Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 34

Enough (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

Enough (adv.) In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

Enough (n.) A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.

Enough (interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Enounced (imp. & p. p.) of Enounce

Enouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enounce

Enounce (v. t.) To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

Enounce (v. t.) To utter; to articulate.

Enouncement (n.) Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

Enow () A form of Enough.

Enpatron (v. t.) To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.

Enpierce (v. t.) To pierce.

Enquere (v. i.) To inquire.

Enquicken (v. t.) To quicken; to make alive.

Enquire (v. i. & t.) See Inquire.

Enquirer (n.) See Inquirer.

Enquiry (n.) See Inquiry.

Enrace (v. t.) To enroot; to implant.

Enraged (imp. & p. p.) of Enrage

Enraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enrage

Enrage (v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Enragement (n.) Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.

Enrange (v. t.) To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.

Enrange (v. t.) To rove over; to range.

Enrank (v. t.) To place in ranks or in order.

Enrapt (p. a.) Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.

Enraptured (imp. & p. p.) of Enrapture

Enrapturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enrapture

Enrapture (v. t.) To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.

Enravish (v. t.) To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

Enravishingly (adv.) So as to throw into ecstasy.

Enravishment (n.) The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture.

Enregister (v. t.) To register; to enroll or record; to inregister.

Enrheum (v. i.) To contract a rheum.

Enriched (imp. & p. p.) of Enrich

Enriching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enrich

Enrich (v. t.) To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

Enrich (v. t.) To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

Enrich (v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

Enrich (v. t.) To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

Enricher (n.) One who enriches.

Enrichment (n.) The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

Enridge (v. t.) To form into ridges.

Enring (v. t.) To encircle.

Enripen (v. t.) To ripen.

Enrive (v. t.) To rive; to cleave.

Enrobe (v. t.) To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

Enrockment (n.) A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

Enrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Enroll

Enrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enroll

Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

Enroll (n.) To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.

Enroller (n.) One who enrolls or registers.

Enrollment (n.) The act of enrolling; registration.

Enrollment (n.) A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record.

Enroot (v. t.) To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

Enround (v. t.) To surround.

En route () On the way or road.

Ens (n.) Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

Ens (n.) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.

Ensafe (v. t.) To make safe.

Ensample (n.) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

Ensample (v. t.) To exemplify, to show by example.

Ensanguine (v. t.) To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue.

Ensate (a.) Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

Enscale (v. t.) To cover with scales.

Enshedule (v. t.) To insert in a schedule. See Schedule.

Ensconced (imp. & p. p.) of Ensconce

Ensconcing (imp. & p. p.) of Ensconce

Ensconce (v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

Enseal (v. t.) To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

Enseam (v. t.) To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.

Enseam (v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

Ensear (v. t.) To sear; to dry up.

Ensearch (v. i.) To make search; to try to find something.

Ensearch (v. t. ) To search for.

Enseel (v. t.) To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk.

Enseint (a.) With child; pregnant. See Enceinte.

Ensemble (n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.

Ensemble (adv.) All at once; together.

Enshelter (v. t.) To shelter.

Enshield (v. t.) To defend, as with a shield; to shield.

Enshield (a.) Shielded; enshielded.

Enshrined (imp. & p. p.) of Enshrine

Enshrining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enshrine

Enshrine (v. t.) To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.

Enshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.

Ensiferous (a.) Bearing a sword.

Ensiform (a.) Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.

Ensign (n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.

Ensign (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.

Ensign (n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.

Ensign (n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.

Ensign (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.

Ensign (v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.

Ensign (v. t.) To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

Ensigncies (pl. ) of Ensigncy

Ensigncy (n.) The rank or office of an ensign.

Ensignship (n.) The state or rank of an ensign.

Ensilage (n.) The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

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