Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 52

Estimation (v. t.) Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.

Estimation (v. t.) Supposition; conjecture.

Estimative (a.) Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.

Estimative (a.) Pertaining to an estimate.

Estimator (n.) One who estimates or values; a valuer.

Estival (n.) Alt. of Estivation

Estivate (n.) Alt. of Estivation

Estivation (n.) Same as Aestival, Aestivate, etc.

Estoile (n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.

Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of Estop

Estopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estop

Estop (v. t.) To impede or bar by estoppel.

Estoppel (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

Estoppel (n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.

Estovers (n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.

Estrade (n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.

Estramacon (n.) A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Estramacon (n.) A blow with edge of a sword.

Estranged (imp. & p. p.) of Estrange

Estranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estrange

Estrange (v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

Estrange (v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

Estrange (v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

Estrangedness (n.) State of being estranged; estrangement.

Estrangement (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.

Estranger (n.) One who estranges.

Estrangle (v. t.) To strangle.

Estrapade (n.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

Estray (v. i.) To stray.

Estray (n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.

Estre (n.) The inward part of a building; the interior.

Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.

Estreated (imp. & p. p.) of Estreat

Estreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estreat

Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.

Estreat (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.

Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

Estrepement (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.

Estrich (n.) Ostrich.

Estrich (n.) The down of the ostrich.

Estuance (n.) Heat.

Estuarine (a.) Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.

Estuaries (pl. ) of Estuary

Estuary (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

Estuary (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

Estuary (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

Estuated (imp. & p. p.) of Estuate

Estuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estuate

Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

Estuation (n.) The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.

Estufas (pl. ) of Estufa

Estufa (n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.

Esture (n.) Commotion.

Esurient (a.) Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.

Esurient (n.) One who is hungry or greedy.

Esurine (a.) Causing hunger; eating; corroding.

Esurine (n.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

-et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

Etaac (n.) The blue buck.

Etacism (n.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.

Etacist (n.) One who favors etacism.

Etagere (n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.

Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

Et cetera () Alt. of Et caetera

Et caetera () Others of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c).

Etch (n.) A variant of Eddish.

Etched (imp. & p. p.) of Etch

Etching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Etch

Etch (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

Etch (v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

Etch (v. t.) To sketch; to delineate.

Etch (v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.

Etcher (n.) One who etches.

Etching (n.) The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

Etching (v. t.) A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching.

Etching (v. t.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate.

Eteostic (n.) A kind of chronogram.

Eterminable (a.) Interminable.

Etern (a.) Alt. of Eterne

Eterne (a.) Eternal.

Eternal (a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

Eternal (a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

Eternal (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

Eternal (a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.

Eternal (a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.

Eternal (n.) One of the appellations of God.

Eternal (n.) That which is endless and immortal.

Eternalist (n.) One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.

Eternalize (v. t.) To make eternal.

Eternally (adv.) In an eternal manner.

Eterne (a.) See Etern.

Eternify (v. t.) To make eternal.

Eternities (pl. ) of Eternity

Eternity (n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

Eternity (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Eternization (n.) The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

Eternized (imp. & p. p.) of Eternize

Eterniziing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eternize

Eternize (v. t.) To make eternal or endless.

Eternize (v. t.) To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits.

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