Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 33

Enlarging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enlarge

Enlarge (v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

Enlarge (v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.

Enlarge (v. t.) To set at large or set free.

Enlarge (v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

Enlarge (v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.

Enlarge (v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

Enlarged (a.) Made large or larger; extended; swollen.

Enlargement (n.) The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

Enlargement (n.) Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.

Enlargement (n.) Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.

Enlarger (n.) One that enlarges.

Enlay (v. t.) See Inlay.

Enlengthen (v. t.) To lengthen.

Enleven (n.) Eleven.

Enlight (v. t.) To illumine; to enlighten.

Enlighten (v. t.) To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

Enlighten (v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

Enlightener (n.) One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

Enlightenment (n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Enlimn (v. t.) To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.

Enlink (v. t.) To chain together; to connect, as by links.

Enlisted (imp. & p. p.) of Enlist

Enlisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enlist

Enlist (v. t.) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

Enlist (v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

Enlist (v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

Enlist (v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

Enlist (v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

Enlistment (n.) The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

Enlistment (n.) The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.

Enlive (v. t.) To enliven.

Enlivened (imp. & p. p.) of Enliven

Enlivening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enliven

Enliven (v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

Enliven (v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

Enlivener (n.) One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.

Enlock (v. t.) To lock; to inclose.

Enlumine (v. t.) To illumine.

Enlute (v. t.) To coat with clay; to lute.

Enmanche (a.) Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

Enmarble (v. t.) To make hard as marble; to harden.

Enmesh (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

Enmew (v. t.) See Emmew.

Enmist (v. t.) To infold, as in a mist.

Enmities (pl. ) of Enmity

Enmity (n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

Enmity (n.) A state of opposition; hostility.

Enmossed (a.) Covered with moss; mossed.

Enmove (v. t.) See Emmove.

Enmuffle (v. t.) To muffle up.

Enmure (v. t.) To immure.

Ennation (n.) The ninth segment in insects.

Ennead (n.) The number nine or a group of nine.

Enneagon (n.) A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Enneagonal (a.) Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Enneagynous (a.) Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

Enheahedral (a.) Having nine sides.

Enheahedria (n.) Alt. of Enheahedron

Enheahedron (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

Enneandria (n.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens.

Enneandrian (a.) Alt. of Enneandrous

Enneandrous (a.) Having nine stamens.

Enneapetalous (a.) Having nine petals, or flower leaves.

Enneaspermous (a.) Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.

Enneatic (a.) Alt. of Enneatical

Enneatical (a.) Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.

Ennew (v. t.) To make new.

Enniche (v. t.) To place in a niche.

Ennobled (imp. & p. p.) of Ennoble

Ennobling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ennoble

Ennoble (v. t.) To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.

Ennoble (v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

Ennoblement (n.) The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.

Ennoblement (n.) That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.

Ennobler (n.) One who ennobles.

Ennui (n.) A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

Ennuye (a.) Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

Ennuye (n.) One who is affected with ennui.

Ennuyee (n.) A woman affected with ennui.

Enodal (a.) Without a node.

Enodation (n.) The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.

Enode (v. t.) To clear of knots; to make clear.

Enoint (a.) Anointed.

Enomotarch (n.) The commander of an enomoty.

Enomoty (n.) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

Enopla (n. pl.) One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

Enoptomancy (n.) Divination by the use of a mirror.

Enorm (a.) Enormous.

Enormities (pl. ) of Enormity

Enormity (n.) The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

Enormity (n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

Enormous (a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.

Enormous (a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

Enormously (adv.) In an enormous degree.

Enormousness (n.) The state of being enormous.

Enorthotrope (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

Enough (a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

Enough (adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

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