Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DEE·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 ( E`bri·os"i·ty (ē`brĭ·ŏs"ĭ·t 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. 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.] |