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   epideictic
         adj 1: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic
                  orations" [syn: {epideictic}, {epideictical}]

English Dictionary: Eptesicus fuscus by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epideictic oratory
n
  1. a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people; "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epideictical
adj
  1. designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"
    Synonym(s): epideictic, epideictical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epidiascope
n
  1. an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epitaxy
n
  1. growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eptesicus
n
  1. a genus of Vespertilionidae [syn: Eptesicus, {genus Eptesicus}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eptesicus fuscus
n
  1. rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed
    Synonym(s): big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eptesicus serotinus
n
  1. common brown bat of Europe [syn: serotine, {European brown bat}, Eptesicus serotinus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eyepatch
n
  1. a protective cloth covering for an injured eye [syn: eyepatch, patch]
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.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eophytic \E`o*phyt"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to eophytes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Epidictic \Ep`i*dic"tic\, Epidictical \Ep`i*dic"tic*al\, a. [L.
      epidictius. See {Epideictic}.]
      Serving to explain; demonstrative.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Epidictic \Ep`i*dic"tic\, Epidictical \Ep`i*dic"tic*al\, a. [L.
      epidictius. See {Epideictic}.]
      Serving to explain; demonstrative.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Epodic \E*pod"ic\, a. [Gr. [?].]
      Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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]:
   EFTS
  
      {electronic funds transfer}
  
  
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