Part 3747

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Enchest</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En*chest"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Inchest</er>.]</ety> <def>To inclose in a chest.</def>

<i>Vicars.</i>

<h1>Enchiridion</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En`chi*rid"i*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., from Gr. <?/; <?/ in + <?/ hand.]</ety> <def>Handbook; a manual of devotions.</def>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Enchisel</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En*chis"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cut with a chisel.</def>

<h1>Enchodus</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En"cho*dus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a spear + <?/, <?/, a tooth.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (<spn>Esox</spn>).</def>

<h1>Enchondroma</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En`chon*dro"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ in + <?/ cartilage + <ets>-oma</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.</def>

<i>Quain.</i>

<h1>Enchorial, Enchoric</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw><hw>En*cho"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>En*chor"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ domestic, native; <?/ in + <?/ place, country.]</ety> <def>Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See <er>Demotic</er>.</def>

<h1>Enchylemma</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En`chy*lem"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ to pour in + <?/ anything received.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.</def>

<h1>Enchyma</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En"chy*ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ an infusion; <?/ in + <?/ to pour.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.</def>

<h1>Encincture</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En*cinc"ture</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cincture.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>The vast <b>encincture</b> of that gloomy sea. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Encindered</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En*cin"dered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Burnt to cinders.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Encircle</h1> <Xpage=488>

<hw>En*cir"cle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Encircled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Encircling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>en-</ets> + <ets>circle</ets>: cf. OF. <ets>encercler</ets>.]</ety> <def>To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; <as>as, to <ex>encircle</ex> one in the arms; the army <ex>encircled</ex> the city.</as></def>

<blockquote>Her brows <b>encircled</b> with his serpent rod. <i>Parnell.</i></blockquote>