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rate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott.

A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

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.

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.

To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen On me whose all not equals Edward's moiety. Shak.

The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble.

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.

To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.

To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.

rds, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape,…