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Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

sions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like. Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still. Shak.

The rank or office of an ensign.

The state or rank of an ensign.

en and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.

slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

State of being enslaved.

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

One who enslaves. Swift.

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

To entangle. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make sober. [Obs.] Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. Jer. Taylor.

To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [R.] Emerson.

To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman.

To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.

See Instate.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Relating to enstatite.