Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-FAM'ISH, v.t.

To famish. [See Famish.]

EN-FEE'BLE, v.t. [from feeble.]

To deprive of strength to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate; to enervate. Intemperance enfeebles the body, and induces premature infirmity. Excessive grief and melancholy enfeeble the mind. Long wars enfeeble a state.

EN-FEE'BLED, pp.

Weakened; deprived of strength or vigor.

EN-FEE'BLE-MENT, n.

The act of weakening; enervation. Spectator.

EN-FEE'BLING, ppr.

Weakening; debilitating; enervating.

EN-FEL'ON-ED, a. [See Felon.]

Fierce; cruel. Spenser.

EN-FEOFF', v.t. [enfeff'; Law L. feoffo, feoffare, from fief – which see.]

1. To give one a feud; hence, to invest with a fee; to give to another any corporeal hereditament, in fee simple or fee tail, by livery of seizin. Cowel. Blackstone.
2. To surrender or give up. [Not used.] Shak.

EN-FEOFF'ED, pp.

Invested with the fee of any corporeal hereditament.

EN-FEOFF'ING, ppr.

Giving to one the fee simple of any corporeal hereditament.

EN-FEOFF'MENT, n.

1. The act of giving the fee simple of an estate.
2. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

EN-FET'TER, v.t.

To fetter; to bind in fetters. Shak.

EN-FET'TER-ED, pp.

Bound with fetters.

EN-FET'TER-ING, ppr.

Binding with fetters.

EN-FE'VER, v.t.

To excite fever in. Seward.

EN-FIERCE, v.t.

To make fierce. [Not in use.] Spenser.

EN-FI-LADE', n. [Fr. a row, from en and fil, a thread, L. filum, Sp. hilo.]

A line or straight passage; or the situation of a place which may be seen or scoured with shot all the length of a line, or in the direction of a line. Johnson. Bailey.

EN-FI-LADE', v.t. [from the noun; Sp. enfilar.]

To pierce, scour or rake with shot, in the direction of a line, or through the whole length of a line. In conducting approaches at a siege, care should be taken that the trenches be not enfiladed. Encyc. In a position to enfilade the works at Fort Isle. Washington.

EN-FI-LAD'ED, pp.

Pierced or raked in a line.

EN-FI-LAD'ING, ppr.

Piercing or sweeping in a line.

EN-FIRE', v.t.

To inflame; to set on fire. [Not used.] Spenser.

EN-FORCE, n.

Force; strength; power. [Not used.] Milton.

EN-FORCE, v.i.

To attempt by force. [Not used.]

EN-FORCE', v.t. [Fr. enforcir; en and force.]

1. To give strength to; to strengthen; to invigorate. [See Def. 5.]
2. To make or gain by force; to force; as, to enforce a passage.
3. To put in act by violence; to drive. Stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.
4. To instigate; to urge on; to animate. Shak.
5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments.
6. To compel; to constrain; to force. Davies.
7. To put in execution; to cause to take effect; as, to enforce the laws.
8. To press with a charge. Shak.
9. To prove; to evince. [Little used.] Hooker.

EN-FORCE-A-BLE, a.

That may be enforced.

EN-FOR-CED, pp.

Strengthened; gained by force; driven; compelled; urged; carried into effect.