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<cs><col>Political economy</col>. <cd>See under <er>Political</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Economy</er>, <er>Frugality</er>, <er>Parsimony</er>. <i>Economy</i> avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; <i>frugality</i> cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to <i>lavishness</i> or <i>profusion</i>. <i>Frugality</i> is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; <i>parsimony</i> is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. <i>Economy</i> is a virtue, and <i>parsimony</i> a vice.</syn>

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<blockquote>I have no other notion of <b>economy</b> than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The father was more given to <b>frugality</b>, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]. <i>Golding.</i></blockquote>

<h1></corch\'82</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw><?/`cor`ch\'82"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.</def>

<h1></cossaise</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw><?/`cos`saise"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A dancing tune in the Scotch style.</def>

<h1>Ecostate</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>E*cos"tate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>e-</ets> + <ets>costate</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.</def>

<h1></coute</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw><?/`coute"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., a listening place.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.</def>

<h1>Ecphasis</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ec"pha*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to speak out.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>An explicit declaration.</def>

<h1>Ecphonema</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ec`pho*ne"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a thing called out, fr. <?/ to cry out; <?/ out + <?/ voice.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A breaking out with some interjectional particle.</def>

<h1>Ecphoneme</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ec"pho*neme</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Ecphonema</er>.]</ety> <def>A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.</def>

<i>G. Brown.</i>

<h1>Ecphonesis</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ec`pho*ne"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/. See <er>Ecphonema</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>An animated or passionate exclamation.</def>

<blockquote>The feelings by the <b>ecphonesis</b> are very various. <i>Gibbs.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ecphractic</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ec*phrac"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, from <?/ to open; <?/ out + <?/ to block up: cf. F. <ets>ecphractique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>An ecphractic medicine.</def></def2>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<h1></crasement</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw><?/`crase`ment"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>The operation performed with an \'82craseur.</def>