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Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.

Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

The deification of self. [R.]

agnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazlitt.

One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.

With egotism.

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]

The formation of an embryo.

See Emmenagogue.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.