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.
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.
Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.
One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
To struggle out; -- with out.
A struggling out of any difficulty.
See Lucubrate.
See Lucubration.
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.
Capable of being eluded; evadible.
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.
Weak or lame in the loins.
Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.
To wash out.
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.
The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
To dislocate; to luxate.
Dislocation; luxation.
Pertaining to elves; elvish.
The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.
An old form of Elf.
A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.
In an elvish manner.
See Ellwand.
Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.
A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.
Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.
See Chitin.
Resembling a beetle's wing case.
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.
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.
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.
To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
Emaciation.
Emaciated.
having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.
The act of making very lean.
To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
The act of clearing from spots.
Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
Issuing forth; emanant.
The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Issuing forth; effluent.
By an emanation.
Emanative; of the nature of an emanation.
Set at liberty.
free from traditional social restraints; -- used especially of women; as, an emancipated young woman pursuing her career.
The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; the act or process of emancipation, or the state thereby achieved; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
permitting or conducive to the reduction of restraints on behavior.
One who emancipates.
Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.
A freed convict.
To take away the margin of.
Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
In an emarginate manner.
The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
One who, or that which, emasculates.
Serving or tending to emasculate.
See Embase.
To make up into a bale or pack.
To encircle or embrace.
To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
One who embalms.
The act of embalming.
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
Same as Embarkation.
To put in a barge.
To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embarkation.
Embarrassment.
feeling uneasily or unpleasantly self-conscious due to some event or circumstance; as, she was embarrassed by her child's tantrums.
hard to deal with; as, greeted with an embarrassing silence.
A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
An embassy. See Ambassade.
The mission of an ambassador.
Same as Ambassador.
A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
Same as Ambassadorial.
Same as Ambassadress.
Embassy.
An embassy.
The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
To bastardize.
To bathe; to imbathe.
To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
To furnish with battlements.
Having indentations like a battlement.
An intended parapet; a battlement.
To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
A bay.
To make brilliant with beams.
To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; as, found pebbles embedded in the silt; stone containing many embedded fossils; as, peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp.
The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.
One who embellishes.
The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.
Ember days.
To make better.