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Enkindle
() To excite; to rouse into action; to incite.
Enlace
() To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.
Enlacement
() The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.
Enlard
() To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.
Enlarged
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Enlarging
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Enlarge
() To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
Enlarge
() To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
Enlarge
() To set at large or set free.
Enlarge
() To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
Enlarge
() To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
Enlarge
() To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
Enlarged
() Made large or larger; extended; swollen.
Enlargement
() The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
Enlargement
() Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
Enlargement
() A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.
Enlargement
() Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.
Enlarger
() One that enlarges.
Enlay
() See Inlay.
Enlengthen
() To lengthen.
Enleven
() Eleven.
Enlight
() To illumine; to enlighten.
Enlighten
() To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
Enlighten
() To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
Enlightener
() One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
Enlightenment
() Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Enlimn
() To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.
Enlink
() To chain together; to connect, as by links.
Enlisted
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Enlisting
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Enlist
() To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
Enlist
() To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
Enlist
() To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
Enlist
() To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
Enlist
() To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
Enlistment
() The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
Enlistment
() The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
Enlive
() To enliven.
Enlivened
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Enlivening
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Enliven
() To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
Enliven
() To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.
Enlivener
() One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
Enlock
() To lock; to inclose.
Enlumine
() To illumine.
Enlute
() To coat with clay; to lute.
Enmanche
() Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.
Enmarble
() To make hard as marble; to harden.
Enmesh
() To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
Enmew
() See Emmew.