Beseeching :: Beseeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beseec.

Beseeching :: Beseeching (a.) Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look..

Breeching :: Breeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breec.

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Catechin :: Catechin (n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin..

Cowleeching :: Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.

Echinate :: Echinate (a.) Alt. of Echinate.

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Echini :: Echini (pl. ) of Echinu.

Echinid :: Echinid (a. & n.) Same as Echinoid.

Echinidan :: Echinidan (n.) One the Echinoidea.

Echinital :: Echinital (a.) Of, or like, an echinite..

Echinite :: Echinite (n.) A fossil echinoid.

Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..

Echinoderm :: Echinoderm (n.) One of the Echinodermata.

Echinodermal :: Echinodermal (a.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

Echinodermata :: Echinodermata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.

Echinodermatous :: Echinodermatous (a.) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

Echinoid :: Echinoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.

Echinoid :: Echinoid (n.) One of the Echinoidea.

Echinoidea :: Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid..

Echinozoa :: Echinozoa (n. pl.) The Echinodermata.

Echinulate :: Echinulate (a.) Set with small spines or prickles.

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Colum.

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