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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: enlistment - en pantoufles</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="enlistment"> enlistment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of enlisting. Ex. Enlistment of help in an election takes long hours of persuasion. <DD> 2. the condition of being enlisted. <DD> 3. the time for which a person enlists. Ex. The old soldier's fifteen-year enlistment will be over in two years. </DL> <A NAME="enliven"> enliven, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to make lively, active, gay, or cheerful. Ex. Spring enlivens all nature. Bright curtains enliven a room. (SYN) exhilarate, brighten. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to give life to. noun enlivener. adv. enliveningly. </DL> <A NAME="enlivenment"> enlivenment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of enlivening. Ex. The enlivenment of trade is the constant care of businessmen. <DD> 2. the state of being enlivened. Ex. We rejoice in the recent enlivenment of trade. <DD> 3. something that enlivens. Ex. Full employment is an enlivenment to trade. </DL> <A NAME="enlock"> enlock, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to lock up; shut in; enclose. </DL> <A NAME="enmarble"> enmarble, transitive verb, -bled, -bling.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to sculpture in marble. <DD> 2. adorn or inlay with marble. Ex. a richly enmarbled altar. <DD> Also, enmarble. </DL> <A NAME="enmasse"> en masse,<DL COMPACT><DD> in a group; all together. Ex. Cockroaches migrate en masse (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="enmesh"> enmesh, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to catch in a net; enclose in meshes; entangle. Ex. The big gear at the extreme left ... enmeshes with a smaller gear on the starting motor when you use the "starter" (Beauchamp, Mayfield, and West). <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, emmesh, immesh, inmesh. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="enmeshment"> enmeshment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being enmeshed. </DL> <A NAME="enmity"> enmity, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> the feeling that enemies have for each other; hostility or hatred. Ex. For enmity and hate are contrary to friendship and concord (William Caxton). (SYN) animosity, antipathy. </DL> <A NAME="ennead"> ennead, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of nine persons or things. </DL> <A NAME="enneadic"> enneadic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with an ennead or the number nine. </DL> <A NAME="enneagon"> enneagon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) a plane figure having nine angles and nine sides. </DL> <A NAME="enneagonal"> enneagonal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) having nine angles and nine sides. </DL> <A NAME="enneahedral"> enneahedral, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) having nine faces. </DL> <A NAME="enneahedron"> enneahedron, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) a solid figure having nine faces. </DL> <A NAME="enneastyle"> enneastyle, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) having nine columns. </DL> <A NAME="ennoble"> ennoble, transitive verb, -bled, -bling.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to raise in the respect of others; make noble; dignify; exalt. Ex. A good deed ennobles the person who does it. <DD> 2. to raise to a noble rank; give a title of nobility to. Ex. The king ennobled his general for winning the war. <DD> 3. to make finer or more noble in nature; elevate. Ex. His character had been ennobled through suffering. </DL> <A NAME="ennoblement"> ennoblement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of ennobling. <DD> 2. the state of being ennobled. Ex. His ennoblement did not change his character or his way of life. </DL> <A NAME="ennobler"> ennobler, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that ennobles. </DL> <A NAME="ennui"> ennui, noun, verb, -nuied or -nuyed, -nuying.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a feeling of weariness and discontent that comes from having no occupation or interest; boredom. Ex. Gilded halls upon gilded halls can add up to ennui (A. H. Weiler). <DD>v.t. to affect with ennui; bore. Ex. Evenings ... sacred to reading on his part, and mortally ennuying to myself (Jane Welsh Carlyle). </DL> <A NAME="ennuye"> ennuye, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD>adj. affected with ennui; bored. Ex. ... the constrained effort of the ennuye man of the world (Edgar Allan Poe). <DD>noun a man who is bored. </DL> <A NAME="ennuyee"> ennuyee, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the feminine form of ennuye. </DL> <A NAME="enoch"> Enoch, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the father of Methuselah (in the Bible, Genesis 5:18-24). <DD> 2. the eldest son of Cain (in the Bible, Genesis 4:17, 18). </DL> <A NAME="enocharden"> Enoch Arden,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the hero of the narrative poem Enoch Arden (1864) by Tennyson. He is a shipwrecked sailor who returns home after some years to find that his wife had thought him dead and married his friend. <DD> 2. any missing person presumed to be dead but later discovered alive. Ex. This deliberate Enoch Arden first wanted to know how they had found him (Maclean's). </DL> <A NAME="enodal"> enodal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) without nodes; jointless. adv. enodally. </DL> <A NAME="enol"> enol, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) the tautomeric form of a ketone, containing a hydroxyl group attached to a carbon atom with a double bond. </DL> <A NAME="enolase"> enolase, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme active in glycolysis, found in the muscles and in yeast. </DL> <A NAME="enolic"> enolic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of the nature of enol. <DD> 2. belonging to enol. </DL> <A NAME="enological"> enological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with enology. Also, oenological. </DL> <A NAME="enologist"> enologist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a student of enology; person who knows much about wines. Also, oenologist. </DL> <A NAME="enology"> enology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art of making wine or knowledge or study of wines. Also, oenology. </DL> <A NAME="enophthalmus"> enophthalmus or enophthalmos, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) an abnormal sinking of the eyeball into the orbit. </DL> <A NAME="enorm"> enorm, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) abnormally large; fat; monstrous; enormous. </DL> <A NAME="enormity"> enormity, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. extreme wickedness; outrageousness. Ex. The enormity of religious persecution. The enormity of his crime made it probable that the man was not sane. <DD> 2. an extremely wicked crime; outrageous offense. <DD> 3. (Informal.) great size, especially of a problem, job, etc.; enormousness. Ex. The enormity of the task is staggering. </DL> <A NAME="enormous"> enormous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. very, very large; huge. Ex. Long ago, enormous, shaggy mammoths lived on the earth. The glutton had an enormous appetite. (SYN) immense, colossal, gigantic, vast, mammoth, prodigious, stupendous. <DD> 2. extremely wicked; outrageous. Ex. enormous crimes. (SYN) abominable, atrocious. noun enormousness. </DL> <A NAME="enormously"> enormously, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in or to an enormous degree; extremely; vastly; beyond measure. Ex. enormously wealthy. </DL> <A NAME="enos"> Enos, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a son of Seth and grandson of Adam (in the Bible, Genesis 5:3-11). </DL> <A NAME="enosis"> enosis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. union, especially the union of Cyprus with Greece. <DD> 2. a movement of Greek Cypriots for such union. </DL> <A NAME="enostosis"> enostosis, noun, pl. -ses.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bony growth in the interior of a bone. </DL> <A NAME="enough"> enough, adjective, noun, adverb, interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. as much or as many as needed or wanted; sufficient. Ex. Buy enough food for the picnic. Are there enough seats for all? <DD>noun a quantity or number needed or wanted; sufficient amount. Ex. Has he had enough to eat? There were just enough of the apples to have one each. (SYN) sufficiency, plenty. <DD>adv. 1. sufficiently; adequately; until no more is needed or wanted. Ex. Have you played enough? <DD> 2. quite; fully. Ex. He was willing enough to go. <DD> 3. rather; fairly. Ex. She talks well enough for a baby. (SYN) passably, tolerably. <DD>interj. stop! no more! Ex. Lay on, Macduff! And damn'd be him that first cries "Hold, enough!" (Shakespeare). expr. sure enough. See under sure. </DL> <A NAME="enounce"> enounce, transitive verb, enounced, enouncing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to announce; declare; proclaim. <DD> 2. to state (a proposition or opinion) definitely. <DD> 3. to pronounce; enunciate. Ex. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently (A. M. Bell). </DL> <A NAME="enovid"> Enovid, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a drug derived from various hormones, such as estrogen, used in ovulation control and especially as an oral contraceptive; norethynodrel. </DL> <A NAME="enow"> enow, adjective, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) enough. </DL> <A NAME="enpantoufles"> en pantoufles,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD> 1. in slippers. Ex. Then came the French, shuffling along as if en pantoufles (New Yorker). <DD> 2. (Figurative.) easy, casual, or informal. Ex. The authority and erudition he can pack into eight pages on "The North-East in the Eighteenth Century," for instance, is yet one more proof that he is never en pantoufles (London Times). </DL> <A HREF="enpassan.dic">NEXT</A>