Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-COUNT'ER-ED, pp.

Met face to face; met in opposition or hostility; opposed.

EN-COUNT'ER-ER, n.

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

EN-COUNT'ER-ING, ppr.

Meeting; meeting in opposition or in battle; opposing; resisting.

EN-COUR'AGE, v.t. [enkur'rage; Fr. encourager; en and courage, from cœur, the heart; It. incoraggiare.]

To give courage to; to give or increase confidence of success; to inspire with courage, spirit, or strength of mind; to embolden; to animate; to incite; to inspirit. But charge Joshua and encourage him. Deut. iii.

EN-COUR'A-GED, pp.

Emboldened; inspirited; animated; incited.

EN-COUR'AGE-MENT, n.

1. The act of giving courage, or confidence of success; incitement to action or to practice; incentive. We ought never to neglect the encouragement of youth in generous deeds. The praise of good men serves as an encouragement to virtue and heroism.
2. That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as, favor, countenance, rewards, profit. A young man attempted the practice of law, but found little encauragement. The fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.

EN-COUR'A-GER, n.

One who encourages, incites or stimulates to action; one who supplies incitements, either by counsel, reward or means of execution. The Pope is a master of polite learning and a great encourager of arts. Addison.

EN-COUR'A-GING, ppr.

1. Inspiring with hope and confidence; exciting courage.
2. adj. Furnishing ground to hope for success; as, an encouraging prospect.

EN-COUR'A-GING-LY, adv.

In a manner to give courage, or hope of success.

EN-CRA'DLE, v.t. [en and cradle.]

To lay in a cradle. Spenser.

EN-CRIM'SON, v.t. [s as z.]

To cover with a crimson color.

EN-CRIM'SON-ED, pp.

Covered with a crimson color.

EN-CRI'NIC, or EN-CRI-NIT'IC, a.

Relating to the encrini or sea-urchins, which are covered with spines.

EN'CRI-NITE, n. [Gr. κρινον, a lily.]

A fossil zoophyte, formed of many joints, and resembling a lily.

EN-CRISP'ED, a. [from crisp; Sp. encrespar.]

Curled; formed in curls. Skelton.

EN-CROACH', v.i. [Fr. accrocher, to catch, to grapple, from croc, a hook, W. crôg, Eng. crook. Primarily, to catch as with a hook. Hence,]

1. To enter on the rights and possessions of another; to intrude; to take possession of what belongs to another, by gradual advances into his limits or jurisdiction, and usurping a part of his rights or prerogatives; with on. The farmer who runs a fence on his neighbor's land, and incloses a piece with his own, encroaches on his neighbor's property. Men often encroach, in this manner, on the highway. The sea is said to encroach on the land, when it wears it away gradually; and the land encroaches on the sea, when it is extended into it by alluvion. It is important to prevent one branch of government from encroaching on the Jurisdiction of another.
2. To creep on gradually without right. Superstition – a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker.
3. To pass the proper hounds, and enter on another's rights. Exclude th' encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

EN-CROACH'ER, n.

1. One who enters on and takes possession of what is not his own, by gradual steps. Swift.
2. One who makes gradual advances beyond his rights. Clarissa.

EN-CROACH'ING, a.

Tending or apt to encroach. The encroaching spirit of power. Madison.

EN-CROACH'ING, ppr.

Entering on and taking possession of what belongs to another.

EN-CROACH'ING-LY, adv.

By way of encroachment. Bailey.

EN-CROACH'MENT, n.

1. The entering gradually on the rights or possessions of another, and taking possession; unlawful intrusion; advance into the territories or jurisdiction of another, by silent means, or without right. Milton. Atterbury. Addison.
2. That which is taken by encroaching on another.
3. In law, if a tenant owes two shillings rent-service to the lord, and the lord takes three, it is an encroachment. Cowel.

EN-CRUST', v.t. [See INCRUST.]

EN-CUM'BER, v.t. [Fr. encombrer. See Incumber.]

1. To load; to clog; to impede motion with a load, burden, or any thing inconvenient to the limbs; to render motion or operation difficult or laborious.
2. To embarrass; to perplex; to obstruct.
3. To load with debts; as, an estate is encumbered with mortgages, or with a widow's dower.

EN-CUM'BER-ED, pp.

Loaded; impeded in motion or operation, by a burden or difficulties; loaded with debts.

EN-CUM'BER-ING, ppr.

Loading; clogging; rendering motion or operation difficult; loading with debts.