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Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

in the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.

Belonging to the Entomostracans.

efficacy. 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.

Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

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

One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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.

The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, vir…

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.