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A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

An intestinal concretion.

Disease of the intestines.

The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth. By way of interpretation and enunciation. Jer. Taylor.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- Ep`i*did"y*mal, a.

g to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

orth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done. He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse. Macaulay.

Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. "How equivocal a test." Burke. Equivocal chord (Mus.), a chord which can be resolved into several distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh…

To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay. [Obs.] Locke.

arated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope.