Ejector – Elixation

Ejector

EJECT'OR, noun One who ejects or dispossesses another of his land.

Ejulation

EJULA'TION, noun [Latin ejulatio, from ejulo, to cry, to yell, to wail.]

Outcry; a wailing; a loud cry expressive of grief or pain; mourning; lamentation.

Eke

EKE, verb transitive [Latin augeo.]

1. To increase; to enlarge; as, to eke a store of provisions.

2. To add to; to supply what is wanted; to enlarge by addition; sometimes with out; as, to eke or eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance.

3. To lengthen; to prolong; as, to eke out the time.

EKE, adverb [Latin ac, and also.] Also, likewise; in addition.

'Twill be prodigious hard to prove,

That this is eke the throne of love.

[This word is nearly obsolete, being used only in poetry of the familiar and ludicrous kind.]

Eked

E'KED, participle passive Increased; lengthened.

Ekerbergite

EKERBERG'ITE, noun [from Ekeberg.] A mineral, supposed to be a variety of scapolite.

Eking

E'KING, participle present tense Increasing; augmenting; lengthening.

E'KING, noun Increase or addition.

Elaborate

ELAB'ORATE, verb transitive [Latin elaboro, from laboro, labor. See Labor.]

1. To produce with labor.

They in full joy elaborate a sigh.

2. To improve or refine by successive operations. The heat of the sun elaborates the juices of plants and renders the fruit more perfect.

ELAB'ORATE, adjective [Latin elaboratus.] Wrought with labor; finished with great diligence; studies; executed with exactness; as an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance.

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.

Elaborated

ELAB'ORATED, participle passive Produced with labor or study; improved.

Elaborately

ELAB'ORATELY, adverb With great labor or study; with nice regard to exactness.

Elaborateness

ELAB'ORATENESS, noun The quality of being elaborate or wrought with great labor.

Elaborating

ELAB'ORATING, participle present tense Producing with labor; improving; refining by successive operations.

Elaboration

ELABORA'TION, noun Improvement or refinement by successive operations.

Elain

ELA'IN, noun [Gr. oily.] The oily or liquid principle of oils and fats.

Elamping

ELAMP'ING, adjective [See Lamp.] Shining. [Not in use.]

Elance

EL'ANCE, verb transitive To throw or shoot; to hurl; to dart.

While thy unerring hand elanced--a dart.

Eland

E'LAND, noun A species of heavy, clumsy antelope in Africa.

Elaolite

ELA'OLITE, noun [Gr. olive.] A mineral, called also fettstein [fat-stone.] from its greasy appearance. It has a crystalline structure, more or less distinctly foliated in directions parallel to the sides of a rhombic prism, and also in the direction of the shorter diagonals of the bases. Its fracture is uneven, and sometimes imperfectly conchoidal. Some varieties are slightly chatoyant. It is fusible by the blow-pipe into a white enamel. Its colors are greenish or bluish gray, greenish blue and flesh red, and it is more or less translucent.

Elapse

ELAPSE, verb intransitive elaps'. [Latin elapsus, from elabor, labor, to slide.]

To slide away; to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; applied chiefly or wholly to time. [Instead of elapse the noun, we use lapse.]

Elapsed

ELAPS'ED, participle passive Slid or passed away, as time.

Elapsing

ELAPS'ING, participle present tense Sliding away; gliding or passing away silently, as time.

Elastic

ELAS'TIC

ELAS'TICAL, adjective [from the Gr. to impel, to drive.] Springing back; having the power of returning to the form from which it is bent, extended, pressed or distorted; having the inherent property of recovering its former figure, after any external pressure, which has altered that figure, is removed; rebounding; flying back. Thus a bow is elastic and when the force which bends it is removed, it instantly returns to its former shape. The air is elastic; vapors are elastic; and when the force compressing them is removed, they instantly expand or dilate, and recover their former state.

Elastical

ELAS'TICAL, a. [from the Gr. to impel, to drive.] Springing back; having the power of returning to the form from which it is bent, extended, pressed or distorted; having the inherent property of recovering its former figure, after any external pressure, which has altered that figure, is removed; rebounding; flying back. Thus a bow is elastic, and when the force which bends it is removed, it instantly returns to its former shape. The air is elastic; vapors are elastic; and when the force compressing them is removed, they instantly expand or dilate, and recover their former state.

Elastically

ELAS'TICALLY, adverb In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

Elasticity

ELASTIC'ITY, noun The inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or state, after external pressure, tension or distortion. Thus elastic gum, extended, will contract to its natural dimensions, when the force is removed. Air, when compressed, will, on the removal of the compressing force, instantly dilate and fill its former space.

Elate

ELA'TE, adjective [Latin elatus.] Raised; elevated in mind; flushed, as with success. Whence, lofty; haughty; as elate with victory. [It is used chiefly in poetry.]

ELA'TE, verb transitive To raise or swell, as the minds or spirits; to elevate with success; to puff up; to make proud.

1. To raise; to exalt. [Unusual.]

Elated

ELA'TED, participle passive Elevated in mind or spirits; puffed up, as with honor, success or prosperity. We say, elated with success; elated with pride. [This is used in prose.]

Elatedly

ELA'TEDLY, adverb With elation.

Elaterium

ELATE'RIUM, noun A substance deposited from the very acrid juice of the Momordica elaterium wild cucumber. It is in thin cakes of a greenish color and bitter taste, and is a powerful cathartic.

Elatery

EL'ATERY, noun Acting force or elasticity; as the elatery of the air. [Unusual.]

Elatin

EL'ATIN, noun The active principle of the elaterium, from which the latter is supposed to derive its cathartic power.

Elation

ELA'TION, noun An inflation or elevation of mind proceeding from self-approbation; self-esteem, vanity or pride, resulting from success. Hence, haughtiness; pride of prosperity.

Elbow

EL'BOW, noun

1. The outer angle made by the bend of the arm.

The wings that waft our riches out of sight

Grow on the gamester's elbows.

2. Any flexure or angle; the obtuse angle of a wall, building or road.

To be at the elbow is to be very near; to be by the side; to be at hand.

EL'BOW, verb transitive To push with the elbow

1. To push or drive to a distance; to encroach on.

He'll elbow out his neighbors.

EL'BOW, verb intransitive To jut into an angle; to project; to bend.

Elbow-Chair

EL'BOW-CHAIR, noun A chair with arms to support the elbows; an arm-chair.

Elbow-Room

EL'BOW-ROOM, noun Room to extend the elbows on each side; hence, in its usual acceptation, perfect freedom from confinement; ample room for motion or action.

Eld

ELD, noun Old age; decrepitude.

1. Old people; persons worn out with age.

[This word is entirely obsolete. But its derivative elder is in use.]

ELD'ER, adjective

1. Older; senior; having lived a longer time; born, produced or formed before something else; opposed to younger.

The elder shall serve the younger. Genesis 25:23.

His elder son was in the field. Luke 15:25.

2. Prior in origin; preceding in the date of a commission; as an elder officer or magistrate. In this sense, we generally use senior.

ELD'ER, , noun One who is older than another or others.

1. An ancestor.

Carry your head as your elders have done before you.

2. A person advanced in life, and who, on account of his age, experience and wisdom, is selected for office, Among rude nations, elderly men are rulers, judges, magistrates or counselors. Among the Jews, the seventy men associated with Moses in the government of the people, were elders. In the first christian churches, elders were persons who enjoyed offices or ecclesiastical functions, and the word includes apostles, pastors, teachers, presbyters, bishops or overseers. Peter and John call themselves elders. The first councils of christians were called presbyteria, councils of elders.

In the modern presbyterian churches, elders are officers who, with the pastors or ministers and deacons, compose the consistories or kirk-sessions, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline.

In the first churches of New England, the pastors or ministers were called elders or teaching elders.

ELD'ER, noun A tree or genus of trees, the Sambucus, of several species. The common elder of America bears blackberries. Some species bear red berries. The stem and branches contain a soft pith.

Elder

EL'DER, noun A species of duck.

Elder-Down

EL'DER-DOWN, noun Down or soft feathers of the eider duck.

Elderly

ELD'ERLY, adjective Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as elderly people

Eldership

ELD'ERSHIP, noun Seniority; the state of being older.

1. The office of an elder.

2. Presbytery; order of elders.

Eldest

ELD'EST, adjective Oldest; most advanced in age; that was born before others; as the eldest son or daughter. It seems to always applied to persons or at least to animals, and not to things. If ever applied to things, it must signify, that was first formed or produced, that has existed the longest time. But applied to things we use oldest.

Elding

ELD'ING, noun Fuel. [Local.]

Eleatic

ELEAT'IC, adjective An epithet given to a certain sect of philosophers, so called from Elea, or Velia, a town of the Lucani; as the eleatic sect or philosophy.

Elecampane

ELECAMPA'NE, noun [Latin helenium, from Gr. which signifies this plant and a feast in honor of Helen. Pliny informs us that this plant was so called because it was said to have sprung from the tears of Helen. The past part of the word is from the Latin campana; inula campana.]

A genus of plants, the Inula, of many species. The common elecampane has a perennial, thick, branching root, of a strong odor, and is used in medicine. It is sometimes called yellow star-wort. The Germans are said to candy the root, like ginger, calling it German spice.

Elect

ELECT', verb transitive [Latin electus, from eligo; e or ex and lego; Gr. to choose.]

1. Properly, to pick out; to select from among two or more, that which is preferred. Hence,

2. To select or take for an office or employment; to choose from among a number; to select or manifest preference by vote or designation; as, to elect a representative by ballot or viva voce; to elect a president or governor.

3. In theology, to designate, choose or select as an object of mercy or favor.

4. To choose; to prefer; to determine in favor of.

ELECT', adjective Chosen, taken by preference from among two or more. Hence,

1. In theology, chosen as the object of mercy; chosen, selected or designated to eternal life; predestinated in the divine counsels.

2. Chosen, but not inaugurated, consecrated or invested with office; as bishop elect; emperor elect; governor or mayor elect. But in the scriptures, and in theology, this word is generally used as a noun.

ELECT', noun One chosen or set apart; applied to Christ.

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect in whom my soul delighteth. Isaiah 42:1.

1. Chosen or designated by God to salvation; predestinated to glory as the end, and to sanctification as the means; usually with a plural signification, the elect

Shall not God avenge his own elect? Luke 18:7.

If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect Matthew 24:24.

He shall send his angels--and they shall gather his elect from the four winds. Matthew 24:24.

2. Chosen; selected; set apart as a peculiar church and people; applied to the Israelites. Isaiah 45:4.

Elected

ELECT'ED, participle passive Chosen; preferred; designated to office by some act of the constituents, as by vote; chosen or predestinated to eternal life.

Electing

ELECT'ING, participle present tense Choosing; selecting from a number; preferring; designating to office by choice or preference; designating or predestinating to eternal salvation.

Election

ELEC'TION, noun [Latin electio.] The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,

1. The act of choosing a person to fill an office or employment, by any manifestation of preference, as by ballot, uplifted hands or viva voce; as the election of a king, of a president, or a mayor.

Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.

2. Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.

3. Power of choosing or selecting.

4. Discernment; discrimination; distinction.

To use men with much difference and election is good.

5. In theology, divine choice; predetermination of God, by which persons are distinguished as objects of mercy, become subjects of grace, are sanctified and prepared for heaven.

There is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romans 11:5.

6. The public choice of officers.

7. The day of a public choice of officers.

8. Those who are elected.

The election hath obtained it. Romans 11:5.

Electioneer

ELECTIONEE'R, verb intransitive To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.

Electioneering

ELECTIONEE'RING, participle present tense Using influence to procure the election of a person.

ELECTIONEE'RING, noun The arts or practices used for securing the choice of one to office.

Elective

ELECT'IVE, adjective Dependent on choice, as an elective monarchy, in which the king is raised to the throne by election; opposed to hereditary.

1. Bestowed or passing by election; as an office is elective

2. Pertaining to or consisting in choice or right of choosing; as elective franchise.

3. Exerting the power of choice; as an elective act.

4. Selecting for combination; as elective attraction, which is a tendency in bodies to unite with certain kinds of matter in preference to others.

Electively

ELECT'IVELY, adverb By choice; with preference of one to another.

Elector

ELECT'OR, noun One who elects, or one who has the right of choice; a person who has, by law or constitution, the right of voting for an officer, In free governments, the people or such of them as possess certain qualifications of age, character and property, are the electors of their representatives, etc., in parliament, assembly, or other legislative body. In the United States, certain persons are appointed or chosen to be electors of the president or chief magistrate. In Germany, certain princes were formerly electors of the emperor, and elector was one of their titles, as the elector of Saxony.

Electoral

ELECT'ORAL, adjective Pertaining to election or electors. The electoral college in Germany consisted of all the electors of the empire, being nine in number, six secular princes and three archbishops.

Electorality

ELECTORAL'ITY, for electorate, is not used.

Electorate

ELECT'ORATE, noun The dignity of an elector in the German empire.

1. The territory of an elector in the German empire.

Electre

ELEC'TRE, noun [Latin electrum.] Amber. [Bacon used this word for a compound or mixed metal. But the word is not now used.]

Electress

ELECT'RESS, noun The wife or widow of an elector in the German empire.

Electric

ELEC'TRIC, noun Any body or substance capable of exhibiting electricity by means of friction or otherwise, and of resisting the passage of it from one body to another. Hence an electric is called a non-conductor, an electric per se. Such are amber, glass, rosin, wax, gum-lac, sulphur, etc.

Electrically

ELEC'TRICALLY, adverb In the manner of electricity, or by means of it.

Electrician

ELECTRI'CIAN, noun A person who studies electricity, and investigates its properties, by observation and experiments; one versed in the science of electricity.

Electricity

ELECTRIC'ITY, noun The operations of a very subtil fluid, which appears to be diffused through most bodies, remarkable for the rapidity of its motion, and one of the most powerful agents in nature. The name is given to the operations of this fluid, and to the fluid itself. As it exists in bodies, it is denominated a property of those bodies, though it may be a distinct substance, invisible, intangible and imponderable. When an electric body is rubbed with a soft dry substance, as with woolen cloth, silk or fur, it attracts or repels light substances, at a greater or less distance, according to the strength of the electric virtue; and the friction may be continued, or increased, till the electric body will emit sparks or flashes resembling fire, accompanied with a sharp sound. When the electric fluid passes from cloud to cloud, from the clouds to the earth, or from the earth to the clouds, it is called lightning, and produces thunder. Bodies which, when rubbed, exhibit this property, are called electrics or non-conductors. Bodies, which, when excited, do not exhibit this property, as water and metals, are called non-electrics or conductors, as they readily convey electricity from one body to another, at any distance, and such is the rapidity of the electric fluid in motion, that no perceptible space of time is required for its passage to any known distance.

It is doubted by modern philosophers whether electricity is a fluid or material substance. electricity according to Professor Silliman, is a power which causes repulsion and attraction between the masses of bodies under its influence; a power which causes the heterogeneous particles of bodies to separate, thus producing chimical decomposition; one of the causes of magnetism.

Electrictrical

ELEC'TRIC'TRICAL, adjective [Gr. amber.]

1. Containing electricity, or capable of exhibiting it when excited by friction; as an electric body, such as amber and glass;

an electric substance.

2. In general, pertaining to electricity; as electric power or virtue; electric attraction or repulsion; electric fluid.

3. Derived from or produced by electricity; as electrical effects; electric vapor; electric shock.

4. Communicating a shock like electricity; as the electric eel or fish.

Electrifiable

ELEC'TRIFIABLE, adjective [from electrify.] Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it; that may become electric.

1. Capable of receiving and transmitting the electrical fluid.

Electrification

ELECTRIFICA'TION, noun The act of electrifying, or state of being charged with electricity.

Electrified

ELEC'TRIFIED, participle present tense Charged with electricity.

Electrify

ELEC'TRIFY, verb transitive To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity.

1. To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.

2. To excite suddenly; to give a sudden shock; as, the whole assembly was electrified.

ELECTRIFY, verb intransitive To become electric.

Electrifying

ELECTRIFYING, participle present tense Charging with electricity; affecting with electricity; giving a sudden shock.

Electrization

ELECTRIZA'TION, noun The act of electrizing.

Electrize

ELEC'TRIZE, verb transitive To electrify; a word in popular use.

Electro-Chimistry

ELECTRO-CHIM'ISTRY, noun That science which treats of the agency of electricity and galvanism in effecting chimical changes.

Electro-Magnetic

ELECTRO-MAGNET'IC, adjective Designating what pertains to magnetism, as connected with electricity, or affected by it. Electromagnetic phenomena.

Electro-Magnetism

ELECTRO-MAG'NETISM, noun That science which treats of the agency of

electricity and galvanism in communicating magnetic properties.

Electro-Motion

ELECTRO-MO'TION, noun The motion of electricity or galvanism, or the passing of it from one metal to another, by the attraction or influence of one metal plate in contact with another.

Electro-Motive

ELECTRO-MO'TIVE, adjective Producing electro-motion; as electro-motive power.

Electro-Negative

ELECTRO-NEG'ATIVE, adjective Repelled by bodies negatively electrified, and attracted by those positively electrified.

Electro-Positive

ELECTRO-POS'ITIVE, adjective Attracted by bodies negatively electrified, or by the negative pole of the galvanic arrangement.

Electrometer

ELECTROM'ETER, noun [Latin electrum; Gr. amber, and to measure.]

An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity, or its quality; or an instrument for discharging it from a jar.

Electrometrical

ELECTROMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to an electrometer; made by an electrometer; as an electrometrical experiment.

Electromotor

ELEC'TROMOTOR, noun [electrum and motor.] A mover of the electric fluid; an instrument or apparatus so called.

Electron

ELEC'TRON, noun Amber; also, a mixture of gold with a fifth part of silver.

Electrophor

ELEC'TROPHOR

ELECTROPH'ORUS, noun [electrum, and to bear.] An instrument for preserving electricity a long time.

Electrophorus

ELECTROPH'ORUS, n. [electrum, and to bear.] An instrument for preserving electricity a long time.

Electrum

ELEC'TRUM, noun [Latin amber.] In mineralogy, an argentiferous gold ore, or native alloy, of a pale brass yellow color.

Electuary

ELEC'TUARY, noun [Low Latin electarium, electuarium; Gr. to lick.]

In pharmacy, a form of medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey or syrup, and made into due consistence, to be taken in doses, like boluses.

Eleemosynary

ELEEMOS'YNARY, adjective [Gr. alms, to pity, compassion.]

1. Given in charity; given or appropriated to support the poor; as eleemosynary rents or taxes.

2. Relating to charitable donations; intended for the distribution of alms, or for the use and management of donations, whether for the subsistence of the poor or for the support and promotion of learning; as an eleemosynary corporation. A hospital founded by charity is an eleemosynary institution for the support of the poor, sick and impotent; a college founded by donations is an eleemosynary institution for the promotion of learning. The corporation entrusted with the care of such institutions is eleemosynary

ELEEMOS'YNARY, noun One who subsists on charity.

Elegance

EL'EGANCE

EL'EGANCY, noun [Latin elegantia, eligo, to choose, though irregularly formed.]

In its primary sense, this word signified that which is choice or select, as distinguished from what is common.

1. 'The beauty of propriety, not of greatness, ' says Johnson.

Applied to manners or behavior, elegance is that fine polish, politeness or grace, which is acquired by a genteel education, and an association with wellbred company.

Applied to language, elegance respects the manner of speaking or of writing. elegance of speaking is the propriety of diction and utterance, and the gracefulness of action or gesture; comprehending correct, appropriate and rich expressions, delivered in an agreeable manner. elegance of composition consists in correct, appropriate and rich expressions, or well chosen words, arranged in a happy manner. elegance implies neatness, purity, and correct, perspicuous arrangement, and is calculated to please a delicate taste, rather than to excite admiration or strong feeling. elegance is applied also to form. elegance in architecture, consists in the due symmetry and distribution of the parts of an edifice, or in regular proportions and arrangement. And in a similar sense, the word is applied to the person or human body. It is applied also to penmanship, denoting that form of letters which is most agreeable to the eye. In short, in a looser sense, it is applied to many works of art or nature remarkable for their beauty; as elegance of dress or furniture.

2. That which pleases by its nicety, symmetry, purity or beauty. In this sense it has a plural; as the nicer elegancies of art.

Elegancy

EL'EGANCY, n. [L. elegantia, eligo, to choose, though irregularly formed.]

In its primary sense, this word signified that which is choice or select, as distinguished from what is common. 1."The beauty of propriety, not of greatness," says Johnson.Applied to manners or behavior, elegance is that fine polish, politeness or grace, which is acquired by a genteel education, and an association with wellbred company.Applied to language, elegance respects the manner of speaking or of writing. Elegance of speaking is the propriety of diction and utterance, and the gracefulness of action or gesture; comprehending correct, appropriate and rich expressions, delivered in an agreeable manner. Elegance of composition consists in correct, appropriate and rich expressions, or well chosen words, arranged in a happy manner. Elegance implies neatness, purity, and correct, perspicuous arrangement, and is calculated to please a delicate taste, rather than to excite admiration or strong feeling. Elegance is applied also to form. Elegance in architecture, consists in the due symmetry and distribution of the parts of an edifice, or in regular proportions and arrangement. And in a similar sense, the word is applied to the person or human body. It is applied also to penmanship, denoting that form of letters which is most agreeable to the eye. In short, in a looser sense, it is applied to many works of art or nature remarkable for their beauty; as elegance of dress or furniture.2. That which pleases by its nicety, symmetry, purity or beauty. In this sense it has a plural; as the nicer elegancies of art.

Elegant

EL'EGANT, adjective [Latin elegans.] Polished; polite; refined; graceful; pleasing to good taste; as elegant manners.

1. Polished, neat; pure; rich in expressions; correct in arrangement; as an elegant style or composition.

2. Uttering or delivering elegant language with propriety and grace; as an elegant speaker.

3. Symmetrical; regular; well formed in its parts, proportions and distribution; as an elegant structure.

4. Nice; sensible to beauty; discriminating beauty from deformity or imperfection; as an elegant taste. [This is a loose application of the word; elegant being used for delicate.]

5. Beautiful in form and colors; pleasing; as an elegant flower.

6. Rich; costly and ornamental; as elegant furniture or equipage.

Elegantly

EL'EGANTLY, adverb In a manner to please; with elegance; with beauty; with pleasing propriety; as a composition elegantly written.

1. With due symmetry; with well formed and duly proportioned parts; as a house elegantly built.

2. Richly; with rich or handsome materials well disposed; as a room elegantly furnished; a woman elegantly dressed.

Elegiac

ELE'GIAC, adjective [Low Latin elegiacus. See Elegy.] Belonging to elegy; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

1. Used in elegies. Pentameter verse is elegiac

Elegist

EL'EGIST, noun A writer of elegies.

Elegit

ELE'GIT, noun [Latin eligo, elegi, to choose.] A writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are apprized, and delivered to the plaintiff, and if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, one moiety of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits.

1. The title to estate by elegit

Elegy

EL'EGY, noun [Latin elegia; Gr. to speak or utter.; Latin lugeo. The verbs may have a common origin, for to speak and to cry out in wailing are only modifications of the same act, to throw out the voice with more or less vehemence.]

1. A mournful or plaintive poem, or a funeral song; a poem or a song expressive of sorrow and lamentation.

2. A short poem without points or affected elegancies.

Element

EL'EMENT, noun [Latin elementus.]

1. The first or constituent principle or minutest part or any thing; as the elements of earth, water, salt, or wood; the elements of the world; the elements of animal or vegetable bodies. So letters are called the elements of language.

2. An ingredient; a constituent part of any composition.

3. In a chimical sense, an atom; the minutest particle of a substance; that which cannot be divided by chimical analysis, and therefore considered as a simple substance, as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc.

An element is strictly the last result of chimical analysis; that which cannot be decomposed by any means now employed.

An atom is the last result of mechanical division; that which cannot be any farther divided, without decomposition; hence there may be both elementary and compound atoms.

4. In the plural, the first rules or principles of an art or science; rudiments; as the elements of geometry; the elements of music; the elements of painting; the elements of a theory.

5. In popular language, fire, air, earth and water, are called the four elements, as formerly it was supposed that these are simple bodies, of which the world is composed. Later discoveries prove air, earth and water to be compound bodies, and fire to be only the extrication of light and heat during combustion.

6. element in the singular, is sometimes used for the air.

7. The substance which forms the natural or most suitable habitation of an animal. Water is the proper element of fishes; air, of man. Hence,

8. The proper state or sphere of any thing; the state of things suited to one's temper or habits. Faction is the element of a demagogue.

9. The matter or substances which compose the world.

The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter 3:10.

10. The outline or sketch; as the elements of a plan.

11. Moving cause or principle; that which excites action.

Passions, the elements of life.

EL'EMENT, verb transitive To compound of elements or first principles.

1. To constitute; to make as a first principle.

[This word is rarely or never used.]

Elemental

ELEMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to elements.

1. Produced by some of the four supposed elements; as elemental war.

2. Produced by elements; as elemental strife.

3. Arising from first principles.

Elementality

ELEMENTAL'ITY, noun Composition of principles or ingredients.

Elementally

ELEMENT'ALLY, adverb According to elements; literally; as the words, 'Take, eat; this is my body, ' elementally understood.

Elementariness

ELEMENT'ARINESS, noun The state of being elementary; the simplicity of nature; uncompounded state.

Elementarity

ELEMENTAR'ITY

ELEMENT'ARY, adjective Primary; simple; uncompounded; uncombined; having only one principle or constituent part; as an elementary substance. Elementary particles are those into which a body is resolved by decomposition.

1. Initial; rudimental; containing, teaching or discussing first principles, rules or rudiments; as an elementary treatise or disquisition.

2. Treating of elements; collecting, digesting or explaining principles; as an elementary writer.

Elementary

ELEMENT'ARY, a. Primary; simple; uncompounded; uncombined; having only one principle or constituent part; as an elementary substance. Elementary particles are those into which a body is resolved by decomposition. 1. Initial; rudimental; containing, teaching or discussing first principles, rules or rudiments; as an elementary treatise or disquisition.2. Treating of elements; collecting, digesting or explaining principles; as an elementary writer.

Elemi

EL'EMI, noun The gum elemi so called; but said to be a resinous substance, the produce of the Amyris elemifera, a small tree or shrub of South America. It is of a whitish color tinged with green or yellow.

Elench

ELENCH', noun [Latin elenchus; Gr. to argue, to refute.]

1. A vicious or fallacious argument, which is apt to deceive under the appearance of truth; a sophism. [Little used.]

2. In antiquity, a kind of earring set with pearls.

Elenchical

ELENCH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an elench.

Elenchically

ELENCH'ICALLY, adverb By means of an elench. [Not in use.]

Elenchize

ELENCH'IZE, verb intransitive To dispute. [Not in use.]

Elephant

EL'EPHANT, noun [Latin elephas, elephantus; probably from the Heb. a leader or chief, the chief or great animal.]

1. The largest of all quadrupeds, belonging to the order of Bruta. This animal has no foreteeth in either jaw; the canine-teeth are very long; and he has a long proboscis or trunk, by which he conveys food and drink to his mouth. The largest of these animals is about 16 feet long and 14 feet high; but smaller varieties are not more than seven feet high. The eyes are small and the feet short, round, clumsy, and distinguishable only by the toes. The trunk is a cartilaginous and muscular tube, extending from the upper jaw, and is seven or eight feet in length. The general shape of his body resembles that of swine. His skin is rugged, and his hair thin, The two large tusks are of a yellowish color, and extremely hard. The bony substance of these is called ivory. The elephant is 30 years in coming to his full growth, and he lives to 150 or 200 years of age. Elephants are natives of the warm climates of Africa and Asia, where they are employed as beasts of burden. They were formerly used in war.

2. Ivory; the tusk of the elephant

Elephant-Beetle

EL'EPHANT-BEETLE, noun A large species of Scarabaeus, or beetle, found in South America. It is of a black color; the body covered with a hard shell, as thick as that of a crab. It is nearly four inches long. The feelers are horny, and the proboscis an inch and a quarter in length.

Elephantiasis

ELEPHANTI'ASIS, noun [Latin and Gr. from elephant.]

A species of leprosy, so called from covering the skin with incrustations, like those of an elephant. It is a chronic and contagious disease, marked by a thickening and greasiness of the legs, with loss of hair and feeling, a swelling of the face, and a hoarse, nasal voice. It affects the whole body; the bones, as well as the skin, are covered with spots and tumors, at first red, but afterwards black.

Elephantine

ELEPHANT'INE, adjective Pertaining to the elephant; huge; resembling an elephant; or perhaps white, like ivory.

1. In antiquity, an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions of the senate, magistrates, emperors and generals; so called perhaps, as being made of ivory.

Elephants-Foot

ELEPHANT'S-FOOT, noun A plant, the Elephantopus.

Eleusinian

ELEUSIN'IAN, adjective Relating to Eleusis in Greece; as eleusinian mysteries or festivals, the festivals and mysteries of Ceres.

Elevate

EL'EVATE, verb transitive [Latin elevo; e and levo, to raise; Eng. to lift. See Lift.]

1. To raise, in a literal and general sense; to raise from a low or deep place to a higher.

2. To exalt; to raise to higher state or station; as, to elevate a man to an office.

3. To improve, refine or dignify; to raise from or above low conceptions; as, to elevate the mind.

4. To raise from a low or common state; to exalt; as, to elevate the character; to elevate a nation.

5. To elate with price.

6. To excite; to cheer; to animate; as, to elevate the spirits.

7. To take from; to detract; to lessen by detraction. [Not used.]

8. To raise from any tone to one more acute; as, to elevate the voice.

9. To augment or swell; to make louder, as sound.

EL'EVATE, adjective [Latin elevatus.] Elevated; raised aloft.

Elevated

EL'EVATED, participle passive Raised; exalted; dignified; elated; excited; made more acute or more loud, as sound.

Elevating

EL'EVATING, participle present tense Raising; exalting; dignifying; elating; cheering.

Elevation

ELEVA'TION, noun [Latin elevatio.] The act of raising or conveying from a lower or deeper place to a higher.

1. The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne.

2. Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity.

Angels, in their several degrees of elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive faculties.

3. Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas.

4. Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions.

5. Exaltation of character or manners.

6. Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects.

7. An elevated place or station.

8. Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain.

9. A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice.

10. In astronomy, altitude; the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon.

11. In gunnery, the angle which the chace of a cannon or mortar, or the axis of the hollow cylinder, makes with the plane of the horizon.

12. In dialling, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line.

Elevation of the Host, in Catholic countries, that part of the mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore.

Elevator

EL'EVATOR, noun One who raises, lifts or exalts.

1. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the lip or the eye.

2. A surgical instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Elevatory

EL'EVATORY, noun An instrument used in trepanning, for raising a depressed or fractured part of the skull.

Eleve

ELE'VE, noun One brought up or protected by another.

Eleven

ELEV'EN, adjective elev'n. Ten and one added; as eleven men.

Eleventh

ELEV'ENTH, adjective The next in order to the tenth; as the eleventh chapter.

Elf

ELF, noun plural elves.

1. A wandering spirit; a fairy; a hobgoblin; an imaginary being which our rude ancestors supposed to inhabit unfrequented places, and in various ways to affect mankind. Hence in Scottish, elf-shot is an elf-arrow; an arrow-head of flint, supposed to be shot by elfs; and it signifies also a disease supposed to be produced by the agency of spirits.

Every elf and fairy sprite,

Hope as light as bird from brier.

2. An evil spirit; a devil.

3. A diminutive person.

ELF, verb transitive To entangle hair in so intricate a manner, that it cannot be disentangled. This work was formerly ascribed to elves.

Elf-Arrow

ELF'-ARROW, noun A name given to flints in the shape of arrow-heads, vulgarly supposed to be shot by fairies.

Elf-Lock

ELF'-LOCK, noun A knot of hair twisted by elves.

Elfin

ELF'IN, adjective Relating or pertaining to elves.

ELF'IN, noun A little urchin.

Elfish

ELF'ISH, adjective Resembling elves; clad in disguise.

Elicit

ELIC'IT, verb transitive [Latin elicio; e or ex and lacio, to allure.]

1. To draw out; to bring to light; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.

2. To strike out; as, to elicit sparks of fire by collision.

ELIC'IT, adjective Brought into act; brought from possibility into real existence. [Little used.]

Elicitation

ELICITA'TION, noun The act of eliciting; the act of drawing out.

Elicited

ELIC'ITED, participle passive Brought or drawn out; struck out.

Eliciting

ELIC'ITING, participle present tense Drawing out; bringing to light; striking out.

Elide

ELI'DE, verb transitive [Latin elido; e and loedo.] To break or dash in pieces; to crush. [Not used.]

1. To cut off a syllable.

Eligibility

ELIGIBIL'ITY, noun [from eligible] Worthiness or fitness to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing which renders it preferable to another, or desirable.

1. The state of being capable of being chosen to an office.

Eligible

EL'IGIBLE, adjective [Latin eligo, to choose or select; e and lego.]

1. Fit to be chosen; worthy of choice, preferable.

In deep distress, certainty is more eligible than suspense.

2. Suitable; proper; desirable; as, the house stands in an eligible situation.

3. Legally qualified to be chosen; as, a man is or is not eligible to an office.

Eligibleness

EL'IGIBLENESS, noun Fitness to be chosen in preference to another; suitableness; desirableness.

Eligibly

EL'IGIBLY, adverb In a manner to be worthy of choice; suitably.

Eliminate

ELIM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin elimino; e or ex and limen, threshhold.]

1. To thrust out of doors.

2. To expel; to thrust out; to discharge, or throw off; to set at liberty.

This detains secretions which nature finds it necessary to eliminate

Eliminated

ELIM'INATED, participle passive Expelled; thrown off; discharged.

Eliminating

ELIM'INATING, participle present tense Expelling; discharging; throwing off.

Elimination

ELIMINA'TION, noun The act of expelling or throwing off; the act of discharging, or secreting by the pores.

Eliquation

ELIQUA'TION, noun [Latin eliquo, to melt; e and liquo.]

In chimistry, the operation by which a more fusible substance is separated from one that is less so, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other; as an alloy of copper and lead.

Elision

ELI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin elisio, from elido, to strike off; e and loedo.]

1. In grammar, the cutting off or suppression of a vowel at the end of a word, for the sake of sound or measure, when the next word begins with a vowel; as, th' embattled plain; th' empyreal sphere.

2. Division; separation. [Not used.]

Elisor

ELI'SOR, noun s as z. In law, a sheriff's substitute for returning a jury. When the sheriff is not an indifferent person, as when he is a party to a suit, or related by blood or affinity to either of the parties, the venire is issued to the coroners; or if any exception lies to the coroners, the venire shall be directed to two clerks of the court, or to two persons of the county, named by the court, and sworn; and these, who are called elisors or electors, shall return the jury.

Elixate

ELIX'ATE, verb transitive [Latin elixo.] To extract by boiling.

Elixation

ELIXA'TION, noun [Latin elixus, from elixio, to boil, to moisten or macerate, from lixo, lix.]

1. The act of boiling or stewing; also, concoction in the stomach; digestion.

2. In pharmacy, the extraction of the virtues of ingredients by boiling or stewing; also, lixiviation.