envy 
without a desire for the deprivation or discom- 
fiture of him who has it : often with both the 
possessor and the thing possessed as objects. 
The verb often expresses a much milder feeliui; Hum tlm 
which i usually denoted l>y the noun - one that may In- 
consistent with perfect frini'Uliip uiul loyalty: aa, I envy 
you your good health ; I envy you your Imppy temper. 
But the feeling of envy is apt to lieKet n pnunance and ill 
will, anil some degree of these qualities is generally im- 
plied by the verb as well as by the noun. 
He that thinkcth he lines most blamelesse, liues not 
without enemies, that enuy him for hia good parts, or 
hate him for hU euill. 
1'uttfnhatn, Artc of Eng. Poesie, p. 46. 
A'/uv/ thon not the oppressor. 1'rov. lit. 31. 
So much the sweetness of your manners more, 
We cannot envy you, because we love. 
Dryden, Epistles, x. 34. 
Him and remote the joys of salnU I see, 
Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. 
I'upe, Eloisa to Abelard, L 72. 
Whoso envies another confesses his superiority. 
Johwton, Rambler. 
2. To feel envy on account of ; regard grudg- 
ingly or wistfully another's possession OP ex- 
perience of, either with or without malevolent 
feeling. 
Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloster, 
You envy my advancement, and my friends'. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. 
60, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. 
Gray, Elegy. 
3f. To regard unfavorably; revolt against; op- 
pose. 
Whlche, regardyng not their bounden dutie and obei- 
sance to their prynce <V souerain Lord, enuied the punish- 
ment of trailers and torment of offenders. 
11 til/, Ben. IV., an. 6. 
4f. To do harm to ; injure. 
If I make a lie 
To gain your love, and envy my best mistress, 
Pin me against a wall. Fletcher, Pilgrim, it 1. 
II. intrans. To be affected with envy; have 
envious feelings ; regard something pertaining 
to another with grudge or longing: formerly 
often followed by at. 
In seeking tales and informations 
Against this man (whose honesty the devil 
And his disciples only envy at), 
Ye blew the tire that burns ye. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., T. 2. 
envy 2 * (en-vi'), v. [< ME. envien.envyen (also, 
byapheresis, vien, vyen, E. vie), < OF. envier, an- 
vier. invite, proffer, challenge, vie (in gaming), 
= Sp. Pg. envidar = It. invitare, invite, vie. < 
L. invitare, invite, challenge: see invite. See 
also vie, an aphetic form of enry 2 , which is itself 
an older form of invite.'] I. trans. I. To chal- 
lenge (in a game). 2. To vie with; emulate. 
Let later age that noble use envy, 
Vyle rancour to avoid and cruel surquedry. 
Speiaer, F. Q., III. i. 13. 
II. intrans. To strive; contend; vie. 
As thogh the erthe envye wolde 
To be gayer than the heven. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, L 406. 
envy 2 t (en-vi'), n. [< ME. envie, envye, enveye, 
em-aye, < OF. envi (F. envi), m., enrie, f., a chal- 
lenge, vying, emulation; from the verb: see 
envy?, v. Hence, by apheresis, vie, n.] 1. A 
challenge (in a game); a vying; a vie. 2. A 
contention ; an attempt ; an attack. 
Ther was grete slaughter of men and horse vpon bothe 
partyes, but at that enuaye loste the kynge Tradylyuant 
moche of his pcple. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 2S2. 
3. Emulation. 
Such as cleanliness and decency 
Prompt to a virtuous envy. Ford. 
envynet, i>. t. See envine. 
enwall (en-wal'), v. t. See inwall. 
enwallowt (en-wol'6), v. t. [< en-i + wallow.} 
To wallow. 
All in gore 
And crucldy blood enwallomd they fownd 
The lueklesse Marinell lying in deadly swowud. 
Spenur, F. Q., III. iv. 34. 
enwheel, v. t. See inwheel. 
enwident (en-wi'dn), r. t. [< en-l + widen.} 
To make wider. Cocker urn. 
enwind (en-wind'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. snicouwd, 
ppr. niiriinliiii/. [< en-1 + wind*.] To wind or 
coil about. [Rare.] 
Around 
The tree-roots, gleaming blue black, could they see 
The spires of a great serpent, that, enwmind 
About the smooth bole, looked forth threateningly. 
M'i//i(ii Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 15. 
enwoman (eii-wum'an), v. t. [< en- 1 + woman.] 
To endow with the qualities of woman ; make 
womanish. [Bare.] 
Eonycteris 
Eocidaris (e-o-sid'a-ris), n. [NL., < Gr. fa, 
dawn, + itHa/Hs, a tiara.] A genus of paleo- 
zoic tossellate encrinites or fossil crinoids. 
eodet. See yead, yede, and go. 
Eogaea (e-o-ie'&), n. [NL., < Gr. fa, dawn, + 
>aia, earth.] In soogeog., a great zoological 
division of the earth's land-surface, by which 
the African, South American, Australian, and 
New Zealand realms are collectively contrasted 
with Catnogtea. T. Gill. 
Eogaean (e-o-je'an), a. [< Eogaea. + -an.] Of 
or pertaining to Eogaa. 
Eohippus (e-o-hip'us), n. [NL.,< Gr. fa, dawn, 
+ i;r;rof = li.'equua, horse : see Et/uus.] A genus 
of Eocene horses, representing the oldest known 
type of the family Equida;, founded by Marsh 
(1876) upon remains from the coryphpdon-beds 
of the Lower Eocene of New Mexico, indicating 
a kind of horse about as large as a fox, with 
enwrite (en-rlf), v. t.; pret. enwrote, pp. en- '* toes and a half on each fore foot, all in- 
written, ppr. enwriting. [< en-i + write.] To cased in horn and forming hoofs, and three 
hoofed toes on each hind foot. 
1959 
That grace which doth more than enwoman thee 
Lives in my lines, and must eternal be. 
Daniel, Sonnets, xlii. 
enwonib (en-wi5m'), . t. [< en- 1 + womb.] 
If. To make pregnant. 
.Me then he left enwombed of this chllde. 
Spenter, f. Q., II. 1. 60. 
2. To bury; hide as in a womb, pit, or cavern. 
[Poetical.] 
The Africk Niger stream enumnbi 
Itself Into the earth. Donne, Elegies. 
enworthyt (en-wer'*Hi), v. t. [< en-l 4- worthy.] 
To make worthy. 
The gift of the Muses will enworthy him in his love. 
Bacon, In Speddlng, I. 380. 
enwound (en- wound'). Preterit and past par- 
ticiple of enwind. 
enwrap, enwrapped, etc. See inwrap, etc. 
enwreathe, c. *. See inwreathe. 
write upon something; inscribe; imprint. [Po- 
etical.] 
What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten 
Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres ! 
Poe, To Helen. 
enwrought, p. a. See inwrought. 
Enyidae (e-ni'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Enyo + -ida.] 
A family of retetelarian spiders, typified by the 
genus t-nyo, and peculiar in the structure of the 
spinnerets. See Zodariida;. Also Enyoida. 
Enyo (en'i-6), n. [NL., < Gr. 'Ew<5, a goddess 
of battle (equiy. to L. Bettona).] 1. A genus 
of spiders, typical of the family Enyida. Sa- 
vigny and Audouin, 1825-7. 2. A genus of 
sphinx-moths. Hiibner, 1816. 
Enyphantaet (en-i-fan'te), n. pi. [NL., pi. of 
Euyphanta, < Gr. ewfavrof, inwoven, < hvfaiveiv, 
weave in, < cv, in, + vfaivetv, weave.] A group 
of tineid moths. Hiibner. 
enziet, . [Sc. for ensenzie, ensign : see ensign.] 
An ensign. [Scotch.] 
When the Grants came doun the brae, 
Their Enzie shook for fear. 
Marquis of Huntley's Retreat (Child's Ballads, VII. 273). 
enzone (en-zon'), v. t.: pret. and pp. enzoned, 
ppr. enzoning. [< en-i + zone.] To inclose 
as with a zone or belt ; encircle. 
The chapel-like farm-house, half-hidden among the 
groves that enzone Oreenbank. J. Wilton. 
enzootic (en-zo-ot'ik), a. and n. [= F. enzo- 
otique ; < Gr. cv, in, among, + fvv, an animal, 
+ -otic (as in epizootic, etc.).] I. a. Perma- 
nently apt to affect brutes in a particular dis- 
trict : said of diseases. Enzootic and epizootic have 
the same meaning in reference to brutes aa endemic and 
epidemic in reference to man. 
II. n. 1. The continuous prevalence of a dis- 
ease among brutes in a particular district. 2. 
A disease of brutes locally prevalent. 
This substance lergotized grasses), although used in vet- 
erinary practice, often produces disastrous tnzovtict, dif- 
fering, however, in their apparent symptoms. 
Science, IV., No. 91, p. vi. 
enzym, enzyme (en'zim), . [< MGr. 
leavened, fermented,<Gr. ev, in, + (vfiij, leaven. 
Cf. azym.] 1. Any of the unorganized fer- 
ments, as diastase, maltin, pepsin, trypsin, etc., 
which exist in seeds, etc. 2. Leavened bread, 
or a loaf of leavened bread ; especially, the eu- 
charistic bread used by the orthodox Greek and 
other Oriental churches, except the Armenians 
and Maronites: opposed to azym. Usually in 
the plural. 
"If,"saysheITheorianus, A. D. 1170), "the Divine virtue 
changes the oblations into the Body and Blood of Christ, 
it is superfluous to dispute whether they were of Azymes 
or Enzymes, or of red or white wine." 
J. M. Keale, Eastern Church, i. 1074. 
enzymotic (en-zi-mot'ik), a. [< enzym + -otic, 
after zymotic.] Pertaining or relating to the 
unorganized chemical ferments. 
eoan (e-6'an), a. [< L. eous, < Gr. rtQos , fciof , of 
the morning, eastern, < fa = L. aurora, dawn : 
see aurora and east.] Of or pertaining to the 
dawn; eastern. [Poetical.] 
The Mithra of the Middle World, 
That sheds Eoan radiance on the West 
Sir //. Taylor, Isaac Comnenus, ili 5. 
Eocene (e'o-sen), a. and n. [< Gr. fa, dawn (see 
Eos). + Ktuv6f, recent.] I. a. 1. Literally, of 
the dawu of the recent: applied in geology to 
one of the divisions of the Tertiary, as origi- 
nally suggested by Lyell. 2. In paleon., hav- 
ing existed in this geological period: said of 
animals whose remains occur in the Eocene. 
II. . In geol., a division of the Tertiary. See 
Tertiary. 
From the same Eocene [Tertiary of the Rocky Moun- 
tains] come the two earliest equities, Eohiyputt and Orc~ 
hippus, and a host of other strange forms, all of them 
widely different from anything now living. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 614. 
Eohyus (e-o-hi'us), n. [NL., < Gr. fa, dawn, 
+ if = L. sus, hog, swine: see swine.] A ge- 
nus of Eocene swine, representing the oldest 
type of the Suidte, founded upon remains from 
the Lower Eocene of North America. Marsh, 
1877. 
Eolian, Eolic. See Molian, Molic. 
Eolidae, Eolididae, n.pl. Less proper forma of 
JZolididtn. 
Eolidinae, H. pi. See JSolidinas. 
eolipile, eolipyle, n. See a-olipile. 
Eolis, M. See Molia. 
eolithic (e-o-lith'ik), a. [< Gr. fa, the dawn, 
+ /.ithf, a stone.] In archaol., of or pertain- 
ing to the early part of the paleolithic period 
of prehistoric time. 
eon, aeon (e'on), n. [< LL. aeon (def. 2), < Gr. 
aiuv, a period of existence, an age, a lifetime, 
a long space of time, eternity, later in philos. 
an eon (def. 2), = L. aevum, OL. axiom, a space 
of time, an age, = Goth, aiws, an age, a long 
period: see ayi, aye*, age, etern.] 1. A long 
space of time ; a secular period, either indefi- 
nite or limited to the duration of something, as 
a dispensation or the universe : used as equiv- 
alent to age, era, or cycle, and sometimes to 
eternity. 
Then a scratch with the trusty old dagger . . . will save 
... me from any more philosophic doubts for a few trout 
of ages, till we meet again in new lives. 
Kingtley, Hypatla, xxl. 
Where, irons ago, with half-shut eye, 
The sluggish saurian crawled to die. 
Lowell, Pictures from Appledore. 
Out of the deep, 
Where all that was to be, In all that was, 
Whlrl'd for a million ceoiu thro' the vast 
Waste dawn of multitudinous-eddying light. 
Tennyson, I>e Profundis. 
The rigidity of old conceptions has been relaxed, the 
public mind being rendered gradually tolerant of the idea 
that not for six thousand, nor for sixty thousand, nor for 
six thousand thousand, but for eon* embracing untold 
millions of years, this earth has been the theatre of life 
and death. Tyndall. 
2. In Platonic philos., a virtue, attribute, or 
perfection existing throughout eternity. The 
rlatonists represented the Deity as an assemblage of eons. 
The Gnostics considered eons as certain substantial powers 
or divine natures emanating from the Supreme Deity, and 
performing various parts in the operations of the universe. 
eonian, aeonian (e-6'ni-an), a. [< Gr. aiuvtof, 
lasting for an age, perpetual, eternal, < aiuv, an 
age: see eon.] Lasting for eons or ages ; ever- 
lasting. [Poetical.] 
Streams that swift or slow 
Draw down Ionian hills, and sow 
The dust of continents to be. 
Tcnnyton, In Meiuorlam, xxxv. 
Some sweet morning yet, hi God's 
Dim (eonian periods, 
Joyful I shall wake to see 
Those I love who rest In Thee. 
Whittier, Andrew Rykman's Prayer. 
eonlc, aeonic (e-on'ik), a. [< eon, (eon, + -ic.] 
Cyclic; eternal. 
Suns are kindled and extinguished. Constellations 
spread the floor of heaven for a time, to be swept away by 
the ceonic march of events. Winchell, World-Life, p. 547. 
eonist, aeonist (e'o-nist), n. [< eon, a:on, + -ist.] 
One who believes in the eternal duration of the 
world. -V. E. D. 
Eonycteris (e-o-nik'te-ris), M. [NL., < Gr. fa, 
dawn, the east, + mmplf, a bat.] A genus of 
fruit-bats, of the macroglossine section of Ptt- 
