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electrophoretic

of or pertaining to electrophoresis; electrophoretic mobility; accomplished using electrophoresis; as, electrophoretic separation; electrophoretic analysis.

Electrophorus

An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shellac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

Electroplate

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, chromium, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

electroplating

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of an electric current. The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode, in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation. The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath, which holds the electrolyte solution.

Electropoion fluid Electropoion

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

Electroscope

An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.

Electrostatics

That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

Electrotonic

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

Electrotonus

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

Electrotype

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

Electrotypic

Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.

Electrotypy

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

Electuary

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

Elegancy Elegance

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.

Elegant

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.

Elegantly

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

Elegit

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.

Elegize

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

Elegy

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

Eleidin

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

Element

To compound of elements or first principles.

Elemental

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

Elementalism

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

Elementality

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

Elementally

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

Elementariness

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

Elementary

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

Elementation

Instruction in the elements or first principles.

Elemi

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.

Elemin

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

Elench

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.

Elenctical Elenctic

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

Elenge

Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.

Elephant

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.

elephant-tusk

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.

Elephantiac

Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.

Elephantiasis

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

Elephantidae

a natural family of mammals comrising the elephants.

Elephantine

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

Eleusine

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

Eleusinian

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

Eleuthero-petalous

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

Elevate

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

Elevated

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

Elevation

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.

Elevator

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

Eleven

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

eleven-plus

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

Eleventh

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

Elf

To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

Elfin

A little elf or urchin.

Elfish

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

Elflock

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

Elicit

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.

elicited

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

Elide

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

Eligibility

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

Eligible

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

Eligibleness

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

Elimate

To render smooth; to polish.

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).

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