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•EFFOY'ES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube: three leagues eaft of Bar-fur-Seine. 
EFFRAC'TOR, /. [from ex, out of, and frango, Lat. 
to break.] One that nreaks through; one that breaks in¬ 
to a houfe; a burglar. Not vfed. 
EFFR./EN A'TION, f. [from ear, out of, and fnena, 
Lat. a bridle.] Ungovernablenefs. Not vfed. 
EFFR AI'ABLE, adj. [effroyable, Fr.] Dreadful; fright¬ 
ful; terrible.—Peftilential fymptoms declare nothing a 
proportionate efficient of their cffraiable nature but arfeni- 
cal fumes. Harvey. 
EFFRIN'GED, adj. [from ex, out of, and frango, Lat. 
to break.] Broken; ground to powder. Not vfed. 
EFFRON'TERY, f. [effronterie, Fr.] Impudence; 
Ihameleffhefs ; contempt of reproach.—A bold man’s ef~ 
frontery, in company with women, mull be owing to his 
low opinion of them, and his high one of himfelf. Clarijfa. 
EFFRON'TES,/ in church-hiftory, a fed of heretics, 
in 1534, who feraped their forehead with a knife till it 
bled, and then poured oil into the wound. This cere¬ 
mony ferved them inflead of baptifm. They are likewife 
faid to have denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit. 
To EFFUL'GE, v.n. [effulgeo, Lat.] To fend forth 
luftre or effulgence : 
The topaz charms the fight, 
Like thefe effulging yellow dreams of light. Savage. 
EFFUL'GENCE, f. [effulgeo, Lat.] Luftre; bright- 
nefs; clarity; fplendour: 
On thee 
Xmprefs’d, th’ effulgence of his glory abides. Milton. 
EFFUL'GENT, adj. [effulgens, Lat.] Shining; bright; 
luminous : 
How foon th’ effulgent emanations fly 
Through the blue gulph of interpofing fky. Blackmore. 
The downward fun 
Looks out effulgent, from amid’ the flafh 
Of broken clouds. Thomfen. 
EFFUMABI'LITY, /. [fumus, Lat.] The quality of 
flying away, or vapouring in fumes.—They feem to de¬ 
fine mercury by volatility, or, if I may coin fuch a word, 
tffumability. Boyle. 
To EFFU'ND, v. a. [from ex, out of, and fundo, Lat. 
to pour.] To pour out. Scott. 
To EFFU'SE, v. a. [ efftfus, Lat.] To pour out; to 
fpill; to fhed : 
He fell, and, deadly pale, 
Groan’d out his foul, with gufhing blood effus'd. Milton. 
EFFU'SE,/. Wafte; effufion: 
The air hath got into my deadly wounds, 
And much effufe of blood doth make me faint. Shakefpeare. 
EFFU'SION,/. [effufio, Lat.] The a£l of pouring out: 
My heart hath melted at a lady’s tears, 
Being an ordinary inundation ; 
But this effufion of fuch manly drops, 
This fhow'’r, blown up by temped of the foul, 
Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amaz’d. Shakefp. 
Wafte; the aft of fpilling or fhedding.—When there was 
but as yet one only family in the world, no means of in- 
ftrufiion, human or divine, could prevent effufion of blood. 
Hooker.. 
Yet fir all die be reftor’d, fince public good 
For private int’reft ought not be withftood, 
To fav.e th’ effufion of my people’s blood. Dryden. 
The aft of pouring out words.—Endlefs and fenfelefs effu~ 
fions of indigefted prayers, oftentimes difgrace, in moft in- 
lufferable manner, the worthieft part of Chriftian duty 
towards God. Hooker. —Bounteous donation.—Such great 
force the gofpel of Chrift had then upon men’s fouls, 
melting them into that liberal effufion of all that they had. 
Hammond.-^Tht thing poured out.—Purge me with the 
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blood of my Redeemer, and I fhall be clean ;• wafh me 
with that precious effufion, and 1 fhall be whiter thaw 
fnow. King Charles. 
EFFU'SIVE, adj. Pouring out; difperfing : 
The north-eaft fpends its rage; th’ ffvfive fouth 
Warms the wide air. Thomfon. 
EFFUTI'TIOUS, adj. [from ex, cut of, and fundo , 
Lat. to pour.] Lavifhly diftributed ; foclifhly uttered. 
Not ufed. 
EFLA'NI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia : thirty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Amafieh. 
EFNANI.U', a lake of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia : thirty-fix miles weft of.Boli. 
E'FRIM, a town cf Egypt: tvventy-feven miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Alexandria. 
EFT, f. [epera, Sax.] A newt; an evet; a fmall k'md 
of lizard that lives generally in the water. See Lacerta. 
—The crocodile of Egypt is the lizard of Italy, and the 
eft in our country. Nicholas. 
EFT, adv. [epe, Sax.] Soon; quickly; fpeedily; 
fhortly. Obfolete; 
Quhe confirmed with flame, 
The idol is of that eternal maid; 
For fo at lead I have preferv’d the fame, 
With hands profane, from being eft betray’d. Fairfax . 
Again.— Eft looking back would faine have runne away. 
Spenfer. —Afterwards: 
Eft, when yeares 
More rype as reafon lent to chofe our peares, 
Ourfelves in league of vowed love we knit. Spenfer. 
Likewife.—Yet Teem’d the foyle both fayre and frute- 
full eft. Spenfer. 
EFT'SOONS, adv. [ept and poon, Sax.] Soon after¬ 
wards ; in a fhort time ; again. An obfolete word ; formed, 
as it feems, by the conjunction of two words of the fame 
meaning.—The Germans deadly hated the Turks, where¬ 
of it was to be thought that new wars ftiould eftfoovs en- 
fue. Knolles. 
Fftfoons, O fweetheart kind, my love repay, 
And all the year fhall then be holiday. Gay. 
E. G. [exempligratia. ] For the fake of an inftance or 
example. 
E'GA, a river of Spain, which runs into the Ebro„ 
about a league below Calahorra. 
E'GA, or Aega, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Beira: feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of Coimbra. 
EGAK'LO, one of the fmaller Kut ule iflands, in the 
North Pacific Ocean. Lat. 49.5. N. Ion. 172.10. E. Ferro, 
EG'BEL, a town of Hungary : eight miles weft of 
Topaltzan. 
EG'BERT, [of ece, eternal, and beopihr, Sax. flou- 
rifhing, q. d. always flourilhing; but Verrtegan derives it 
from eghr, equity, and bepilrc, propenfe, q. d. greatly 
inclined to equity.] A man’s name; the name of the firft: 
monarch of England. See England. 
EGE'DE (Hans or John), fuperintendant of the Da¬ 
nilh million to Greenland, born in January 1686, and in 
1707 became preacher at Bogen in Nordland. Soon af¬ 
ter, he formed a refolution of converting the Greenlanders 
to the Chriftian religion ; for which purpofe he went to 
Greenland in 1721, where he firft eftablilhed the Danilli 
million, and where he refided continually for fifteen years, 
employed with great zeal in endeavouring to accomplifti 
his pious undertaking. He died on the 3th of November 
1758, at Stubekioping, in the Danilh illand of Falfter. 
Egede left behind him a natural hiftory of Greenland, 
which appeared firft in Danilh, in 1729, 4to. A new edi¬ 
tion, improved by the obfervations of his fon Paul, was 
publilhedat Copenhagen, with plates, in 1741. A Dutch 
tranflation appeared at Delft in Holland, in 1746, 4to„ 
and a French, by Roches de Parthenay, at Geneva, in 
1763, 8vo. with a map and ten plates. 
EGE'DE 
