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Es"tu*ate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Estuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Estuating.] [L. aestuare to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn, fr. aestus boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat; akin to Gr.&?; to burn. See Ether.] To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.

Es`tu*a"tion (?), n. [L. aestuatio.] The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.

The estuations of joys and fears.

W. Montagu.

||Es*tu"fa (?), n.; pl. Estufas (#). [Sp., a stove, a warm room. Cf. Stove.] An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. L. H. Morgan.

Es"ture (?; 135), n. [See Estuate.] Commotion. [Obs.] Chapman.

E*su"ri*ent (?), a. [L. esuriens, p. pr. of ensurire, fr. edere to eat.] Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." Carlyle.

E*su"ri*ent, n. One who is hungry or greedy. [R.]

An insatiable esurient after riches.

Wood.

Es"u*rine (?), a. [See Esurient.] Causing hunger; eating; corroding. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Es"u*rine, n. (Med.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger. [Obs.]

-et (?). [F. -et, masc., -ette, fem. Cf. -let.] A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

||E*taac" (?), n. (Zoöl.) The blue buck.

E"ta*cism (?), n. [Gr. &?; the letter &?;, &?;. Cf. Itacism.] (Greek Gram.) The pronunciation of the Greek η (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.

E"ta*cist (?), n. One who favors etacism.

||É`ta`gère" (?), n. [F., fr. étager to arrange on shelves, fr. étage story, floor. See Stage.] A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

||É`tat" Ma`jor" (?). [F., fr. état state + L. major greater.] (Mil.) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

{ ||Et` cet"e*ra, ||Et` cæt"e*ra } (?). [L. et and + caetera other things.] Others of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c). Shak.

Etch (?), n. A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Etch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Etched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Etching.] [D. etsen, G. ätzen to feed, corrode, etch. MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen &?;&?;. See Eat.] 1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare.

2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875.

Hamerton.

3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.]

There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

Locke.