Electrotonic.

The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.

One who electrotypes.

Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

Amber.

A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.

In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.

One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

Elegiac verse.

Elegiac.

One who composes elegies.

An elegist.

A write of elegies.

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

To compound of elements or first principles.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, /Take, eat; this is my body,/ elementally understood.

Elementary.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

Elementariness.

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Instruction in the elements or first principles.

Resembling an element.

A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. Amyris elemifera yields Mexican elemi; Canarium commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.

A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation. A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

Pertaining to an elench.

By means of an elench.

To dispute.

Same as Elenctic.

Same as Elench.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.

Loneliness; misery.

Elephantiasis.

A mammal of the order Proboscidia and family Elephantidae, of which two living species, Elephas maximus (formerly Elephas Indicus) and Loxodonta Africana (formerly E. Africanus), and several fossil species, are known. They have five toes, a long proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. The elephant is classed as a pachyderm.

an annual of the southern U.S. and Mexico (Proboscidea louisianica) having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.

Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

a natural family of mammals comrising the elephants.

Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.

Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.

a genus of annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.

Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.

Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.

a genus of completely terrestrial robber frogs.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.

Mad for freedom.

To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.

The quality of being elevated.

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

See Elevator, n. (e).

A pupil; a student.

The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.

an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students in England to select suitable candidates for grammar school; -- now no longer used.

The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

A little elf or urchin.

Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.

In an elfish manner.

The quality of being elfish.

A little elf.

Fairyland.

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.

To elicit.

The act of eliciting.

called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; as, an elicited response.

To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.

The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

The quality of being worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

In an eligible manner.

To render smooth; to polish.

The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

The act of expelling or throwing off the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.

To deprive of the tongue.

Punishment by cutting out the tongue.

Tongue-tied; dumb.

A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.

The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.

Division; separation.

An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the /lite of society.

To extract.

To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.

A seething; digestion.

A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

Queen Elizabeth II. of the United Kingdom, born 1926.

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I. or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

A large deer, of several species. The European elk Alces alces (formerly Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis) the largest member of the deer family, has large, spreading antlers and is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.

a member of the fraternal organization named Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, supporting various services to their communities.

The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

a breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy gray coat developed in Norway for hunting elk.

The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

See L.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.

Hellebore.

See Helleborin.

The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.

See Else.

See Elenge, Elengeness.

An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.

Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.