estuation

[Lat. æstuatio, from æstuo= to boil, to surge.] 1. The act or state of boiling, foaming, or surging. "Rivers and lakes who want those fermenting parts at the bottom, are not excited unto estuations."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. vii., ch. xiv. 2. Agitation, commotion, excitement. "The le obnoxious we shall be to the estuations of joys and fears."-Mountagu: Devout E ays , pt. i., treat. xvi., § 5. *es-türe, s . [Lat. æstuo = to boil, to surge.] Boiling, foaming, surging, violence, commotion. *est-ward, adv . [EASTWARD.] Toward the east; on the east side. *e-su-ri-ent, a. & 8. [Lat. esuriens, pr. par. of esurio to be hungry; a desid. from edo =to eat.] A. As adj .: Hungry, inclined to eat, greedy, vor a cio us. B. As subst.: One who is greedy or voracious. *ē'-su-rine, a. & 8. [Lat. esurio =to be hungry.] A. As adj .: Causing hunger; promoting the appetite. B. As substantive : IMG:content-1155.png:[blocks in formation] receptacle, as in the Strawberry, or fleshy upon a dry receptacle, as in the genus Rubus. Containing the raspberry, the blackberry, . The parts of an MUM.] etærio are achenes. ( Lindley .) (ERYTHROSOTO ê-ta-gere (gere as zhär), s . [Fr., from étager to raise by stages or stories; étage a stage, a story.] A set of shelves in the form of an ornamental standing-piece of furniture. Used for the display of articles of vertu. Et-a-nin, s . [Corrupted Arab.] Astron.: A fixed star of the second magnitude, called also Gamma Drac on is. By it Bradley discovered the aberration of the fixed stars. etat-major (a-ta ma-zhor'), s. (Fr.) French Army : The staff of an army or regiment. [STAFF.] It includes all officers above the rank of colonel; all adjutants, quarter-masters, inspectors, engineers, commi aries, ordnance officers, pay commi ioned a istants. masters, surgeons, judge-advocates, and their non ět çæt-er-a, *ět çet-er-a, phr . [Lat.] And the rest; and others of a like kind; and so forth; and so on. It is used to indicate that more of the same kind might be mentioned, but for brevity have been omitted. It is commonly written etc., or . "I have by me an elaborate treatise on the aposiopesis called an et cætera , it being a figure much used by some learned authors."- Add is on : Tatier , No. 133. et cætera oath. An oath imposed on the clergy by the Anglican bishops in 1640, "binding them to attempt no alteration in the government of the Church by bishops, deans, archdeacons, ." ( Hal IMG:content-1156.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To engrave by means of a pointed tool and acid upon a metallic or gla surface; to draw with an etching-needle. It is applied both to the plate and design. [ETCHING, 8.] "Plates etched , some by a French, and others by an English, artificer."- Boyle : Works , iii. 459. 2. To sketch, to draw, to delineate. (Here it may be a mistake or a mi pelling for eche = eek (q.v.). "There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their systems."- Locke . B. In trans.: To practice the art of etching. "Swanevelt painted landscape at Rome: he etched in the manner of Waterloo, but with le freedom."- Gilpin : E ay on Prints , p. 109. *ětch (2), v. i. [EDGE.] To edge, to move from one side to another.