Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E'QUE-RY, n. [Fr. ecuyer, for escuyer; It. scudiere; Low L. scutarius, from scutum, a shield. See Esquire.]

1. An officer of princes, who has the care and management of his horses.
2. A stable or lodge for horses.

E-QUES'TRI-AN, a. [L. equester, equestris, from eques, a horseman, from equus, a horse.]

1. Pertaining to horses or horsemanship; performed with horses; as, equestrian feats.
2. Being on horseback; as, an equestrian lady. Spectator.
3. Skilled in horsemanship.
4. Representing a person on horseback; as, an equestrian statue.
5. Celebrated by horse-races; as, equestrian games, sports, or amusements.
6. Belonging to knights. Among the Romans, the equestrian order, was the order of knights, equites; also their troopers or horsemen in the field. In civil life, the knights stood contra-distinguished from the senators; in the field, from the infantry. Encyc.

E-QUI-AN'GU-LAR, a. [L. æquus, equal, and angulus, an angle.]

In geometry, consisting of or having equal angles; an epithet given to figures whose angles are all equal, such as a square, an equilateral triangle, a parallelogram, &c.

E-QUI-BAL'ANCE, n. [L. æquus and bilanx.]

Equal weight.

E-QUI-BAL'ANCE, v.t.

To have equal weight with something. Ch. Relig. Appeal.

E-QUI-BAL'ANC-ED, pp.

Giving equal weight.

E-QUI-BAL'ANC-ING, ppr.

Having equal weight.

E-QUI-CRU'RAL, a. [L. æquus, equal, and crus, a leg.]

1. Having legs of equal length.
2. Having equal legs, but longer than the base; isosceles; as, an equicrural triangle. Johnson.

E-QUI-DIF'FER-ENT, a.

Having equal differences; arithmetically proportional. In crystalography, having a different number of faces presented by the prism and by each summit; and these three numbers form a series in arithmetical progression, as, 6, 4, 2. Cleaveland.

E-QUI-DIS'TANCE, n.

Equal distance. Hall.

E-QUI-DIS'TANT, a. [L. æquus, equal, and distans, distant.]

Being at an equal distance from some point or place.

E-QUI-DIS'TANT-LY, adv.

At the same or an equal distance. Brown.

E-QUI-FORM'I-TY, n. [L. æquus, equal, and forma, form.]

Uniform equality. Brown.

E-QUI-LAT'ER-AL, a. [L. æquus, equal, and lateralis, from latus, side.]

Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle. A square must necessarily be equilateral.

E-QUI-LAT'ER-AL, a.

A side exactly corresponding to others. Herbert.

E-QUI-LI'BRATE, v.t. [L. æquus and libro, to poise.]

To balance equally two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side. The bodies of fishes are equilibrated with water. Arbuthnot.

E-QUI-LI'BRA-TED, pp.

Balanced equally on both sides or ends.

E-QUI-LI'BRA-TING, ppr.

Balancing equally on both sides or ends.

E-QUI-LI-BRA'TION, n.

Equipoise; the act of keeping the balance even, or the state of being equally balanced. Nature's laws of equilibration. Derham.

E-QUI-LIB'RI-OUS, a.

Equally poised.

E-QUI-LIB'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

In equal poise.

E-QUIL'I-BRIST, n.

One that balances equally.

E-QUI-LIB'RI-TY, n. [L. æquilibritas.]

The state of being equally balanced; equal balance on both sides; equilibrium; as, the theory of equilibrity. Gregory.

E-QUI-LIB'RI-UM, n. [L.]

1. In mechanics, equipoise; equality of weight; the state of the two ends of a lever or balance when both are charged with equal weight, and they maintain an even or level position, parallel to the horizon. Encyc.
2. Equality of powers. Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers. Arbuthnot.
3. Equal balancing of the mind between motives or reasons; a state of indifference or of doubt, when the mind is suspended in indecision, between different motives, or the different forces of evidence.

E-QUI-MUL'TI-PLE, a. [L. æquus and multiplico or multiplex.]

Multiplied by the same number or quantity.