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Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously. Nash.

Epicurean. [Obs.]

The doctrines of Epicurus.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Cudworth.

nd its proper center. The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon.

Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the ot…

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter…

Depicted. Lydgate.

A painting or depicting; a representation.