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noun
1.
A fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body.  Synonyms: tocopherol, vitamin E.
2.
A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.  Synonyms: atomic number 99, einsteinium, Es.
3.
The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees.  Synonyms: due east, east, eastward.
4.
The base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282....
5.
The 5th letter of the Roman alphabet.



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... Article of our Church gives a plain and positive answer. For it says that those are not to be heard who pretend that the old Fathers, i.e. Moses and the Prophets, looked only for transitory promises—i.e. for promises which would pass away. No. They looked for eternal promises which could not pass away, because they were according to the eternal laws of God, which stand good both for this world and for all ...
— The Gospel of the Pentateuch • Charles Kingsley

... Lord E. Fitzgerald's condemnation. He deserves all praise, bad and good: it was truly a ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... prisoner at large, in this nutshell of a house at the Hills, which you have never seen since it has become the family mansion. I am now in the actual tenure and occupation of the little room, commonly called Rosamond's room, bounded on the N. E. W. and S. by blank—[N.B. a very dangerous practice of leaving blanks for your boundaries in your leases, as an eminent attorney told me last week.] Said room containing in the whole 14 square feet 4-1/2 square inches, ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth

... of leather. Large swords are only to be seen in the hands of the foreign auxiliaries, but the native Egyptians are armed with small ones, like daggers. The largest one of which we have any knowledge is in the possession of Herr E. Brugsch at Cairo. It is more than two ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... draperies);—though like a truly wise physician he began at home by caring anxiously for his own digestion and for his peace of mind ("his study was but little in the Bible"):—yet the basis of his scientific knowledge was "astronomy," i.e. astrology, "the better part of medicine," as Roger Bacon calls it; together with that "natural magic" by which, as Chaucer elsewhere tells us, the famous among the learned have known how to make ...
— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward


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