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ENCYSTATION, the process by which cer- ENTOYER, a bordure charged wholly with 

 tain infusoria enclose themselves iu a cyst inanimate ihings. 



previous to fission ; on the bursting of the ENTROPIUM, a diseased turning inwards 

 cyst the embryos are allowed to escape. of the eyelid and eyelashes, causing irritation 



EXDELLIOSITE, a triple sulphuret of anti- to the eyeball. 



mony, lead, and copper, from Endellion, ENZOON or Eozoox CANADENSE, a fossil 

 Cornwall. found in the clay slate of Canada, being the 



ENDERMIC, a method of applying medical earliest of the fossilferous strata heretofore 

 remedies to the dennis under or denuded of discovered and from hence called the 

 the cuticle, as morphia, strychnia, &c. The Eozoon, or " Dawn Animal." It is identified 

 hypodermic application of strychnia, duly W uh a still living but diminutive species of 

 diluted, and under medical supervision, is Foraminifera : and its discovery has greatly 

 said to have the effect of reinvigorating the aided in dispelling the hasty and immature 

 eyes, where vision has become seriously de- conclusions of speculative geologists as to in- 

 eayed, and restoring perfect sight. terruptions to the continuity of animated 



ENDIVE, Cichorium Endivia, a composite nature in the world since the first introduc- 

 biennial herb. tion of life, an extravagant and per saltum 



ENDLESS SCREW, a rotatory combination deduction which its warmest advocates have 

 of the inclined plane and the lever, employed been at length compelled to abandon before 

 for communicating or extending motion. It irresistible evidence. 



may be either a screw with a cog-wheel or a EPEXCEPHALIC ARCH, the arched and 

 screw acting on the threads of a female screw osseous protection of the epencephalon, being 

 on the edge of awheel. The American endless i n general anatomy the neural arch of the 

 screw is at right angles with the plane of the occipital vertebra, 

 wheel. | EPICANTHIS, the angle of the eye. 



ENDOCHROMB. the colouring substance of, EPICEDIUM, a funeral elegy, 

 plants. I EPIDERMIC METHOD, medicines applied to- 



ENDOPHYILOUS, young leayes of mono- the skin. Synonymous with latroleptic 

 cotyledonous plants, enclosed in a sheath. Method. 



ENDORSE, the smallest diminutive of the , EPIGASTRIC REGION, the Epigastrium, 

 pale in heraldry. (q.v.) 



ENDOSMOMETER, an instrument to show EPIPHORA, a disease resulting from exces- 

 how rapidly endosmosis (q.v.) takes place. It give secretion of tears. 



shows that endosmosis takes place more EPIPHYTE, a plant which rests or grow* 

 rapidly than exmosis, that is, that the Up0 n the surface of another plant, but does 

 thinner fluid passes more rapidly into the no t draw any nourishment from it. 

 thicker fluid than vice versa. , EPIPLOCELE, hernia from the protrusion, 



ENDOSPERM, the albumen of seeds. Sy- o f the omen turn, 

 nonym of ESDOSPERMIOM. EPISPASTIC, the quality of applications 



ENDOSTOME, the passage through the inner -which give rise to blisters on the skin, 

 integument of seeds under the torameu. EPISTAXIS, bleeding at the nose. 



ENDOTHECIUM, the cellular fibrous lining EPULOTIC OINTMENTS, an old term 

 of an anther. applied to unguents which aided the skinning 



ENGRAILED, the edge of an object in- over of sores. 



dented with small semicircles with their con- ERBIUM, a primary metallic element, the 

 cave sides outward. Heraldic. oxide of which, Erbia, is said to be found 



ENHAXCED, bearings placrd above their native along with YUria. 

 usual position in the shield. Heraldic. ERECT, an animal or part of one placed 



KNOCH, BOOK OK, a supposed book of pro- perpendicularly when the natural position 

 phecy left by the patriarch Enoch, on the would be horizontal. (Heraldic.) 

 supposition that one of his prophecies quoted ERETHISMUS, excessive general excite- 

 by St. Jude in his Epistle was a quotation ment. occasioned by the over use of mercury 

 from such a book. The Fathers down to O r other agents. 



the period of Jerome were credulous enough ERGOTIX, the active acrid principle of 

 to believe this, though Jude gives no authority ergot of rye. 



for it ; an-i they even mention the existence ERGOTISM, two forms of disease, pan- 

 of such a book. Two Ethiopian copies of grenous and convulsive, occasioned by using 

 the book mentioned by them were brought diseased rye as food. 



by the traveller Bruce to Europe in 1773. ERMINOIS, a fur in heraldry consisting of 

 This work is of some antiquity, dating about a field of gold with black tufts or spots, 

 fifty years B.C., according to Archbishop EROTIC, exciting to love. The Erotic 

 Lawrence, but is obviously no genuine pro- poets of Greece and Rome were those who 

 duction of Enoch. made love their chief theme. 



EXSIGNED, any ornamented charge in ERUCIC ACID, a colourless crystalline 

 heraldry. substance found in oil of mustard. 



ENTOPHYTE, a plant growing within ERYTHRIXE, a substance found in tht 

 another. litmus Lichen, Roccella tinctoria. 



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