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ENNIS (Gaelic, Innis, an island; Irish, Ennis and Inish), the county town of Co. Clare, Ireland, in the east parliamentary division, on the river Fergus, 25 m. W.N.W. from Limerick by the Great Southern & Western railway. Pop. of urban district (1901) 5093. It ...

ENNISCORTHY. a market town of Co. Wexford, Ireland, in the north parliamentary division, on the side of a steep hill above the Slaney, which here becomes navigable for barges of large size. Pop. of urban district (1901) 5458. It is 77$ m. S. by W. from Dublin ...

ENNIUS, QUINTUS (239-170 B.C.), ancient Latin poet, was born at Rudiae in Calabria. Familiar with Greek as the language in common use among the cultivated classes of his district, and with Oscan, the prevailing dialect of lower Italy, he further acquired a kno

ENNS, a town of Austria, in upper Austria, n m. by rail S.E. of Linz. Pop. (1900) 4371. It is situated on the Enns near its confluence with the Danube and possesses a i sth-century castle, an old Gothic church, and a town hall erected in 1563. Three miles to t

ENGIS, a cave on the banks of the Meuse near Liege, Belgium, where in 1832 Dr P. C. Schmerling found human remains in deposits belonging to the Quaternary period. Bones of the cavebear, mammoth, rhinoceros and hyena were discovered in association with parts of

... that of Dr Watson, bishop of St Davids, who was deprived in 1695 by Archbishop Tennison for simony and ' I'nless the case of the claim of Mark, bishop of Carlisle, to be tried by his ordinary instead of by a temporal court, be a precedent (Phillimorc, Eccles. ...

... with as much or more ease both to himself and his scholler lead him to play at tennis or shoole." Elyot recommends the perusal of Galen's De sanitate luenda, and suggests as suitable athletic exercises within doors " dcambulations, labouryng with poyses made o ...

... , and founder and president of the Phrenological Society. W. M. Thackeray's Pendennis was dedicated to him.

... h their literary dignity. In 1646 the abb€ Charles Coder (1604-1682) ENKHUIZEN— ENNISKILLEN published a Retneil dei tnigmes de ee temps. The word is applied figuratively to anything inexplicable or difficult of understanding.

... la, Bollettino dell' Inst. Arch., 1841, p. in; Man. antichi, viii. p. 88. 1 G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. The years were kept numbered by the annual driving of a nail into the walls of the temple of Nortia at Volsinii (Livy vii. 3. 7), a custom ...

... afico fisico storico della Toscana (6 yols., Florence, 1834-1846). See also G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (2 vols., London, 1883). On medieval and Renaissance architecture and art there are innumerable works. Among those on architecture may be me ...

... h of the estuary, are much frequented by English and French visitors for golf, tennis and bathing, and fitaples itself is a centre for artists. Antiquarian discoveries in the vicinity of fitaples have led to the conjecture that it occupies the site of the Gall ...

... ance under the empire, and it is mentioned as occupied by the Lombards. See G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, \. 62 (London, 1883). (T. As.)

... ightly stretched a cover of horse-hide. A rubber ball about the size of a lawn-tennis ball is used. One of the players opens the service (baltuta), which is made from a small square called the trampoline, situated at one corner of the battuta but outside the c ...

... ich follows the genus name in a binominal system of nomenclature, as canina, perennis, in Rosa canina, Bellis perennis.

... lliam Sprague of Rhode Island, William Alfred Buckingham of Connecticut, Edwin Dennison Morgan of New York, Charles Smith Olden of New Jersey, Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania,William Dennison of Ohio, Oliver Perry Morton of Indiana, Richard Yates of Illino ...