ENOS 



minded as to adopt into his philo- 

 sophical system Platonic, Egyp- 

 tian, and Zend elements. The book 

 describes Enoch's ascension and 

 voyage through the seven heavens. 



Enos. Town of Thrace, the an- 

 cient Aenos. It lies at the mouth of 

 the Maritza, on the Aegean Sea, 

 about 40 m. N.W. of Gallipoli, and 

 carries on some trade. In April, 

 1915, an Mlied landing took place 

 in Enos Bay. Pop. 7,000. 



Enschede. Town of Holland, in 

 the prov. of Ovcryssel. It is 29 m. 

 N.E. of Zutphen, and is a seat of 

 the cotton-spinning and weaving 

 industries. Enschede is a rly. junc- 

 tion and has communication with 

 the coal districts of Westphalia. It 

 was severely damaged by a con- 

 flagration in 1862. Pop. 41,602. 



Ensemble (Fr.. together). Con- 

 certed vocal or instrumental piece. 

 In opera it is a performance by all 

 the principals who are on the stage. 



Ensiform Cartilage (Lat. eras is, 

 sword; forma, form). Thin process 

 of cartilage forming the lower end 

 of the sternum or breastbone, and 

 projecting downwards between the 

 cartilages of tne seventh ribs. See 

 Cartilage. 



Ensign. Flag which a ship car- 

 ries astern to indicate her nation- 

 ality Each country has separate 



Ensign. White ensign flown 

 by Royal Navy 



ensigns for its navy and its mercan- 

 tile marine. GreatBritain has three: 

 the white ensign, flown only by 

 ships of the Royal Navy and vessels 

 of the Royal Yacht Squadron ; the 

 blue ensign, which is the flag of the 

 Royal Naval Reserve ; and the red 

 ensign, the flag of the merchant 

 service. War Department craft fly 

 a blue ensign with crossed swords 

 on it. The earliest date on which 

 the S. George's Cross was flown by 

 English admirals was in the Cadiz 

 Expedition of 1596. When a 

 ship flies her ensign upside down 

 it denotes that she is in distress. 

 See Flag. 



Ensign. Rank in the British 

 army, now obsolete. The rank was 

 that given to an officer of the infan- 

 try on first being commissioned, 

 and it was his duty to carry and 

 guard the regimental colours, both 

 on parade and in the field. The 

 corresponding rank in the cavalry 

 was cornet, and both were dis- 

 carded in 1871 when the purchase 



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of commissions was abolished, the 

 rank of second-lieutenant being 

 substituted. 



Ensilage (Span, en, in ; silo, 

 underground granary ; Lat. sirus). 

 Method of keeping grass, clover, 

 maize, and any green fodder crops 

 in a succulent condition throughout 

 the winter. It can be usefully 

 adopted in a year of drought, when 

 root-crops fail, or in a very wet 

 season as an alternative to hay- 

 making. The herbage to be con- 

 verted into " silage," as the finished 

 product is termed, is placed in a 

 specially constructed receptacle 

 (silo), or simply heaped up in a 

 stack or clamp and covered with 

 earth. When a silo is employed the 

 material is usually chaffed up, to 

 allow of better packing. The re- 

 sulting silage differs in texture and 

 chemical composition from the raw 

 material, and also from hay, owing 

 to changes brought about by pro- 

 cesses of fermentation, due to bac- 

 teria, and to ferments (enzymes) 

 in the herbage. It is necessary that 

 air be excluded, and this is effected 

 by the application of pressure and 

 by enclosing the raw material in an 

 airtight space. 



A "distinction is drawn between 

 sweet and sour silage, that made in 

 a stack being as a rule sweet, and 

 that made in silos and clamps, sour. 

 Sour silage is made at a tempera- 

 ture below 120 F., and owes its 

 acidity to the action of various 

 acid- forming bacteria. Its un- 

 pleasant odour is readily absorbed 

 by milk, and consequently it should 

 not be used for milch cows. To make 

 sweet silage, which is sweetish to 

 the taste and possesses an aromatic 

 smell, a temperature of 130 F. to 

 160 F. is necessary, as the forma- 

 tion of acid is thereby prevented. 

 The desired temperature cannot be 

 secured if air is at first excluded, 

 and therefore the herbage must be 

 filled slowly into the receptacle 

 and pressure applied by degrees. 



Properly made silage is a valu- 

 able feeding-stuff in both its forms, 

 but is not of precisely the same nu- 

 tritive value as the herbage from 

 which it is made. The chief results 

 of the chemical changes that take 

 place during fermentation are loss 

 of sugar, alteration of part of the 

 albuminoids into nitrogenous sub- 

 stances (amides) of less food value, 

 and conversion of part of the fibre 

 (cellulose) into a digestible form. 



The system of ensilage was intro- 

 duced into Great Britain from 

 France about 1880-85, but the 

 results were less satisfactory than 

 in France and the U.S.A., and it 

 has not been generally adopted. 

 See Agriculture ; Crops ; Pasture. 



Enstatite. Common rock-form- 

 ing mineral. One of the pyroxene 



ENTEBBE 



group, it crystallises in the rhombic 

 system, in stout prismatic crystals. 

 Chemically a metasilicate of mag- 

 nesium, it occurs in serpentines and 

 peridotites, in the Whinsill dolorite, 

 the Cheviot andesite, and generally 

 as a primary constituent of inter- 

 mediate and basic igneous rocks. 

 The word enstatite, from Gr. en- 

 states, adversary, refers to the re- 

 fractory nature of the mineral. 

 See Crystallography. 



Entablature. Term in architec- 

 ture signifying the combination of 

 architrave, frieze, and cornice at 

 the summit of a building. In early 

 Greek architecture the entablature, 

 like the supporting column, was 

 frequently of wood ; and there is 

 evidence to show that it was 

 constructed of this material for 

 some time after wooden columns 

 had been replaced by stone or mar- 

 ble. In the Greek towns of S. Italy 

 wooden entablatures upon stone 

 columns are known to have been in 

 use for several centuries. The en- 

 tablature is necessarily a prominent 

 feature of the classic or horizontal 

 styles of architecture, rather than of 

 the Gothic or vertical styles; but its 

 principle is universal. The original 

 meaning of the word was a board 

 work or flooring (Lat. tabula, plank). 

 See Architecture ; Building ; also 

 illus. p. 2275. 



Entail. Legally, the settling of 

 an estate on a man and his heirs. 

 In feudal times land was granted to 

 a man and his heirs in tail male or 

 tail general, the idea being that if 

 an heir failed it would revert to the 

 king or lord who granted it. In 

 time, however, the practice grew 

 up of regarding it as a free estate 

 as soon as an heir was born, thus 

 depriving the grantor of his rights. 

 The statute De Donis Conditiorial- 

 ibus of Edward I put an end to this 

 practice, but only for a time, as 

 legal fictions for evading it were in- 

 vented. The entailed estates of to- 

 day are simply settled estates, but 

 they can only be settled on living 

 persons and a period of 21 years 

 beyond. The entail can be broken 

 with the consent of the heir and 

 after the performance of certain 

 legal formalities. The word comes 

 from the French tailler, to cut, the 

 idea being that from an entailed 

 estate, something, i.e. freedom of 

 bequest, had been cut. See Land 

 Laws; Real Property ; Settlement. 



Entebbe. Administrative capi- 

 tal of the Uganda Protectorate, 

 E. Africa. It is situated on a 

 promontory to the W. of Murchi- 

 son Bay in Lake Victoria, and is 

 connected with Kisumu and other 

 lake harbours by steamer. Mengo, 

 the capital of Buganda, is 25 m. 

 to the N.E. Pop. dist. (European) 

 about 150. 



