Part 3895

<h1>Equivoque, Equivoke</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw><hw>Eq"ui*voque</hw>, <hw>Eq"ui*voke</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82quivoque</ets>. See <er>Equivocal</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An equivocation; a guibble.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Equivorous</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*quiv"o*rous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>equus</ets> horse + <ets>vorare</ets> to eat greedily.]</ety> <def>Feeding on horseflesh; <as>as, <ex>equivorous</ex> Tartars</as>.</def>

<h1>Equus</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E"quus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., horse.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.</def>

<h1>-er</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>-er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>.</def>

<p><b>1.</b> <ety>[AS. <ets>-ere</ets>; akin to L. <ets>-arius</ets>.]</ety> <def>The termination of many English words, denoting <i>the agent</i>; -- applied either to men or things; as in hat<i>er</i>, farm<i>er</i>, heat<i>er</i>, grat<i>er</i>. At the end of names of places, <i>-er</i> signifies <i>a man of the place</i>; <as>as, London<ex>er</ex>, <it>i. e.</it>, London <i>man</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[AS. <ets>-ra</ets>; akin to G. <ets>-er</ets>, Icel. <ets>-are</ets>, <ets>-re</ets>, Goth. <ets>-iza</ets>, <ets>-<?/za</ets>, L. <ets>-ior</ets>, Gr. <?/, Skr. <ets>-\'c6yas</ets>.]</ety> <def>A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; <as>as, warm<ex>er</ex>, soon<ex>er</ex>, lat(e)<ex>er</ex>, earl(y)i<ex>er</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Era</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E"ra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Eras</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[LL. <ets>aera</ets> an era, in earlier usage, the items of an account, counters, pl. of <ets>aes</ets>, <ets>aeris</ets>, brass, money. See <er>Ore</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.</def>

<blockquote>The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an <b>era</b>. <i>R. S. Poole.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; <as>as, the <ex>era</ex> of Alexander; the <ex>era</ex> of Christ, or the Christian <ex>era</ex> (see under <er>Christian</er>).</as></def>

<blockquote>The first century of our <b>era</b>. <i>M. Arnold.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.</def>

<blockquote>Painting may truly be said to have opened the new <b>era</b> of culture. <i>J. A. Symonds.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Epoch; time; date; period; age; dispensation. See <er>Epoch</er>.</syn>

<h1>Eradiate</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*ra"di*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eradiated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eradiating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>e-</ets> + <ets>radiate</ets>.]</ety> <def>To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.</def>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Eradiation</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*ra`di*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Emission of radiance.</def>