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Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

om Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

s from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.

Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. "A most erudite prince." Sir T. More. "Erudite . . . theology." I. Taylor. -- Er"u*dite`ly, adv. -- Er"u*dite`ness, n.

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

A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

cidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the…

what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

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

A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anæsthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.ethyl e…

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character.

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

ankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character. J. S. Mill.

The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual. J. S. Mill.

Expressing character. [Obs.] Urquhart.

The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.