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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

E·bri"e·ty (?), n.; pl. Ebrieties (#). [L. ebrietas, from. ebrius intoxicated: cf. F. ébriéte. Cf. So?er.] Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

E·bril"lade (·brĭl"lăd), n. [F.] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

E`bri·os"i·ty (ē`brĭ·ŏs"ĭ·t), n. [L. ebriositas, from ebriousus given to drinking, fr. ebrius. See Ebriety.] Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

E"bri·ous (ē`brĭ·ŭs), a. [L. ebrius.] Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.

E·bul"li·ate (?), v. i. To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] Prynne.

E·bul"lience (?; 106), E·bul"lien·cy (?), n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

E·bul"lient (?), a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st Boil.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey.

The ebullient enthusiasm of the French.
Carlyle.

E·bul"li·o·scope (?), 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.

Eb`ul·li"tion (?), n. [F. ébullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See Ebullient.]

1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

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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