effusion (efuzhon)

[= F. effusion = Sp. efusion = Pg. eff usão = It. effusione, When there was but as yet one only family in the world, no means of instruction, human or divine, could prevent effusion of blood. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 10. most pitifull Historie of their Martyr do me, I Coryat, Crudities, I. 64. The have often perused not without effusion of tears. The effusion of the Spirit under the times of the Gospel: by which we mean those extraordinary gifts and abilities which the Apostles had after the Holy Ghost is said to descend upon them. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. ix. 2. That which is poured out; a fluid, or figuratively an influence of any kind, shed abroad. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than snow. Eikon Basilike. Specifically-3. An outpour of thought in writing or speech; a literary effort, especially in verse: as, a poetical effusion: commonly used in disparagement. Two or three of his shorter effusions , indeed,. have a spirit that would make them amusing anywhere. Ticknor , Span. Lit., I. 345. 4. In pathol., the escape of a fluid from the ve els containing it into a cavity, into the sur rounding ti ues, or on a free surface: as, the effusion of lymph.-5. [ML. effusio (n-), tr. of Gr. ῥύσις.] That part of the constellation Aquarius (which see) included within the stream of water. It contains the star Fomalhaut, now located in the Southern Fish. - Effusion of gases, in chem., the escape of gases through minute apertures into a vacuum. In his experiments to determine the rate of effusion of gases, Graham used thin sheets of metal or gla , perforated with minute apertures.086 millimeter or.003 inch in diameter. The rates of effusion coincided so nearly with the rates of diffusion as to lead to the conclusion that both phenomena follow the same law, and therefore the rates of effusion are inversely as the square roots of the densities of the gases. effusive (e-fu's iv), a. [L. as if * effusivus, effundere, pp. effusus, pour out: see effuse.] 1. Pouring out; flowing forth profusely: as, effu sive speech. Th' effusive south Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with yernal showers distent. Thomson , Spring, 1. 144. égal ité (a-gal-e-tā'), n. [F.) Equality. This word is familiar in the French revolutionary phrase liber té , égal ité , fraternité (liberty, equality, fraternity), and as Égal ité), as a token of adherence to the the surname taken by Philip, Duke of Orleans (Philippe he was neverthele guillotined by the revolutionists in egality (e-gal'i-ti), n .; pl. egalities (-tiz). [ egalite , egaute , F. égal ité , æqualita (t-)s, equality: see equality , the cism.] IMG:content-0247.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0248.png:[blocks in formation] Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Shak ., Much Ado, iv. eftsoont, eftsoonst (eft-sön', -sönz'), adv . ME. eftsone , eftsones , again, soon after, also, sides, eft , again, + sone , soon: see eft2 and soon.] 1. Soon after; soon again; again; anew; a second time; after a while. Shal al the world be lost eftsones now? Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 303. Pharaoh dreamed to have seen seven fair fat oxen, and eftsoons seven poor lean oxen. Tyndale , Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), р. 249. 2. At once; speedily; forthwith. Ye may eftsones hem telle, We usen here no wommen for to selle. Sir, your ignorance Shall eftsoon be confuted. Chapman , All Fools, ii. 1. Hold off, unhand me, greybeard loon! Eftsoons his hand dropt he. e. g. An abbreviation of the Latin exempli gra- tia : for the sake of an example; for example. Ega (ega), n . [NL. (Castelnau, 1835); a geo- graphical name.] A genus of adephagous ground-beetles, of the family Carabidæ , con- taining about 12 spe- cies, nearly all from tropical countries, but two of them North American, E. salle i and E. lætula . Also called Chalybe , Selina , and Steleodera . IMG:content-0249.png:[blocks in formation] 14, a. See eager1 . eger2, n . See eager2 . egers (e'ger), n. [Origin not obvious.] In bot ., a tulip ulip appearing early in bloom. eger an (eg'e-ran), n. [ Eger , in Bohemia, where idocrase occurs.] In mineral ., same as Egeria (e-jëri-ä), n. [L. Egeria , Ægeria , Gr. H Ηγερία.] 1. In Rom . myth ., a prophetic nymph or divinity, the instructre of Numa Pompilius, and invoked as the giver of life.-2. [NL.] In zool .: ( a ) A genus of brachyurous decapod crustaceans, of the family Maiida , or spider- crabs. E. indica is an Indian species. Leach , 1815. (b) A genus of bivalve shells, of the fam- ily Donacida , generally considered to be the same as Galatea . Roi y , 1805.-3. [NL.] See Ægeria .-4. The 13th planetoid, discovered egerian, a. See agerian . Egeriidæ, n. pl. [NL.] See Ægeriida . egerminate ate (e-jer'mi-nāt), v. i.; pret. and pp. eger min a ted, eger min a ted , ppr. eger min at ing . [ egermi- nat us , pp. of eger min are , put forth, sprout, egest egest (e-jest egest (e-jest'), v. [ egest us , pp. of egerere , bring out, discharge, void, vomit, gerere , carry.] ry.] I. I. trans. To discharge or void, as excrement: opposed to ingest . There be divers creatures that sleep all winter, as the bear,. the bee, etc. These all wax fat when they sleep, and egest not. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 899. egesta (e-jes'tä), n. pl . [NL., neut. pl. of L. egest us , pp. of egerere , void, vomit: see egest .] That which is thrown out; specifically, excre- mentitious matters voided as the refuse of di- gestion; excrement, feces, or dejecta of any food-yolk may occupy different relative positions. (See cen kind: opposed to ingesta . During this time she vomited everything, the egesta being mixed with bile. Med. News , XLI. 340. egestion (e-jes'chon), n. [ egerere , pp. egest us , void, vomit: see egest .] The act of voiding the refuse of digestion, or that which is voided; defecation; dejection: op- posed to ingestion . It is confounded with the intestinal excretions and Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 13. egestions. egestive (e-jes'tiv), a. [ ingestive . egg1 (eg), n. [ egge , pl. egges , egg is (of Scand. origin, egg , etc., below), parallel with ME. ey , eye , ay , ai , pl. eyren , eiren, ayren , eren, etc. (this form, which disappeared in the first half of the 16th century, would have given mod. E. * ay , riming with day , etc.), of native origin: namely, æg , rarely aig (in comp. also æger- ), pl. ægru , = D. ei = MLG. ei, eig, LG. ei = OHG. ei, pl. eigir, MHG. ei , G. ei , pl. eier , = Icel. egg = Sw. ägg = Dan. æg = Goth. * addjis (?), Crime an Goth. ada = OIr. og, Ir. ugh = Gael. ubh = W. wy = L. ōrum , later õrum (> It. uovo = Sp. huevo = Pg. oro = Pr. or , nov , ueu = OF. oef , F. œuf ), = Gr. ᾠόν , in older forms ὤιον , ώεον , dial. ὦ βεον , orig. * For (NGr. αίγον, also ὠόν ), = OBulg. jaje (orig. * ārje ?) = Bulg. jajce = Serv. Pol. jaje = Bohem. vejce = Ru . (dim.) yaitse , an egg. The orig. form of the word is uncertain; not found in Skt., etc.] 1. The body formed in the fe- Shak., Tit. And., iv. 4. males of all animals (with the exception of a few of the lowest type, which are reproduced foot or more. Eggs of many animals besides birds are im- portant food-products, of great economic and commercial value, as turtles' eggs, the roe of many fishes, the coral or berry of lobsters, etc. He eet many sondry metes, mortrewes, and puddynges, Wombe-cloutes and wylde braune & egges yfryed with Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 63, grece. This brid be a bank bildith his nest, And helpeth his eiren and hetith hem after. The largest Eggs , yet warm within their Nest, Together with the Hens which laid 'em, drest. egg-basket (eg'basket), n. An open wire bas- ket for use in boiling eggs, by means of which the eggs may all be taken up at once, and the water drained off of them. egg-beater (eg'bē"ter), n. An instrument hav- ing a piece to be twirled by the hand, for use in whipping eggs. egg-bird (eg'berd), п . 1. A popular name of the sooty tern, Sterna ( Haliplana ) fuliginosa , whose eggs, like those of some other terns, have commercial value in the West Indies and southern United States. - 2. A name of sun- IMG:content-0250.png:[blocks in formation] n., and edge , v., a doublet of egg2 .] To incite or urge; encourage; instigate; provoke: now nearly always with on . Adam and Eue he eggede to don ille, Consailde Cayne to cullen hus brother. eggs are of economic or commercial value. egg-blower (eg'blover), n. A blowpipe used by oölogists in emptying eggs of their contents by forcing in a stream of air or water with the breath through a hole in the shell made with erally curved or hooked at the small end like a chemists' blowpipe, but smaller and finer at the point. egg-born (eg'bôrn), a . Produced from an egg, as all animals are; but specifically, hatched from the egg of an oviparous animal. egg-carrier (eg'kar"i-er), n. A device for trans- porting eggs without injury. (a) A box or frame with pockets or partitions of cloth, wire, cardboard, etc., for holding each a single egg of poultry. (b) In fish -cul- ture , an apparatus for carrying ova in water to be subse- quently hatched. egg-case (eg'kās), n. case in which the eggs of various insects, as the cockroach, are contained when laid. (b) The silken case in which many spiders inclose their eggs; an egg-pouch. (c) The case in which the eggs of sharks and other elasmobranchs are contained; a sea-barrow. (d) The ovicapsule of var i- ous marine carnivorous gastropods, especially of the fam- ilies Buccinidæ , Muricidæ , etc. See ovicapsule . egg-cell (eg's el), n. An ovum; an ovule; an egg itself, when it is in the cell stage, or state of a cell, as a nucleated ma of protoplasm, with or without a nucleolus, and with or with- out a cell-wall, but ordinarily po e ing both. See ovum . egg-cleavage (egʼklē vāj), n . tion of the vitellus of an egg; cell-cleavage of an egg-cell; the germination of an ovum, ovule, or egg from the stage of a cytula to that of a morula. It is one of the earliest proce es of germination, in which the single ma of the formative yolk is divided into a great number of other ma es or cells, by subse- quent differentiation of which the whole body of the embryo is formed. Egg-cleavage proceeds in various "rhythms" or ratios, as 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. - Discoidal egg- egg-cockle (eg'kok"l), п. An edible cockle, Cardium elatum . egg-cup (eg'kup), n. A cup for use in eating soft-boiled eggs. In its original form, it is made to hold a single egg upright while this is eaten out of the shell with a spoon. Another form is double, with one end like the former, and the reverse end larger for eggs to be broken into it. egg-dance (eg'dans), n. A dance by a single performer, who is required to execute a com- plicated figure, blindfolded, among a number of eggs, without touching them. Preparations in the middle of the road for the egg - dance , so strikingly described by Goethe. IMG:content-0251.png:[blocks in formation] ovate fruit, which is of a dark-purple col- or, or sometimes ly esteemed as a vegetable. Also called egg - apple , mad - apple . egg-pod (eg'- pod ), n . A pod or case envelop- ing and contain- ing an egg or IMG:content-0252.png:[graphic] eggs; specifical- Flowering Branch and Fruit of Egg-plant (Solanum Melongena). ly, in ornith ., the egg-drill (eg'dril), n . An instrument for drill- ing or boring a small round hole in the shell of a bird's egg, used by oölogists. It consists of a lit- tle steel or iron bar which may be twirled in the fingers, having a sharp-pointed conical head roughened to a rasp- egget, n. and v. An obsolete form of edge . eggementt, n. See eggment . egg-ended (eg' en "ded), a. ovoidal caps or ends. aspherical shells, such as the a trend linds eggerl (eg'er), n. [ egg1 + -er1. Also called sive.] One who makes a busine of collecting egger2 (eg'er), n. [ Linaria vulgar is . ambition, enuie, and couetise) are induced to follow the Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 552. armie. Thou shouldst be prancing of thy steed, To egg thy soldiers forward in thy wars. Greene, Alphonsus, iii. The albumin IMG:content-0253.png:[blocks in formation] material in which certain spiders and insects carry their eggs; the oötheca. eggs-and-bacon (egz'and-bā'kn), n. [So called from the two shades of yellow in the flowers.] 1. The bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.- eggs-and-collops collops (egz'and-kol'ops (egz' l'ops), n. Same egger3 (eg'er), n. [Also written eggar ; origin uncertain. In entom ., a reddish-brown moth as eggs - and - bacon , 2. of either of the genera Lasiocampa and Erio- egg-sauce (eg'sâs), n. Sauce prepared with egg-fish (eg'fish), n . One of many names ap- plied to gymnodont plectognath fishes, from their shape when inflated. They are chiefly of the family Tetrodontidæ . ited upon and in among the fibers of the egg-pod or putamen. It is a secretion of a particular calcific tract of the oviduct near the end of that tube. It may be nearly colorle and of such crystalline purity and translucency that the contents of the fresh egg show a pinkish blush through it, or very heavy, opaque, flaky white; whole-colored of various tones, as green, blue, drab, ochrey, etc.; or party-colored in many shades of reds, browns, etc., in endle variety of patterns. Besides the evident diversity of character in thickne , roughne , etc., the shell has many variations in microscopic texture, depending upon details of the deposition of the particles of lime in the pod. The shell of an ostrich's egg is so thick and hard that it may seriously wound a man if the egg explodes, as it sometimes does when addled, in consequence of the compre ion of the gases generated in decomposition. - Egg-shell china, egg-shell porcelain, porcelain of extreme thinne and translucency. It was made originally in China, and is now produced also in European factories, where the proce consists in filling a mold of plaster of Paris with the material called barbotine, of which a thin film at once ad heres to the mold from the absorption of its moisture by the gypsum. The liquid barbotine being then thrown out and the mold put into the kiln, the film remaining in it is baked, and can then be removed from the mold.