engobe (engob)

[Origin not obvious.] Any earthy white or cream-colored paste used as a slip in coating naturally colored pottery, in order to mask or tone down its coarser and le agreeable tint. The red or brown ware was coated with a thin coating of white clay called an engobe or slip. Wheatley and Del a motte , Art Work in Earthenware, p. 22. The true Naukratian [ware], coated with a creamy white engobe , on which the decoration is laid in black or orange. J. P. Taylor , And over Rev., VII. 447. engoldt (en-gold'), v. t. [ME. engolden (tr. L. in a urare ); en -1 + gold .] To cover or adorn with gold. Wyclif , Rev. xvii. 4 (Oxf.). engomphosis (en-gom-fō'sis), n. [NL., -osis .] Same as gomphosis . engorelt (en-gōr'), v. t.; pret. and pp. engored, ppr. engoring. [ A most unmanly noise was made with those he put to sword, Of groans and outcries. The flood blush'd to be so much eng or'd With such base souls. English man (ing'glish-man), n.; pl. English- men (-men). [ Englischman , Engliscman, Englisc man ( mon ) (rare) (= D. Engelsch- man = Dan. Engelskmand = Sw. Engelskman ) , as two words: see English and man .] 1. A man who was born in or is a citizen of England; To pierce; gore; wound. in a broad sense, a man of the English race who preserves his distinctive racial character, wherever he resides. IMG:content-0496.png:[blocks in formation] The law of Englishry , by which a man found killed was held to be a French man, and the hundred was made responsible under this special law, unle evidence could be brought to show that the slain man was an English man. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, V. 297. "Englishry was not proved, therefore there are three fines." This refers to rule made by the Conqueror, for the protection of his followers, that the hundred or town ship in which a foreigner was slain should be fined if the slayer was not produced. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 423. 2. A population of English descent; especially, the persons of English descent in Ireland. Eight years had elapsed since an arm had been lifted up in the conquered island [Ireland] against the domination of the Englishry. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxv. Presentment of Englishry, in old Eng. law, during the dominion of the Normans, a plea or claim before the coroner, at an inquest on the death of an unknown man, that the deceased was not a Norman, but English, and the vill or hundred was therefore not liable to the fine which the dominant race imposed for the death of one who could be supposed to be of their own number. English woman (ing'glish-wum"an), n.; pl. English women (-wim"en). A woman who is a native of England, or a member of the distinetive English race. women , The Old-English Kings almost always married English E. A. Freeman, Old Eng. Hist., p. 45. englislet (eng'glis-let), n. In her ., an escutcheon of pretense. papilla a ociated with hyperemic and tortuous veins: same as choked disk. II.t in trans. To devour; feed with eagerne or voracity. Nor was it wonder that he thus did swell, Who had engorged and drunken was with Hell. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xv. 293.