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in dower aliens in fee, or for term of life, or of another*s life; then he, in the reverfion, fhall have this writ, provided by Stat. ofGlouc. 6Edw. i. cap. 7. By which it is enacted, that if a woman alien her dower in fee, or for life, the next heir, CsV. fljall recover by writ of entry. And the writ may be brought againft the tenant of the freehold of the land, on fuch aliena- tion, during the life of the tenant in dower, &c. New Nat. Br. 456. Thefe writs of Entry may be all brought, either in the Per, or in the Cut, or Poji.

Entry ad Communem legem, in law, a writ of Entry,, which lies where tenant for term of life, or for ternVof another's life, or by the curtefy, cifc. aliens and dies, when he in the rever- fion fhall have this writ againft whomfoevcr is in poflefnon of the land. New Nat. Br. 461.

Entry fine AJfenfu Capituli, in law, a writ of Entry that lieth where a bifhop, abbot, tsc. aliens lands or tenements of the church, without the afient of the chapter or convent.

. F.N. B. 195.

Entry ad terminum qui preeteriit, in law, a writ of Entry brought againft a tenant for years, who holdetb over his term, 2nd thereby keeps out the lefibr : And if the hufband and wife leafe the wile's land for years, and the hufband dieth, and the tenant holds over his term, the wife may have a writ of Entry ad terminum qui pr&teriit, &c. But flie muft count that fhe and her hufband leafed the land, &c. Alfo the grantee, in reverfion, may have this writ againlt the leflee, or his affignee, &c. New Nat. Br. 447. 448.

ENTYPOSIS, in anatomy, the articulation of the moulder with the arm.

ENUL/E Radix, Elecampane. See Helenium.

ENULION, a word ufed by fome medical writers for the flefh of the gums.

ENUMERATION, in rhetoric. See Synathroismus.

ENUR, a word ufed, by fome of the chemical writers, to ex- prefs the occult, or unfeen vapour of water, of which they fuppofe ftones to be produced.

ENURE, in law, fignifies to take place, or be available; and is as much as to have effect. Thus, for inftance, a releafe made to tenant for life fhall enure, and be of force and effect to him in the reverfion. Littlet.

ENXYLON, a name ufed, by the Greek authors, for a fpecies of worm, or maggot, hatched from the egg of a beetle, and having its habitation in wood; which in this Hate, it erodes and burrows into in various directions. The old Greeks called it alfo dex and thrips, and ufed the pieces of wood, eroded by it in remarkable figures, as feals. See the article Thrips.

ENYSTRON, a word, ufed by Ariftotle, for the fecond ven- tricle, in ruminating quadrupeds, in which the food is elabo- rated and concocted.

EON, a word ufed, by fome anatomical writers, to exprefs the whole ambit, or compafs of the eye.

EPACTHES, E7rax;e*K, in antiquity, a feftival celebrated in honour of Ceres, named A^Osi^, from a^S©-,;'. e. grief, in memory of her forrow, when fhe had loft her daughter Pro- ferpine. Pott. Archasol. Grzec. 1. 2. c. 20. T- 1. p. 394.

EPAGOGION, a word ufed by Diofcorides, and fome other old writers, for the prepuce.

EPANADIPLOSIS, 'Eot«>*3w*wo-k, in rhetoric, the fame with what is otherwife called Epanalepfis. See Epana-

LEPSIS.

EPANALEPSIS, EMraM^t, in rhetoric, the repetition of the fame word in the beginning of one fentence, and at the end of another. Thus Virgil,

Ambo fiorentcs mtalibus, Arcades ambo.

EP ANAPHORA, E9r a ,«£ 0fa, in rhetoric, the fame with Ana- phora. See Anaphora, Cycl.

EPANASTASIS, a word ufed by Hippocrates, and others of die old phyficians, for a critical tumour, or tubercle, in cer- tain difeafes. Thus Hippocrates obferves, that tumours about the eyes, upon the recovery of the patient, prognofticate diarrhoeas.

EPANASTROPHE, Eff«y« r§0 £,}, in rhetoric, the fame with what is otherwife called Anadipkfis. See Anadjplosis.

EPANEYLOTOS, a fort of wreathed bandage, defcribed by Oribafius.

EPANODUS, Efl-swJ©*, in rhetoric, a repetition of the fame words, in an inverted order; thus :

Nox brevis nimis, ah! nimis brevis nox. VofflRhet. 1. 5, p. 298.

EPAPHiERESIS, a term ufed, by Galen, for frequently re- peated evacuations of the veflels by phlebotomy.

EPAPHALESIS, in medicine, an iterated or repeated phlebo- tomy. Blancard.

EPARCHUS, "Exapx<&; an officer under the Greek emperors of Conftantinople, who had the command of the guards, or government of a province. Ilofm. Lex.

EPARER, in the manege, is ufed to fignify the flinging of a horfe, or his ycrking and ftriking out with his hind legs. In caprioles a horfe muft yerk out behind with all his force; but in ballottades he ftrikes but half out; and in croupades he does not ftrike out his hind legs at all. All horfes that yerk are reckoned rude. See Yerk.

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EPARITA, in the materia medica, a name given, by Paracei- fus, to a fort of fine earth, of a liver colour, feemingly the* fame with the Tokay bole,

EPARMATA, in medicine, are tumours of the glandules, called Parotes^, behind the ears. Blancard.

EPARSIS, in the medical writings of the antients* a word fometimes applied indifferently to any tumour, but more ufually appropriated to a parotis.

EPEMBOLE, Ejte^oa,;, i n rhetoric* the fame with Parent* bole. See Parembole.

EPENCRANIS, a name by which fome of the old authors, particularly Erafiftratus, have called the cerebellum.

EPENDYTES, EarsKWu,-, among the Greeks, a garment worn under the pallium, and above the interula^ or inner coat, called in Greek Jw..^t» 5. Hofm. Lex. in voc.

EPERLANUS, in ichthyography, the name ufed, by moft au- thors, for the common fmelt. It is clafs'dj by the generality of writers on thefe fubjeclsj among the truttaceous kinds, and is acknowledged to have a general external reftmblance to the falmon. Its characters, by which it is diflinguifhcd from all the reft of the truttaceous kinds, are, 1. That it is much fmaller than any other. 2. It is longer and flenderer, in pro- portion to its fize : And 3. It has a very grateful fmell, which fome have compared to that of the Violet. Some authors have hence called it the viola, and others, particularly Schone- feldt, calls it the fpirincbus. WiUugbby'sK\v\.¥'i\c. p. 202.

EPERON, in natural hiftory, the fpur fliell, fo called from its refembling, in fome degree, the rowel of a fpur. It is a fpe- cies of fnail, of the round-mouthed kind, or clafs of the coch- lear lunares; all its volutse are furrounded with double row3 of prickles. SeeLuNAREs Cochlea.

EPERVIERS, in natural hiftory, a name given, by the French authors, to a clafs of butterflies, which make the iixth in Reaumur's method. They have a way of poizing them- felves on the wing in the manner of kites, and other birds of prey; and always live upon the wing, never fettling them- felves upon the flowers they feed upon, but keeping flying with a humming noife, like a humble bee, while they thruft in their trunk, and fuck the juices of the flower. Reaumur's Hift. Infect.

EPHjETIUM, in botany, a name by which fome authors have called the ranunculus, or crow-foot. Get: Emac. Ind. 2.

EPHEBiEUM, Ep>itf3(M, in antiquity, the place where the ephebi, or youth, exercifed; or, as fome fay, where thofe who defigncd to exercife, met, and agreed what kind of ex- ercife they mould contend in, and what mould be the victor's reward. Pott. Archseol. Grsec. 1. j. c. 8. p. 38.

EPHEBI, E$r$oi, among the Athenians, a defignation given their young men, when they arrived at eighteen years of age; at which time they had their names entered in a public re- gifter. Pott. Archzol. Grasc. 1. 1. c. 9. T. 1. p. 48.

EPHEDRA, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the fpecies of which are thefe. 1. The Ephedra, or anabafis of Bellonius, called, by fome, the climbing fea knot grafs. 2. The great fea Ephedra, called the fea grape, or great fea knot grafs. 3. The dwarf fea Ephedra. 4. The Spanifh fhrubby Ephedra, with very narrow and thick fet leaves. Tourn. Inft. p. 663.

Ephedra is alfo a name given, by many of the old writers on plants, to the Equifetum, or horfe-tail. It feems only a cor- ruption of the Ephydrum of the Greeks, which was given as a name to horfe-tail, becaufe of its growing in watery places. Pliny defenbes, under this name alfo, a plant which, he fays* hangs down in long and naked filaments from the branches of trees. This was certainly no other than our ufnea or hairy tree mofs, which refembling the horfe-tails in the nakednefs of the branches, was called by fome other of its names, and finally by this, though very badly applicable to it. Pliny.

EPHELiEUM, in anatomy, is the place from which the hypo- gaftxum, or lower part of the abdomen, to the fecret parts. Blancard, in voc.

EPHELCIS, a word ufed, by the antient Greek phyficians, fometimes for the crufl of an ulcer, and fometimes for a. fmall abrafion, or bloody fragment, brought up by coughing in an hzemoptyfis,

EPHELIS, a name ufed, by the antient writers on medicine, for a diforder of the face, brought on by the fun, and drying winds, and of the nature of what we call fun-burning. It was a certain roughnefs, hardnefs, and bad colour 0/ the (kin. The antients cured it by a mixture of honey, refin, and fal gemm.

EPHEMERA, {Cycl) in medicine, the name of a fpecies of fever, continuing the fpace of one day, or fometimes more; for the medical writers exprefs themfelves by ephemera fimplex vel plurium dierum. It is, properly, an attempt of nature to eafe herfelf of the load of a plethora, either by an abfolute difcharge of part of the blood by an haemorrhage, or, by refolving it into ferum, and expelling it in that form, the fecretory, and excretory motions, being encreafed be- yond their natural degree. The diary fever, properly fo cal- led, lafts only twenty-four hours j but this differs in nothing, except the time of its duration, from the ephemeron plurium dierum, which commonly lafts four days. To this it is to be added, that fome authors have called the fudor anglicus,

Ephemera