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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

1. Æolian.

2. (Geol.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.

-- Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See Æolian.

E·ol"ic (?), a. & n. See Æolic.

E·ol"i·pile (?), n. [Cf. F. éolipyle.] Same as Æolipile.

E"o·lis (?), n. [L. Aeolis a daughter of Æolus, Gr. Αιολισ.] (Zoöl.) A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillæ along the back. See Ceratobranchia. [Written also Æolis.]

E"on (?), Æ"on (?), n. [L. aeon, fr. Gr. αιων space or period of time, lifetime, age; akin to L. aevum. See Age.]

1. An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.

The eons of geological time.
Huxley.

2. (Gnostic Philos.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.

Among the higher Æons are Mind, Reason, Power, Truth, and Life.
Am. Cyc.

Eons were considered to be emanations sent forth by God from the depths of His grand solitude to fulfill various functions in the material and spiritual universe.

E"o·phyte (?), n. [Gr. ? dawn + ? a plant.] (Paleon.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

E`o·phyt"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to eophytes.

E"os (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. Ηωσ.] (Gr. Myth.) Aurora, the goddess of morn.


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