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.

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.

One who electioneers.

In an American college, an optional study or course of study; a course that is not required.

surgery that is not essential, especially surgery to correct a condition that is not life-threatening; surgery that is not required for survival. See also cosmetic surgery.

In an elective manner; by choice.

Pertaining to an election or to electors.

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.

The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.

An electress.

Electoral.

The office or status of an elector.

An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.

Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark; an electric charge; an electric current; an electrical engineer.

In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.

The state or quality of being electrical.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

a property of certain of the fundamental particles of which matter is composed, called also electric charge, and being of two types, designated positive and negative; the property of electric charge on a particle or physical body creates a force field which affects other particles or bodies possessing electric charge; positive charges create a repulsive force between them, and negative charges also create a repulsive force. A positively charged body and a negatively charged body will create an attractive force between them. The unit of electrical charge is the coulomb, and the intensity of the force field at any point is measured in volts.

Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.

The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.

To become electric.

Belonging to, or made of, amber.

The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.

The act of electrizing; electrification.

To electricity.

One who, or that which, electrizes.

Pertaining to electro-ballistics.

The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.

One versed in electro-biology.

That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.

A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.

Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.

The phenomena of electricity in motion.

An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.

The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics.

That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

Of or pertaining to electromagnetism.

magnetism produced by an electric current.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of an electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.

Pertaining to the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis; an anion.

Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies; it is especially concerned with electrical impulses generated by and conducted between nerves.

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

See Electropuncture.

Same as Electrotype.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.

To execute or put to death by electricity.

execution by electricity.

an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person.

a conducting object by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other non-metallic conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

Same as Electrogeny.

Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.

Of or pertaining to an electrograph or electrography.

The art or process of making electrographs or using an electrograph.

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.

The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.

Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.

The act or the process of electrolyzing.