Eldest; firstborn.

See Eking.

An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.

The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer.

A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffin series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.

Age.

Air.

the Irish name for Ireland; the name used in 1937 to 1949 for the Republic of Ireland.

A justice of the peace; irenarch.

Pacific. See Irenic.

See Aerie, and Eyrie.

Vinegar; verjuice.

An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

Either precedes two, or more, co/rdinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.

The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.

An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford.

Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.

A wailing; lamentation.

The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

The name given by Mendeleev to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table.

The name of a hypothetical element predicted by Mendeleev and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table.

An addition.

A variety of scapolite.

An additional or epithet name; a nickname.

A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

The capital city of Western Sahara. Population (2000) = 20,010.

cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar.

To produce with labor

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

One who, or that which, elaborates.

A laboratory.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

A genus of palms.

A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.

The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.

A salt of elaidic acid.

Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

A solid isomeric modification of olein.

Same as Olein.

Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.

An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

Shining.

Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

A kite of the genus Elanus.

See El/olite.

See El/optene.

a genus of snakes comprising the Old World and American rat snakes.

Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

a venomous snake of the family Elapidae, including the .

a natural family of snakes including the cobras, kraits, mambas, the New World coral snakes, and Australian taipan and tiger snakes.

A clearing away of stones.

Like or pertaining to the Elapid/, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

The act of elapsing.

To disentangle.

An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. One of the Elasmobranchii.

Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. One of the Elasmobranchii.

A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chim/ra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.

Same as rubber band.

Elastic.

In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; resilience; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.

made with strands or inserts of elastic, allowing it to stretch; -- of fabrics; as, slacks with an elasticized waistband.

The quality of being elastic; elasticity.

A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

an elastic bandage.

To raise; to exalt.

With elation.

The state of being elated.

The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

Same as Elatrometer.

Acting force; elasticity.

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.

Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.

The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.

Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.

An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

To make old or ancient.

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder (Sambucus nigra) and that of the American sweet elder (S. Canadensis) are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wines or jellies.

Somewhat old; elderly.

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

Made of elder.

The state of being older; seniority.

Danewort.

Oldest; longest in duration.

Fuel.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.

Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason. A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

The Eleatic doctrine.

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

To pick out; to select; to choose.

One who has the power of choosing; an elector.

See Electuary.

Amber. See Electrum.

See Eclectic.

See Eclecticism.