| Ep- |
|
See Epi-. |
| Epacris |
n. |
A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths. |
| Epact |
n. |
The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year. |
| Epagoge |
n. |
The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction. |
| Epagogic |
a. |
Inductive. |
| Epalate |
a. |
Without palpi. |
| Epanadiplosis |
n. |
A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." |
| Epanalepsis |
n. |
A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. |
| Epanaphora |
n. |
Same as Anaphora. |
| Epanastrophe |
n. |
Same as Anadiplosis. |
| Epanodos |
n. |
A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order |
| Epanody |
n. |
The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form;
considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition. |
| Epanorthosis |
n. |
A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act! |
| Epanthous |
a. |
Growing upon flowers;
said of certain species of fungi. |
| Eparch |
n. |
In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy. |
| Eparchy |
n. |
A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese. |
| Eparterial |
a. |
Situated upon or above an artery;
applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus. |
| Epaule |
n. |
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder. |
| Epaulement |
n. |
A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy. |
| Epaulet |
n. |
Alt. of Epaulette |
| Epauleted |
a. |
Alt. of Epauletted |
| Epaulette |
n. |
A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot. |
| Epauletted |
a. |
Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets. |
| Epaxial |
a. |
Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal. |
| Epeira |
n. |
A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider. |
| Epen |
n. |
See Epencephalon. |
| Epencephalic |
a. |
Pertaining to the epencephalon. |
| Epencephalic |
a. |
Situated on or over the brain. |
| Epencephalon |
n. |
The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen. |
| Ependyma |
n. |
The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis. |
| Ependymis |
n. |
See Ependyma. |
| Epenetic |
a. |
Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. |
| Epentheses |
pl. |
of Epenthesis |
| Epenthesis |
n. |
The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. n/mol. |
| Epenthetic |
a. |
Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound. |
| Epergne |
n. |
A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design. |
| Eperlan |
n. |
The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus). |
| Epexegesis |
n. |
A full or additional explanation; exegesis. |
| Epexegetical |
a. |
Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical. |
| Epha |
n. |
A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer. |
| Ephah |
n. |
Alt. of Epha |
| Ephemera |
n. |
A fever of one day's continuance only. |
| Ephemera |
n. |
A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. |
| Ephemera |
pl. |
of Ephemeron |
| Ephemeral |
a. |
Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. |
| Ephemeral |
a. |
Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. |
| Ephemeral |
n. |
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. |
| Ephemeran |
n. |
One of the ephemeral flies. |
| Ephemeric |
a. |
Ephemeral. |
| Ephemerides |
pl. |
of Ephemeris |
| Ephemeris |
n. |
A diary; a journal. |
| Ephemeris |
n. |
A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac." |
| Ephemeris |
n. |
Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. |
| Ephemeris |
n. |
A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. |
| Ephemerist |
n. |
One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. |
| Ephemerist |
n. |
One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist. |
| Ephemeron |
n. |
One of the ephemeral flies. |
| Ephemerous |
a. |
Ephemeral. |
| Ephesian |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor. |
| Ephesian |
n. |
A native of Ephesus. |
| Ephesian |
n. |
A jolly companion; a roisterer. |
| Ephialtes |
n. |
The nightmare. |
| Ephippial |
a. |
Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. |
| Ephippium |
n. |
A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa. |
| Ephippium |
n. |
A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera. |
| Ephod |
n. |
A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. |
| Ephor |
n. |
A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king. |
| Ephoral |
a. |
Pertaining to an ephor. |
| Ephoralty |
n. |
The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors. |
| Ephori |
pl. |
of Ephor |
| Ephors |
pl. |
of Ephor |
| Ephraim |
n. |
A hunter's name for the grizzly bear. |
| Ephyra |
n. |
A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila. |
| Epi- |
|
A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral. |
| Epiblast |
n. |
The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination. |
| Epiblastic |
a. |
Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast. |
| Epiblema |
n. |
The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. |
| Epibolic |
a. |
Growing or covering over;
said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination. |
| Epiboly |
n. |
Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination. |
| Epibranchial |
a. |
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. |
| Epibranchial |
n. |
An epibranchial cartilage or bone. |
| Epic |
a. |
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. |
| Epic |
n. |
An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a. |
| Epical |
a. |
Epic. |
| Epicardiac |
a. |
Of or relating to the epicardium. |
| Epicardium |
n. |
That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium. |
| Epicarican |
n. |
An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps. |
| Epicarp |
|
The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp. |
| Epicede |
n. |
A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. |
| Epicedial |
a. |
Elegiac; funereal. |
| Epicedian |
a. |
Epicedial. |
| Epicedian |
n. |
An epicede. |
| Epicedium |
n. |
An epicede. |
| Epicene |
a. & n. |
Common to both sexes;
a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. |
| Epicene |
a. & n. |
Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. |
| Epicentral |
a. |
Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. |
| Epicerastic |
a. |
Lenient; assuaging. |
| Epichirema |
n. |
A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. |
| Epichiremata |
pl. |
of Epichirema |
| Epichordal |
a. |
Upon or above the notochord;
applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it. |
