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Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Belonging to the Entomostracans.

regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

fficacy. Sir J. Stephen. Ephemeral fly (Zoöl.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly.

Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.

Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. The ethical meaning of the miracles. Trench. Ethical dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thin…

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.

Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.

Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical. "Evangelic truth." J. Foster.