enhancer, enhaunsere

[English en hanc(e); -er.] *1. One who raises or exalts socially. 2. One who enhances, raises or increases, as in price. "In such cases we must be so affected as that we grudge to ourselves our own gain, that we be not in the first file of enhancers."- Bp . Hall: Cases of Conscience. *ěn-hap-pỹ, v . t . [Pref. en, and English happy (q. v.).] To make happy or prosperous. en-har-bor, v. t. [Pref. en, and Eng. harbor (q. v.).] To harbor or dwell in; to inhabit, to lodge in. *en-har-den, v. t. [Pref. en, and Eng. harden (q. v.).] To make hard, to harden, to encourage, to embolden. *en-har-mō-ni-an, a. [Gr. enarm on ios.] The same as ENHARMONIC (q. v.) en-har-mon-ic, *en-har-mon-Ick, en-harm on-ique, a . & s. [Fr. enharmonique , from Gr. enarm on i kos =in harmony; en=in, and harm on i a = harmony.] A. As adjective : Music : 1. One of the three genera of Greek music, the other two being the Diatonic and Chromatic. 2. Having intervals le than a semitone; e. g ., an enharmonic organ or harmonium is an instrument having more than twelve divisions in the octave, and capable, therefore, of producing two distinct sounds; when on the ordinary instrument one only exists, as, for instance, G. sharp and A flat. An enharmonic scale is one containing intervals le than a semibreve. Enharmonic Modulation : A change as to nota tion, but not as to sound. ( Stainer & Barrett .) "In pa ing from one song to another, she [Leonora Baroni shews sometimes the divisions of the enharmonio and chromatic species with so much air and sweetne , that every hearer is ravished with that delicate and difficult mode of singing."-Warton. *B. As subst .: Enharmonic music.