Erythronium (n.) A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium.
Erythrophleine (n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).
Erythrophyll (n.) Alt. of Erythrophyllin
Erythrophyllin (n.) The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.
Erythrosin (n.) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.
Erythrosin (n.) A red dyestuff obtained from fluorescein by the action of iodine.
Erythroxylon (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
Erythrozyme (n.) A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.
Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
Escaladed (imp. & p. p.) of Escalade
Escalading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escalade
Escalade (v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
Escallop (n.) See Escalop.
Escalloped (a.) See Escaloped.
Escalop (n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop.
Escalop (n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Escalop (n.) A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.
Escaloped (a.) Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
Escaloped (a.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales.
Escambio (n.) A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
Escapable (a.) Avoidable.
Escapade (n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
Escapade (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Escaped (imp. & p. p.) of Escape
Escaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escape
Escape (v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
Escape (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
Escape (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
Escape (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
Escape (n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
Escape (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
Escape (n.) A sally.
Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
Escape (n.) An apophyge.
Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Escapement (n.) The act of escaping; escape.
Escapement (n.) Way of escape; vent.
Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
Escarbuncle (n.) See Carbuncle, 3.
Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
Escarp (n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
Escarped (imp. & p. p.) of Escarp
Escarping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escarp
Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
Escarpment (n.) A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
-escent () A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
Eschalot (n.) See Shallot.
Eschar (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
Eschara (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Escharine (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
Escharotic (a.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
Escharotic (n.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
Eschatological (a.) Pertaining to the last or final things.
Eschatology (n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Eschaunge (n.) Exchange.
Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
Escheat (n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Escheat (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
Escheat (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return
Esheated (imp. & p. p.) of Escheat
Escheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escheat
Escheat (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
Escheat (v. t.) To forfeit.
Escheatable (a.) Liable to escheat.
Escheatage (n.) The right of succeeding to an escheat.
Escheator (n.) An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
Eschevin (n.) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
Eshewed (imp. & p. p.) of Eschew
Eshewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eschew
Eschew (a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
Eschew (a.) To escape from; to avoid.
Eschewer (n.) One who eschews.
Eschewment (n.) The act of eschewing.
Eschscholtzia (n.) A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.
Eschynite (n.) A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.
Escocheon (n.) Escutcheon.
Escopet (n.) Alt. of Escopette
Escopette (n.) A kind of firearm; a carbine.
Escorial (n.) See Escurial.
Escort (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
Escort (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
Escorted (imp. & p. p.) of Escort
Escorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escort
Escort (n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Escot (n.) See Scot, a tax.
Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Escouade (n.) See Squad,
Escout (n.) See Scout.
Escribed (a.) Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
Escript (n.) A writing.
Escritoire (n.) A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.
Escritorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
Escrod (n.) See Scrod, a young cod.
Escrol (n.) Alt. of Escroll