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E3
- Encomiast
- n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
- End
- n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the
Interlocutor.
The man was perishing apace
Who played the tambourine;
The seal of death was on his face —
’Twas pallid, for ’twas clean.“This is the end,” the sick man said
Tinley Roquot
In faint and failing tones.
A moment later he was dead,
And Tambourine was Bones. - Enough
- pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
Enough is as good as a feast — for that matter
Arbely C. Strunk
Enougher’s as good as a feast for the platter. - Entertainment
- n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
- Enthusiasm
- n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it “entuzy-muzy,” had a relapse, which carried him off — to Missolonghi.
- Envelope
- n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
- Envy
- n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
- Epaulet
- n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy — that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.
- Epicure
- n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.