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Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

The herb agrimony. [Obs.]

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

The production and development of an embryo.

The formation of an embryo.

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

becoming manifest. Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.

Same as Eponymous. Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

n avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified. [Written also Erinnys.]

A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; - - called also vinyl. See Vinyl.

Nobleness of birth. [Obs.]

A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.