Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EU'RI-PUS, n. [Gr. Ευριπος; L. Euripus.]

A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows, as that in Greece, between Eubœa and Attica, or Eubœa and Bœotia. It is sometimes used, for a strait or frith much agitated. Burke.

EU'RITE, n.

The French name of felspathic granite, of which felspar is the principal ingredient. The white stone [weiss stein] of Werner.

EU-ROC'LY-DON, n. [Gr. ευρος, wind, and κλυδων, a wave.]

A tempestuous wind, which drove ashore, on Malta, the ship which Paul was sailing to Italy. It is supposed to have blown from an easterly point. Acts xxvii. Encyc.

EU'ROPE, n. [Bochart supposes this word to be composed of חור אפא, white face, the land of white people, as distinguished from the Ethiopians, black-faced people, or tawny inhabitants of Asia and Africa.]

The great quarter of the earth that lies between the Atlantic Ocean and Asia, and between the Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea.

EU-RO-PE'AN, a.

Pertaining to Europe.

EU-RO-PE'AN, n.

A native of Europe.

EU'RUS, n. [L.]

The east wind.

EU'RYTH-MY, n. [Gr. ευ and ῥυθμος, rythmus, number or proportion.]

In architecture, painting, and sculpture, ease, majesty, and elegance of the parts of a body, arising from just proportions in the composition. Encyc.

EU-SE'BI-AN, n.

An Arian, so called from one Eusebius.

EUS-TA'CHI-AN, a.

The eustachian tube is a slender pipe affording a passage for the air from a cavity in the ear to the back part of the mouth, and the external air. Paley.

EU'STYLE, n. [Gr. ευ and στυλος, a column.]

In architecture, a sort of building in which the columns are placed at the most convenient distances from each other, the intercolumniations being just two diameters and a quarter of the column, except those in the middle of the face, before and behind, which are three diameters distant. Encyc.

EU'TAX-Y, n. [Gr.]

Established order. Waterhouse.

EU-TER'PE, n.

In mythology, the muse who presides over wind instruments.

EU-TER'PE-AN, a.

Relating to Euterpe; a term often given to music clubs.

EU-THAN'A-SY, n. [Gr. ευθανασια; ευ and θανατος, death.]

An easy death. Arbuthnot.

EU-TYCH'I-AN, n.

A follower of Eutychius, who denied the two natures of Christ.

EU-TYCH'I-AN-ISM, n.

The doctrines of Eutychius, who denied the two natures of Christ.

EU'XINE, n.

The sea on the east of Europe, the Black Sea.

E-VA'CATE, v.t. [L. vaco.]

To empty. [Not in use.] Harvey.

E-VAC'U-ANT, a. [L. evacuans.]

Emptying; freeing from.

E-VAC'U-ANT, n.

A medicine which procures evacuations, or promotes the natural secretions and excretions.

E-VAC'U-ATE, v.t. [L. evacuo; e and vacuus, from vaco, to empty. See Vacant.]

1. To make empty; to free from any thing contained; as, to evacuate the church. Hooker.
2. To throw out; to eject; to void; to discharge; as, to evacuate dark-colored matter from the bowels. Hence,
3. To empty; to free from contents, or to diminish the quantity contained; as, to evacuate the bowels; to evacuate the vessels by bleeding.
4. To quit; to withdraw from a place. The British army mounted the city of New York, Nov. 25, 1783.
5. To make void; to nullify; as, to evacuate a marriage or any contract. [In this sense, vacate is now generally used.]

E-VAC'U-A-TED, pp.

Emptied; cleared; freed from the contents; quitted, as by an army or garrison; ejected; discharged; vacated.

E-VAC'U-A-TING, ppr.

Emptying; making void or vacant, withdrawing from.

E-VAC-U-A'TION, n.

1. The act of emptying or clearing of the contents; the act of withdrawing from, as an army or garrison.
2. Discharges by stool or other natural means; a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means. Quincy.
3. Abolition; nullification.