ECCALEOBION
Ec`ca*le*o"bi*on, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
ECCE HOMO
Ec"ce ho"mo. Etym: [L., behold the man. See John xix. 5.] (Paint.)
Defn: A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
ECCENTRIC Ec*cen"tric, a. Etym: [F. excentrique, formerly also spelled eccentrique, fr. LL. eccentros out of the center, eccentric, Gr. Ex-, and Center, and cf. Excentral.]
1. Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
2. Not having the same center; — said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; — opposed to concentric.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
4. Not coincident as to motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon.