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to the naked eye, very fimple, and moftly cylindrical. 
The fpecies are delcribed under the article Animalcule, 
vol. i. p. 718, 719. Three of them, viz. the pumStifera, 
caudJta, and retrograda, are reprefented, greatly magni¬ 
fied, in the Engraving. 
EN'CHENREUTFI, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Franconia, and bifhopric of Bamberg: thirty-fix-miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Bamberg. 
ENCHIRI'DION, f. [from ev, and Gr. a hand.] 
A manual, or fmall volume, that may be carried about 
in one’s hand ; a pocket-book. 
ENCHYMO'SIS, f. [from sv, and yya, Gr. to pour 
in.] Blufhing, or the hidden effufion of blood into the 
cutaneous veflels. Alfo an extravafation of blood which 
makes the part look livid. 
To ENCIR'Ct.E, v. a. To furround ; to environ; to 
enclofe in a ring or circle ; to enring : 
That flranger gueft the Paphian realm obeys, 
A realm defended with encircling feas. Pope. 
ENCIR'CLET, /. A circle ; a ring : 
In whofe encirclets. if ye gaze, 
Your eyes may tread a lover’s maze. Sidney. 
ENCK'I-IUSEN, a fea-port town of Holland, on the 
coaft of the Zuyder Sea, which encompafles two-thirds 
of it, and forms it into a peninfula ; it takes its name 
from two words which fignify fome houfes, confiding ori¬ 
ginally of only a few fifiiermen’s huts. William, comte 
of Holland, gave it the privileges of a town, and fur- 
rounded it with walls, in 1355; before that time it had 
been burnt down by John d’Arkel and Nicholas de Put- 
ten, in 1292. In 1514, an inundation deftroyed part of 
the ramparts and fome houfes. In 1517, the Gtieldrians, 
who were at war with the Hollanders, attempted to take 
it by furprife, but the fudden ebbing of the tide fruftra¬ 
ted their defign. It had formerly a good harbour, large, 
commodious, and much frequented. In 1394, Albert, 
comte of Holland, defirotis to pafs over to Friefland with 
his army, affembled here 3000 veflels; Charles'V. and 
his fon Philip, embarked from hence to Spain, and all 
their Blips were kept in this port; bur the harbour is 
now too much obflru&ed by fand to permit very large 
veffels to enter with convenience: it is however a port 
of good trade, particularly in fait fifh. The (freets are 
x clean, with a great number of canals, the houfes hand- 
forne, and the public buildings good, efpecially the town- 
houfe, which is embellifhed with a very lofty tower, and 
is equal tetany in Holland, except that of Amflerdam. 
The three towns, Enckhufen, Hoorn, and Medemblic, 
have the privilege of coining money each feven years al¬ 
ternately: twenty-eight miles nor-th-north-eafl of Amfter¬ 
dam. Lat. 52. 42. N Ion. 22. 38. E. Ferro. 
ENCK'ENDORP, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holftein : fix milesfouth-ead of Renfburg. 
ENCLI'TICS, f. [syxAir ma, Gr.] Particles which 
throw back the accent upon the foregoing fyllable. 
To ENCLO'SE, v. a. \_endos, Fr.] To part from things 
or grounds common by a fence.—The protestor caufed a 
_ proclamation to be fet forth againft enclo,hires, command¬ 
ing that they who had enclofed lands, accuftomed to lie 
open, fliould lie them open again. Hayward. —To envi¬ 
ron ; to encircle ; to furround ; to encompafs ; to fhut in 
between other things ; to include. To hold by an ex- 
clufive claim.—The fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, 
and a jafper: they'lhall be fet in gold in their enclofings. 
Exod. xxviii. 20. 
The peer now fpreads the glitt’ring forfex wide, 
T’ enclofe the lock ; now joins it, to divide. Pope. 
ENCLO'SER, f. One that enclofes or feparates com¬ 
mon fields in feveral diflindt properties. Any thing in 
which another is enclofed : 
If God had laid all common, certainly 
Man would have been th’ enclofer ; but fince now 
God hath impal’d us, on the contrary, 
Man breaks the fence, Herbert. 
ENCLO'SURE, f. The adt of enclofing or environing 
any thing.—The membranes are for the comprehenfion 
or enclofure of all. Wilkins. —The reparation of common 
grounds into diflindt polfellions.—Touching enclofures, a 
company of lands included are thereby improved in worth 
two or three' parts at the lead. Hayward. —The appro¬ 
priation of things common. — Let no man appropriate 
what God hath made Common ; that is againft judice and 
charity, and by miraculous accidents God hath declared 
his difpleafure againft fuch cnclofure. Taylor. —State of 
being fhut up in any place; encompaflfed, or environed.— 
This expreltes particularly the enclofure of the waters 
within the earth. Burnet. —The fpace enclofed; the fpace 
comprehended within certain limits : 
And all, that elfe this world’s enclofure bafe 
Hath great or glorious in mortal eye, 
Adorns the perfon of her majefty. Spenfer. 
Several ; ground enclofed ; ground feparated from the 
common.—’Tis not the common, but the enclofure mull 
make him rich. South. 
ENCLOU'DED, adj. Covered with clouds.—The 
heavens on ev’ry fide enclouded be. Spenfer's Gnat. 
ENCOF'FINED, adj. Enclofed in a coffin.—His body 
reded here in quietneffe until the didolution, when for 
the gain of the lead in which it was encojfined, it was taken 
up and thrown into the next water. Weever. 
ENCOLAP'TICE, /. [Gr.] The art of making brafs 
plates, and cutting in the figures and letters for inferip- 
tions-and laws. 
ENCOM'BERMENT, f. [Fr.] Moledation : 
The bed advizement was of bad, to let her 
Sleepe out her llll without encomberment. Spenfer. 
ENCO'M I AST, f. [e •yy.idpia.rvis, Gr.] A panegyrid ; 
a proclaimer of praife ; a praifer.—The Jefuits are the 
great encomiafs of the Chinefe. Locke. 
ENCOMIAS'TIC, or Encomiastical, adj. [from 
Eyicw/Aiarixo?, Gr.] Panegyrical; laudatory; containing 
praife ; bedowing praife. 
ENCOMIAS'TIC, f. [from the adj.'] An encomium ; 
a copy of verfes in praife of any perfon. 
ENCO'MIUM, f. [EyKfti^iov, Gr.] Panegyric ; praife; 
eulogy.—How eagerly do fome men propagate every lit¬ 
tle encomium their pan/ites make of them. Government of 
the Tongue. 
A vile encomium doubly ridicules ; 
There’s nothing blackens like the ink of fools. Pope. 
TVENCOM'PASS, v. a. To-enclofe; to encircle : 
Look how my ring encompaffeth my finger ; 
Ev’n fo thy bread enclofeth.my poor heart. Shakcfpcare. 
Poetic fields encompafs me around, 
And dill I feem to tread on ciafiic ground. Addifon. 
To flint in ; to furround ; to environ : 
He, having fcarce fix thoufand in his troop, 
By three and twenty thoufand of the French 
Was round encompajfed and let upon. Shakefpeare. 
To go round any place ; as, Anfcn encompalfed the world. 
ENCOM'PASSMENT, f. Circumlocution; oblique 
tendency of talk: 
Finding 
By this encompaffment and drift of quedion, 
That they do know my fon, come you more near. 
Shakefpeare. 
EN'COPE, f. [Gr. ] An incifion ; a cut; a ga(h.- 
ENCO'RE, adv. [Fr.] Again ; once more,. A vocife¬ 
ration ufed at public theatres, when a performer is de¬ 
filed by the audience to do the fame thing again: 
To the fame notes thy fons filial 1 hum or (nore, 
And all thy yawning daughters cry encore. Dunciad. 
ENCOUNTER,/, [encontre, Fr.] Duel; fingle fight.5 
conflict; 
Pallas 
