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ENLISTMENT n. 2 definitions
The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
ENLIVE v.
To enliven. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ENLIVEN v. 2 definitions
To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.
ENLIVENER n.
One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
ENLOCK v.
To lock; to inclose.
ENLUMINE v.
To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENLUTE v.
To coat with clay; to lute. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENMANCHE a.
Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.
ENMARBLE v.
To make hard as marble; to harden. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENMESH v.
To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak. My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.
ENMEW v.
See Emmew.
ENMIST v.
To infold, as in a mist.
ENMITY n. 2 definitions
The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton.
ENMOSSED a.
Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.
ENMOVE v.
See Emmove. [Obs.]
ENMUFFLE v.
To muffle up.
ENMURE v.
To immure. [Obs.]
ENNATION n.
The ninth segment in insects.
ENNEAD n.
The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.
ENNEAGON n.
A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
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