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disease that affects many persons of the 

 same country, proceeding from some cause 

 peculiar to the country or region where it 

 prevails. The term is often used substan- 

 tively. 



ENDOCAR'DITIS, from ivSov, within, and 

 x.eSi<x,, the heart. Inflammation of the 

 lining; membrane of the heart. 



EN'DOCARP, from ivS, within, and 

 *<>; , fruit. The stone or shell of cer- 

 tain fruits, as the cherry- The outer skin 

 is the epicarp, and the fleshy substance 

 the sarcocarp. 



ENDOG'ENOVS, from tvoev, within, and 

 Wtttca, to engender. An epithet for 

 plants (endogens), the growth of whose 

 stems takes place by addition from with- 

 in. The ferns and equicetaceae are endo- 

 genous plants ; most others are erogenous, 

 or increase from without. See EXOGENS. 



ENDOPLEC'RA, svSov, and xKw$ot, side. In 

 botany, the internal integuments of a seed. 



ENDORHIZ'JS, evSev, and |<, root. The 

 embryo of monocotyledons. 



EUDOSMO'SIS,, from tvSovi withir , and 

 iwf&of, impulsion. The passage of fluids 

 through the membranes of organised 

 bodies from the exterior to the interior. 

 Some gases endosmose. 



ENDOSPER'MIUM, ivXav, and 

 seed. The albumen of seeds. 



ENFEOFF'MENT, from in and^e/. The 

 deed whereby one is invested with the 

 fee simple of an estate. 



ENFILA'DE (Fr.), a line or straight pas- 

 sage (en, and^iJ, a thread). A term used 

 in speaking of trenches, &c. which may 

 be seen and scoured with shot all the 

 length of a line. Hence trenches are 

 usually dug in a zig-zag manner , that they 

 may not be enfiladed, or shot along their 

 whole length. 



ENFI'LED. In heraldry, a term desig- 

 nating that a head or other charge is 

 placed on the blade of a sword. 



ENGAGED COLUMNS are those attached 

 to, or built in, walls or piers, a portion 

 being concealed. 



ENGINE'ER, Fr. ingenieur. A person 

 skilled in mathematics and mechanics, 

 and whose business it is to form plans, 

 and superintend the construction of 

 works. If these are for offence and de- 

 fence he is called a military engineer ; if 

 they are intended for industrial purposes, 

 as public works, railways, canals, &c., he 

 is called a civil engineer. The name is also 

 used to designate one who constructs 

 engines. 



EN'OISCOPB, an instrument, a kind of 

 microscope. 



ENGOM'PHOSIS, from tv, and 'yo/x.Qtf, 

 n nail. A species of articulation which 

 resembles a nail driven into wood, as a 

 tooth in its socket. 



ENGRA'ILMENT, the ring of dots rctJ.d 

 the edge of a model. 



ENGRA'VING, the art of producing upon 

 plates of copper or other metal, bymeaqs 

 of a steel instrument called a grater, re- 

 presentations, as letters, portraits, &c., 

 without the use of aqua-fortis,and which, 

 by means of ink and a rolling-press, are 

 transferred to paper. Copper has hither- 

 to been generally used for engraving upon, 

 but for fine pieces, steel plates are used, 

 and many " pictorial editions" are now 

 got up with wood engravings. In com- 

 plicate pieces, as landscapes, etching and 

 dry-point engraving are usually combined, 

 so that the picture is produced in a cer- 

 tain state by means of nitric acid, and 

 finished with the graver. 



ENGROSS', ) In law (1.) To copy in a 



ENGROSS'INO. J a large (gross") hand any 

 deed or record, for preservation on paper 

 orparchment. (2.) To buy up corn or other 

 dead victuals with intent to sell them 

 again, and thereby to make profit by en- 

 hancing the price. -For a long time, most 

 scarcities which occurred in the country 

 were ascribed to the influence of engross- 

 ers and forestallers, and hence statutes 

 were framed for the suppression of en- 

 grossing and forestalling. The first is still 

 an indictable offence, punishable at com- 

 mon law by fine and imprisonment. 



ENHARMO'NIC. In music, an epithet for 

 such species of composition as proceed on 

 very small intervals, or smaller intervals 

 than the diatonic and chromatic. An en- 

 harmonic interval is the eighth of a tone. 



EN'NEAGON, from tvvt, nine, and ytuttot, 

 a corner. A figure of nine sides and nine 

 angles. 



ENNEAHE'DRIA, from ivviot, nine, and 

 ibpot, a side. A genus of columnar double- 

 pointed crystals, composed of a trigonal 

 column, terminated at each end by a tri- 

 gonal pyramid. 



ENNEAN'DRIA, from evxea, nine, and 

 ctwig, a man. A class of plants of the 

 sexual system, containing such as have 

 hermaphrodite flowers with nine sta- 

 mina. 



ENNEAPET'ALOUS, from twlat. nine, and 

 vtrctXov, a petal. A coralla having nine 

 petals. 



ENNE.VT'IC, ] from em*, nine; every 



ENNEATICAI,, } ninth. Enneatical days 

 are every ninth of a disease ; eitneafic years 

 are every ninth of an individual's life. 



ENROCK'MENT, a term applied to th& 

 stone-filling upon breakwaters and the 

 banks of rivers, underneath quays, &c. 

 It consists of large stones thrown in at 

 random, and of sufficient size to resist 

 the action of the current. 



ENROI/MEST, the registering of A docu- 

 ment in the rolls of chancery, or supenot 



