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Ebrillade (�brĭllăd), n. [F.] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
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Ebriosity (ēbrĭŏsĭt�), n. [L. ebriositas, from ebriousus given to drinking, fr. ebrius. See .] Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
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Ebrious (ēbrĭŭs), a. [L. ebrius.] Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.
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Ebulliate (?), v. i. To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] Prynne.

{ Ebullience (?; 106), Ebulliency (?), } n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.
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Ebullient (?), a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st .] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. “Ebullient with subtlety.” De Quincey.
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The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.
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Ebullioscope (?), n. [L. ebullire to boil up + -scope.] (Phys. Chem.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
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Ebullition (?), n. [F. ébullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See .] 1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
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2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]
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3. A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
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Eburin (?), n. A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight.
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Eburnation (?), n. [L. eburnus of ivory, fr. ebur ivory: cf. F. éburnation. See .] (Med.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
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Eburnean (?), a. [L. eburneus, fr. ebur ivory. See .] Made of or relating to ivory.
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Eburnification (?), n. [L. eburnus of ivory (fr. ebur ivory) + facere to make.] The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
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Eburnine (?), a. Of or pertaining to ivory. “[She] read from tablet eburnine.” Sir W. Scott.
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Ecardines (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. e out, without + cardo a hinge.] (Zoöl.) An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See .
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Écarté (?), n. [F., prop. fr. écarter to reject, discard.] A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
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Ecaudate (?), a. [Pref. e- + caudate.] 1. (Bot.) Without a tail or spur.
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2. (Zoöl.) Tailless.
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Ecballium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �. See .] (Bot.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
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Ecbasis (ĕkbȧsĭs), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'ekbasis a going out, issue, or event; 'ek out + bainein to go.] (Rhet.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
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Ecbatic (?), a. [See .] (Gram.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase ina plhrwqh, if rendered “so that it was fulfilled,” is ecbatic; if rendered “in order that it might be.” etc., is telic.
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Ecbole (ĕkb�lē), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ekbolh a throwing out, a digression, fr. 'ekballein to throw out; 'ek out of + ballein to throw.] (Rhet.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
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Ecbolic (?), n. [See .] (Med.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
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Ecboline (?; 104), n. [Gr. 'ekbolh a throwing out; 'ek out + ballein to throw.] (Chem.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
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Eccaleobion (?), n. [Gr. 'ekkalei^n to call out ('ek out of + kalei^n to call) + bios life.] A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
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Écarté (?), n. [F., prop. p. p. fr. écarter to reject, discard.] A game at cards for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
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Ecce homo (ĕks� hōm�). [L., behold the man. See John xix. 5.] (Paint.) A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
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Eccentric (ĕksĕntrĭk), a. [F. excentrique, formerly also spelled eccentrique, fr. LL. eccentros out of the center, eccentric, Gr. 'ekkentros; 'ek out of + kentron center. See , and , and cf. .] 1. Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
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2. Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
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3. (Mach.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
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4. Not coincident as to motive or end.
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His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon.
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5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. “This brave and eccentric young man.” Macaulay.
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He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage.
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Coloq. Eccentric anomaly . (Astron.) See . -- Coloq. Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. -- Coloq. Eccentric gear . (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation. -- Coloq. Eccentric hook or Coloq. Eccentric gab , a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap. -- Coloq. Eccentric rod , the rod that connects an eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric. -- Coloq. Eccentric sheave , or Coloq. Eccentric pulley , an eccentric. -- Coloq. Eccentric strap , the ring, operating as a journal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called also eccentric hoop.

Syn. -- Irregular; anomalous; singular; odd; peculiar; erratic; idiosyncratic; strange; whimsical.
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Eccentric (ĕksĕntrĭk), n. 1. A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
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2. One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
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3. (Astron.) (a) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. (b) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. Hutton.
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4. (Mach.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
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Coloq. Back eccentric , the eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine. -- Coloq. Fore eccentric , the eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.
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Eccentrical (?), a. See .
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Eccentrically, adv. In an eccentric manner.
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Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
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Eccentricity (?), n.; pl. Eccentricities (#). [Cf. F. excentricité.] 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
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2. (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
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3. (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
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4. (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
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Ecchymose (?), v. t. (Med.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
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Ecchymosis (?), n.; pl. Ecchymoses (�). [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to extravasate; 'ek out of + � to pour.] (Med.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
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Ecchymotic (?), a. Pertaining to ecchymosis.
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Eccle (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]
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Ecclesia (?), n.; pl. Ecclesiæ (�). [L., fr. Gr. �.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
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2. (Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building.
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Ecclesial (?), a. Ecclesiastical. [Obs.] Milton.
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Ecclesiarch (?), n. [LL. ecclesiarcha, fr. Gr. � church + � to rule: cf. F. ecclésiarque.] An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
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Ecclesiast (?), n. 1. An ecclesiastic. Chaucer.
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2. The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.]
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Ecclesiastes (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. � a preacher. See , a.] One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.
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Ecclesiastic (?; 277), a. [L. ecclesiasticus, Gr. �, fr. � an assembly of citizens called out by the crier; also, the church, fr. � called out, fr. � to call out; 'ek out + � to call. See , and , v. t., .] Of or pertaining to the church. See . “Ecclesiastic government.” Swift.
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Ecclesiastic, n. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
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From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.
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Ecclesiastical (?), a. [See , a.] Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
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Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper.
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Coloq. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England , a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Coloq. Ecclesiastical courts , courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [Eng.] -- Coloq. Ecclesiastical law , a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [Eng.] -- Coloq. Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Coloq. Ecclesiastical States , the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.
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Ecclesiastically (?), adv. In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
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Ecclesiasticism (?), n. Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.
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Ecclesiasticus (?), n. [L.] A book of the Apocrypha.
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Ecclesiological (?), a. Belonging to ecclesiology.
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Ecclesiologist (?), n. One versed in ecclesiology.
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Ecclesiology (?), n. [Ecclesia + -logy.] The science or theory of church building and decoration.
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Eccritic (?), n. [Gr. � secretive, fr. � to choose out.] (Med.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
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Ecderon (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + � skin.] (Anat.) See . -- Ecderonic (#), a.
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Ecdysis (?), n.; pl. Ecdyses (#). [NL., fr. Gr. 'ekdysis a getting out, fr. 'ekdyein, to put off; 'ek out + dyein to enter.] (Biol.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.
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Ecgonine (?; 104), n. [Gr. 'ekgonos sprung from.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
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Échauguette (?), n. [F.] A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See .
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Eche (ēsh�), a. or a. pron. Each. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Echelon (ĕsh�lŏn), n. [F., fr. échelle ladder, fr. L. scala.] 1. (Mil.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).
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2. (Naval) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V form. Encyc. Dict.
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Coloq. Echelon lens (Optics), a large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a succession of annular rings beyond the central lens; -- used in lighthouses.
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Echelon (?), v. t. (Mil.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
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Echelon, v. i. To take position in echelon.
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Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from the right. Upton (Tactics).
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Echeneididae n. a natural family of fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.
Syn. -- family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae.
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Echeneis n. the type genus of the Echeneididae; they are typical remoras.
Syn. -- genus Echeneis.
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Echidna (�kĭdnȧ), n. [L., a viper, adder, Gr. 'echidna.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
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2. (Zoöl.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.
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Echidnine (?; 104), n. [See .] (Chem.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

Echidnophaga (?), n. (Zoöl.) a genus of fleas including the stick-tight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea), which is a serious pest in subtropical America, infesting poultry and frequently attacking man and domestic animals. [Stedman]
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{ Echinate (?), Echinated (?), } a. [L. echinatus. See .] Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
Syn. -- echinulate.
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Echinid (?), a. & n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Echinidan (?), n. [Cf. F. échinide.] (Zoöl.) One the Echinoidea.
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Echinital (?), a. Of, or like, an echinite.
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Echinite (?), n. [Cf. F. échinite. See .] (Paleon.) A fossil echinoid.
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Echinochloa n. 1. annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions.
Syn. -- genus Echinochloa.
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echinococcosis (ĕkīn�kŏkkōsĭs), n. (Med.) infestation with echinococci (tapeworms). An infection with the larval form is called hydatid disease.
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Echinococcus (ĕkīn�kŏkk), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'echi^nos hedgehog, sea urchin + kokkos grain, seed, berry. So called because forming little granular bodies, each armed with hooklets and disposed upon the inner wall of the hydatid cysts.] (Zoöl.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. The adult form is not found in man.
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echinocyte (ĕkĭn�sīt), n. (Biol.) a red blood cell which has become crenated.
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Echinoderm (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Echinodermata.
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Echinodermal (?), a. (Zoöl.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
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Echinodermata (�kīn�dẽrmȧtȧ), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'echi^nos hedgehog, sea urchin + derma, -atos, skin.] (Zoöl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]
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