Part 753

How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!

Luke xv. 17.

E*nough", adv. 1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

2. Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

Shak.

Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money.

Shak.

3. In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

Enough usually follows the word it modifies.

E*nough", n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a feast."

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.

Gen. xxxiii. 9.

E*nough", interj. An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

E*nounce" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enouncing (?).] [F. énoncer, L. enuntiare; e out + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuntius messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Enunciate.] 1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.

2. To utter; to articulate.

The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently.

A. M. Bell.

E*nounce"ment (?), n. Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

E*now" (?). A form of Enough. [Archaic] Shak.

En*pa"tron (?), v. t. To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. [Obs.] Shak.

En*pierce" (?), v. t. [See Empierce.] To pierce. [Obs.] Shak.

En*quere" (?), v. i. To inquire. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En*quick"en (?), v. t. To quicken; to make alive. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

En*quire" (?), v. i. & t. See Inquire.

En*quir"er (?), n. See Inquirer.

En*quir"y (?), n. See Inquiry.

En*race" (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + race lineage.] To enroot; to implant. [Obs.] Spenser.