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Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]

he act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [Recent]

An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent crea…

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

The act of envisaging.

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.

A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

eginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.

One of the ephemeral flies.

Ephemeral.

or the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.