Ebonite
(Eb"on*ite) n. (Chem.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is
used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.
Ebonize
(Eb"on*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ebonized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ebonizing.] To make black, or
stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.
Ebony
(Eb"on*y) n.; pl. Ebonies [F. ébène, L. ebenus, fr. Gr. prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. hobnim,
pl. Cf. Ebon.] A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual
color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the
same genus furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a
leguminous tree and from the Excæcaria glandulosa.
Ebony
(Eb"on*y), a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
Poe. Ebracteate
(E*brac"te*ate) a. [Pref. e- + bracteate.] (Bot.) Without bracts.
Ebracteolate
(E*brac"te*o*late) a. [Pref. e- + bracteolate.] (Bot.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; —
said of a pedicel or flower stalk.
Ebrauke
(E*brau"ke) a. [L. Hebraicus: cf. F. Hébraïque.] Hebrew. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ebriety
(E*bri"e*ty) n.; pl. Ebrieties [L. ebrietas, from. ebrius intoxicated: cf. F. ébriéte. Cf. Soer.]
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.
Ebrillade
(E*bril"lade) n. [F.] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses
to turn.
Ebriosity
(E`bri*os"i*ty) n. [L. ebriositas, from ebriousus given to drinking, fr. ebrius. See Ebriety.]
Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
Ebrious
(E"bri*ous) a. [L. ebrius.] Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.
Ebulliate
(E*bul"li*ate) v. i. To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] Prynne.
Ebullience
(E*bul"lience E*bul"lien*cy) n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.
Ebullient
(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. Ebullioscope
(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.
Ebullition
(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.]
