{ En*che"son, En*chea"son (?) }, n. [OF. enchaison, fr. L. incidere to happen; in + cadere to fall.] Occasion, cause, or reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.
En*chest" (?), v. t. [Cf. Inchest.] To inclose in a chest. Vicars.
||En`chi*rid"i*on (?), n. [L., from Gr. &?;; &?; in + &?; hand.] Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.
En*chis"el (?), v. t. To cut with a chisel.
||En"cho*dus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a spear + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).
||En`chon*dro"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; in + &?; cartilage + -oma.] (Med.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.
{ En*cho"ri*al (?), En*chor"ic (?), } a. [Gr. &?; domestic, native; &?; in + &?; place, country.] Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.
||En`chy*lem"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to pour in + &?; anything received.] (Biol.) The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.
||En"chy*ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'e`gchyma an infusion; 'en in + chei^n to pour.] (Biol.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.