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f enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. --…

Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.

Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task. The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. Whose voice an e…

In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equiv…

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil. "Mine own essential horror." Ford.

e not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. Bacon.

A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray.

three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.

Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]

Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.