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.

Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.

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 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.

An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.

Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.

Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.

In the form of an ellipse.

Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /.

Same as Ellipsograph.

Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.

Belonging to elms.

Abounding with elms.

A removal from the usual place of residence.

Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.

Utterance by speech.

Pertaining to elocution.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

Pertaining to oratorical expression.

One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.

A panegyrical funeral oration.

One who pronounces an /loge.

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of the Pentateuch, which are characterized by the use of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist.

Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

To remove afar off; to withdraw.

To remove.

Removal to a distance; withdrawal.

See Eloign.

See Eloignate.

See Eloignment.

To lengthen out; to prolong.

Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

having a length noticeably longer than the width.

The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.

To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

One who elopes.

A genus of fishes. See Saury.

Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion.

Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.

In an eloquent manner.

Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.

Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.

In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.

To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it.

Otherwise.

A shoemaker's awl.

To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.