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1,627 words match “LEY”

EMBASSAGE n.
assy. "He sent a solemn embassage." Bacon. Except your embassages have better success. Motley.
EMBRANGLE v.
To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.
EMENDABLE a.
Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.
EMPARLANCE n.
Parley; imparlance. [Obs.] Spenser.
EMULGE v.
To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.
ENATATION n.
A swimming out. [Obs.] Bailey.
ENCAMP v.
r time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.
ENCHANTER n.
; also, one who delights as by an enchantment. Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Shelley. Enchanter's nightshade (Bot.), a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.
ENCHARGE n.
A charge. [Obs.] A. Copley.
ENCYCLIC; ENCYCLICAL n.
An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. Shipley.
ENERGIZING a.
ble of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.
ENERGY n.
em to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.
ENFEOFF v.
a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.
ENFRANCHISEMENT n.
chisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.
ENLIVEN v.
uicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.
ENODATION n.
n of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty. [R.] Bailey.
ENTITY n.
sonality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.
ENTOMOLOGIZE v.
To collect specimens in the study of entomology. C. Kingsley.
ENTWINE v.
ther or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.
ENUBILATE v.
To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity. [R.] Bailey.
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