Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-SHIELD' – EN-SO'BER-ED
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EN-SHIELD', v.t. [from shield.]
To shield; to cover; to protect. Shak.
EN-SHIELD'ED, pp.
Protected.
EN-SHIELD'ING, ppr.
Covering with shield.
EN-SHRINE', v.t. [from shrine.]
To inclose in a shrine or chest; to deposit for safe-keeping in a cabinet. Milton.
EN-SHRIN'ED, pp.
- Inclosed or preserved in a shrine or chest.
- Inclosed; placed as in a shrine. Wisdom enshrined in beauty. Percival.
EN-SHRIN'ING, ppr.
Inclosing in a shrine or cabinet.
EN-SHROUD'ED, a.
Covered with a shroud.
EN-SIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. ensis, sword, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing or carrying a sword.
EN'SI-FORM, a. [L. ensiformis; ensis, sword, and forma, form.]
Having the shape of a sword; as, the ensiform or xiphoid cartilage; an ensiform leaf. Quincy. Martyn.
EN'SIGN, n. [ensine; Fr. enseigne; L. insigne, insignia, from signum, a mark impressed, a sign.]
- The flag or banner of a military band; a banner of colors; a standard; a figured cloth or piece of silk, attached to a staff, and usually with figures, colors or arms thereon, borne by an officer at the head of a company, troop, or other band.
- Any signal to assemble or to give notice. He will lift up an ensign to the nations. Is. v. Ye shall be left as an ensign on a hill. Is. xxx.
- A badge; a mark of distinction, rank or office; as, ensigns of power or virtue. Waller. Dryden.
- The officer who carries the flag or colors, being the lowest commissioned officer in a company of infantry.
- Naval ensign, is a large banner hoisted on a staff and carried over the poop or stern of a ship; used to distinguish ships of different nations, or to characterize different squadrons of the same navy. Mar. Dict.
EN'SIGN-BEAR-ER, n.
He that carries the flag; an ensign.
EN'SIGN-CY, n.
The rank, office or commission of an ensign.
EN-SKIED', a.
Placed in heaven; made immortal. [Not in use.] Shak.
EN-SLAVE', v.t. [from slave.]
- To reduce to slavery or bondage; to deprive of liberty and subject to the will of a master. Barbarous nations enslave their prisoners of war, but civilized men barbarously and wickedly purchase men to enslave them.
- To reduce to servitude or subjection. Men often suffer their passions and appetites to enslave them. They are enslaved to lust, to anger, to intemperance, to avarice.
EN-SLAV'ED, pp.
Reduced to slavery or subjection.
EN-SLAV'ED-NESS, n.
State of being enslaved.
EN-SLAVE'MENT, n.
The state of being enslaved: slavery; bondage; servitude. South.
EN-SLAV'ER, n.
He who reduces another to bondage. Swift.
EN-SLAV'ING, ppr.
Reducing to bondage; depriving of liberty.
EN-SNARE', v. [See INSNARE.]
EN-SNARL', v.t.
To entangle. Spenser.
EN-SNARL'ED, pp.
Entangled.
EN-SNARL'ING, ppr.
Entangling.
EN-SO'BER, v.t. [from sober.]
To make sober. Taylor.
EN-SO'BER-ED, pp.
Made sober.