praises; a panegyrist.

Encomiastic (a.) Alt. of Encomiastical

Encomiastical (a.) Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse.

Encomiastic (n.) A panegyric.

Encomion (n.) Encomium; panegyric.

Encomiums (pl. ) of Encomium

Encomium (n.) Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

Encompassed (imp. & p. p.) of Encompass

Encompassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encompass

Encompass (v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.

Encompassment (n.) The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.

Encore (adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

Encore (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.

Encored (imp. & p. p.) of Encore

Encoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encore

Encore (v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

Encorporing (n.) Incorporation.

Encoubert (n.) One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

Encountered (imp. & p. p.) of Encounter

Encountering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encounter

Encounter (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.

Encounter (v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.

Encounter (v. t.) A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.

Encounter (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.

Encounterer (n.) One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

Encouraged (imp. & p. p.) of Encourage

Encouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encourage

Encourage (v. t.) To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.

Encouragement (n.) The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.

Encouragement (n.) That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.

Encourager (n.) One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.

Encouraging (a.) Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Encowl (v. t.) To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.

Encradle (v. t.) To lay in a cradle.

Encratite (n.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

Encrease (v. t. &) i. [Obs.] See Increase.

Encrimson (v. t.) To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.

Encrinic (a.) Alt. of Encrinital

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