Endosmotic (a.) Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
Endosperm (n.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Endospermic (a.) Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.
Endospore (n.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.
Endosporous (a.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.
Endoss (v. t.) To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse.
Endosteal (a.) Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.
Endosternite (n.) The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
Endosteum (n.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
Endostoma (n.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.
Endostome (n.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
Endostome (n.) And endostoma.
Endostosis (n.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.
Endostyle (n.) A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
Endotheca (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.
Endothecium (n.) The inner lining of an anther cell.
Endothelial (a.) Of, or relating to, endothelium.
Endothelia (pl. ) of Endothelium
Endothelium (n.) The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.
Endotheloid (a.) Like endothelium.
Endothorax (n.) An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.
Endowed (imp. & p. p.) of Endow
Endowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endow
Endow (v. t.) To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
Endow (v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
Endower (v. t.) To endow.
Endower (n.) One who endows.
Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
Endowment (n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
Endozoa (n. pl.) See Entozoa.
Endrudge (v. t.) To make a drudge or slave of.
Endued (imp. & p. p.) of Endue
Enduing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endue
Endue (v. t.) To invest.
Endue (v. t.) An older spelling of Endow.
Enduement (n.) Act of enduing; induement.
Endurable (a.) Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.
Endurably (adv.) In an endurable manner.
Endurance (n.) A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Endurance (n.) The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
Endurant (a.) Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
Endured (imp. & p. p.) of Endure
Enduring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endure
Endure (v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Endure (v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
Endure (v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.
Endure (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
Endure (v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.
Endurement (n.) Endurance.
Endurer (n.) One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.
Enduring (a.) Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.
Endways (adv.) Alt. of Endwise
Endwise (adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.
Endwise (adv.) With the end forward.
Endyma (n.) See Ependyma.
Endyses (pl. ) of Endysis
Endysis (n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.
Enecate (v. t.) To kill off; to destroy.
Eneid (n.) Same as Aeneid.
Enemata (pl. ) of Enema
Enema (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Enemies (pl. ) of Enemy
Enemy (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
Enemy (a.) Hostile; inimical.
Enepidermic (a.) Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.
Energetic (a.) Alt. of Energetical
Energetical (a.) Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.
Energetical (a.) Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.
Energetics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.
Energic (a.) Alt. of Energical
Energical (a.) In a state of action; acting; operating.
Energical (a.) Having energy or great power; energetic.
Energized (imp. & p. p.) of Energize
Energizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Energize
Energize (v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
Energizer (n.) One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.
Energizing (a.) Capable of imparting or exercising energy.
Energumen (n.) One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.
Energies (pl. ) of Energy
Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
Energy (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
Energy (n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
Energy (n.) Capacity for performing work.
Enervated (imp. & p. p.) of Enervate
Enervating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enervate
Enervate (v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
Enervate (a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
Enervation (n.) The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
Enervation (n.) The state of being weakened; effeminacy.
Enervative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.
Enerve (v. t.) To weaken; to enervate.
Enervous (a.) Lacking nerve or force; enervated.
Enfamish (v. t.) To famish; to starve.
Enfect (a.) Contaminated with illegality.
Enfeebled (imp. & p. p.) of Enfeeble
Enfeebling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enfeeble
Enfeeble (v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Enfeeblement (n.) The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.