Part 755

En*rive" (?), v. t. To rive; to cleave. [Obs.]

En*robe" (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + robe: cf. OF. enrober.] To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

En*rock"ment (?), n. [Pref. en- + rock.] A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

En*roll" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enrolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling.] [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enrôler; pref. en- (L. in) + rôle roll or register. See Roll, n.] [Written also enrol.] 1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.

Milton.

All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.

Prescott.

2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] Spenser.

En*roll"er (?), n. One who enrolls or registers.

En*roll"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. enrôlement.] [Written also enrolment.] 1. The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.

2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies.

En*root" (?), v. t. To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

En*round" (?), v. t. To surround. [Obs.] Shak.

||En` route" (?). [F.] On the way or road.

||Ens (?), n. [L., ens, entis, a thing. See Entity.] 1. (Metaph.) Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

2. (Chem.) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence. [Obs.]

En*safe" (n*sf"), v. t. To make safe. [Obs.] Hall.

En*sam"ple (?), n. [OF. ensample, essample, F. exemple. See Example.] An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale.

Being ensamples to the flock.

1 Pet. v. 3.

En*sam"ple (?), v. t. To exemplify, to show by example. [Obs.] Spenser.

En*san"guine (?), v. t. To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

En"sate (?), a. [NL. ensatus, fr. L. ensis sword.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

En*scale" (?), v. t. To cover with scales.

En*sched"ule (?; 135), v. t. To insert in a schedule. See Schedule. [R.] Shak.

En*sconce" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensconced (?); imp. & p. p. Ensconcing (?).] To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.