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Epees
- noun - a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
Ephah
- noun - an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel
Ephas
- noun - an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel
Ephod
- - A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.
Ephor
- - A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.
Epics
- noun - a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epoch
- noun - (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
- era
Epode
- - The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. (b) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.
Epona
- noun - (possibly Roman mythology) Celtic goddess of horses and mules and asses
Epopt
- - One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.