Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-SO'BER-ING – EN-TAM'ING
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EN-SO'BER-ING, ppr.
Making sober.
EN-SPHERE', v.t. [from sphere.]
- To place in a sphere. Hall.
- To make into a sphere. Carew.
EN-SPHER'ED, pp.
Placed in a sphere.
EN-SPHER'ING, ppr.
Placing in a sphere.
EN-STAMP', v.t. [from stamp.]
To impress as with a stamp; to impress deeply. God enstamped his image on man. Enfield.
EN-STAMP'ED, pp.
Impressed deeply.
EN-STAMP'ING, ppr.
Impressing deeply.
EN-STYLE', v.t.
To style; to name; to call. [Little used.] Drayton.
EN-SUE', v.i.
- To follow as a consequence of premises; as, from these facts or this evidence, the argument will ensue.
- To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke, and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events.
EN-SUE', v.t. [Fr. ensuivre; Norm. ensuer; Sp. seguir; It. seguire; L. sequor, to follow. See Seek.]
To follow; to pursue. Seek peace, and ensue it. 1 Pet. iii. [In this sense, it is obsolete.]
EN-SU'ING, ppr.
- Following as a consequence; succeeding.
- Next following; as, the ensuing year.
EN-SURE', v. [and its derivatives. See INSURE.]
EN-SWEEP', v.t.
To sweep over; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
EN-SWEEP'ING, ppr.
Sweeping over.
EN-SWEPT', pp.
Swept over.
EN-TAB'LA-TURE, or EN-TAB'LE-MENT, n. [Sp. entablamento; Fr. entablement; Sp. entablar, to cover with boards, from L. tabula, a board or table.]
In architecture, that part of the order of a column, which is over the capital, including the architrave, frieze and cornice, being the extremity of the flooring. Encyc. Harris.
EN-TACK'LE, v.t.
To supply with tackle. [Not used.] Skelton.
EN-TAIL', n. [Fr. entailler, to cut, from tailler, It. tagliare, id. Feudum talliatum, a fee entailed, abridged, curtailed, limited.]
- An estate or fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular heir or heirs. Estates-tail are general, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body begotten; or special, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body by a particular wife. Blackstone.
- Rule of descent settled for an estate.
- Engraver's work; inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.
EN-TAIL', v.t.
- To settle the descent of lands and tenements, by gift to a man and to certain heirs specified, so that neither the donee nor any subsequent possessor can alienate or bequeath it; as, to entail a manor to A. B. and to his eldest son, or to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs by a particular wife.
- To fix unalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants. By the apostasy, misery is supposed to be entailed on mankind. The intemperate often entail infirmities, diseases and ruin on their children.
- [from the French verb.] To cut; to carve for ornament. Spenser.
EN-TAIL'ED, pp.
- Settled on a man and certain heirs specified.
- Settled on a person and his descendants.
EN-TAIL'ING, ppr.
Settling the descent of an estate; giving, as lands and tenements, and prescribing the mode of descent; settling unalienably on a person or thing.
EN-TAIL'MENT, n.
- The act of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent, or of limiting the descent to a particular heir or heirs.
- The act of settling unalienably on a man and his heirs.
EN-TAME', v.t. [from tame.]
To tame; to subdue. Gower.
EN-TAM'ED, pp.
Tamed; subdued.
EN-TAM'ING, ppr.
Taming.