Search the Dictionary

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]

love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.

The state of being enamored. [R.]

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison.

An opposite passion or affection. Sir W. Hamilton.

A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.

To arch. [Obs.] Lydgate.

Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

c luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

Same as Armed, 3.

A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.

See Enarthrosis. -- En`ar*thro"di*al, a.

A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.

Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

A swimming out. [Obs.] Bailey.

Growing out.

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.