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A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

Same as Æsthesiometer.

Same as Æsthete, Æsthetic, Æsthetical, Æsthetics, etc.

Easy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Noble. [Obs.]

Ethylene; olefiant gas.

Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.

A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; - - called also vinyl. See Vinyl.

Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma. -- n.

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. Milton.

Ethereality.

The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.

In an ethereal manner.

Ethereality.

Formed of ether; ethereal. [Obs.] This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.