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   Ebola
         n 1: a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman
               primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola
               virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal
               bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely
               limited to Africa [syn: {Ebola hemorrhagic fever}, {Ebola
               fever}, {Ebola}]

English Dictionary: evil by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eiffel
n
  1. French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923)
    Synonym(s): Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evil
adj
  1. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
    Antonym(s): good
  2. having the nature of vice
    Synonym(s): evil, vicious
  3. having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
    Synonym(s): malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
n
  1. morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity]
  2. that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
  3. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
    Synonym(s): evil, evilness
    Antonym(s): good, goodness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evil eye
n
  1. a look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evilly
adv
  1. in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly"
    Synonym(s): wickedly, evilly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eyeball
n
  1. the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye [syn: eyeball, orb]
v
  1. look at
    Synonym(s): eye, eyeball
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eyeful
n
  1. a strikingly beautiful woman; "she was a statuesque redheaded eyeful"
  2. a full view; a good look; "they wanted to see violence and they got an eyeful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Epaule \E*paule"\, n. [F. [82]paule shoulder, shoulder of a
      bastion. See {Epaulet}, and cf. {Spall} the shoulder.]
      (Fort.)
      The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and
      flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the
      shoulder.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Epihyal \Ep`i*hy"al\, n. [Pref. epi- + the Greek letter [?].]
      (Anat.)
      A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eval \E"val\ ([emac]"v[ait]l), a. [L. aevum lifetime, age,
      eternity.]
      Relating to time or duration. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aleppo boil \A*lep"po boil\, button \button\, [or] evil \evil\ .
      (Med.)
      A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most
      commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean,
      and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also
      {Aleppo ulcer}, {Biskara boil}, {Delhi boil}, {Oriental
      sore}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E"vil\ ([emac]"v'l) n.
      1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or
            deprives a being of any good; anything which causes
            suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury;
            mischief; harm; -- opposed to {good}.
  
                     Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. --Milton.
  
                     The evil that men do lives after them. --Shak.
  
      2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
            principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will
            of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful
            human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence;
            wickedness; depravity.
  
                     The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
                                                                              --Eccl. ix. 3.
  
      3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil,
            the scrofula. [R.] --Shak.
  
                     He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched
                     for the evil.                                    --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E"vil\, adv.
      In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
      injuriously; unkindly. --Shak.
  
               It went evil with his house.                  --1 Chron.
                                                                              vii. 23.
  
               The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
                                                                              --Deut. xxvi.
                                                                              6.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E*vil\a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to
      OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. [81]bel, Goth.
      ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
      1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
            nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous;
            not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil
            beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
  
                     A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt.
                                                                              vii. 18.
  
      2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
            wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart,
            words, and the like.
  
                     Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's
                     approach is seen so terrible.            --Shak.
  
      3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
            calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil
            arrows; evil days.
  
                     Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a
                     virgin of Israel.                              --Deut. xxii.
                                                                              19.
  
                     The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {Evil eye}, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or
            fascinating influence. It is still believed by the
            ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the
            supernatural power of injuring by a look.
  
                     It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J.
                                                                              H. Newman.
  
      {Evil speaking}, speaking ill of others; calumny;
            censoriousness.
  
      {The evil one}, the Devil; Satan.
  
      Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a
               compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the
               compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil
               doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil
               worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.
  
      Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful;
               destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse;
               wrong; vicious; calamitous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aleppo boil \A*lep"po boil\, button \button\, [or] evil \evil\ .
      (Med.)
      A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most
      commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean,
      and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also
      {Aleppo ulcer}, {Biskara boil}, {Delhi boil}, {Oriental
      sore}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E"vil\ ([emac]"v'l) n.
      1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or
            deprives a being of any good; anything which causes
            suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury;
            mischief; harm; -- opposed to {good}.
  
                     Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. --Milton.
  
                     The evil that men do lives after them. --Shak.
  
      2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
            principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will
            of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful
            human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence;
            wickedness; depravity.
  
                     The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
                                                                              --Eccl. ix. 3.
  
      3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil,
            the scrofula. [R.] --Shak.
  
                     He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched
                     for the evil.                                    --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E"vil\, adv.
      In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
      injuriously; unkindly. --Shak.
  
               It went evil with his house.                  --1 Chron.
                                                                              vii. 23.
  
               The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
                                                                              --Deut. xxvi.
                                                                              6.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E*vil\a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to
      OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. [81]bel, Goth.
      ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
      1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
            nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous;
            not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil
            beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
  
                     A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt.
                                                                              vii. 18.
  
      2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
            wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart,
            words, and the like.
  
                     Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's
                     approach is seen so terrible.            --Shak.
  
      3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
            calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil
            arrows; evil days.
  
                     Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a
                     virgin of Israel.                              --Deut. xxii.
                                                                              19.
  
                     The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {Evil eye}, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or
            fascinating influence. It is still believed by the
            ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the
            supernatural power of injuring by a look.
  
                     It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J.
                                                                              H. Newman.
  
      {Evil speaking}, speaking ill of others; calumny;
            censoriousness.
  
      {The evil one}, the Devil; Satan.
  
      Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a
               compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the
               compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil
               doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil
               worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.
  
      Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful;
               destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse;
               wrong; vicious; calamitous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil eye \E"vil eye`\
      See {Evil eye} under {Evil}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evil \E*vil\a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to
      OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. [81]bel, Goth.
      ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
      1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
            nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous;
            not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil
            beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
  
                     A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt.
                                                                              vii. 18.
  
      2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
            wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart,
            words, and the like.
  
                     Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's
                     approach is seen so terrible.            --Shak.
  
      3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
            calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil
            arrows; evil days.
  
                     Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a
                     virgin of Israel.                              --Deut. xxii.
                                                                              19.
  
                     The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {Evil eye}, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or
            fascinating influence. It is still believed by the
            ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the
            supernatural power of injuring by a look.
  
                     It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J.
                                                                              H. Newman.
  
      {Evil speaking}, speaking ill of others; calumny;
            censoriousness.
  
      {The evil one}, the Devil; Satan.
  
      Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a
               compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the
               compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil
               doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil
               worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.
  
      Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful;
               destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse;
               wrong; vicious; calamitous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Evilly \E"vil*ly\, adv.
      In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] [bd]Good deeds
      evilly bestowed.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eyeball \Eye"ball`\, n.
      The ball or globe of the eye.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eyeful \Eye"ful\, a.
      Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable. [Obs.]
      [bd]Eyeful trophies.[b8] --Chapman.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Eufaula, AL (city, FIPS 24568)
      Location: 31.90928 N, 85.15035 W
      Population (1990): 13220 (5457 housing units)
      Area: 153.9 sq km (land), 36.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36004, 36027
   Eufaula, OK (city, FIPS 24650)
      Location: 35.29286 N, 95.58668 W
      Population (1990): 2652 (1388 housing units)
      Area: 17.2 sq km (land), 7.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 74432

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   evil adj.   As used by hackers, implies that some system,
   program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be
   not worth the bother of dealing with.   Unlike the adjectives in the
   {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply
   incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design
   criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's.   This usage is
   more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the
   mainstream sense.   "We thought about adding a {Blue Glue} interface
   but decided it was too evil to deal with."   "{TECO} is neat, but it
   can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos."   Often pronounced with
   the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.   Compare {evil and
   rude}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   EFL
  
      {Extended Fortran Language}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Eiffel
  
      An {object-oriented} language produced by {Bertrand
      Meyer} in 1985.   Eiffel has {classes} with {multiple
      inheritance} and {repeated inheritance}, {deferred class}es
      (like {Smalltalk}'s {abstract class}), and {cluster}s of
      classes.   Objects can have both {static type}s and {dynamic
      type}s.   The dynamic type must be a descendant of the static
      (declared) type.   {Dynamic binding} resolves {multiple
      inheritance} clashes.   It has flattened forms of classes, in
      which all of the inherited features are added at the same
      level and {generic class}es parametrised by type.
  
      Other features are {persistent object}s, {garbage collection},
      {exception} handling, {foreign language interface}.   Classes
      may be equipped with {assertions} (routine preconditions and
      postconditions, class {invariant}s) implementing the theory of
      "{Design by Contract}" and helping produce more reliable
      software.
  
      Eiffel is compiled to {C}.   It comes with libraries containing
      several hundred classes: data structures and {algorithm}s
      (EiffelBase), graphics and user interfaces (EiffelVision) and
      language analysis (EiffelLex, EiffelParse).
  
      The first release of Eiffel was release 1.4, introduced at the
      first {OOPSLA} in October 1986.   The language proper was first
      described in a University of California, Santa Barbara report
      dated September 1985.
  
      Eiffel is available, with different libraries, from several
      sources including {Interactive Software Engineering}, USA (ISE
      Eiffel version 3.3); Sig Computer GmbH, Germany (Eiffel/S);
      and {Tower, Inc.}, Austin (Tower Eiffel).
  
      The language definition is administered by an open
      organisation, the Nonprofit International Consortium for
      Eiffel (NICE).   There is a standard kernel library.
  
      An {Eiffel source checker} and compiler {front-end} is
      available.
  
      Latest version: 4.2, as of 1998-10-28.
  
      Latest version: ISE Eiffel version 3.3.
  
      See also {Sather}, {Distributed Eiffel}, {Lace}, {shelf}.
  
      E-mail: .
  
      ["Eiffel: The Language", Bertrand Meyer, P-H 1992].
  
      (1998-11-15)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   EPL
  
      1. {Early PL/I}.
  
      2. {Experimental Programming Language}.
  
      3. Eden Programming Language.   U Washington.   Based on
      Concurrent Euclid and used with the Eden distributed OS.
      Influenced Emerald and Distributed Smalltalk.   "EPL
      Programmer's Guide", A. Black et al, U Washington June 1984.
  
      4. Equational Programming Language. Szymanski, RPI.
      Equational language for parallel scientific applications.
      "EPL - Parallel Programming with Recurrent Equations",
      B. Szymanski in Parallel Functional Languages and Compilers,
      B. Szymanski et al, A-W 1991.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   evil
  
      As used by a {hacker}, implies that some system, program,
      person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be
      not worth the bother of dealing with.   Unlike the adjectives
      in the cretinous, {losing}, {brain-damaged} series, "evil"
      does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of
      goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the
      speaker's.   This usage is more an aesthetic and engineering
      judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense.   "We
      thought about adding a {Blue Glue} interface but decided it
      was too evil to deal with."   "{TECO} is neat, but it can be
      pretty evil if you're prone to typos."   Often pronounced with
      the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.
  
      Compare {evil and rude}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1994-12-12)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Ebal
      stony. (1.) A mountain 3,076 feet above the level of the sea,
      and 1,200 feet above the level of the valley, on the north side
      of which stood the city of Shechem (q.v.). On this mountain six
      of the tribes (Deut. 27:12,13) were appointed to take their
      stand and respond according to a prescribed form to the
      imprecations uttered in the valley, where the law was read by
      the Levites (11:29; 29:4, 13). This mountain was also the site
      of the first great altar erected to Jehovah (Deut. 27:5-8; Josh.
      8:30-35). After this the name of Ebal does not again occur in
      Jewish history. (See {GERIZIM}.)
     
         (2.) A descendant of Eber (1 Chr. 1:22), called also Obal
      (Gen. 10:28).
     
         (3.) A descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:23).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Evil eye
      (Prov. 23:6), figuratively, the envious or covetous. (Comp.
      Deut. 15:9; Matt. 20:15.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Ebal, ancient heaps
  
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