1. One who makes gradual advances beyond his rights. NWAD ENCROACHER.2
The encroaching spirit of power. NWAD ENCROACHING.3
1. That which is taken by encroaching on another. NWAD ENCROACHMENT.2
2. In law, if a tenant owes two shillings rent service to the lord, and the lord takes three, it is an encroachment. NWAD ENCROACHMENT.3
1. To load; to clog; to impede motion with a load, burden or any thing inconvenient to the limbs; to render motion or operation difficult or laborious. NWAD ENCUMBER.2
2. To embarrass; to perplex; to obstruct. NWAD ENCUMBER.3
3. To load with debts; as, an estate is encumbered with mortgages, or with a widow’s dower. NWAD ENCUMBER.4
1. Useless addition or load. NWAD ENCUMBRANCE.2
Strip from the branching Alps their piny load, NWAD ENCUMBRANCE.3
The huge encumbrance of horrific wood. NWAD ENCUMBRANCE.4
2. Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable. NWAD ENCUMBRANCE.5
The circle of sciences; a general system of instruction or knowledge. More particularly, a collection of the principal facts, principles and discoveries, in all branches of science and the arts, digested under proper titles and arranged in alphabetical order; as the French Encyclopedia; the Encyclopedia Britannica. NWAD ENCYCLOPEDIA.2
1. The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope. When bodies or figures have equal dimensions, or equal length and breadth, the extremities are called sides. NWAD END.2
2. The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time. NWAD END.3
At the end of two months, she returned. Judges 11:39. NWAD END.4
3. The conclusion or cessation of an action. NWAD END.5
Of the increase of his government there shall be no end. Isaiah 9:7. NWAD END.6
4. The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter. NWAD END.7
5. Ultimate state or condition; final doom. NWAD END.8
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Psalm 37:37. NWAD END.9
6. The point beyond which no progression can be made. NWAD END.10
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. Psalm 107:27. NWAD END.11
7. Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation. NWAD END.12
My guilt be on my head and there’s an end! NWAD END.13
8. Close of life; death; decease. NWAD END.14
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. NWAD END.15
9. Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world. NWAD END.16
10. Limit; termination. NWAD END.17
There is no end of the store. Nahum 2:9. NWAD END.18
11. Destruction. Amos 8:2. NWAD END.19
The end of all flesh is come. Genesis 6:13. NWAD END.20
12. Cause of death; a destroyer. NWAD END.21
And award NWAD END.22
Either of you to be the other’s end. NWAD END.23
13. Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion. NWAD END.24
The end of these things is death. Romans 6:21. NWAD END.25
14. A fragment or broken piece. NWAD END.26
Old odd ends. NWAD END.27
15. The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends. NWAD END.28
Two things I shall propound to you, as ends. NWAD END.29
The end of the commandments is charity. 1 Timothy 1:5. NWAD END.30
A right to the end, implies a right to the means necessary for attaining it. NWAD END.31
16. An end, for on end, upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end. NWAD END.32
17. The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts. NWAD END.33
On the seventh day God ended his work. Genesis 2:2. NWAD END.35
1. To destroy; to put to death. NWAD END.36
King Harry, thy sword hath ended him. NWAD END.37
1. To terminate; to close; to conclude. The discourse ends with impressive words. NWAD END.39
2. To cease; to come to a close. Winter ends in March, and summer in September. A good like ends in peace. NWAD END.40
The trial hath endamaged thee no way. NWAD ENDAMAGE.2
So thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. Ezra 4:13. NWAD ENDAMAGE.3
1. To incur the hazard of. [Unusual.] NWAD ENDANGER.2
1. To raise the price. [Not in use.] NWAD ENDEAR.2
Her first endearments twining round the soul. NWAD ENDEARMENT.2
1. The state of being beloved; tender affection. NWAD ENDEARMENT.3
The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavor and application, and therefore often succeed. NWAD ENDEAVOR.2
Imitation is the endeavor of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject. NWAD ENDEAVOR.3
Labor is a continued endeavor, or a succession of endeavors. NWAD ENDEAVOR.4
1. v.t. To attempt to gain; to try to effect. NWAD ENDEAVOR.6
It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects. NWAD ENDEAVOR.7
1. In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word. NWAD ENDING.3
1. Perpetual; incessant; continual; as endless praise; endless clamor. NWAD ENDLESS.2
1. Incessantly; perpetually; continually. NWAD ENDLESSLY.2
1. Perpetuity; endless duration. NWAD ENDLESSNESS.2
1. To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower; to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow. NWAD ENDOW.2
A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture. NWAD ENDOW.3
2. To settle on, as a permanent provision; to furnish with a permanent fund of property; as, to endow a church; to endow a college with a fund to support a professor. NWAD ENDOW.4
3. To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty; to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason. NWAD ENDOW.5
1. That which is bestowed or settled on; property, fund or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as the endowments of a church, of a hospital, or of a college. NWAD ENDOWMENT.2
2. That which is given or bestowed on the person or mind by the creator; gift of nature; any quality or faculty bestowed by the Creator. Natural activity of limbs is an endowment of the body; natural vigor of intellect is an endowment of the mind. Chatham and Burke, in Great Britain, and Jan, Ellsworth and Hamilton, in America, possessed uncommon endowments of mind. NWAD ENDOWMENT.3
1. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience. NWAD ENDURANCE.2
Their fortitude was most admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death. NWAD ENDURANCE.3
2. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.] NWAD ENDURANCE.4
1. To last; to continue in the same state without perishing; to remain; to abide. NWAD ENDURE.2
The Lord shall endure forever. Psalm 9:7. NWAD ENDURE.3
He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job 8:15. NWAD ENDURE.4
2. To bear; to brook; to suffer without resistance, or without yielding. NWAD ENDURE.5
How can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? Esther 8:6. NWAD ENDURE.6
Can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong? Ezekiel 22:14. NWAD ENDURE.7
Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure. NWAD ENDURE.9
As might the strokes of two such arms endure. NWAD ENDURE.10
1. To bear with patience; to bear without opposition or sinking under the pressure. NWAD ENDURE.11
Therefore, I endure all things for the elect’s sake. 2 Timothy 2:10. NWAD ENDURE.12
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. Hebrews 12:7. NWAD ENDURE.13
2. To undergo; to sustain. NWAD ENDURE.14
I wish to die, yet dare not death endure. NWAD ENDURE.15
3. To continue in. [Not used.] NWAD ENDURE.16
1. He or that which continues long. NWAD ENDURER.2
1. Lasting long; permanent. NWAD ENDURING.2
1. With the end forward. NWAD ENDWISE.2
1. A foe; an adversary. A private enemy is one who hates another and wishes him injury, or attempts to do him injury to gratify his own malice or ill will. A public enemy or foe, is one who belongs to a nation or party, at war with another. NWAD ENEMY.2
I say to you, love your enemies. Matthew 5:44. NWAD ENEMY.3
Enemies in war; in peace friends. NWAD ENEMY.4
2. One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood. NWAD ENEMY.5
3. In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend. NWAD ENEMY.6
4. In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy. NWAD ENEMY.7
1. Operating with force, vigor and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious. We say, the public safety required energetic measures. The vicious inclinations of men can be restrained only by energetic laws. [Energic is not used.] NWAD ENERGETIC.2
2. Moving; working; active; operative. We must conceive of God as a Being eternally energetic. NWAD ENERGETIC.3
1. Internal or inherent power; the power of operating, whether exerted or not; as men possessing energies sometimes suffer them to lie inactive. Danger will rouse the dormant energies of our natures into action. NWAD ENERGY.2
2. Power exerted; vigorous operation; force; vigor. God, by his Almighty energy, called the universe into existence. The administration of the laws requires energy in the magistrate. NWAD ENERGY.3
3. Effectual operation; efficacy; strength or force producing the effect. NWAD ENERGY.4
Beg the blessed Jesus to give an energy to your imperfect prayers, by his most powerful intercession. NWAD ENERGY.5
4. Strength of expression; force of utterance; life; spirit; emphasis. The language of Lord Chatham is remarkable for its energy. NWAD ENERGY.6
1. To deprive of nerve, force or strength; to weaken; to render feeble. Idleness and voluptuous indulgences enervate the body. Vices and luxury enervate the strength of state. NWAD ENERVATE.2
2. To cut the nerves; as, to enervate a horse. NWAD ENERVATE.3
1. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. NWAD ENERVATION.2
1. To give one a feud; hence, to invest with a fee; to give to another any corporeal hereditament, in fee simple or fee tail, by livery of seizin. NWAD ENFEOFF.2
2. To surrender or give up. [Not used.] NWAD ENFEOFF.3
1. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate. NWAD ENFEOFFMENT.2
In conducting approaches at a siege, care should be taken that the trenches be not enfiladed. NWAD ENFILADE.3
In a position to enfilade the works at Fort Isle. NWAD ENFILADE.4
1. To give strength to; to strengthen; to invigorate. [See Def. 5.] NWAD ENFORCE.2
2. To make or gain by force; to force; as, to enforce a passage. NWAD ENFORCE.3
3. To put in act by violence; to drive. NWAD ENFORCE.4
Stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings. NWAD ENFORCE.5
4. To instigate; to urge on; to animate. NWAD ENFORCE.6
5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments. NWAD ENFORCE.7
6. To compel; to constrain; to force. NWAD ENFORCE.8
7. To put in execution; to cause to take effect; as, to enforce the laws. NWAD ENFORCE.9
8. To press with a charge. NWAD ENFORCE.10
9. To prove; to evince. [Little used.] NWAD ENFORCE.11
1. That which gives energy or effect; sanction. The penalties of law are enforcements. NWAD ENFORCEMENT.2
2. Motive of conviction; urgent evidence. NWAD ENFORCEMENT.3
3. Pressing exigence; that which urges or constrains. NWAD ENFORCEMENT.4
4. In a general sense, any thing which compels or constrains; any thing which urges either the body or the mind. NWAD ENFORCEMENT.5
5. A putting in execution; as the enforcement of law. NWAD ENFORCEMENT.6