ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST 140 ELECTROSCOPE the projectile through a second screen. and lyö, to dissolve.) To decompose by the Electro-negative (e-lek'tro-neg-a-tiv), n. The distance between the screens being direct action of electricity or galvanism. body which, in the process of electrolysis, known, the are through which the pendu- Electrolysis (e-lek-trol'i-sis), n. The resolu- appears at the positive pole of the voltaic lum vibrates measures the time due to the tion of compound bodies into their elements, battery projectile's flight between the screens. or, in some cases, into groups of elements, Electrophone(e-lek'tro-fon), n. (Gr. člektron, Electro-biologist (e-lek'tro bi-ol"ö-jist), n. under the action of a current of electricity. amber(electricity), and phónē, sound. ] AninOne versed in clectro-biology. Electrolyte (e-lek’trol-it), n. [Gr. elektron, strument for producing sounds, resembling Electro-biology (e-lek'tro-bi-ol-6-ji), n. and lyö, to dissolve.) A compound which trumpet-tones, by electric currents of high 1. That phase of mesmerism or animal mag. is decomposable, or is subjected to decom- tension. It has been recommended for use netism in which the actions, feelings, &c., position, by an electric current, as a telegraphic relay capable of giving two of a person in the mesmeric condition are Electrolytic, Electrolytical (e-lek’trol-it". or four signs with a single wire, having this controlled, or supposed to be controlled, by ik, e-lek'trol-it"ik-al), a. Pertaining to elec- advantage over other relays, that perfection the will of the operator. -2. That branch of trolysis, or to the resolution of bodies into of contact is not necessary to its working. science which treats of the electric currents their elements by the action of the electric It has been used also to indicate the electric (leveloped in living organisms. current. equilibrium of muscle and nervous tissue by Electro-chemical (e-lek'tro-kem"i-kal), a. This general view of the electrolytical process the variation of its tones, and by a system of Pertaining to electro-chemistry. required to be pursued further. Ihowell, levers attached to the wrist to show the Electro-chemistry (e-lek'tro-kem-is-tri), n. Electro-magnet (e-lek'tro-mag-net), n. A rhythm and character of the pulse, and it may That science which treats of the agency of bar of soft iron rendered temporarily mag- be fitted to the telephone and thus be made electricity and galvanism in effecting chemi netic by a current of electricity having been to repeat a sound gently made in one place cal changes. It is generally divided into caused to pass through a wire coiled round in trumpet-tones in another hundreds of electrolysis, or the separation into its con- it. yards distant. Chambers's Encyc. stituent parts of a compound body by the Electro-magnetic (e-lek’tro-mag.net"ik), a. Electrophorus (e-lek-trof'o-rus), n. [Gr. passage of the electric current; and electroDesignating what pertains to magnetism, as elektron, amber electricity), and phero, to metallurgy, or the application of electro occasioned by electricity; as, electro-mag- bear.) An instrument for obtaining electrilysis to the arts. netic phenomena. city by means of induction. It consists of a Electro-chronograph (e-lek'tro-kron" 7- Electro-magnetism (ē-lek'tro-mag-net- disc of resin, or some other material easily graf), n. An instrument used in astronomiizm), n. A name sometimes applied to that excited by friction, cal observatories for noting the precise inpart of the science of electricity and mag and a polished metal stant or duration of transits and similar netism which treats of the production and disc with an insnphenomena. Called also Schultze's Chronoproperties of temporary magnetism by the lating handle. The graph. See CHRONOGRAPH. passage of a current of electricity round a resin disc is electriElectro-chronographic (ē-lek'tro-kro-no- bar of soft iron. See MAGNETISM. fied by striking it or graf"ik), a. Pertaining to an electro-chronoElectro-metallurgy (e-lek'tro-met-al-er-ji), rubbing it with a graph, or indicated and recorded by means n. The art of depositing metals, as gold, silver, catskin or flannel, of it. copper, &c., from solutions of their salts and the metal plate Electrode (ē-lek'trõd), n. (Gr. ēlektron, amupon metallic or other conducting surfaces is then laid upon it. ber (for electricity), and hodos, a way] A by the agency of electric currents. Its most In these circumterm introduced by Faraday to denote the important applications are electrotype and stances the upper surface at which the electricity either enters electro-plating: Electrophorus. plate does not reor leaves a body under electrolytic decom- Electrometer (ē - lek - trom'et-ér), n. (Gr. ceive a direct charge position, in order to avoid the ambiguity ēlektron, amber electricity), and metron, from the lower, but, if touched with the and the implied theory connected with the a measure.) An instrument for measuring finger, receives an opposite charge by inuse of the older terms pole, positive pole, differences of electric potential between duction. On lifting it away by its insulatnegative pole. The point or surface at two conductors through effects of elec ing handle it is found to be charged, and which the electricity enters, or the point trostatic force, and distinguished from the will give a spark. It may then be replaced immediately touching the positive pole, is galvanometer, which, of whatever species, on the lower plate, and the process repeated termed the anode, and the point at which measures differences of electric potential an indefinite number of times without any the electricity departs, or the point next to through electro-magnetic effects of electric fresh excitation if the weather is favourable. the negative pole, is called the cathode. currents produced by them. (See POTEN- Electro-photometer (ē-lek'trő-fő-tom". Electro - dynamic, Electro-dynamical TIAL.) The most important instrument of et-ér), n. (Gr. elektron, amber, phos, (e-lek'tro-di-nam"ik, e-lek'tro-di-nan"ik- this class is Sir W. Thomson's quadrant photos, light, and metron, measure.) An al), a. Pertaining to electro-dynamics. electrometer. Sir W. Thomson has also in- instrument for comparing the intensities of Ampère brought into view a class of forces for vented a portable electrometer and an absolute various lights by reference to the intensity which the term 'electro-magnetic' was too limited, electrometer. The latter consists essentially of the light produced by an electric spark. and which he designated by the proper term electrodynamic. See PHOTOMETER. of two parallel circular plates attracting one The general problem of electro-dynamical action another, one of them, the upper, suspended Electro-physiological (ē-lek'tro-fi'zi-7-loj"was fully solved. from one arm of a balance, the other being ik-al), a. Relating to electric results proElectro-dynamics (ē-lek'tro-di-nam-iks), n. movable to a greater or less distance from duced through physiological agencies, or by The science which treats of mechanical the first by means of a micrometer screw. change of action in a living organism. actions exerted on one another by electric The upper disc is always brought to a fixed Electro-physiology (e-lek'trö-ti-zi-ol"o-ji), currents. position (which can be very accurately That branch of science which treats of Electro-engraving (e-lek'tro-en-grāv-ing), determined) by means of the attraction of electric phenomena produced through physin. The process of engraving by means of the lower, the amount of attraction being ological agencies. voltaic electricity. regulated by the distance between the two Electro-plate (e-lek'tro-plāt), v.t. To plate Electro-genesis (e-lek'trö-jen"ē-sis), n. A plates. It is thus seen that the electric or give a coating of silver or other metal by term applied to the effect of electricity, force is actually weighed, and formulas are means of electric currents. when tetanus is induced in a limb by the given by means of which the difference of Electro-plate (ē-lek'tro-plāt), n. Articles transmission of electricity along the nerves potentials is deducible in absolute measure, coated with silver or other metal by the or spinal marrow, the areas of the plates and the distance process of electro-plating. Electro-genic(e-lek'tro-jen"ik), a. Of or per- between them being known. Professor Dewar Electro-plater (e-lek’tro-plāt-er), n. One taining to electro-genesis; caused or induced has introduced a very delicate electrometer who practises electro-plating. by electro-genesis; as, an electro-genic con- based on the alteration of the force of capil- Electro-polar (e-lek'tro-pol-ér), a. A term dition. larity by electric action. applied to conductors, one end or surface of Electro-gild (e-lek'tro-gild), v.t. To gild by Electrometric, Electrometrical (ē-lek'. which is positive and the other negative. means of the electric current. tro-met'rik, e-lek'tro-met"ri-kal), a. Per- Electro-positive (ē-lek'tro-poz"it-iv), a. Electro-gilt (e-lek'tro-gilt), a. Gilded by taining to an electrometer, or the measure- Attracted by bodies negatively electrified or means of the electric current. ment of electricity; as, an electrometrical by the negative pole of the galvanic arrangeElectrograph (e-lek'tro-graf), n. (See ELEC- experiment. ment. TROGRAPHY.) A curve automatically traced Electro-motion (e-lek'trő-mó-shon), n. The Electro-positive (ē-lek'tro-poz"it-iv), n. A and forming a continuous record of the in- motion of electricity or galvanism, or the body which in electrolysis appears at the dications of an electrometer, passing of it from one metal to another in negative pole of the voltaic battery. PotasElectrography (ē-lek-trogʻra-fi), n. [Gr. a voltaic circuit; mechanical motion pro- sium is the most electro-positive of all known elektron, amber, and graphö, to write.) The duced by means of electricity. bodies. process of copying an exquisitely fine en- Electro-motive (e-lek'tro-motiv), a. Pro- Electro-puncture (e-lek'tro-pungk-tür), n. graving from a copper or steel plate to an ducing electro-motion; producing mechani- Same as Electro-puncturing, electro-copper deposit. cal effects by means of electricity; as, elec- Electro-puncturing, Electro-puncturaElectro-lithotrity (e-lek'tro-lith-ot"ri-ti), tro-motire power.- Electro-motive force, the tion (e-lek'tro-pungk" tūr-ing, e-lek'tron. (Gr. elektron, amber, lithos, a stone, and power which maintains electric currents. pungk'tūr-ā"shon), n. In surg. the operaL tero, tritum, to rub, to wear away.) The The strength of a current is directly pro- tion of inserting two or more needles in a disintegration of calculi in the bladder by portional to the electro-motive force and part affected and then touching them with the mechanical force of the electrical dis- inversely proportional to the resistance. the wires from the poles of a galvanic charge Electromotor (e-lek'tro-mo-tér), n. [Fr. battery. Electrology (ē-lek-trol'ō-ji), n. [Gr. elektron, électromoteur.] 1. Any arrangement which Electroscope (ē - lek'tro-skop), n. (Gr. and logos, discourse.] A name given to that gives rise to an electric current, such as a elektron, amber (electricity), and skopeo, to department of physical science which treats single cell, a galvanic battery, or a thermo- view.] An instrument for observing or deof the phenomena and properties of elec- electric pile. -2. An engine in which elec- tecting the existence of free electricity, and, tricity. tricity is employed to produce mechanical in general, for determining its kind. All Electrolysable (e-lek’trol-iz-a-bl), a. Sus- effect. electroscopes depend for their action on the ceptible of decomposition by an electric Electro-negative (ē-lek'tro-neg" a-tiv), a. elementary law of electric forces, that bodies current. Repelled by bodies negatively electrified, similarly charged repel each other, bodies Electrolysation (e-lek'trol-iz-a" shon), n. and attracted by those positively electrified; dissimilarly charged attract. The simplest The act of electrolysing. having a tendency to pass to the positive electroscope consists of a pair of short pieces Electrolyse (e-lek'trol-iz), v. t. (Gr. elektron, pole in electrolysis. of straw suspended by silk threads. When n. ELECTROSCOPIC 141 ELEMENT In very not in use the pieces of straw hang down, 1. Amber.—2. In mineral. an argentiferous Elegiac (el-e'ji-ak or el-e-ji'ak), a. (L.L. eletouching each other. On presenting an elec- gold ore or native alloy, of a pale brass yel- giacus. See ELEGY.) 1. Belonging to elegy; trified body to them they become excited low colour.-3. An alloy of gold used by the plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; and stand apart, thus giving a test for elec- ancients, consisting of a mixture of gold as, elegiac strains. "Let elegiac lay the love tricity. This electroscope has been super- with a fifth part of silver. Sir T. Browne. refute. Gay.-2. Used in elegies. Elegiac seded by the gold-leaf electroscope of Bennet Electuary (ē-lek’tū-a-ri), n. (L. L. electu- verse. Holland introduced in 1789. This consists of two arium; L. ecligma, a medicine that melts Elegiac (el-ē'ji-ak or el-e-ji'ak), n. A style pieces of gold-leaf, about 4 inch broad, fixed in the mouth, an electuary; Gr. ekleigina -- of verse commonly used by the ancient to a brass rod and hung inside a glass globe, ek, out or up, and leicho, to lick.) In phar. Greek and Latin poets in writing elegies, and which has been thoroughly dried in order a medicine composed of powders or other composed of couplets consisting of alternate that the insula ingredients, incorporated with some con- hexameter and pentameter lines. tion of the leaves serve, honey, or syrup. early ages the term was applied by the may be as per Eleemosynarily (el-e-mos' i-na-ri-li), adr. Greeks to any kind of verse written in disfect as possible. In an eleemosynary manner; by way of tichs. The globe is charity; charitably. Elegiacal (el-e-ji'ak-al), a. Same as Elegiac. closed with a Eleemosynary (el-e-mos'i-na-ri), a. (Gr. Elegiambic (el-e'ji-am'bik), a. (Gr. elegeion, wooden stopper, eleemosynē, alins, from eleco, to pity, eleos, the metre of the elegy, consisting of a hexthrough the cencompassion. See ALMS] 1. Given in char ameter and a pentameter, and iambos, an tre of which ity or alms; appropriated to charity; founded iambic verse.) A term applied to a sort of passes a glass by charity; as, eleemosiynary rents or taxes; verse used by Horace. tube containing an eleemosynary college or hospital.-2. Re- Elegiast (el-ė'ji-ast), n. An elegist. the brass rod. lating to charitable donations; intended for The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are The upper end the distribution of alms, or for the use and in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of of the rod is furmanagement of donations, whether for the mankind very little pain. Goldsmith, nished with a subsistence of the poor or for the support Elegiographer (el-e'ji-og'ra-fér), n. [Gr. knob. If an elecand promotion of learning. elegeion, the metre of the elegy, and grapho, trified body be The eleemosynary sort (of corporations) are such to write. ) A writer of elegies. · Elegiographer, brought near as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of one who writes mournful songs.' Cockeram. the top of the Gold-leaf Electroscope. the free aims, or bounty, of the founder of them to instrument in such persons as he has directed. Blackstone. (Rare.) Elegist (el'é-jist), n. A writer of elegies. duction takes place; the top becomes elec- 3. Supported by charity; as, the eleemosyn- Elegit (è-lē'jit), n. [L., the third pers. sing. trified oppositely to the body presented, and ary poor the gold leaves similarly. To find if the Eleemosynary (el-e-mos'i-na-ri), n. perf. ind. of eligo, elegi, to choose. ) One i. In law, a judicial writ of execution, latter are positively or negatively charged who subsists on charity; one who lives by issuing from the court where the record or we rub a glass rod and bring it near the receiving alms. “Living as an eleeinosyn- other proceeding upon which it is grounded knob; if positively charged, the leaves will ary.' South is, and addressed to the sheriff, who, by diverge still more under the induction of Elegance (el'é-gans), n. (Fr. élégance; L. virtue of it, gives to the judgment-creditor the glass; if negatively, they will collapse by eiegantia, from elegans, for eligens, from the debtor's lands, his customary and copy. the negative being attracted to the positive eligo-e, ex, out, and lego, to pick, to choose.] of the glass rod. hold lands, subject to the rights of the lord 1. The state or quality of being elegant; of the manor, also lands over which the Electroscopic (e-lek'tro-skop"ik), a. Of or beauty resulting from perfect propriety, or debtor has any disposing power, which he belonging to the electroscope; performed by from the absence of anything calculated to means of the electroscope. may, without the assent of any other perproduce a disagreeable sensation; refine son, exercise for his own benefit, &c., to be Several simple electroscopic methods have already ment: said of manners, language, style, occupied and enjoyed until the money due been indicated. Turner form, architecture, and the like; as, elegance on the judgment is fully paid. The act Electro-silver (e-lek'tro-sil-vėr), v.t. To of dress. “Purity and elegance of style.' 5 and 6 Vict. xcviii. abolished poundage on deposit a coating of silver on, as copper or Addison. --2. That which pleases by its this writ. -2. The title to estate by elegit. other metal, by means of voltaic electricity; nicety, symmetry, purity, or beauty. Elegy (el'e-ji), n. [L. elegia; Gr. elegeia, to electro-plate. Elegancy (el'e-gan-si), n. Elegance (which from elegos, a lament, said to be derived Electro-statics (e-lek'tro-stat-iks), n. (Gr. see) from e! e! legein, to cry woe! woe!] 1. A elektron, amber (electricity), and he statikë The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer mournful or plaintive poem, or a funeral (epistëme), the science which treats of bodies elegancies of art. Spectator. song: a poem or a song expressive of sorrow at rest.] The science which treats of the Elegant (el'é-gant), a. (Fr. Elégant, from L. and lamentation; a dirge.-2. Any serious phenomena occasioned by electricity at rest, elegans. See ELEGANCE) 1. Polished; po- poem, where a tone of melancholy pervades and of the production and discharge of sta- lite; refined; graceful; pleasing to good the sentiments, whether grief is actually tionary charges of electricity. taste; as, elegant manners. Polite with expressed or not; as, Gray's Elegy in a Electro - telegraphic (e-lek'tro-te- lē. candour, elegant with ease.' Pope.-2. Po Country Churchyard. graf"ik), a. Pertaining to the electric tele- lished ; graceful ; rich in expressions; cor Elogy is the form of poetry natural to the reflective graph. See TELEGRAPH. rect in arrangement; as, an elegant style mind. It may treat of any subject, but it must treat Electro - thermancy (ē-lek'tro-thér". or composition. of no subject for itself, but always and exclusively man-si), n. (Gr. elektron, amber (elec- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar with reference to the poet himself. Coleridge. tricity), and thermë, heat.) That branch but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, 3. In class. poetry, any poem written in eleof electrical science which investigates the must give his days and nights to the volumes of giac verse. Addison. effects produced by the electric current Johnson, Element (el'e-ment), n. (L. elementum, an upon the temperature of a conductor, or 3. Giving expression to thought with pro- element, a first principle; same root as part of a circuit composed of two different priety and grace; as, an elegant speaker.- aliment.] 1. One of the simplest constitumetals. 4. Pleasing to the eye by grace of form or ent principles, or parts, of which anything Electro-tint (e-lek'tro-tint), n. An art by delicacy of colour; characterized by exqui. consists, or upon which its constitution is which drawings are traced by the action of siteness of design or fine taste; free from based; a fundamental or ultimate part or electricity on a copper plate. The surface coarseness, blemish, or other defect; as, an principle, by the combination or aggregation of the plate is sunk, and the drawings are elegant figure; an elegant vase; an elegant of which anything is composed; an ingre. produced in a fine tint in relief for use in structure.-5. Pleasing to the mind as ex dient; as, the elements of earth, water, of the common printing press. hibiting fine perception of what is required; animal and vegetable bodies, of a complex Electro-tonic(e-lek'tro-ton-ik), a. Of or per- calculated to effect its purpose with exceed- mental operation, of sound, &c.; quartz, taining to electrical tension: said of the peing accuracy, delicacy, and neatness; ex mica, and felspar are the elements of granculiar latent state of an induced conductor quisitely ingenious or appropriate; as, an ite; cells are the elements of living bodies. during the continued action of the electric elegant modification of a philosophical in The Stoic definition of an element is, 'that out of current upon it. strument; an elegant algebraical formula which, as their first principle, things generated are Electrotype (e-lek'tro-tip), n. (Gr. ēlektron, or mathematical demonstration; an elegant made, and into which, as their last remains, they are resolved.' chess problem.-6. Vice; sensible to beauty Fleming amber (electricity), and typos, figure, image, form.] 1. The act of producing copies of or propriety; discriminating beauty from Certain minute constituents which, for the present, medals, wood-cuts, types, &c., by means of deformity or imperfection; as, an elegant are the ultiinate structural elements of the body. Huxley. the electric deposition of copper upon a taste. There are three fundamental notions existing in mould taken from the original. -2. A copy Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste, the human mind, as the primary elements of thought: Milton. thus produced And elegant, of sapience no small part. Ist, that of finite self; zdily, that of finite nature: 3dly, Electrotype (ē-lek'tro-tip), r.t. pret. & pp. 7. Excellent. [In this sense colloq. ) that of the absolute, the unconditioned, the infinite. 3. D. Jorell. electrotyped; ppr. electrotyping. To stereo- Elegant, Graceful. Elegant implies that 2. In chem. one of the sixty-four simple subtype or take copies of by electrotype. that to which it is applied has been sub- stances which hitherto have resisted resoElectrotypic (é-lek'tro-tip"ik). a. Pertain- jected to training and cultivation or is the lution by chemical analysis; one of the ultiing to, or effected by means of, electrotype. result of acquired skill or art; graceful mate, indecomposable constituents of any Electrotypist (ē-lek'tro-tip-ist ), n. One more often implies a natural gift. A rustic kind of matter. —3. pl. The first or simplest who practises electrotypy. uneducated girl may be graceful, but she rules or principles of an art or science; Electrotypy (e-lek’tro-tip-i), n. The process could not be called elegant. We say elegant rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, of electrotype. manners, elegant composition, elegant fur grammar, &c. Electro-vital (e-lek'tro-vi-tal), a. Derived niture; but a graceful tree, a graceful fawn, Thus, is a university is charged with cultivating from ordependent upon vital processes: said graceful oratory.-SYN. Beautiful, polished, only the mere elements of mathematics, and in reply of two electric currents, supposed by some graceful, refined, handsome. a list of the books studieci there is produced, should physiologists to move in the nerves of ani- Elegantiæ (el-e-gan’shi-ē), n. pl. (L.) Things even any one of these books be not elementary, the charge is in fairness refuted. Whalely. mals, the one external and cutaneous, mov- elegant, pretty, or ornamental. ing from the extremities to the cerebro. Elegantly (el'e-gant-li), adv. In a manner 4. In the scholastic philosophy, one of the spinal axis; the other internal, going from to please; with elegance; with beauty; with four constituents of the material worldthe cerebro-spinal axis to the internal or- pleasing propriety; as, a composition eie- fire, air, earth, water, which were supposed gans situated beneath the skin. gantly written; a house elegantly built; a to be ultimate indecomposable principles. Electrum (e-lek'trum), n. (L., amber.) Tady elegantly dressed. This sense survives in popular usage; whence ELEMENT 112 ELEPHANTOPUS we say that water is the element of fishes, constitute the great mass of the earth's crust ears, and large tusks. The tusks occur in the air of birds, &c. Hence-5. The state or are comparatively few, viz. aluminium, both sexes, curving upward from the extresphere natural to anything or suited to its calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, mag- mity of the upper jaw. Elephants are among existence; as, faction is the element of a nesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodiun, the largest quadrupeds at present existing. demagogue. sulphur. Many of the recently-discovered The nose is prolonged into a cylindrical Our torments also may, in length of time, elements, as tellurium, ruthenium, thallium, trunk or proboscis, at the extremity of which Become our elements. Milton. cæsium, rubidium, indium, &c., occur in 6.1 The air; the atmosphere; the sky. very minute quantities, the discovery of the I took it for a faery vision four last mentioned being due to spectrum Of some gay creature of the element, Milton. analysis. 7. A datum or value necessary to be taken Elementation (el'e-ment-a"shon), n. Ininto consideration in making a calculation struction in elements or first principles. or coming to a conclusion; as, health, char- Coleridge. (Rare.) acter, and qualifications are elements neces Elemi (el'é-mi), n. The resinous exudation sary to be considered in judging of a person's from various trees. Eastern or Manilla fitness for a situation; character of strata, elemi is obtained from Canarium commune, length of tunnelling, depths of cuttings, &c., American or Brazilian from Icica Icicariba, in making an estimate for a railway con and Mexican from Elaphrium elemniferum. tract.-8. pl. The bread and wine used in It is a stimulant resin obtained from inci. the eucharist. sions in the bark, and is used in plasters and ointments and the manufacture of varMateria prima, or matter without form-hule-was an element ready to receive form. This seems to be nish, the use of the word as retained in the communion Elemine, Elemin (el'e-min), n. (C10H16) service. Bread and wine are elements ready to re- The transparent and colourless oil distilled ceive the form of the body and blood of Christ. from elemi resin, of the same composition Head of African Elephant (Elephas africanus). Like the elements of the material world, the bases of the sacred natures into which they were trans with camphene. formed.' Fleming. Elench (e-lengk), n. (L. elenchus; Gr. elen- the nostrils open. The trunk is extremely - Elements of an orbit, in astron. the quan- chos, from elencho, to argue, to refute.] 1. In flexible and highly sensitive, and terminates tities whose determination defines the path logic, (a) a syllogism by which an opponent in a finger-like prehensile lobe. The tusks of a planet or other celestial body, and en- is made to contradict himself. (b) A vicious are of great value from the ivory of which ables us to compute the place of such body or fallacious argument, which is apt to de- they consist, furnishing an important article at any past or future epoch. ceive under the appearance of truth; a of commerce in Africa especially, and causElement (el'e-ment), v.i. 1.1 To compound sophism. [Rare.) ing the destruction of great numbers of of elements or first principles. Elemented The first delusion Satan put upon Eve, and his these animals. Ten species of fossil elebodies. Boyle.-2. To constitute; to be an whole tentation might be the same clench continued, phants have been described, of which the element in; to make as a first principle. as when he said, Ye shall not die; that was, in his best known are the mastodon and the mam equivocation, you shall not incur present death. “Those things which elemented it.' Donne. moth.-2. Ivory; the tusk of the elephant. Sir T. Browne. Elemental (el-e-ment'al), a. 1. Pertaining Dryden. 2. In antiq. a kind of ear-ring set with Elephant-apple (el'é-fant-ap-pl), n. An to or produced by elements or primary in pearls. gredients, or to the supposed four elements East Indian tree, the Feronia elephantum, Elenchic, Elenchical (ē-lengʻik, e-lengk'ikof the material world. * Elemental strife.' producing a fruit not unlike an orange, and al), a. Pertaining to an elench. Pope. “Winds, rain, and storms, and ele belonging to the same nat. order, AurantiElenchically (e-lengk'ik-al-li), adv. By aceæ. mental war.' Dryden. -2. Arising from first means of an elench. principles; natural. • Elemental repug The Elephant-beetle (el'ē-fant-be-tl), n. Elenchizet (e-lengk'iz), v.i. To dispute. nancy.' Sir T. Browne.-3. Relating to ele goliath-beetle (which see). ments or first principles; simple; elementary. Hear him problematize. — Bless us, what's that?- Elephanter (el'é-fant-ér), n. A heavy perio Or syllogize, elenchise. Elemental knowledge.' Burke. [Rare or B. Jonson. dical rain at Bombay. obsolete.) Elenchtic,t Elenchticalt (e-lengk’tik, ē- Elephant-fish (ele-fant-fish), n. The CalElementality (el'e-ment-al"i-ti), n. 1. State lengk’tik-al), a. Serving to contradict or lorhynchus antarctica, a fish belonging to of being elemental or elementary.-2. Com- refute. Wilkins. the order Elasmobranchii, and so named bination of principles or ingredients. (In Elenchus (e-lengk’us), n. Same as Elench. from the proboscis-like process on its nose. both uses rare or obsolete. ) Elenctic (ē-lengk’tik), a. Same as Elench- Though inferior in quality of flesh to many Elementally (el-e-ment'al-li), adv. In an other fish, it is yet palatable food. elemental manner; according to elements; Elenge, Elyng, t a. [Comp. A. Sax. ellend, Elephantiac (el-e-fan'ti-ak), a. Affected literally; as the words, Take, eat; this is wretched; G. elend, misery.) Strange; dull; with elephantiasis. my body,' elementally understood. cheerless; solitary. "Poverte ... although Elephantiasis (el'ē-fant-i"a-sis), n. [L. and Elementart (el'e-ment-är), a. Elementary. it seme elenge.' Chaucer. Gr., from elephas, elephant.) In med. a term Skelton. Elengenesse, n. Care; trouble. Chaucer. applied to several varieties of skin disease Elementarity, Elementariness(el'e-ment- Eleocharis(el-e-ok'a-ris), n. [Gr.helos, heleos, in which the limbs, from their enlargement a'ri-ti, el-e-ment'a-ri-nes), n. The state of marshy ground, and charis, delight, chairo, and the changed condition of the skin, have being elementary; the simplicity of nature; to delight in.) A genus of erect tufted a slight resemblance to those of the eleuncompounded state. herbs, nat. order Cyperaceæ, containing phant. Elementary (el-e-ment'a-ri), a. 1. Primary; about fifty species scattered over the world, Elephantidæ (el-e-fant'i-dē), n. pl. A family simple; uncompounded; uncombined; hay- of which six are found in Britain. The of animals included among the Pachydering only one principle or constituent part; stems are slender and sheathed at the base; mata of Cuvier, but now raised by some as, an elementary substance. --2. Initial; the spikelets are solitary and terminal, and into a distinct order of mammals, that of rudimental; containing, teaching, or dis- surrounded by many imbricate bracts. The the Proboscidea. The family consists of cussing first principles, rules, or rudiments; species grow in ditches, rivulets, and marshy large clumsy animals, with a thick hard skin as, an elementary treatise or disquisition; ground, and at the edges of pools and lakes. covered by scanty rigid hair. The nose is elementary education; elementary schools. Eleot (ē-lē'ot), n. A kind of apple. Morti- prolonged into a proboscis, and the nasal 3. Treating of elements; collecting, digest bones enlarged to support the muscles of ing, or explaining principles; as, an element Elephant (el'é-fant), n. [L. elephas, elephan- the trunk. The incisor teeth are enlarged ary writer.--Elementary analysis, in chei. tis; Gr. elephas, elephantos, an elephant; pro- into tusks, and the grinders are transversely the estimation of the amounts of the ele- bably from Heb. eleph, an ox. Comp. bos Lu- ridged, the ridges representing the upper ments which together form a compound cas, Lucanian ox, the old Latin name of the edges of the vertical plates of which the body.-Elementary substances, substances elephant.] 1. The popular name of a genus teeth are made up. This family comprises which have hitherto resisted analysis by constituting a sub-family of five-toed pro- the elephants of Asia and Africa, the mamany known chemical means. Chemists moth (Elephas primigenius), the mastodon, enumerate sixty-five simple or element and perhaps the dinotherium. ary substances. The elements are usually Elephantine (el-e-fant'in), a. 1. Pertaining divided into two groups, viz. non-metal. to the elephant; resembling an elephant; lic bodies and the metals. The non-me. hence, huge; immense; as, he was of eletallic bodies, generally known as metal phantine proportions. -- 2. In antiq. an aploids, are oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, car pellation given to certain books in which bon, chlorine, bromine, iodine, fluorine, the Romans registered the transactions of sulphur, selenium, phosphorus, boron, and the senate, magistrates, emperors, and silicon Arsenic, antimony, and bismuth generals: so called, perhaps, as being made are also sometimes classed among the non of ivory.-- Elephantine epoch, in geol. the metals. (See METALLOID.) Berzelius classi period during which there was a preponfied these into metalloids, halogens, and derance of large pachydermata. gazolytes. The metalloids comprised sul Elephant-leg l'e-fant-leg), n. phur, phosphorus, carbon, boron, resen lar name for elephantiasis. bling the metal in some respects, but differ Elephantoid, Elephantoidal (el-e-fant's ing widely in others; the halogens, chlorine, oid, el-e-fant-oid'al), a. Having the form iodine, bromine, fiuorine, characterized by of an elephant. entering into peculiar and distinct saline Head of Indian Elephant (Elephas indicus). Elephantopus (el-e-fanto-pus), n. (Gr. combinations; and the gazolytes, oxygen, elephas, elephantos, an elephant, and pous, hydrogen, nitrogen, then known only in boscidian mammals, comprehending two a foot-from the peculiar form of the thickthe gaseous form, having never been solidi. species, viz. Elephas (Elasmodon) indicus ened stem. ] Elephant's-foot, a genus of fied or liquefied. In this sub-classification and Elephas (Loxodon) africanus, the for- plants, nat. order Composite. The species two non-metallic bodies-silenium and sili. mer inhabiting India, and characterized by are hairy weeds with small white or purple con--do not appear. All the remaining a concave high forehead, small ears, and flowers. They are all natives of tropical fifty-two bodies are generally regarded as comparatively small tusks, the latter Africa, America, but E. scaber has become a common metals. (See METAL.) The elements which having a convex forehead, great flapping weed throughout the tropics. The natives on mer. The popu ELEPHANT-PAPER 143 ELF-SKIN ceive. the Malabar coast use a decoction of the elevate and lessen the thing by saying it is not wholly from d to l is exemplified in L. lacryma, leaves and root in cases of dysuria. beyond the force of nature that a virgin should con ducryma, a tear. (See TEAR.). The change Elephant-paper (el'e-fant-pā-per), n. А Jer. Taylor. from a guttural to j is seen in laugh, enough writing, printing, and drawing paper, of the SYN. To raise, exalt, erect, lift up, uplift, (that is, laf, ēnus). A less probable origin size of 28 inches by 23. elate, cheer, excite, animate. of the word is from an, one, and læfan, to Elephant's-ear (el'e-fants-ēr), n. The com- Elevate (ele-vat), a. (L. elevatus. See leave, the meaning being one left, i.e. one mon name for the species of Begonia, from the verb.) Elevated; raised aloft. left after ten, the number of the fingers, has the form of their leaves. On each side an imperial city stood, been counted off. See TWELVE.) Ten and Elephant's-foot (el'e-fants-fyt), n. 1. The With tow'rs and temples proudly elevate one added; as, eleven men. Milton. popular name of the plants of the genus Eleven (e-lev'n), n. 1. The sum of ten and Elephantopus, of which word it is a transla- Elevated (el'é-vāt-ed), a. 1. Raised; exalted; one. -2. A symbol representing eleven units, tion. See ELEPHANTOPUS.-2. Testudinaria dignified; as, he occupies an elevated posi- as 11 or xi.-3. In cricket, the number of elephantipes, a plant of the nat. order Dios- tion. -2. Elated; excited; stimulated, as by players (eleven) selected from the members coreacere, distinguished by the form of its drink; slightly drunk; as, he got somewhat of a club to play in a match. root-stock, which forms a nearly hemisphe elevated. (Colloq.)-3. Raised above the Eleventh (e-lev'nth), a. [A. Sax. endlyfta, rical mass above the ground, and is covered natural pitch; somewhat loud; as, he spoke endlesta; G. elfte.) 1. Next in order after with a thick corky bark. It has a slender in an elevated tone. -- 4. In her. expanded the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.—2. Con. climbing stem. The root was used by the and upright: said of the wings of a bird. stituting one of eleven equal parts into Hottentots for food, whence it receives the Elevatedness (el'é-våt-ed-nes), n. The state which anything is divided; as, the eleventh Dame of Hottentots. bread. of being elevated. part of fifty-five is five. Elephant's-tusks (ele-fants-tusks), n. pl. I had neither wife nor children, in whom mutually Eleventh (é-lev'nth), n. 1. In arith, the quoA genus of gasteropodous molluscs belong- to reflect and see reflected the elevatedness and tient of unity divided by eleven; one of Godwin. ing to the family Dentalidæ or tooth-shells. generosity of my station. eleven equal parts; as, five elevenths of They have their name from the shells very Elevating (el'e-vāt-ing), a. Raising up; fifty-five are twenty-five.—2. In music, an much resembling the tusks of elephants. exalting; elating. Elerating causes, in interval consisting of ten; an octave and a They are perforated throughout, and the geol. those causes which operate in bringing fourth. animal is attached near the small end of the about volcanoes and earthquakes, and in Elf (elf), n. pl. Elves (elvz). [A. Sax. alf, elf. shell. In some parts of Africa these shells gradually elevating portions of the earth's Cog. L.G. elf, Dan. alf, Icel. alfr, O.H.G. are used as coins and strung together in crust. alp, an elf. Probably of same origin as L. chains, each chain containing a certain Elevation (el-7-vā'shon), n. [L. elevatio, from albus, white, and the name Alps. See ALP.) number. elevo, elevatum. See ELEVATE.] 1. The act 1. A wandering spirit; a fairy; a goblin; an Elephas (el'e-fas), n. The elephant, a genus of raising or conveying from a lower place imaginary being which our rude ancestors of proboscidian mammals. See ELEPHANT. or degree to a higher: said of material supposed to inhabit unfrequented places, Eleusine (el-u-si'nė), n. A genus of grasses things, persons, the mind, character or and in various ways to affect mankind. belonging to the tribe Chlorideæ, several of manners, the voice, literary style, and the which are cultivated as grains. In the East like; as, the elevation of a man to a throne; Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird froin brier. Shak. an Indian species, E. coracana (known also elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas; The elves also, as Natchnee, Nagla Ragee, Mand, and elevation of voice. -2. The state of being Whose little eyes glow Murua), is cultivated as a corn, from which raised or elevated; exaltation : applied in Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. Herrick. the Tibetans make a weak beer. E. stricta the same way as sense 1. 2. A mischievous or wicked person. is also a productive grain, and the Abyssi- Angels, in their several degrees of elevation above nian grain Tocusso is the product of another us, may be endowed with more comprehensive facul. Spite of all the criticising elves, species, E. Tocusso. The species are natives ties. Locke. Churchill of the warmer parts of the globe. His style was an elegant perspicuity, rich of phrase, Eleusinian (e-lù-si'ni-an), a. 3. A diminutive person; a dwarf; hence, a Relating to but seldom any bold metaphors; and so far from pet name for a child. -Sex. Fairy, sprite, Eleusis in Greece; as, Eleusinian mysteries Sir H. Wotton. goblin, hobgoblin, imp, urchin, dwarf. or festivals, the festivals and mysteries of 3. That which is raised or elevated; an ele- Elf (els), v.t. To entangle, as the hair, in so Deméter (Ceres), celebrated there. Eleutheria, Eleutheria-bark (e-lū-the'vated place; a rising ground; height. intricate a manner that it cannot be disen His (Milton's) poetry reminds us of the miracles of tangled. ri-a, e-lū-the'ri-a-bärk), n. Cascarilla-bark, Alpine scenery. 'Nooks and dells, beautiful as fairy My face I'll grime with filth; the product of Croton Eleutheria, so named land, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots. Shak. because it is gathered chiefly in the island elevations. Macaulay. of Eleuthera, one of the Bahamas. The name popu. Elf-arrow (elf'a-ro), n. larly given in the British Islands to the flint arrow-heads which were in use at an early Eleutheropetalous (e-lü'the-ro-pet'al-us), of a vertical circle intercepted between a. (Gr. eleutheros, free, and petalon, a leaf.] it and the horizon.--5. In gun. the angle period among the barbarous tribes of this In bot. having the leaves of the perianth- which the axis of the hollow cylinder form country and of Europe generally, as they whorl not coherent but free. Sachs. ing the interior of a cannon or mortar makes are still in use among the American Indians, the Eskimos, and the inhabitants of some Eleutherophyllous (e-lū'the-ro-fil'lus), a. with the plane of the horizon.-6. In dialling, of the Pacific Islands. They were vulgarly (Gr. eleutheros, free, and phyllon, a leaf.] the angle which the style makes with the In bot. having only one perianth-whorl and substylar line.—7. In trigonometrical surv. supposed to be shot by fairies. Elf-bolt (ell'bõlt), n. An elf-arrow. the leaves free. Sachs. height; altitude; height above the surface of Eleutheropomi (e'lū-thér-o-põ"mi), n. pl. the earth; angular height, or angle of eleva: Elf-child (elf'child), n. A child supposed to (Gr. eleutheros, free, and păma, a lid, a tion. The angle of elevation of any object is have been substituted by elves for one which they have stolen. Elf-dart (elf'dart), n. Same as Elf-arrow. An elf. Chaucer. sturgeons and chimæras belong to this of the object and the other parallel to the order. Queen of the elves or horizon, both lines being in the same verti Elfe-quene, n. fairies. Chaucer. Eleutherosepalous (e-lü'thé-rő-sep'a-lus), cal plane.-8. In arch. a geometrical repre- Elf-fire (elf'fir), n. A common name for a. (Gr. eleutheros, free, and E. sepal.] In bot. sentation of a building in vertical section, ignis fatuus. Called also Jack o' Lantern, Elevate (ele-vat), c.t. pret. & pp. elerated; the host, in the Ř. Cath. Ch. that part of the Kit o' the Canstick (Candlestick), &c. ppr. elevating. (L elevo, elevatum, to lift Elfin (ell'in), a. Relating or pertaining to mass in which the priest raises the host up-e, out, up, and levo, to raise, from levis, above his head for the people to adore. elves. 'Spenser's elfin dream.' Sir W. Scott. Excalibur rich light in weight.] 1. To raise; in a literal Syn. Raising, lifting, exaltation, eminence, and general sense, to raise from a low or height, altitude, superiority. With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt. Tennyson. deep place to a higher. Elevator (el'é-vát-ér), n. 1. One who or that Elfin (elf'in), n. A little elf; a little urchin. In every endeavour to elevate ourselves above reawhich raises, lifts, or exalts; specifically, For she (the schoolmistress) was just, and friend to son, we are seeking to elevate ourselves above the (a) in anat. a muscle which serves to raise virtuous lore, atmosphere, with wings which cannot soar, but by a part of the body, as the lip or the eye. And pass'd much time in truly virtuous deed; beating the air. James Martineau. And in those clfins' ears would oft deplore 2. To exalt; to raise to a higher state or nical contrivance for raising goods from a The times, when truth by Popish rage did bleed. Shenstone station; as, to elevate a man to an office. lower story of a building to a higher, as a Elfish (ell'ish), a. Of or pertaining to elves; Honours that tended to elevate a body of people series of boxes or buckets attached to a belt resembling an elf; suggestive of elves; misinto a distinct species from the rest of the nation. travelling round two drums, one above and chievous or baleful, as if caused by elves. Shenstone. one below, for hoisting grain, meal, &c., in 3. To improve, refine, or dignify; to raise a mill.--2. A building containing one or I watched the water-snakes, And when they reared, the elfish light from or above low conceptions; to raise more mechanical elevators, especially a Fell off in hoary tlakes. Coleridge. from a low or common state as by training grain-store. (United States.) or education; to exalt; as, to elevate the Elevatory (el’e-vā-to-ri), n. A surgical in Elfkin (elf'kin), n. [Dim. of elf.) A little character. elf. strument used in trepanning, for raising a Now rising fortune elevates his inind. Savage. depressed or fractured part of the skull. Elf-land (elfland), n. The region of the A grandeur, a simplicity, a breadth of manner, an Elevatory (el’é-vā-to-ri), a. Tending to elves; fairy-land. imagination at once elerated and restrained by the ,raise, or having power to elevate. The horns of Elf-land faintly blowing. Tennyson. subject, reign through Milton's Ode on the Nativity. Hallan. Élève (á-láv), n. [Fr.) A pupil; one brought Elf-lock (elflok), n. A knot of hair twisted 4. To excite; to cheer; to animate; as, to up or protected by another. by elves; a knot twisted as if by elves. elevate the spirits. --5. To intoxicate slightly; Eleven (e-lev'n), a. (A. Sax. endleofan, end- * And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish to render somewhat tipsy. (Colloq. )--6. To lufon, endleof, from an, one, changed to en, hairs.' Shak. raise from any tone to one more acute: to with d inserted as a 'helping letter' (comp. Elf-shot (elf'shot), n. 1. Same as Elf-arrow augment or swell; to make louder: said of thunder), and leofan, which means and is (which see). --2. [Scotch.) A disease supsound; as, to elerate the voice.-7. To take the same as ten, tig (as in A. Sax. twentig, posed to be produced by the agency of from; to detract; to lessen by detraction. twenty), L, decim, Gr. deka; so that eleven elves. The Arabian physicians, contains the same elements as L. undecim, Elf-skin (elf'skin), n. Probably a misprint ... not being able to deny it to be true of the holy Jesus, endeavour to Gr. (h) endeka, Skr. ekidacan. The change for cel-ekin in the following passage in ELF-STONE 144 ELLIPSE Shakspere's Henry IV., in allusion to out, and lingua, the tongue.] In old Eng- been called the English Renaissance. The Prince Henry's long and lank figure. lish law, the punishment of cutting out the epithet Jacobean has sometimes been given Fal. Away, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried tongue. neat's tongue. Elinguidt (e-ling'gwid), a. [L. elinguis-ex, Elf-stone (elf'ston), n. Same as Elf-arrow. out, and lingua, tongue.) Tongue-tied; not Elicit (ē-lis'it), v.t. (L. elicio, elicitum-e, having the power of speech. out, and the ancient lacio, to entice, to Eliquament (ē-li'kwa-ment), n. A liquid allure.) To draw out; to bring to light; expressed from fat or fat fish. to deduce by reason or argument; to educe; Eliquation (ē-li-kwa'shon), n. [L. eliquo, to as, to elicit truth by discussion; to elicit meltout-e,out,andliquo, to melt.] In metal. sparks by collision. an operation, now seldom employed, for the That may elicit the assent of reasonable men. Hale. separation of silver from copper by means of lead. Elicitt (é-lis'it), a. Brought into act; brought The copper containing silver is melted along with a certain quantity of from possibility into real existence; open; lead and cast into discs, which are exposed evident. The internal elicit act of the will. to a heat sufficiently great to melt the lead, South. Elicitatet (e-lis'it-āt), v.t. whereupon the latter liquates or separates To elicit. from the copper, carrying the greater part Thus may a skilful man hid truth elicitate. of the silver with it. Sir T. More. Elicitationt (e-lis-it-ā'shon), 12. The act of Elision (ē-li’zhon), n. [L. elisio, from elido, eliciting; the act of drawing out. Bp. Bram elisum, to strike out. See ELIDE.] 1. In hall. gram. the cutting off or suppression of a Elide (e-līd'), u.t. (L. elido, to strike out; to vowel at the end of a word, for the sake of sound or measure when the next word break in pieces-e, out, and lædo, to strike.] 1. To break or dash in pieces; to crush. begins with a vowel; as, th'embattled plain; The force and strength of their arguments th' empyreal sphere. -2. † Division; separis elided.' Hooker.-2. In gram. to cut off ation. or suppress, as a syllable. The cause given of sound, that it would be an eli sion of the air, whereby, if they mean anything, they Eligibility (el'i-ji-bil'i-ti), n. [From cligible. ] mean a cutting or dividing, or else an attenuating of 1. Capability of being chosen to an office: the air, is but a term of ignorance. Bacon. from élire, elisant, to choose. ] In law, a sheriff's substitute for returning a jury. to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing Elizabethan Window, Rushton Hall (cir. 1590). When the sheriff is interested in a suit, the which renders it preferable to another or venire is issued to the coroners, or if an exdesirable. to the very latest stage of the Elizabethan, Sickness hath some degrees of eligibility, at least ception lie to any coroner, the renire shall differing from the Elizabethan proper in by an after-choice. Fer. Taylor. be directed to two clerks of the court, or showing a greater admixture of debased Eligible (el'i-ji-bl), a. (Fr., from L. eligo-e, to two persons of the county, named by the Italian forms. out, and lego, to choose.) 1. Fit to be chosen; court, and sworn; and these, who are called Elk (elk), n. [A. Sax. elch. Cog. Icel. elgr, worthy of choice; desirable: preferable; as, elisors or electors, shall return the jury. 0.H.G. elaho, N. and Sw. elg; L. alces-elk.j the house stands in an eligible situation. Elite (a-lēt), n. [Fr. élit, the ancient pp. of Alces Malchis or Cervus Alces, the largest In deep distress, certainty is more eligible than the verb élire, to choose, to select, from L. existing species of the Cervidæor deer family. suspense. Richardson. eligere--e, out, and lego, to pick, to choose.) It attains the height of 7 feet at the shoulders, 2. Legally qualified to be chosen; as, a man 1. A choice or select body; the best part; as, and its antlers, when fully formed, weigh is or is not eligible to an office. the élite of society. -2. + An old Scottish 50 to 60 lbs. It is found in Europe and Asia, Eligibleness (el'i-ji-bl-nes), n. Fitness to term for one elected to a bishoprie. be chosen in preference to another; suitable. Elixt (e-liks“), v.t. To extract. The purest ness; desirableness, elixed juice of rich conceipt.' Marston. Eligibly (el'i-ji-bli), adv. In a manner to be Elixatet (e-liks'āt), v.t. pret. & pp. elixated; worthy of choice; suitably. ppr. elixating. [L. elixo, to boil thoroughly, Elimatet (el'i-māt or e-li'māt), v.t. (L. eli from elixus, thoroughly boiled-e, and lix, mo, to polish-e,ex, intens., and lima, a file.) an ancient word which, according to Nonius, To render smooth; to polish. signified ashes, or lye mixed with ashes.] Eliminant (e-lim'in-ant), n. In math. the To boil; to seethe; to extract by boiling. result of eliminating n' variables between Elixation (e-liks-a'shon), n. (See ELIXATE.) n homogeneous equations of any degree. The act of boiling or seething; extraction Called also Resultant. by boiling; also, concoction in the stomach; Eliminate (e-lim'in-át), v. t. pret. & pp. elim digestion. inated; ppr. eliminating. [L. elimino, elim- Elixir (e-liks'ér), n. [Fr. and Pg. elexir, from inatum-e,out, and limen, threshold.] 1. To Ar. al-iksir, the philosopher's stone-al, thrust out of doors. Lovelace.-2. To ex the, aksir, quintessence, perhaps from Gr. pel; to discharge or throw off; to set at xēros, dry; lit. a dry drug. ) 1. In med. siberty. formerly, a tincture with more than one This detains secretions which nature finds it necesbase; in modern pharmacy, a compound Elk (Cervus Alces). sary to eliminate. Med. Repos. tincture, composed of various substances 3. To leave out of an argument or train held in solution by alcohol in some form.-- but chiefly in North America, where it is of thought; to set aside as unimportant or 2. In alchemy, (a) a liquor for transmuting called the Moose or Moose-deer. not to be considered; to leave out of consi metals into gold. () a potion for prolonging Elke (elk), n. Cygnus ferus, the wild swan deration. life; the elixir vitæ.-3. Quintessence; refined or hooper. spirit. 'Elixir of worldly delights.' South. Elk-nut (elk'nut), n. To know the truth of things, to have cognizance of A plant, the Pyruwhat is real, we must penetrate below the surface, 4. Any cordial substance which invigorates. laria oleifera. Called also Oil-nut. diminate the accidental and irrelevant, and grasp The grand elixir, to support the spirits Ell (el), n. [A. Sax. eln; D. ell, elle, G. elle, the principle or essence which underlies and inter- of human nature. Guardian.- Elixir of O.H.G. elna, of cognate origin with Fr. prets appearances. Dr. Caird. vitriol, a mixture of 1} fluid ounces of sul- aulne, from ulna; Gr. ölene, all signify4. In alg. to cause a quantity or quantities phuric acid, 10 fluid ounces of rectified ing the fore-arm, and hence, a measure to disappear from an equation; to remove spirit, 4 oz. of powdered cinnamon, and 1 oz. of length. Comp. cubit.) A measure of from both sides of an equation. --5. To ob- of powdered ginger.- Elixir vitæ of Mathi- different lengths in different countries, used tain by eliminating or separating, as from olus, a compound of alcohol and upwards chiefly for measuring cloth. The ells chiefly foreign matters; to deduce; to elicit. (Rare of twenty aromatic and stimulating sub- used in Great Britain were the English and and incorrect in this sense.] stances, at one time administered in epi- Flemish. The English ell is 45 inches, the Conclusions which all are glad to accept after they lepsy. Flemish ell 27, the Scotch 37-2, and the have been painfully eliminated by others. Elizabethan (ē-liz'a-beth"an), a. Pertain French 54. 0. W. Holmes. ing to Queen Elizabeth.- Elizabethan archi- Ellagic (el-laj'ik), a. [From Fr. galle, gall, Elimination (ē-lim'in -ā" shon), n. 1. In tecture, a name given to the mixed or de- reversed. ) Pertaining to or derived from law, the act of banishing or turning out of based architecture of the times of Elizabeth gall-nuts. - Ellagic acid (C14H60s), an aeid doors; ejection.-2. The act of expelling or and James I., when the worst forms of first obtained by Chevreuì from gallic acid. throwing off; the act of discharging or ex- Gothic and debased Italian were combined, It is obtained in largest quantity from the creting by the pores.-3. The act of setting producing a singular heterogeneousness in oriental bezoars. Pure ellagic acid is a light, aside as unimportant or unworthy of consi- detail with, however, wonderful picturesque- pale yellow, tasteless powder, shown by the deration, or as being superfluous or irrele- ness in general effect, and domestic accom- microscope to consist of transparent crysvant. modation more in accordance with the tals. With the bases it forms salts. (Elimination) is frequently used in the sense of wants of an advancing civilization than was Elleborin, Elleborine (el-leb'or-in), n. A eliciting, but incorrectly. Fleming. afforded by the purer Gothic which pre- resin of an extremely acrid taste, found in The preparatory step of the discussion was, there. ceded it. Its chief characteristics are: win- the Helleborus hiemalis, or winter hellefore, an elimination of those less precise and appro bore. priate significations, which, as they would at best dows of great size both in the plane of the only afford a remote genus and difference, were wall and deeply embayed, galleries of great Elles, t adu. Else. Chaucer. wholly incompetent for the purpose of a definition. length, tall and highly-decorated chimneys, Ellinge, Ellenge,ta. (See ELENGE.) Cheer Sir W. Hamilton. as well as a profuse use of ornamental strap- less; sad. 4. In alg. the process of reducing a number work in the parapets, window-heads, &c. Ellingeness, Ellengeness, tn. Loneliness; of equations containing certain quantities to The Elizabethan style is the last stage of dulness; cheerlessness, a smaller number, in which one or more of the Tudor or Perpendicular, and from its Ellipse (el-lips'), n. [Gr. elleipsis, an omisthe quantities shall not be found. corresponding in point of period with the sion or defect, from elleipő, to leave out, to Elinguation (e-ling-gwā'shon), n. (L. ex, renaissance of the Continent has sometimes pass-ek, out, and leipo, to leave. ] In geom. |