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The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.

, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.

The act of envisaging.

Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. Shuckford.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

Having equal moments of inertia.

equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

Way of escape; vent. [R.] An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

The act of eschewing. [R.]

The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.