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KMUL'OEST, I-at. emitlgens, milking ; ap- 

 plied to the artery and vein which go 

 from the aorta and vena cava to the kid- 

 neys, because the ancients supposed that 

 they strained, or as it were milked the 

 serum through the kidneys. The emul- 

 gent arteries supply the kidneys with 

 blood. 



EMUNC'TORT, from emungo, to drain off. 

 The emunctories are the excretory ducts 

 of the body, and the cavities containing 

 the fluids to be excreted. The skin and 

 kidneys, are the common emunctories. 



EN AL'LAGE, ecaAAa}^, change ; a gram- 

 matical figure by which some change is 

 made in the common mode of speech, as 

 when one case or mood is put for another. 



EXAM'EL (Fr. en email). 1. The hard 

 siliceous substance which covers the 



teeth. 2. In the arts, a coloured glass 



formed by combination of different metal- 

 lic oxides, to which some fixed fusible salt 

 is added, as borates, finales, and phos- 

 phates. Enamels possess all the proper- 

 ties of glass except its transparency. They 

 are used to counterfeit gems, and in 

 enamel painting. 



ENAM'EI.-PAIXTING is performed on 

 plates of gold or copper. The plate is 

 first covered with a coating of white 

 enamel. The colours finely ground are 

 mixed with oil of spike and laid on. The 

 plate is then gently warmed, and after- 

 wards made red-hot, to incorporate the 

 colours of the picture with the enamel. 



ENAN'THESIS, from iv and &&;, floreo; 

 efflorescence from internal affection; a 

 rash. The term is opposed to eianthesis. 

 an eruption on the skin, not connected 

 with internal affection. 



ENARTHBO'SIS, from gy and a0g, a 

 joint; the ball and socket-joint; a spe- 

 cies of diarthrosis in which the round 

 head of one bone is received into a cavity 

 of another, in such a manner as to admit 

 of motion in every direction. 



ENCJE'NIA, from tyzcuvia, renewal; a 

 festival among the Jews called the Feast 

 of Dedication (of the Temple). The term 

 has since been used for any commemora- 

 tive festival. 



ENCAN'THH, from tv and zetvdos, the 

 angle of the eye ; a disease of the lachry- 

 mal caruncle of the eye, appearing at 

 first as a small, soft, red, but often livid 

 excrescence, granulated like a mulberry. 

 It often assumes a cancerous malignity, 

 and emits an exceedingly acrid discharge. 



EXCAR'PUS, Gr. from tv, and zc'TOf, 

 fruit ; the festoons on a frieze. 



ENCAUSTIC, from and zctiu, to burn ; 

 turning in ; applied to a species of paint- 

 aig in wax liquefied by heat, whereby 

 the colours acquire considerable hardness, 

 brilliancy, and dur ibility. The term has 



also been applied to painting on porce- 

 lain, enamel-work, and to painting on 

 glass ; and in short to all species of paint- 

 ing where the colours are fixed by mean* 

 of heat, and even to works in metals 

 where gold and silver are inlaid, melted, 

 or laid on by the application of heat. 



F.Ncr.'iNTE (Fr. from en and ceindre), to 

 gird. 1. The wall or rampart which sur- 

 rounds a place, sometimes composed of 



bastions and curtains. 2. In law, a 



state of pregnancy. 



ENCEPH'ALOX, i vy%.i$.).6$. The brain, 



ENCEPH'ALOS, ) ly and >., the head, 

 or contents of the cranium. 



ENCHAS'IJJG, CHAS'ING, Fr. enchasser, to 

 enchase ; the art of enriching and beauti- 

 fying any work in metal by some design 

 or figure represented in low relievo. Gold 

 and silver plate are usually enchased. It 

 is a species of embossing performed by 

 punching out from the back, and clearing 

 with gravers and like tools. 



ENCHO'BIAL, from iy%eaeio v , a term ap- 

 plicable to whatever is characteristic of 

 a country, but especially applied to the 

 language, and used in ancient Egyptian 

 inscriptions, as distinguished from hiero- 

 glyphics (the sacred language) and from 

 the Greek. These are all found on the 

 Rosetta stone of black basalt. 



ENCHIBID'ION (Gr.), from tv, and {, 

 hand. A manual, a short and useful com- 

 pilation. 



EN'CLAVE, from clavis. A. heraldic term 

 denoting something let into another, es- 

 pecially when the piece so let in is a 

 square. 



EXCLIT'IC, from tyXirizof, inclined. 

 Applied to particles or words so closely 

 connected with others as to seem parts of 

 them ; as qtie in vinnnque. Such particles 

 are also called enclitics. 



EN'CRINITE, a fossil encrinus. The en- 

 crinites form a genus of the order crinoi- 

 dea, known by the name of stone-lily. 

 See ENCRINUS. 



ENCRIN'ITAL, containing encrinites, as 

 the encrinital marble of Derbyshire, which 

 consists chiefly of encrinites cemented 

 together by carbonate of lime. 



ENCRI'NUS, a gemis of radiate animals 

 or zoophytes. Class JEnchinodermata, or- 

 der Pedicellata, Cuv. Xame from z^ivov, 

 a lily, in allusion to the form. There are 

 only two living species known, but the 

 fossil genera are exceedingly numerous. 



ENCYST'ED, from cyst. A term applied 

 to tumours when the matter is inclosed 

 in a sac or cyst. 



ENDEC'AOON, or UNDEC'AOON, MUM, 

 eleven, and 'yuvict, angle. A plane geo- 

 metrical figure bounded by eleven side& 

 i ENDEM'IC, from e, and %r,u,os, people* 

 ' Peculiar to a country. Applied to an) 



