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Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

In an enormous degree.

The state of being enormous.

gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

ce, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope.

ild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

nveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]

l, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

Enormous. [Obs.] Spenser.

That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.