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. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.

mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.

etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement. Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement. Prescott.

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.

Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.] Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11.

One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

dducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

Inductive. Latham.

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

l layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- th…

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are equimultiples of 2 and 4.

ion capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque. In languages of great ductility, equivocals like that just referred to are rarely found. Fitzed. Hall.

A logical deduction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.