ep1the11um, ep1the11a

[Mod. Lat., from Gr. epi =upon, and thēlē =a nipple.] 1. Anat .: A term introduced by Ruysch to designate the cuticular covering on the red part of the sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. remarks with Mr. Smouch, followed at once." -Dickens: Pickwick , ch. xl. *ě-pith-e-ton, s. [Gr.] An epithet (q. v.). *ep-1-thite, s . [Gr. epithetes an impostor.] A zōon =a living being, an animal.] [EPIZOA.] Zool.: An animal belonging to the Epizoa. ěp-i-zō-ō-Ic, a. & s . [Eng. epizoo (n); -ic.] epitomized the translation." -Johnson: General Observa- tions on Merchant of Venice. 3. To represent or describe in an abridged or con- densed manner or form. "Epitomize the life; pronounce, you can, Authentic epitaphs on some of these." Anat .: Pertaining to the ancone us muscle, near the elbow, with the epitrochlea (q. v.). Epitrochleo - ancone us muscle : Anat .: The name given by Wenzel Gruber to a small muscle inserted into the olecranon, and ris- ing from behind the inner condyle. ěp-I-troch-61d, s. [Gr. epitrochos = running easily, easily inclined: epi =upon, and trochos (as adj.)=running, tripping; (as subst.)=a runner, a ball, a wheel, a hoop; trecho =to run.] Geom.: A curve formed by one circle revolving like a wheel or hoop around the convexity or outer side of the circumference of another circle. It is akin to the epicycloid, but differs in not having the generating points in the circumference of the re- volving circle. "It appears, then, that a planetary system with a direct epicycle belongs to both the epitrochoid and the external ep-1-tro-choid-al, a. [Eng., ., epitrochoid ; Geom.: Containing or in any way pertaining to an epitrochoid (q. v.). which the epicycle is direct." -Penny Cyclopædia , xxv. 283. "Every epitrochoidal system is a planetary system in ě-pit-ro-pě, ě-pit-ro-pỹ, s. [Gr. epitropě a yielding, a surrender: epitrepo =to turn over to an other; to yield, to submit: epi =over, and trepo = Rhet.: Conce ion; a figure of speech by which any point is yielded or granted, with a view to ob- tain an advantage. ěp-I-zeūx'-Is, s . [Gr.=a fastening together: from epizeugnumi to fasten on or together: epi =upon, on, and zeugnumi =to join.] Rhet.: A figure of speech by which a word is re- peated with vehemence or emphasis; as, "Alone, alone, all, all, alone, Alone on a wide , wide sea." zoon animals.] [EPIZOÖN.] ěp-1-zō-a, s. pl . [Gr. epi =on, and zõa , pl. of face of other animals, as distinguished from en mark important events, but an era is an epoch tozoa, those which live in their internal parts. which is chronologically dated from; an epoch is 2. Spec .: A sub-cla of Crustacea, called also not marked in this way. The birth of Christ and Haustellata. They undergo metamorphosis, being the Reformation were both of them highly imp or- locomotive in their young state, though sedentary tant epochs in the history of mankind; the former, when adult. The mouth is suctorial, the feet have the inconceivably greater event of the two, gave suckers, hooks, or bristles; sometimes the feet are rise to the Christian era; but the Protestant nations worn away with age. They live as external para and churches do not any of them reckon time from sites upon other animals, infesting the skin, the the Reformation. The birth of Christ was, there- eyes, and the gills of fishes and other marine ani fore, both an epoch and an era, the Reformation an mals. When mature they are elongated or subepoch only. This distinction is only now coming cylindrical, have a parchment-like integument, a into use. more or le distinct head, and a pair of long cylin- (2) For the difference between epoch and time , see drical ovisacs dependent from the opposite ex- TIME. tremity of the body. Example: Lernæa, . They are very numerous in species. They are divided e-po-chạ, s . [EPOCH.] into two orders-(1) Ichthyophthira, and (2) Rhizo- cephala. ( Owen , .) epode