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demandant the premises in question, or 

 appear in court on such a day and show 

 reason why he has not done it, is termed 



a writ of entry. 3. Accounts are entered 



in account-books, and these account-books 

 are kept either by single or double entry, 



EXUMER'ATION. In rhetoric, that part 

 of a peroration in which the orator re- 

 capitulates the principal points or heads 

 of the discourse or argument. 



ENUR'NEY. In heraldry, an epithet for 

 a bordure changed with wild beasts. 



EN'VELOPE, a wrapper, Fr. envclojjpe ; a 

 term in fortification for a work of earth, 

 sometimes in the form of a single parapet, 

 and at others like a small rampart with a 

 parapet, raised sometimes on the ditch, 

 and sometimes beyond it, to cover weak 

 places with single lines. 



EN'VIRONNE'. In heraldry, surround 

 with other things. 



ENVOY, Fr. envoye,from envoyer, to send ; 

 a person deputed by government to nego- 

 ciate some affair with a foreign govern- 

 ment. Envoys are inferior in rank to 

 ambassadors, but are equally under the 

 protection of the law of nations. 



E'OCENE, from ij'ftij, aurora, and %O,I V D;, 

 recent ; one of the four terms proposed by 

 M. Deshayes and Mr. Lyell, to designate 

 the marine formations of the tertiary 

 series, founded on the proportions which 

 their fossil shells bear to marine shells of 

 existing species. These terms are Eocene, 

 Miocene, Older Pliocene, and Newer Plio- 

 cene. The proportion of living species in 

 the Eocene are less numerous than in any 

 of the others, and indicates what may be 

 regarded as the dawn or commencement 

 of the existing state of animate creation. 

 E'PACT, from xrcczros , adscititious ; the 

 name given to the excess of the solar 

 month above the lunar synodical month, 

 and of the solar year above the lunar 

 year of twelve synodical months. The 

 lunar mouth is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 min., 

 3 sec., consequently the lunar year is 354 

 days (nearly), and the annual epact 11 

 days, to which one is added every year to 

 19 (the lunar cycle), when it becomes 30 

 or 0, as 30 is an embolismic month. The 

 Oregonan epact for any year is the same 

 as the Julian epact for the preceding year, 

 the difference between the Gregorian and 

 Julian years being equal simply to the 

 difference between the solar and lunar 

 year. 



EPAOO'OB, from \-xcty &, induco ; a rhe- 

 torical figure whereby like things or ar- 

 guments are compared, to prove universal 

 propositions by particulars. 



EPANADIPLO'SIS, t*.,oibnrXa<ri; , redu- 

 plication; a rhetorical figure wherein a 

 sentence begins and ends with the same 

 word. 

 EPANALEP'SIS, ttrauet>.t-fyis , resumption : 



a rhetorical figure wherein the same word 

 is repeated in resuming the subject after 

 a long parenthesis. 



EPANAPH'ORE, from t**v*<fitat, refero ; 

 a rhetorical figure which makes several 

 clauses begin with the same word. 



EPAN'ODOS, from w and w $ flf ; a rhe- 

 torical figure wherein two things spoken 

 of together are afterwards spoken of sev- 

 erally. 



EPAULE'. In fortification (Fr. epaule a 

 shoulder), the shoulder of a bastion the 

 angle of the face and flank, often called 

 the angle of the epa^lle. 



EPAULE'MENT, from Fr. epaule, a 

 shoulder. A term in fortification for a 

 side-work made of gabions, fascines, or 

 bags of earth. It also sometimes denotes 

 a semibastion, and a square orillon to 

 cover the cannon of the casemate. 



E'PHA, ) a Jewish dry measure, equal 



E'PHAH, / to an imperial bushel, nearly. 



EPHEBEI'DM, upt$os, ayouth. Inancient 

 architecture, a building appropriated for 

 the wrestling and exercises of youth prior 

 to their entering the gymnasium. 



EPH'ELIS, from ^sft, and ^\ tos , the sun. 

 A term denoting not only the freckles or 

 little yellow spots which appear on per- 

 sons of a fair skin, and the larger brown 

 patches which likewise arise from expo- 

 sure to the direct rays of the sun, but also 

 those large dusky patches which are verv 

 similar in appearance, but occur on other 

 parts of the surface which are constantly 



EPHEM'ERA (Lat), from fafitfie, daily. 

 1. A fever of only one day's continuance. 

 2. The day-fly, a genus of neurop- 

 terpus insects of the subulicorne family. 

 Epithet ephemeral. The ephemera take 

 their name from their short term of life 

 in their perfect state. They usually ap- 

 pear at sun-set, in fine weather, in sum- 

 mer and autumn, along the banks of 

 rivers, lakes, &c., and sometimes in such 

 innumerable hosts, that after their death 

 the surface of the ground is thickly co- 

 vered with their bodies; in certain dis- 



icts, cart-loads of them are collected for 

 manure. The continuance of their species 

 is the only function which these animals 

 have to fulfil, for they take no nourish- 

 ment, and frequently die on the day of 

 their metamorphosis, and even within a 

 lew hours of that event. If, however, we 

 trace them back to that period in which 

 they existed as larvor, we find that their 

 career extends from two to three years. 

 In this state they live in water. 



PHKM'I jus, an almanack, from taiui- 

 , daily. An account of, or tables cal- 

 culated 10 show, the state of the heavens 

 for every d ;l y of the year, i. e. the position 

 of planets, & c . The Nautical Almanack, 

 published by the Board of Longitude, is 



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