Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-GROSS-ER, n.

1. He or that which takes the whole; a person who purchases the whole or such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price.
2. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

EN-GROSS-ING, ppr.

1. Taking the whole; buying commodities in such quantities as to raise the price in market.
2. Writing correct copies in large, fair characters.

EN-GROSS-MENT, n.

1. The act of engrossing; the act of taking the whole.
2. The appropriation of things in the gross, or in exorbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition. Swift.

EN-GUARD, v.t. [See Guard.]

To guard; to defend. Shak.

EN-GULF', v.t.

To throw or to absorb in a gulf.

EN-GULF'ED, pp.

Absorbed in a whirlpool, or in a deep abyss or gulf.

EN-GULF'MENT, n.

An absorption in a gulf, or deep cavern, or vortex.

EN-HANCE, v.i. [enh'ans.]

To be raised; to swell; to grow larger. A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

EN-HANCE, v.t. [enh'ans; Norm. enhancer, from hauncer, to raise. Qu. Norm. enhance, hauz; haulz, high.]

1. To raise; to lift; applied to material things by Spenser, but this application is entirely obsolete.
2. To raise; to advance; to highten; applied to price or value. War enhances the price of provisions; it enhances rents, and the value of lands.
3. To raise; applied to qualities, quantity, pleasures, enjoyments, &c. Pleasure is enhanced by the difficulty of obtaining it.
4. To increase; to aggravate. The guilt of a crime may be enhanced by circumstances.

EN-HANC-ED, pp.

Raised; advanced; hightened; increased.

EN-HANCE-MENT, n.

1. Rise; increase; augmentation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty.
2. Increase; aggravation; as, the enhancement of evil, grief; punishment, guilt or crime.

EN-HANC-ER, n.

One who enhances; he or that which raises price, &c.

EN-HANC-ING, ppr.

Raising; increasing; augmenting; aggravating.

EN-HAR'BOR, v.i.

To dwell in or inhabit. Browne.

EN-HARD'EN, v.t.

To harden; to encourage. Howell.

EN-HAR-MON'IC, a. [from harmonic, harmony.]

In music, an epithet applied to such pieces of composition, as proceed on very small intervals, or smaller intervals than the diatonic and chromatic. An enharmomic interval is the eighth of a tone. Encyc.

E-NIG'MA, n. [L. ænigma; Gr. αινιγμα, from αινισσομαι, to hint.]

A dark saying, in which some known thing is concealed under obscure language; an obscure question; a riddle. A question, saying or painting, containing a hidden meaning, which is proposed to be guessed. Johnson. Encyc.

EN-IG-MAT'IC, or EN-IG-MAT'IC-AL, a.

1. Relating to or containing a riddle; obscure; darkly expressed; ambiguous.
2. Obscurely conceived or apprehended.

EN-IG-MAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In an obscure manner; in a sense different from that which the words in common acceptation imply.

E-NIG'MA-TIST, n.

A maker or dealer in enigmas and riddles. Addison.

E-NIG'MA-TIZE, v.

To utter or form enigmas; to deal in riddles.

E-NIG-MA-TOG'RA-PHY, or E-NIG-MA-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. αινιγμα, and γραφω, or λογος.]

The art of making riddles; or the art of solving them.

EN-JOIN', v.t. [Fr. enjoindre; en and joindre, to join; It. ingiugnere; L. injungo; in and jungo. See Join. We observe that the primary sense of join is to set, extend or lay to, to throw to or on; otherwise the sense of order or command could not spring from it. To enjoin is to set or lay to or on.]

1. To order or direct with urgency; to admonish or instruct with authority; to command. Says Johnson, “this word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command.” It has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command; as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law.
2. In law, to forbid judicially; to issue or direct a legal injunction to stop proceedings. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintifs. Kent.

EN-JOIN'ED, pp.

Ordered; directed; admonished with authority; commanded.

EN-JOIN'ER, n.

One who enjoins.