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Making dear or beloved; causing love. -- En*dear"ing*ly, adv.

in the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.

to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.

. Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. Is. lix. 14. For we which have believed do enter into rest. Heb. iv. 3.

Belonging to the Entomostracans.

The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.

overeign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

ure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

efficacy. Sir J. Stephen. Ephemeral fly (Zoöl.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

ism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.

One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.

Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.

Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.