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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EN, a prefix to many English words, chiefly borrowed from the French. In coincides with the Latin, in, Gr., and some English words are written indifferently with en or in. For the ease of pronunciation, it is changed to em, particularly before a labial, as in employ, empower.
En was formerly a plural termination of nouns and of verbs, as in housen, escapen. It is retained in oxen and children. It is also still used as the termination of some verbs, as in hearken, from the Saxon infinitive.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1792 1. the width of a piece of type half the width of an em 2. the letter n

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Printing a unit of measurement equal to half an em. Phrases and idioms: en rule (or dash) a short dash used in punctuation. Etymology: name of the letter N

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

En En, n. (Print.) Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.