1. Inclosed; placed as in a shrine. NWAD ENSHRINED.2
Bearing or carrying a sword. NWAD ENSIFEROUS.2
Having the shape of a sword; as the ensiform or xiphoid cartilage; an ensiform leaf. NWAD ENSIFORM.2
1. The flag or banner of a military band; a banner of colors; a standard; a figured cloth or piece of silk, attached to a staff, and usually with figures, colors or arms thereon, borne by an officer at the head of a company, troop or other band. NWAD ENSIGN.2
2. Any signal to assemble or to give notice. NWAD ENSIGN.3
He will lift up an ensign to the nations. Isaiah 5:26. NWAD ENSIGN.4
Ye shall be left as an ensign on a hill. Isaiah 30:17. NWAD ENSIGN.5
3. A badge; a mark of distinction, rank or office; as ensigns of power or virtue. NWAD ENSIGN.6
4. The officer who carries the flag or colors, being the lowest commissioned officer in a company of infantry. NWAD ENSIGN.7
5. Naval ensign, is a large banner hoisted on a staff and carried over the poop or stern of a ship; used to distinguish ships of different nations, or to characterize different equadrons of the same navy. NWAD ENSIGN.8
1. To reduce to servitude or subjection. Men often suffer their passions and appetites to enslave them. They are enslaved to lust, to anger, to intemperance, to avarice. NWAD ENSLAVE.2
1. To make into a sphere. NWAD ENSPHERE.2
God enstamped his image on man. NWAD ENSTAMP.2
To follow; to pursue. NWAD ENSUE.2
Seek peace, and ensue it. 1 Peter 3:11. NWAD ENSUE.3
[In this sense, it is obsolete.] NWAD ENSUE.4
1. To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events. NWAD ENSUE.6
In architecture, that part of the order of a column, which is over the capital, including the architrave, frieze and cornice, being the extremity of the flooring. NWAD ENTABLATURE.2
1. An estate or fee entailed, or limited indescent to a particular heir or heirs. Estates-tail are general, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body begotten; or special, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body by a particular wife. NWAD ENTAIL.2
2. Rule of descent settled for an estate. NWAD ENTAIL.3
3. Engraver’s work; inlay. NWAD ENTAIL.4
1. To fix unalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants. By the apostasy misery is supposed to be entailed on mankind. The intemperate often entail infirmities, diseases and ruin on their children. NWAD ENTAIL.6
2. [from the French verb.] To cut; to carve for ornament. NWAD ENTAIL.7
1. Settled on a person and his descendants. NWAD ENTAILED.2
1. The act of settling unalienable on a man and his heirs. NWAD ENTAILMENT.2
1. To involve in any thing complicated, and from which it is difficult to extricate one’s self; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. NWAD ENTANGLE.2
2. To lose in numerous or complicated involutions, as in a labyrinth. NWAD ENTANGLE.3
3. To involve in difficulties; to perplex; to embarrass; as, to entangle a nation in alliances. NWAD ENTANGLE.4
4. To puzzle; to bewilder; as, to entangle the understanding. NWAD ENTANGLE.5
5. To insnare by captious questions; to catch; to perplex; to involve in contradictions. NWAD ENTANGLE.6
The Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Matthew 22:15. NWAD ENTANGLE.7
6. To perplex or distract, as with cares. NWAD ENTANGLE.8
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Timothy 2:4. NWAD ENTANGLE.9
7. To multiply intricacies and difficulties. NWAD ENTANGLE.10
1. To move or pass into place, in any manner whatever; to come or go in; to walk or ride in; to flow in; to pierce or penetrate. A man enters a house; an army enters a city or a camp; a river enters the sea; a sword enters the body; the air enters a room at every crevice. NWAD ENTER.2
2. To advance into, in the progress of life; as, a youth has entered his tenth year. NWAD ENTER.3
3. To begin in a business, employment or service; to enlist or engage in; as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age. NWAD ENTER.4
4. To become a member of; as, to enter college; to enter a society. NWAD ENTER.5
5. To admit or introduce; as, the youth was entered a member of College. NWAD ENTER.6
6. To set down in writing; to set an account in a book or register; as, the clerk entered the account or charge in the journal; he entered debt and credit at the time. NWAD ENTER.7
7. To set down, as a name; to enroll; as, to enter a name in the enlistment. NWAD ENTER.8
8. To lodge a manifest of goods at the custom-house, and gain admittance or permission to land; as, to enter goods. We say also, to enter a ship at the custom-house. NWAD ENTER.9
1. To flow in; as, water enters into a ship. NWAD ENTER.11
2. To pierce; to penetrate; as, a ball or an arrow enters into the body. NWAD ENTER.12
3. To penetrate mentally; as, to enter into the principles of action. NWAD ENTER.13
4. To engage in; as, to enter into business or service; to enter into visionary projects. NWAD ENTER.14
5. To be initiated in; as, to enter into a taste of pleasure or magnificence. NWAD ENTER.15
6. To be an ingredient; to form a constituent part. Lead enters into the composition of pewter. NWAD ENTER.16
Their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Job 5:12. NWAD ENTERPRISE.2
The business must be enterprised this night. NWAD ENTERPRISE.4
1. Bold or forward to undertake; resolute, active, or prompt to attempt great or untried schemes. Enterprising men often succeed beyond all human probability. NWAD ENTERPRISING.2
1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also. NWAD ENTERTAIN.2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2. NWAD ENTERTAIN.3
2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence. NWAD ENTERTAIN.4
3. To keep in one’s service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics. NWAD ENTERTAIN.5
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. NWAD ENTERTAIN.6
[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.] NWAD ENTERTAIN.7
4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men. NWAD ENTERTAIN.8
5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital. NWAD ENTERTAIN.9
6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God’s law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles. NWAD ENTERTAIN.10
7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company. NWAD ENTERTAIN.11
1. He who retains others in his service. NWAD ENTERTAINER.2
2. He that amuses, pleases or diverts. NWAD ENTERTAINER.3
1. Pleasing; amusing; diverting; as an entertaining discourse; an entertaining friend. NWAD ENTERTAINING.2
1. Provisions of the table; hence also, a feast; a superb dinner or supper. NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.2
2. The amusement, pleasure or instruction, derived from conversation, discourse, argument, oratory, music, dramatic performances, etc.; the pleasure which the mind receives from any thing interesting, and which holds or arrests the attention. We often have rich entertainment, in the conversation of a learned friend. NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.3
3. Reception; admission. NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.4
4. The state of being in pay or service. [Not used.] NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.5
5. Payment of those retained in service. NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.6
6. That which entertains; that which serves for amusement; the lower comedy; farce. NWAD ENTERTAINMENT.7
Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned. NWAD ENTHRONE.2
1. To exalt to an elevated place or seat. NWAD ENTHRONE.3
2. To invest with sovereign authority. NWAD ENTHRONE.4
1. A belief or conceit of private revelation; the vain confidence or opinion of a person, that he has special divine communications from the Supreme Being, or familiar intercourse with him. NWAD ENTHUSIASM.2
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. NWAD ENTHUSIASM.3
2. Heat of imagination; violent passion or excitement of the mind, in pursuit of some object, inspiring extravagant hope and confidence of success. Hence the same heat of imagination, chastised by reason or experience, becomes a noble passion, an elevated fancy, a warm imagination, an ardent zeal, that forms sublime ideas, and prompts to the ardent pursuit of laudable objects. Such is the enthusiasm of the poet, the orator, the painter and the sculptor. Such is the enthusiasm of the patriot, the hero and the christian. NWAD ENTHUSIASM.4
Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular government are destroyed. NWAD ENTHUSIASM.5
1. One who imagines he has special or supernatural converse with God, or special communications from him. NWAD ENTHUSIAST.2
2. One whose imagination is warmed; one whose mind is highly excited with the love or in the pursuit of an object; a person of ardent zeal; as an enthusiast in poetry or music. NWAD ENTHUSIAST.3
3. One of elevated fancy or exalted ideas. NWAD ENTHUSIAST.4
1. Highly excited; warm and ardent; zealous in pursuit of an object; heated to animation. Our author was an enthusiastic lover of poetry and admirer of Homer. NWAD ENTHUSIASTIC.2
2. Elevated; warm; tinctured with enthusiasm. The speaker addressed the audience in enthusiastic strains. NWAD ENTHUSIASTIC.3
1. To incite or instigate, by exciting hope or desire; usually in a bad sense; as, to entice one to evil. Hence, to seduce; to lead astray; to induce to sin, by promises or persuasions. NWAD ENTICE.2
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Proverbs 1:10. NWAD ENTICE.3
2. To tempt; to incite; to urge or lead astray. NWAD ENTICE.4
Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. James 1:14. NWAD ENTICE.5
3. To incite; to allure; in a good sense. NWAD ENTICE.6
1. Means of inciting to evil; that which seduces by exciting the passions. Flattery often operates as an enticement to sin. NWAD ENTICEMENT.2
2. Allurement. NWAD ENTICEMENT.3
1. Having the qualities that entice or allure. NWAD ENTICING.2
She sings most enticingly. NWAD ENTICINGLY.2
1. Whole; undivided; unbroken; complete in its parts. NWAD ENTIRE.2
2. Whole; complete; not participated with others. This man has the entire control of the business. NWAD ENTIRE.3
3. Full; complete; comprising all requisites in itself. NWAD ENTIRE.4
An action is entire, when it is complete in all its parts. NWAD ENTIRE.5
4. Sincere; hearty. NWAD ENTIRE.6
He run a course more entire with the king of Arragon. NWAD ENTIRE.7
5. Firm; solid; sure; fixed; complete; undisputed. NWAD ENTIRE.8
Entire and sure the monarch’s rule must prove, NWAD ENTIRE.9
Who founds her greatness on her subjects’ love. NWAD ENTIRE.10
6. Unmingled; unalloyed. NWAD ENTIRE.11
In thy presence joy entire. NWAD ENTIRE.12
7. Wholly devoted; firmly adherent; faithful. NWAD ENTIRE.13
No man had a heart more entire to the king. NWAD ENTIRE.14
8. In full strength; unbroken. NWAD ENTIRE.15
9. In botany, an entire stem is one without branches; an entire leaf is without any opening in the edge, not divided. NWAD ENTIRE.16
1. In the whole; without division. NWAD ENTIRELY.2
Euphrates--falls not entirely into the Persian sea. NWAD ENTIRELY.3
2. With firm adherence or devotion; faithfully. NWAD ENTIRELY.4
1. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. NWAD ENTIRENESS.2
1. The whole. NWAD ENTIRETY.2
1. To give a title to; to give or prefix a name or appellation; as, to entitle a book, Commentaries on the laws of England. NWAD ENTITLE.2
2. To superscribe or prefix as a title. Hence as titles are evidences of claim or property, to give a claim to; to give a right to demand or receive. The labor of the servant entitles him to his wages. Milton is entitled to fame. Our best services do not entitle us to heaven. NWAD ENTITLE.3
3. To assign or appropriate by giving a title. NWAD ENTITLE.4
4. To qualify; to give a claim by the possession of suitable qualifications; as, an officer’s talents entitle him to command. NWAD ENTITLE.5
5. To dignify by a title or honorable appelation. In this sense, title is often used. NWAD ENTITLE.6
6. To ascribe. NWAD ENTITLE.7
Fortune is no real entity. NWAD ENTITY.2
1. A real being, or species of being. NWAD ENTITY.3
1. To bury in a grave; to inter. NWAD ENTOMB.2
A fossil substance bearing the figure of an insect, or a petrified insect. NWAD ENTOMOLITE.2
That part of zoology which treats of insects; the science or history and description of insects. NWAD ENTOMOLOGY.2
1. The internal parts of animal bodies; particularly, the guts or intestines; the bowels; used chiefly in the plural. NWAD ENTRAIL.2
2. The internal parts; as the entrails of the earth. NWAD ENTRAIL.3
The dark entrails of America. NWAD ENTRAIL.4