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Eliminant

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

Eliminate

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

Elimination

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

Eliquament

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

Eliquation

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.

Elisor

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.

elite

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

Elixate

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

Elixir

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

Elizabeth

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

Elizabethan

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.

elk

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.

Elk

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

elke elk

The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

elkhound

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

Elknut

The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.

Elkwood

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

Ellachick

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

Ellagic

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

Elleck

The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.

Ellipse

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.

Ellipsis

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.

Ellipsograph

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

Ellipsoid

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

Elliptical Elliptic

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

Ellipticity

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 /.

Ellwand

Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

Elm

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.

Elmy

Abounding with elms.

Elocation

A removal from the usual place of residence.

Elocular

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

Elocutionist

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

Elocutive

Pertaining to oratorical expression.

Elodian

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

eloge

A panegyrical funeral oration.

Elogist

One who pronounces an /loge.

Elogy Elogium

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

Elohim

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

Elohist

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.

Elohistic

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

Eloign

To remove afar off; to withdraw.

Elong

To lengthen out; to prolong.

Elongate

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

elongated

having a length noticeably longer than the width.

Elongation

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

Elope

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.

Elopement

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.

Elops

A genus of fishes. See Saury.

Eloquence

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.

Eloquent

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

Else

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

Elsewhere

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

Elsewhither

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

Elucidate

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

Elucidation

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

Elucidative

Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.

Elucidator

One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.

Elude

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

Eludible

Capable of being eluded; evadible.

Elul

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.

Elusion

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

Elusive

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

Elusory

Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.

Elutriate

To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

Elutriation

The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.

Elvan

Pertaining to elves; elvish.

Elvanite Elvan

The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.

Elve

An old form of Elf.

Elver

A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.

Elvish

Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

Elysian

Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.

Elysium

A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

Elytriform

Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.

Elytroid

Resembling a beetle's wing case.

Elytrum Elytron

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Ch/topoda.

Elzevir

Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.

Em

The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

Emacerate

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.

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