Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EU'NO-MY, n. [Gr. ευνομια; ευ and νομος, law.]

Equal law or a well adjusted constitution of government. Mitford.

EU'NUCH, n. [Gr. ευνουχος; ευνη, a bed, and εχω, to keep.]

A male of the human species castrated.

EU'NUCH-ATE, v.t.

To make a eunuch; to castrate.

EU'NUCH-A-TED, pp.

Made an eunuch.

EU'NUCH-A-TING, ppr.

Making a eunuch.

EU'NUCH-ISM, n.

The state of being an eunuch.

EU-OT'O-MOUS, a. [Gr. ευ, well, and τεμνω, to cleave.]

In mineralogy, having distinct cleavages. Shepard.

EU'PA-THY, n. [Gr. ευπαθεια.]

Right feeling. Harris.

EU-PA-TOR'I-NA, n.

A supposed alkaloid obtained from Eupatorium Cannabinum. It is a white powder having a peculiar sharp bitter taste, insoluble in water, but soluble in ether and alcohol. It combines with sulphuric acid, and the salt crystalizes in silky needles.

EU'PA-TO-RY, n. [L. eupatorium; Gr. ευπατοριον.]

The plant hemp agrimony.

EU-PEP'SY, n. [Gr. ευπεψια; ευ and πεψις, concoction.]

Good concoction in the stomach; good digestion.

EU-PEP'TIC, a.

Having good digestion.

EU'PHE-MISM, n. [Gr. ευφημισμος; ευ, well, and φημι, to speak.]

A representation of good qualities; particularly in rhetoric, a figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened, or rather by which a delicate word or expression is substituted for one which is offensive to good manners or to delicate ears. Ash. Campbell.

EU-PHE-MIS'TIC, a.

Containing euphemism; rendering more decent or delicate in expression.

EU-PHON'IC, or EU-PHON'IC-AL, a. [See Euphony.]

Agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; as, euphonical orthography. Colebrooke. The Greeks adopted many changes in the combination of syllables to render their language euphonic, by avoiding such collisions. E. Porter.

EU-PHO'NI-OUS, a.

Agreeable in sound.

EU'PHON-ISM, n.

An agreeable name given to an unpleasant thing. Dick.

EU'PHON-IZE, v.t.

To make agreeable in sound.

EU'PHO-NY, n. [Gr. ευφωνια; ευ and φονη, voice.]

An agreeable sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

EU-PHOR'BI-A, n. [Gr. ευφορβια, with a different signification.]

In botany, spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby herbaceous succulents, some of them armed with thorns. Encyc.

EU-PHOR'BI-UM, n. [L. from Gr. ευφορβιον, Ar. فُرْبُيونٌ forbion.]

In the materia medica, an inspissated sap, exsuding from an African plant. It has a sharp biting taste, and is vehemently acrimonious, inflaming and ulcerating the fauces. Encyc.

EU'PHO-TIDE, n.

A name given by the French to the aggrerate of diallage and saussurite. Cleaveland.

EU'PHRA-SY, n. [Gr. ευφρασια.]

Eyebright, the popular name of the genus of plants, Euphrasia, called in French casse-lunette.

EU'PHU-ISM, n.

An affected, bombastic expression.

EU'PHU-IST, n.

One who uses bombast or excessive ornament in style.