Euryale

(Bot.) A gen. of plants, ord. Nymphæacesx. E. feroz is a water-lily with small red or violet-colored flowers, leaves about a foot in diameter, the leaf-stalk and calyces covered with stiff prickles; native of India and China. The fruit is round, soft, pulpy, the size of a small orange, composed of a number of carpels, and containing round black seeds as large as peas, which are full of a nutritions farina, and eaten roasted. The root contains starch, which may be used for food, or be itself eaten. It is said to have been in cultivation in China for upwards of 3,000 years.-( Zool.) See top of next col. Euryc'erous, a. [Gr. eur us, broad, and kerus, a horn.] That has a broad horn. in the supreme deity of the Son. At the Council of Tyre, in 335, he joined in deposing A than as ins on a charge of contumacy. Prior to this period, in 330, he was offered the patriarchate of Antioch, but refused it; and he died about the year 340. Eusebius was a divine of great learning, accomplishments, and industry. Not a few of his numerous works have been preserved, which have been of great service to theology, especially to church history. His Præparatio Evangelic a , in fifteen books, was, as its title implies, intended to prepare the pagan mind for the reception of Christianity, by showing the vast inferiority of other religions; and his Dem onst ratio Evangelic a , in twenty books, of which ten have been preserved, was meant for the Jewish mind, and as a positive evidence for Christianity, especially in its connection with the oracles and prophecies of the Old Testament. His His toria Ecclesiastic a , in ten books, reaches from the birth of Christ to the defeat of Licinius in 324, and is an important and valuable record. Besides his Life of Con stantine , his Oration in praise of the same emperor, his Onomasticon, his tract against Hierocles, and his Eloge on the martyrs, we have his Chronic on, a Latin version of the second part of which, by Jerome, has been long known. Butan Armenian version of the whole work was found some years ago, and published at Venice in 1818; other discoveries have been made by the famous Angelo Mai. The Theophania , another treatise of Eusebius, was discovered in a Syrian version, by Mr. Tattam, in an Egyptian monastery, and has been translated into English. Eustachian Tube, n . ( Anat .) The name given, after the Italian anatomist Eustachius, to the communication existing between the ear and the mouth. It begins in canal forwards and inwards, terminating with the petrous portion of the temporal bone. It then proceeds, partly cartilaginous and partly membranous, gradually enlarging to its termination behind the soft palate (see Fig. 896). It is through this tube of communication with the ear that persons who have a perforated tympanum blow tobacco-smoke. When the Eustachian tube is stopped or obliterated, it produces deafne .