English Dictionary: Eptesicus | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eftsoon \Eft*soon"\, Eftsoons \Eft*soons"\, adv. [OE. eftsone, eftsones; AS. eft + s[?]na soon. See {Eft}, and {Soon}.] Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. --Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. --Spenser. | |
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Eftsoon \Eft*soon"\, Eftsoons \Eft*soons"\, adv. [OE. eftsone, eftsones; AS. eft + s[?]na soon. See {Eft}, and {Soon}.] Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. --Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. --Spenser. | |
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Eophytic \E`o*phyt"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to eophytes. | |
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Epideictic \Ep`i*deic"tic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to show forth, display; 'epi` + [?] to show. Cf. {Epidictic}.] Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade. | |
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Epidictic \Ep`i*dic"tic\, Epidictical \Ep`i*dic"tic*al\, a. [L. epidictius. See {Epideictic}.] Serving to explain; demonstrative. | |
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Epidictic \Ep`i*dic"tic\, Epidictical \Ep`i*dic"tic*al\, a. [L. epidictius. See {Epideictic}.] Serving to explain; demonstrative. | |
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Epiotic \Ep`i*o"tic\, n. [Pref. epi- + Gr. [?], gen. [?], ear.] (Anat.) The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone. | |
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Epodic \E*pod"ic\, a. [Gr. [?].] Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode. | |
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Currant \Cur"rant\ (k?r"rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.] 1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. 2. The acid fruit or berry of the {Ribes rubrum} or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. 3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus {Ribes} (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the {Ribes rubrum}. {Black currant},a shrub or bush ({Ribes nigrum} and {R. floridum}) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. {Cherry currant}, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. {Currant borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth ({[92]geria tipuliformis}) and a longicorn beetle ({Psenocerus supernotatus}). {Currant worm} (Zo[94]l.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly ({Nematus ventricosus}), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm ({Eufitchia ribearia}). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly ({Epochra Canadensis}), and a spanworm ({Eupithecia}). {Flowering currant}, {Missouri currant}, a species of {Ribes} ({R. aureum}), having showy yellow flowers. | |
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Troilus \Tro"i*lus\, n.; pl. L. {Troili}, E. {Troiluses}. [NL., fr. L. Troilus, Gr. [?], the son of Priam.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, handsome American butterfly ({Euph[oe]ades, [or] Papilio, troilus}). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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