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irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so…

h assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they Macaulay.

An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

cient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling (Theol.), a doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, -- one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism.…

r. "To eke my pain." Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.

ushes by another. They [the Dutch] would elbow our own aldermen off the Royal Exchange. Macaulay. To elbow one's way, to force one's way by pushing with the elbows; as, to elbow one's way through a crowd.

for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.

rit of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.

rts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay.

To engage in any affair. Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.

he purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.

a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.

That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.

difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay. Macaulay.

ake effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

-- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.

kening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

s notice or feeling. This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. Macaulay.

ps was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. Macaulay.