Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ES-TRANG'ED, pp.

Withdrawn; withheld; alienated.

ES-TRANG'ED-NESS, n.

The state of being estranged. Prynne.

ES-TRANGE'MENT, n.

Alienation; a keeping at a distance; removal; voluntary abstraction; as, an estrangement of affection. An estrangement of desires from better things. Song.

ES-TRANG'ING, ppr.

Alienating; withdrawing; keeping at or removing to a distance.

ES-TRA-PADE', n. [Fr. strappado.]

The defense of a horse that will not obey, and which, to get rid of his rider rises before and yerks furiously with his hind legs. Farrier's Dict.

ES-TRAY', a. [Norm. estrayer, probably allied to straggle, and perhaps from the root of W. trag, beyond.]

A tame beast, as a horse, ox or sheep, which is found wandering or without an owner; a beast supposed to have strayed from the power or inclosure of its owner. It is usually written stray. Blackstone.

ES-TRAY', v.i.

To stray. [See Stray.]

ES-TREAT', n. [Norm. estraite or estreite, from L. extractum, extraho, to draw out.]

In law, a true copy or duplicate of an original writing, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailif or other officer, on every offender. Cowel. Encyc.

ES-TREAT', v.i.

To extract; to copy. Blackstone.

ES-TREAT'ED, pp.

Extracted; copied.

ES-TREAT'ING, ppr.

Extracting; copying.

ES-TREPE'MENT, n. [Norm. estreper, estripper, to waste; Eng. to strip.]

In law, spoil; waste; a stripping of land by a tenant, to the prejudice of the owner. Blackstone. Coed.

ES'TRICH, n.

The ostrich, – which see.

ES'TU-ANCE, n. [L. æstus.]

Heat. [Not in use.] Bross.

ES'TU-A-RY, n. [L. æstuarium, from æstuo, to boil or foam, æstus, heat, fury, storm.]

1. An arm of the sea; a frith; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current, or flows and ebbs.
2. A vapor bath.

ES'TU-ATE, v.i. [L. æstuo, to boil.]

To boil; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

ES-TU-A'TION, n.

A boiling; agitation; commotion of a fluid. Brown. Norris.

ES'TURE, n. [L. æstuo.]

Violence; commotion. [Not used.] Chapman.

E-SU'RI-ENT, a. [L. esuriens, esurio.]

Inclined to eat; hungry. Dict.

ES'U-RINE, a.

Eating; corroding. [Little used.] Wiseman.

ET-CAET-ERA, n. [Et cætera,]

and the contraction etc. denote the rest, or others of the kind; and so on; and so forth.

ETCH, or EDDISH, n.

Ground from which a crop has been taken. Mortimer.

ETCH, v.t. [G. etzen, D. etsen, to eat. See Eat.]

1. To make prints on copper-plate by means of lines or strokes first drawn, and then eaten or corroded by nitric acid. The plate is first covered with a proper varnish or ground, which is capable of resisting the acid, and the ground is then scored or scratched by a needle or similar instrument, in the places where the hatchings or engravings are intended to be; the plate is then covered with nitric acid, which corrodes or eats the metal in the lines thus laid bare. Encyc.
2. To sketch; to delineate. [Not in use.] Locke.

ETCH'ED, pp.

Marked and corroded by nitric acid.

ETCH'ING, n.

The impression taken from an etched copper-plate.