Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-CUM'BRANCE – EN-DEAR'ING
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EN-CUM'BRANCE, n.
- A load; any thing that impedes motion, or renders it difficult and laborious; clog; impediment.
- Useless addition or load. Strip from the branching Alps their piny load, / The huge encumbrance of horrific wood. Thomson.
- Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable.
EN-CUM'BRANC-ER, n.
One who has an encumbrance or a legal claim on an estate. Kent.
EN-CYC'LI-CAL, a. [Gr. εγκυκλικος; εν and κυκλος, a circle.]
Circular; sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men. Stillingfleet. [This word is not used. We now use circular.]
EN-CY-CLO-PE'DI-A, or EN-CY-CLO-PE'DY, n. [Gr. εν, in, κυκλος, a circle, and παιδεια, instruction; instruction in a circle, or circle of instruction.]
The circle of sciences; a general system of instruction or knowledge. More particularly, a collection of the principal facts, principles and discoveries, in all branches of science and the arts, digested under proper titles and arranged in alphabetical order; as the French Encyclopedia; the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Embracing the whole circle of learning.
Pertaining to an encyclopedia. Stewart.
The compiler of an Encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation.
EN-CYST'ED, a. [from cyst.]
Inclosed in a bag, bladder or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor. Sharp.
END, n. [Sax. end, ende, or ænde; G. ende; D. eind; Sw. ände; Dan. ende; Goth. andei; Basque, ondoa; Sans. anda or anta; Per. اَنْدَانْ andan.]
- The extreme point of a line, or of any thing that has more length than breadth; as, the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope. When bodies or figures have equal dimensions, or equal length and breadth, the extremities are called sides.
- The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time. At the end of two months, she returned. Judges xi.
- The conclusion or cessation of an action. Of the Increase of his government there shall be no end. Is. ix.
- The close or conclusion; as, the end of a chapter.
- Ultimate state or condition; final doom. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Ps. xxxvii.
- The point beyond which no progression can be made. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Ps. cvii.
- Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation. My guilt be on my head and there's an end! Shak.
- Close of life; death; decease. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope.
- Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as, the end of the world.
- Limit; termination. There is no end of the store. Nahum ii.
- Destruction. Amos viii. The end of all flesh is come. Gen. vi.
- Cause of death; a destroyer. And award / Either of you to be the other's end. Shak.
- Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion. The end of these things is death. Rom. vi.
- A fragment or broken piece. Old odd ends. Shak.
- The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as, private ends; public ends. Two things shall propound to you as ends. Suckling. The end of the commandments is charity. 1 Tim. i. A right to the end, implies a right to the means necessary for attaining it. Law.
- An end, for on end, upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end.
- The ends of the earth, in Scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.
END, v.i.
- To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.
- To terminate; to close; to conclude. The discourse ends with impressive words.
- To cease; to come to a close; as, winter ends in March, and summer in September; a good life ends in peace.
END, v.t.
- To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war. On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen. ii.
- To destroy; to put to death. King Harry, thy sword hath ended him. Shak.
END'-ALL, n.
Final close. [Not used.] Shak.
EN-DAMAGE, v.t. [from damage.]
To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure; to mischief; to prejudice. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. So thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings. Ezra iv.
EN-DAM'AGE-MENT, n.
Damage; loss; injury. Shak.
EN-DAM'A-GING, ppr.
Harming; injuring.
EN-DAM'-GED, pp.
Harmed; injured.
EN-DAN'GER, v.t. [from danger.]
- To put in hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury. We dread any thing that endangers our life, our peace, or our happiness.
- To incur the hazard of. [Unusual.] Bacon.
EN-DAN'GER-ED, pp.
Exposed to loss or injury.
EN-DAN'GER-ING, n.
Injury; damage. Milton.
EN-DAN'GER-ING, ppr.
Putting in hazard; exposing to loss or injury.
EN-DAN'GER-MENT, n.
Hazard; danger. Spenser.
EN-DEAR', v.t. [from dear.]
- To make dear; to make more beloved. The distress of a friend endears him to us, by exciting our sympathy.
- To raise the price. [Not in use.]
EN-DEAR'ED, pp.
Rendered dear, beloved, or more beloved.
EN-DEAR'ED-NESS, n.
State of being endeared.
EN-DEAR'ING, ppr.
Making dear or more beloved.