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The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

ed ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being…

Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of orname…

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

ther's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- Ep`i*did"y*mal, a.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

m temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.

Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed. Bp. Gauden.

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equiv…

g; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

An amorous composition or poem.

ecies of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol…