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A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.

One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition. "A better and enduring substance." Heb. x. 34. -- En*dur"ing*ly, adv. T. Arnold. -- En*dur"ing*ness, n.

The clogging of a blast furnace.

That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

igestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.

See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

See Entoplastron. -- En`to*ster"nal, a.

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year. Annual epact, the excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.…

Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.

Same as Epiplastron.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

Pertaining to the last or final things.

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

"I know him to be of worth and worthy estimation." Shak. It will probably settle down at last on this latter sense. "Esteem is the value we place upon some degree of worth. It is higher than simple approbation, which is a decision of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in…

Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 2 Tim. ii. 10.

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.