Engyschistae 
tohthyological system, the second subfamily of 
Miinrnidti; characterized by I lie rocluetion <*( 
the branchial apertures in the pharynx In nur- 
row slits, whence the name. It includes the 
typieal Murii-iiiilii; or morays. 8oe out under 
engyscope (en'ji-skop), . [Less prop, <</i- 
fii-it/>i' ; < (Jr. fjyiV, near (with rof. to narrow- 
in ss), + anoirciv, view.] A kind of reflecting 
niienisi'ope. 
enhabilet, r. An obsolete form of > mrliii-. 
enhabitt (en-hab'it), r. t. See inhabit. 
enhablet, r. t. An obsolete form of enable. 
enhalo (eii-ha'16), r. t. [< at- 1 + halo.'} To 
surround with a halo or glory. [Rare.] 
Her captain still lords it over our memories, the greatest 
sailor thiit ever Miilnl tin- sea*, ami we should not look at 
Sir John Frunklin himself with such admiring interest as 
that with which we nihalaed some larger Iwy who had 
made a voyage in her [the sloop Harvard). 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 41. 
enhalset (en-hals'), v. t. [<en-l + hdlse.] To 
clasp round the neck ; embrace. 
The other me enhalne, 
With welcome cosln, now welcome out of Wales. 
Mir. for Magi., p. 406. 
enhance (en-nans'), v. ; pret. and pp. enhanced, 
ppr. ( iiliinii-iiiii. [Formerly also inhance; early 
mod. E. also enhaunce, enhaunse, < ME. enhaun- 
cen, generally with s, enhaungen, enhansen, also, 
with altered prefix, anhansen, and without pre- 
fix, haunsen, etc. (see hance); also rarely en- 
hawsen : < OF. enhauncer, enhaunsier, enhaucer, 
cnhaucier, enhaleer, < en- + haucer, haucier, F. 
hausser = Pr. alsar, awar = Sp. alzar = It. 
alzare, raise, < OF. halt, haut, F. haut, otc., 
( 1 .. <il i us. high (see haughty, altitude) ; the 
forms with (OF. enhauncer, etc.) being appar. 
due to association with Pr. enansar, enanzar, 
promote, further, < enant, before, rather, < L. 
+ ante, before. Cf. Pr. avant, F. avant, etc., 
before, < L. 06 + ante (> ult. E. advance, equiv. 
to enhance): see avant, avaunt, advance.} I. 
trans. If. To raise up; lift up; elevate. 
He that mekith himself shall he enhaunufd. 
Wyclif, Mat. xxiil. 12. 
He was enhauniyt full high in his lied tonne. 
Dextrnction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13378. 
Both of them high attonce their handes enhaumtt, 
And hoth attonce their huge hlowes down did sway. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 31. 
2. To raise to a higher degree; increase to a 
higher point ; carry upward or to a greater ex- 
tent; heighten; make greater: as, to enhance 
prices, or one's reputation or dignity; to en- 
hance misery or sorrow. 
I move you, my lords, not to be greedy and outrageous 
in > n!i<i<n'ni : i and raising of yom rents. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1649. 
The remembrance of the difficulties we now undergo 
will contribute to enhance our pleasure. Bp. Atterbury. 
The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the 
ear the pleasure of sweet sound before yet the musician 
has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations. 
Emerimn, Art. 
= Svn. 2. To swell, augment, aggravate. 
II. intrans. To be raised ; swell ; grow larger: 
as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound inter- 
est. [Rare.] 
Leaving fair Voya cross'd up Danilhy, 
As high as Sana, whose enhaHitfiny streams 
Cut 'twlxt the Tartars and the Russians. 
Greene, Orlando Furioso. 
enhanced (en-hansf), p. a. [Pp. of enhance, v.] 
In her., removed from its proper position and 
set higher in the field: said of any bearing. 
Also inhanced. 
enhancement (en-l>ans'ment), . [Formerly 
also iiiliiiiin incut; < enhance + -ment.] The act 
of enhancing, or the state of being enhanced; 
increase in derive or extent; augmentation; 
aggravation: as, the enhancement of value, price, 
enjoyment, pleasure, beauty, evil, grief, punish- 
ment, crime, etc. 
Thfir yearly rente ... are not to this day improved at 
all, thi> landlords milking m> loss gain by flues anil income 
thru there is raised in other places by fnhanrrment of 
rents. Bacon, Office of Alienations; 
Jocular slanders have, from the slightness of the tmp- 
t;iti"ii. an rnliancetnent of guilt. 
Government of the Tonyne. 
enhancer (en-han'ser), n, [< ME. enhannsere.] 
One who enhances; one who or that which car- 
ries to a greater degree or a higher point. 
Then 1 niiiy he just reason, . . . upon a dearth of grain 
or other comniiKlitiei. t" lighten the price; but in such 
cases we must be so ntfeeted as tli:it ur urudu'c to our- 
<el\es our own gain, tlint we lie not in the first flle of 
Up. Hall, Cases of Conscience, I. 2. 
enharbort (en-liiir'bor). v. t. [< <-! + har- 
bor.} To dwell in or inhabit. 
1 !>:!.-, 
ll true delight ! niharborinq the I. rests 
nf those se, i ' M;. lures with the plumy crest*. 
H'. Braienr. Britannia's Pastorals, I. 3. 
enhardent (en-har'dn), r. t. [< cM-i + harden.] 
To harden ; encourage ; embolden. 
France useth ... to enharden one with confldencc ; 
for the gentry of Frnnee have a kind of loose becomim: 
iMildness. //" irrll. Foreign Travel, p. 192. 
enharmonic, enharmonical (en-hiir-mon'ik, 
-i-kal), a. [= F. cnli<inin>ni</ne = Sp. enar- 
monico = Pg. enharnwnico = It. enarmonico, < 
Gr. Ivap/ioviKof, usually [vapuAvtof, in accord or 
harmony, < h, in, + Apuovia, harmony: see har- 
IIIIIHII, lutniHtiiic.] 1. In Gr. music, pertaining 
to that genus or scale that is distinguished from 
the diatonic and the chromatic by the use of in- 
tervals of less than a semitone. 2. In mod. 
music: (a) Pertaining to a scale or an instru- 
ment using smaller intervals than a semitone. 
(6) Pertaining to a use of notes which, though 
differing in name and in position on the staff, 
refer on instruments 
of fixed intonation, 
like the pianoforte, 
to identical keys or ' (( 
tones; thus (a) are enharmonically distinct, 
but practically identical Enharmonic change 
or modulation, a change of key or of chord-relationship 
effected by indicating a given tone flrst by one staff -degree 
and then by another, so as to associate it with two distinct 
tonalities. It Is a somewhat arbitrary use of the imper- 
fect modillatory capacities of 
instruments of fixed intona- 
tion. Enharmonic diesis. 
enigma 
nivorous quadrupeds, of the family Jtuxtclider; 
the sea-Otters. The hind feet are greatly enlarged and 
fully webbed, somewhat resembling wain flippers; the 
fore feet are small ; the tail is comptntlvely snort ; the 
muzzle is blunt ; the eranial portion ,,f the skull is very 
prominent; and the teeili are all blunt, 32 In all, bin 
are no median lower Incisors. There Is but one livin K 
genus, Knhifdrut. Also Enhintrina. 
EnhydriB (en'hi-dris), n. [NL., < Gr. bmiptr,, 
an otter, < twipof, in water, living in water: 
see cnht/<t,-tiux.} 1. A genus of reptiles. 2. 
The typical genus of sea-otter* of the subfam- 
ily Kiiliiiilriiiir. The grlndlng-teeth are of peculiar 
shape, without any trenchant edges or acute cusps, all 
being bluntly tubercular on the crowns, and ronndeo off 
In contour. The palms of the fore feet are naked, with 
See diVm. Enharmonic 
Interval or relation, an in- 
terval or a relation based on the nominal distinction 
mentioned in def. 2 (6). Enharmonic organ, an organ 
having more than twelve keys to the octave. Enhar- 
monic scale, a scale having more than twelve tones to 
the octave. 
enharmonically (en-hiir-mon'i-kal-i), adv. In 
an enharmonic manner, or in accordance with 
an enharmonic scale. 
enharmonlont (en-har-mo'ni-on), . [< Gr. 
kvapu6vu>v, neut. of evapu6viof, in accord : see 
enharmonic.} A song of many parts, or a con- 
cert of several tunes. 
Enharmmian, one of the three general sorts of musick ; 
song of many parts, or a curious concert of sundry tunes. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, Expl. of Oliscure Words. 
enhauset, r. t. [ME.: see enhance.] To lift 
up; elevate; exalt. Chaucer. 
Full many thereof raised vp hath she, 
Fro pouerte tnhawied to rychesse. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6258. 
enhearten (on-har'tn), r. t. [< eii-l + hearten.} 
To hearten up ; encourage ; animate ; embold- 
en. [Bare.] 
When their agents came to him to feel his pulse, they 
found it heat so calm anil even that he sent them mes- 
sages to enhearten them. 
Bp. Haeket, Ahp. Williams, ii. 141. 
The enemy exults and Is tnhearttned. Jer. Taylor. 
enhedget (en-hej'), . t. [< e-i + hedge.] To 
surround with or as if with a hedge. 
These, all these thither brought ; and their young boyes 
And frightfull matrons making wofull noise, 
In heaps enhedy'd it. Viean, tr. of Virgil (1632). 
enhend6 (on-on-da'), a. [Heraldic F.] In 
her., same as potence : applied to a cross only. 
[Bare.] 
enheritaget, . See inheritage. 
enheritancet, . See inheritance. Tyndale. 
enhortt (en-h6rt'). *. t. [ME. enhorten, enorten, 
< OF. enhorter, < L. inhortari, incite, instigate, 
< in, in, to, + hortari, urge: see hortation. Cf. 
eihort, dehort.] To encourage; urge; exhort. 
He his nevywe Jason wolde enhorte, 
To saylen to that londe. 
Chaucer, Good. Women, 1. 1440. 
enhouset (en-houz'), r. t. [< en-l + house.] To 
house; harbor. 
Enhmised there where majesty should dwell. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, I. 
enhuilet, r. /. See enoil. 
enhunger (en-hung'ger),.f. [< f-i + hunger.] 
To make hungry. [Rare.] 
Its first missionaries bare it [the gospel] to the na- 
tions, and threw it into the arena of the world to do 
battle with its superstitions, and ... to grapple with 
those animal passions which vice had torn from their 
natural ratine, and fnhttngered to feed on innocence and 
life. J. Martineau. 
Enhydra (en'hi-dra). n. [XL., < Gr. IwSpoc, in 
water, living in water, eontaining water: see 
K n lii/ilr is and riilii/drotts.] Same as Exhydris. 
enhydric (en-hi'drik), a. Same as enhi/rtrous. 
Enhydrinse (en-hi-Uri'ne\ . /*/. [Nil, < /:- 
liydrix + -i(C.] A subfamily of marine oar- 
^ 
Sea-otter Knkydrix tutrit}. 
webbed digits, and the hind feet are furry on both sides, 
with small hidden claws. E. lulrit, the sea-otter of the 
northern Pacific, Is aliout 4 feet long, the tall being a foot 
or less in length, and of dark liver-brown color, bleaching 
about the head, and everywhere silvered over with thn 
hoary ends of the longer hairs. Its pelt is highly valued. 
Also written Knhtfitra, Enydrif, 
enhydrite (en-hi'dritj, . [< Gr. Iw6pot, con- 
taining water (see enhydroug), + -ite 2 .] A min- 
eral containing water. 
enhydros (en-hi'dros), n. [NL., < Gr. Imfifmc, 
containing water: see enhydrnu*.] Ageodeof 
translucent chalcedony containing water. 
enhydrous (en-hi'dnis), a. [< Gr. tmipos, in 
water, living in water, containing water, < ev, 
in, + iAup (i>oy>-), water.] Having water with- 
in; containing drops of water or other fluid: 
as, rnhydroiis quartz. Also enhydric. 
enhypostasia(en-h!-po-sta'8i-a)', H. [MGr.'tw- 
liOoraer/a, < fiDiroorarof,' really existent : see en- 
hypostatic.] In theol. : (<i) Substantial or per- 
sonal existence. (6) Possession of personality 
not independently but by union with a person : 
sometimes used as a name descriptive of the 
relation of the human nature of Christ to the 
person of God the Son. Scliaff, in Smith and 
Wace's Diet. Christ. Biog., I. 495. 
enhypostatic (eu-hi-po-stat'ik), a. [< MGr. 
fifTrooTar/itof, < ivmoaTdTof , really existent, hav- 
ing substantial existence, < ev, in, + iirinrraTof. 
substantially existing: see hypostanin, liypostat- 
ic.] In theol. : (a) Possessing substantial or 
personal existence. (6) Possessing or endued 
with personality by existence in or intimate 
union with a person. 
enhypostatize (en-ln-pos'ta-tiz), r. t. ; pret. 
and pp. enhypostatized, ppr. enhuj>ostati;ing. [< 
enliy/mgtat-ic + -tie.] In theol., to endow with 
substantiality or personality ; especially, to en- 
dow with personality by incorporation into or 
intimate union with a person. See enhyposta- 
sia. 
His humanity was tnhmmetatized through union with 
the Logos, or incorporated Into his personality. 
Schaff, Christ and Christianity, p. 67. 
Enicuridae (en-i-ku'ri-de), n. pi. See Henicn- 
rida: 
Enicurus (en-i-lrii'rus), . See Henicurag. 
enigma (e-nig'ma), H. [Formerly also crnigma 
(and by 'contraction, corruptly, egma); = F. 
enigme = Sp. Pg. enigma = It. enigma, enimma, 
< L. (enigma(t-), < Gr. alvty/ia(T-), a riddle, < oi- 
vtaaeoBai, speak in riddles, < aivpf, a tale, story, 
fable, saying.] 1. A dark saying or represen- 
tation, in which some known thing is concealed 
under obscure words or forms ; a question, say- 
ing, figure, or design containing a hidden mean- 
ing which is proposed for discovery; a riddle. 
One while speaking obscurely and in riddle called 
.Kniyma. r:t, nham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 128. 
A custom was amongst the ancients of proposing an 
enirrma at festivals, and adjudging a reward to him that 
solved It Pope. 
2. Anything inexplicable to an observer, such 
as the means by which something is effected, 
the motive for a course of conduct, the cause 
of a phenomenon, etc. : as, how it was done is 
an enigma; his conduct is to me an enigma. 
