Ethal

[From the first syllables of ether and alco hol.] (Chem.) When spermaceti is saponified, it yields ethal instead of glycerine, as is the case with the ordinary fats. It is a white solid, fusible at 118° Fahr., and soluble in alcohol, crystallizing in plates as it cools. It po e es the constitution and properties of a true alcohol, and stands in the same relation to palmitic acid that ordinary vinous alcohol does to acetic acid. Form. Ca H3402. E'tham, [Heb., their strength.] A station of the Israeli tes, soon after leaving Egypt, ( Er . xiii. 20; Num . xxxiii. 6.) It lay near the head of the west gulf of the Red Sea, and the wilderne east of it was often called by the same name. E'than. ( Script .) I. One of four men renowned for wisdom, though excelled by Solomon, (1 Kin . iv. 31; 1 Chr. ii. 6.) He appears to have been a son of Zerah or Ezra, and grandson of the patriarch Judah. - II. A Levite, son of Kishi, and one of the three masters of the temple-music, (1 Chr . vi. 44; xv. 17-19.)-III. A person to whom Psalm 89 is inscribed. A Ethan'im, [Heb., constantly flowing.] ( Script .) month so named before the captivity, because the autumnal rains then began to fill the dry river-channels. It was afterwards called Tishri, and answers nearly to our October. On this month Solomon's temple was dedicated, (1 Kin . viii. 2.) Eth'elbald, king of We ex, was the eldest surviving son of Ethelwolf. He married his stepmother, Judith of France, but was forced to abandon that connection, and she became the wife of Baldwin, count of Flanders, and the ancestre of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, and, through her, of the kings of England. Ethelbald was engaged in military conflicts with the Danes, and distinguished himself by the common quality of bravery, but otherwise holds no remarkable place in his tory. D. 860. Eth'elbert, king of Kent, succeeded to the throne A.D. 560. About five years later he married Bertha, daughter of Charibert, king of Paris, a Christian prince , who came to Britain accompanied by a Gallic bishop. Ethelbert was acknowledged Bretwalda on the fall of Ceawlin, king of We ex, about 590. The mi ion of St. Augustine took place in 597, Ethelbert was baptized, and Augustine was made Archbishop of Canterbury. Christianity was soon after established among the East Saxons and in Nor thumb ria. The code of laws which Ethelbert published in English, about 600, is the first of our written laws, and the earliest in any modern language. Ethelbert died in 616, and was afterwards canonized. Eth'elbert, king of England, the second son of Ethelwolf, whose kingdom he shared with his brother Ethelbald in 858, and succeeded to the whole on Ethelbald's death in 860. He was a virtuous prince, and beloved by his subjects. D. 866. Eth'elred I., king of England, the third son of Ethelwolf, succeeded his brother Ethelbert in 866. He was a virtuous prince, beloved by his subjects, and mostly engaged in repelling the incursions of the Danes. D. 871. ETHELRED II., king of England, the son of Edgar, succeeded his brother, Edward the Martyr, in 979. His unmanly spirit submitted to pay a tribute to the Danes, by a tax levied on his subjects, called Danegelt. To free himself from this oppre ion, he caused the Danes to be treacherously ma acred, throughout the country. in one day. On this, Sweyn, king of Denmark, entered his kingdom, and compelled him to flee to Normandy; but Sweyn dying soon after, Ethelred returned, and, after an inglorious reign of 37 years, died 1016. Eth'elwolf, king of England, came to the crown in 837, and has rendered his reign famous for being that in which tithes were instituted. He was a mild and religious prince, and went to Rome with his youngest son Alfred. D. 857.