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ELECTRIFIABLE — ELONG NWAD ELECTRIFIABLE.1

ELECTRIFIABLE, a. [from electrify.] Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it; that may become electric. NWAD ELECTRIFIABLE.1

1. Capable of receiving and transmitting the electrical fluid. NWAD ELECTRIFIABLE.2

ELECTRIFICATION, n. The act of electrifying, or state of being charged with electricity. NWAD ELECTRIFICATION.1

ELECTRIFIED, ppr. Charged with electricity. NWAD ELECTRIFIED.1

ELECTRIFY, v.t. To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity. NWAD ELECTRIFY.1

1. To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to. NWAD ELECTRIFY.2

2. To excite suddenly; to give a sudden shock; as, the whole assembly was electrified. NWAD ELECTRIFY.3

ELECTRIFY, v.i. To become electric. NWAD ELECTRIFY.4

ELECTRIFYING, ppr. Charging with electricity; affecting with electricity; giving a sudden shock. NWAD ELECTRIFYING.1

ELECTRIZATION, n. The act of electrizing. NWAD ELECTRIZATION.1

ELECTRIZE, v.t. To electrify; a word in popular use. NWAD ELECTRIZE.1

ELECTRO-CHIMISTRY, n. That science which treats of the agency of electricity and galvanism in effecting chimical changes. NWAD ELECTRO-CHIMISTRY.1

ELECTRO-MAGNETIC, a. Designating what pertains to magnetism, as connected with electricity, or affected by it. Electromagnetic phenomena. NWAD ELECTRO-MAGNETIC.1

ELECTRO-MAGNETISM, n. That science which treats of the agency of electricity and galvanism in communicating magnetic properties. NWAD ELECTRO-MAGNETISM.1

ELECTROMETER, n. [L. electrum; Gr. amber, and to measure.] NWAD ELECTROMETER.1

An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity, or its quality; or an instrument for discharging it from a jar. NWAD ELECTROMETER.2

ELECTROMETRICAL, a. Pertaining to an electrometer; made by an electrometer; as an electrometrical experiment. NWAD ELECTROMETRICAL.1

ELECTRO-MOTION, n. The motion of electricity or galvanism, or the passing of it from one metal to another, by the attraction or influence of one metal plate in contact with another. NWAD ELECTRO-MOTION.1

ELECTRO-MOTIVE, a. Producing electro-motion; as electro-motive power. NWAD ELECTRO-MOTIVE.1

ELECTROMOTOR, n. [electrum and motor.] A mover of the electric fluid; an instrument or apparatus so called. NWAD ELECTROMOTOR.1

ELECTRON, n. Amber; also, a mixture of gold with a fifth part of silver. NWAD ELECTRON.1

ELECTRO-NEGATIVE, a. Repelled by bodies negatively electrified, and attracted by those positively electrified. NWAD ELECTRO-NEGATIVE.1

ELECTROPHOR, ELECTROPHORUS, n. [electrum, and to bear.] An instrument for preserving electricity a long time. NWAD ELECTROPHOR.1

ELECTRO-POSITIVE, a. Attracted by bodies negatively electrified, or by the negative pole of the galvanic arrangement. NWAD ELECTRO-POSITIVE.1

ELECTRUM, n. [L. amber.] In mineralogy, an argentiferous gold ore, or native alloy, of a pale brass yellow color. NWAD ELECTRUM.1

ELECTUARY, n. [Low L. electarium, electuarium; Gr. to lick.] NWAD ELECTUARY.1

In pharmacy, a form of medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey or syrup, and made into due consistence, to be taken in doses, like boluses. NWAD ELECTUARY.2

ELEEMOSYNARY, a. [Gr. alms, to pity, compassion.] NWAD ELEEMOSYNARY.1

1. Given in charity; given or appropriated to support the poor; as eleemosynary rents or taxes. NWAD ELEEMOSYNARY.2

2. Relating to charitable donations; intended for the distribution of alms, or for the use and management of donations, whether for the subsistence of the poor or for the support and promotion of learning; as an eleemosynary corporation. A hospital founded by charity is an eleemosynary institution for the support of the poor, sick and impotent; a college founded by donations is an eleemosynary institution for the promotion of learning. The corporation entrusted with the care of such institutions is eleemosynary. NWAD ELEEMOSYNARY.3

ELEEMOSYNARY, n. One who subsists on charity. NWAD ELEEMOSYNARY.4

ELEGANCE, ELEGANCY, n. [L. elegantia, eligo, to choose, though irregularly formed.] NWAD ELEGANCE.1

In its primary sense, this word signified that which is choice or select, as distinguished from what is common. NWAD ELEGANCE.2

1. “The beauty of propriety, not of greatness,” says Johnson. NWAD ELEGANCE.3

Applied to manners or behavior, elegance is that fine polish, politeness or grace, which is acquired by a genteel education, and an association with wellbred company. NWAD ELEGANCE.4

Applied to language, elegance respects the manner of speaking or of writing. Elegance of speaking is the propriety of diction and utterance, and the gracefulness of action or gesture; comprehending correct, appropriate and rich expressions, delivered in an agreeable manner. Elegance of composition consists in correct, appropriate and rich expressions, or well chosen words, arranged in a happy manner. Elegance implies neatness, purity, and correct, perspicuous arrangement, and is calculated to please a delicate taste, rather than to excite admiration or strong feeling. Elegance is applied also to form. Elegance in architecture, consists in the due symmetry and distribution of the parts of an edifice, or in regular proportions and arrangement. And in a similar sense, the word is applied to the person or human body. It is applied also to penmanship, denoting that form of letters which is most agreeable to the eye. In short, in a looser sense, it is applied to many works of art or nature remarkable for their beauty; as elegance of dress or furniture. NWAD ELEGANCE.5

2. That which pleases by its nicety, symmetry, purity or beauty. In this sense it has a plural; as the nicer elegancies of art. NWAD ELEGANCE.6

ELEGANT, a. [L. elegans.] Polished; polite; refined; graceful; pleasing to good taste; as elegant manners. NWAD ELEGANT.1

1. Polished, neat; pure; rich in expressions; correct in arrangement; as an elegant style or composition. NWAD ELEGANT.2

2. Uttering or delivering elegant language with propriety and grace; as an elegant speaker. NWAD ELEGANT.3

3. Symmetrical; regular; well formed in its parts, proportions and distribution; as an elegant structure. NWAD ELEGANT.4

4. Nice; sensible to beauty; discriminating beauty from deformity or imperfection; as an elegant taste. [This is a loose application of the word; elegant being used for delicate.] NWAD ELEGANT.5

5. Beautiful in form and colors; pleasing; as an elegant flower. NWAD ELEGANT.6

6. Rich; costly and ornamental; as elegant furniture or equipage. NWAD ELEGANT.7

ELEGANTLY, adv. In a manner to please; with elegance; with beauty; with pleasing propriety; as a composition elegantly written. NWAD ELEGANTLY.1

1. With due symmetry; with well formed and duly proportioned parts; as a house elegantly built. NWAD ELEGANTLY.2

2. Richly; with rich or handsome materials well disposed; as a room elegantly furnished; a woman elegantly dressed. NWAD ELEGANTLY.3

ELEGIAC, a. [Low L. elegiacus. See Elegy.] Belonging to elegy; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. NWAD ELEGIAC.1

1. Used in elegies. Pentameter verse is elegiac. NWAD ELEGIAC.2

ELEGIST, n. A writer of elegies. NWAD ELEGIST.1

ELEGIT, n. [L. eligo, elegi, to choose.] A writ of execution, by which a defendant’s goods are apprized, and delivered to the plaintiff, and if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, one moiety of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits. NWAD ELEGIT.1

1. The title to estate by elegit. NWAD ELEGIT.2

ELEGY, n. [L. elegia; Gr. to speak or utter.; L. lugeo. The verbs may have a common origin, for to speak and to cry out in wailing are only modifications of the same act, to throw out the voice with more or less vehemence.] NWAD ELEGY.1

1. A mournful or plaintive poem, or a funeral song; a poem or a song expressive of sorrow and lamentation. NWAD ELEGY.2

2. A short poem without points or affected elegancies. NWAD ELEGY.3

ELEMENT, n. [L. elementus.] NWAD ELEMENT.1

1. The first or constituent principle or minutest part or any thing; as the elements of earth, water, salt, or wood; the elements of the world; the elements of animal or vegetable bodies. So letters are called the elements of language. NWAD ELEMENT.2

2. An ingredient; a constituent part of any composition. NWAD ELEMENT.3

3. In a chimical sense, an atom; the minutest particle of a substance; that which cannot be divided by chimical analysis, and therefore considered as a simple substance, as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc. NWAD ELEMENT.4

An element is strictly the last result of chimical analysis; that which cannot be decomposed by any means now employed. NWAD ELEMENT.5

An atom is the last result of mechanical division; that which cannot be any farther divided, without decomposition; hence there may be both elementary and compound atoms. NWAD ELEMENT.6

4. In the plural, the first rules or principles of an art or science; rudiments; as the elements of geometry; the elements of music; the elements of painting; the elements of a theory. NWAD ELEMENT.7

5. In popular language, fire, air, earth and water, are called the four elements, as formerly it was supposed that these are simple bodies, of which the world is composed. Later discoveries prove air, earth and water to be compound bodies, and fire to be only the extrication of light and heat during combustion. NWAD ELEMENT.8

6. Element, in the singular, is sometimes used for the air. NWAD ELEMENT.9

7. The substance which forms the natural or most suitable habitation of an animal. Water is the proper element of fishes; air, of man. Hence, NWAD ELEMENT.10

8. The proper state or sphere of any thing; the state of things suited to one’s temper or habits. Faction is the element of a demagogue. NWAD ELEMENT.11

9. The matter or substances which compose the world. NWAD ELEMENT.12

The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter 3:10. NWAD ELEMENT.13

10. The outline or sketch; as the elements of a plan. NWAD ELEMENT.14

11. Moving cause or principle; that which excites action. NWAD ELEMENT.15

Passions, the elements of life. NWAD ELEMENT.16

ELEMENT, v.t. To compound of elements or first principles. NWAD ELEMENT.17

1. To constitute; to make as a first principle. NWAD ELEMENT.18

[This word is rarely or never used.] NWAD ELEMENT.19

ELEMENTAL, a. Pertaining to elements. NWAD ELEMENTAL.1

1. Produced by some of the four supposed elements; as elemental war. NWAD ELEMENTAL.2

2. Produced by elements; as elemental strife. NWAD ELEMENTAL.3

3. Arising from first principles. NWAD ELEMENTAL.4

ELEMENTALITY, n. Composition of principles or ingredients. NWAD ELEMENTALITY.1

ELEMENTALLY, adv. According to elements; literally; as the words, “Take, eat; this is my body,” elementally understood. NWAD ELEMENTALLY.1

ELEMENTARITY, ELEMENTARINESS, n. The state of being elementary; the simplicity of nature; uncompounded state. NWAD ELEMENTARITY.1

ELEMENTARY, a. Primary; simple; uncompounded; uncombined; having only one principle or constituent part; as an elementary substance. Elementary particles are those into which a body is resolved by decomposition. NWAD ELEMENTARY.1

1. Initial; rudimental; containing, teaching or discussing first principles, rules or rudiments; as an elementary treatise or disquisition. NWAD ELEMENTARY.2

2. Treating of elements; collecting, digesting or explaining principles; as an elementary writer. NWAD ELEMENTARY.3

ELEMI, n. The gum elemi, so called; but said to be a resinous substance, the produce of the Amyris elemifera, a small tree or shrub of South America. It is of a whitish color tinged with green or yellow. NWAD ELEMI.1

ELENCH, n. [L. elenchus; Gr. to argue, to refute.] NWAD ELENCH.1

1. A vicious or fallacious argument, which is apt to deceive under the appearance of truth; a sophism. [Little used.] NWAD ELENCH.2

2. In antiquity, a kind of earring set with pearls. NWAD ELENCH.3

ELENCHICAL, a. Pertaining to an elench. NWAD ELENCHICAL.1

ELENCHICALLY, adv. By means of an elench. [Not in use.] NWAD ELENCHICALLY.1

ELENCHIZE, v.i. To dispute. [Not in use.] NWAD ELENCHIZE.1

ELEPHANT, n. [L. elephas, elephantus; probably from the Heb. a leader or chief, the chief or great animal.] NWAD ELEPHANT.1

1. The largest of all quadrupeds, belonging to the order of Bruta. This animal has no foreteeth in either jaw; the canine-teeth are very long; and he has a long proboscis or trunk, by which he conveys food and drink to his mouth. The largest of these animals is about 16 feet long and 14 feet high; but smaller varieties are not more than seven feet high. The eyes are small and the feet short, round, clumsy, and distinguishable only by the toes. The trunk is a cartilaginous and muscular tube, extending from the upper jaw, and is seven or eight feet in length. The general shape of his body resembles that of swine. His skin is rugged, and his hair thin, The two large tusks are of a yellowish color, and extremely hard. The bony substance of these is called ivory. The elephant is 30 years in coming to his full growth, and he lives to 150 or 200 years of age. Elephants are natives of the warm climates of Africa and Asia, where they are employed as beasts of burden. They were formerly used in war. NWAD ELEPHANT.2

2. Ivory; the tusk of the elephant. NWAD ELEPHANT.3

ELEPHANT-BEETLE, n. A large species of Scarabaeus, or beetle, found in South America. It is of a black color; the body covered with a hard shell, as thick as that of a crab. It is nearly four inches long. The feelers are horny, and the proboscis an inch and a quarter in length. NWAD ELEPHANT-BEETLE.1

ELEPHANT’S-FOOT, n. A plant, the Elephantopus. NWAD ELEPHANTS-FOOT.1

ELEPHANTIASIS, n. [L. and Gr. from elephant.] NWAD ELEPHANTIASIS.1

A species of leprosy, so called from covering the skin with incrustations, like those of an elephant. It is a chronic and contagious disease, marked by a thickening and greasiness of the legs, with loss of hair and feeling, a swelling of the face, and a hoarse, nasal voice. It affects the whole body; the bones, as well as the skin, are covered with spots and tumors, at first red, but afterwards black. NWAD ELEPHANTIASIS.2

ELEPHANTINE, a. Pertaining to the elephant; huge; resembling an elephant; or perhaps white, like ivory. NWAD ELEPHANTINE.1

1. In antiquity, an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions of the senate, magistrates, emperors and generals; so called perhaps, as being made of ivory. NWAD ELEPHANTINE.2

ELEUSINIAN, a. Relating to Eleusis in Greece; as Eleusinian mysteries or festivals, the festivals and mysteries of Ceres. NWAD ELEUSINIAN.1

ELEVATE, v.t. [L. elevo; e and levo, to raise; Eng. to lift. See Lift.] NWAD ELEVATE.1

1. To raise, in a literal and general sense; to raise from a low or deep place to a higher. NWAD ELEVATE.2

2. To exalt; to raise to higher state or station; as, to elevate a man to an office. NWAD ELEVATE.3

3. To improve, refine or dignify; to raise from or above low conceptions; as, to elevate the mind. NWAD ELEVATE.4

4. To raise from a low or common state; to exalt; as, to elevate the character; to elevate a nation. NWAD ELEVATE.5

5. To elate with price. NWAD ELEVATE.6

6. To excite; to cheer; to animate; as, to elevate the spirits. NWAD ELEVATE.7

7. To take from; to detract; to lessen by detraction. [Not used.] NWAD ELEVATE.8

8. To raise from any tone to one more acute; as, to elevate the voice. NWAD ELEVATE.9

9. To augment or swell; to make louder, as sound. NWAD ELEVATE.10

ELEVATE, a. [L. elevatus.] Elevated; raised aloft. NWAD ELEVATE.11

ELEVATED, pp. Raised; exalted; dignified; elated; excited; made more acute or more loud, as sound. NWAD ELEVATED.1

ELEVATING, ppr. Raising; exalting; dignifying; elating; cheering. NWAD ELEVATING.1

ELEVATION, n. [L. elevatio.] The act of raising or conveying from a lower or deeper place to a higher. NWAD ELEVATION.1

1. The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne. NWAD ELEVATION.2

2. Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity. NWAD ELEVATION.3

Angels, in their several degrees of elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive faculties. NWAD ELEVATION.4

3. Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas. NWAD ELEVATION.5

4. Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions. NWAD ELEVATION.6

5. Exaltation of character or manners. NWAD ELEVATION.7

6. Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects. NWAD ELEVATION.8

7. An elevated place or station. NWAD ELEVATION.9

8. Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain. NWAD ELEVATION.10

9. A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice. NWAD ELEVATION.11

10. In astronomy, altitude; the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon. NWAD ELEVATION.12

11. In gunnery, the angle which the chace of a cannon or mortar, or the axis of the hollow cylinder, makes with the plane of the horizon. NWAD ELEVATION.13

12. In dialling, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line. NWAD ELEVATION.14

Elevation of the Host, in Catholic countries, that part of the mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore. NWAD ELEVATION.15

ELEVATOR, n. One who raises, lifts or exalts. NWAD ELEVATOR.1

1. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the lip or the eye. NWAD ELEVATOR.2

2. A surgical instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. NWAD ELEVATOR.3

ELEVATORY, n. An instrument used in trepanning, for raising a depressed or fractured part of the skull. NWAD ELEVATORY.1

ELEVE, n. One brought up or protected by another. NWAD ELEVE.1

ELEVEN, a. elev’n. Ten and one added; as eleven men. NWAD ELEVEN.1

ELEVENTH, a. The next in order to the tenth; as the eleventh chapter. NWAD ELEVENTH.1

ELF, n. plu. elves. NWAD ELF.1

1. A wandering spirit; a fairy; a hobgoblin; an imaginary being which our rude ancestors supposed to inhabit unfrequented places, and in various ways to affect mankind. Hence in Scottish, elf-shot is an elf-arrow; an arrow-head of flint, supposed to be shot by elfs; and it signifies also a disease supposed to be produced by the agency of spirits. NWAD ELF.2

Every elf, and fairy sprite, NWAD ELF.3

Hope as light as bird from brier. NWAD ELF.4

2. An evil spirit; a devil. NWAD ELF.5

3. A diminutive person. NWAD ELF.6

ELF, v.t. To entangle hair in so intricate a manner, that it cannot be disentangled. This work was formerly ascribed to elves. NWAD ELF.7

ELF-ARROW, n. A name given to flints in the shape of arrow-heads, vulgarly supposed to be shot by fairies. NWAD ELF-ARROW.1

ELF-LOCK, n. A knot of hair twisted by elves. NWAD ELF-LOCK.1

ELFIN, a. Relating or pertaining to elves. NWAD ELFIN.1

ELFIN, n. A little urchin. NWAD ELFIN.2

ELFISH, a. Resembling elves; clad in disguise. NWAD ELFISH.1

ELICIT, v.t. [L. elicio; e or ex and lacio, to allure.] NWAD ELICIT.1

1. To draw out; to bring to light; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion. NWAD ELICIT.2

2. To strike out; as, to elicit sparks of fire by collision. NWAD ELICIT.3

ELICIT, a. Brought into act; brought from possibility into real existence. [Little used.] NWAD ELICIT.4

ELICITATION, n. The act of eliciting; the act of drawing out. NWAD ELICITATION.1

ELICITED, pp. Brought or drawn out; struck out. NWAD ELICITED.1

ELICITING, ppr. Drawing out; bringing to light; striking out. NWAD ELICITING.1

ELIDE, v.t. [L. elido; e and loedo.] To break or dash in pieces; to crush. [Not used.] NWAD ELIDE.1

1. To cut off a syllable. NWAD ELIDE.2

ELIGIBILITY, n. [from eligible] Worthiness or fitness to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing which renders it preferable to another, or desirable. NWAD ELIGIBILITY.1

1. The state of being capable of being chosen to an office. NWAD ELIGIBILITY.2

ELIGIBLE, a. [L. eligo, to choose or select; e and lego.] NWAD ELIGIBLE.1

1. Fit to be chosen; worthy of choice, preferable. NWAD ELIGIBLE.2

In deep distress, certainty is more eligible than suspense. NWAD ELIGIBLE.3

2. Suitable; proper; desirable; as, the house stands in an eligible situation. NWAD ELIGIBLE.4

3. Legally qualified to be chosen; as, a man is or is not eligible to an office. NWAD ELIGIBLE.5

ELIGIBLENESS, n. Fitness to be chosen in preference to another; suitableness; desirableness. NWAD ELIGIBLENESS.1

ELIGIBLY, adv. In a manner to be worthy of choice; suitably. NWAD ELIGIBLY.1

ELIMINATE, v.t. [L. elimino; e or ex and limen, threshhold.] NWAD ELIMINATE.1

1. To thrust out of doors. NWAD ELIMINATE.2

2. To expel; to thrust out; to discharge, or throw off; to set at liberty. NWAD ELIMINATE.3

This detains secretions which nature finds it necessary to eliminate. NWAD ELIMINATE.4

ELIMINATED, pp. Expelled; thrown off; discharged. NWAD ELIMINATED.1

ELIMINATING, ppr. Expelling; discharging; throwing off. NWAD ELIMINATING.1

ELIMINATION, n. The act of expelling or throwing off; the act of discharging, or secreting by the pores. NWAD ELIMINATION.1

ELIQUATION, n. [L. eliquo, to melt; e and liquo.] NWAD ELIQUATION.1

In chimistry, the operation by which a more fusible substance is separated from one that is less so, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other; as an alloy of copper and lead. NWAD ELIQUATION.2

ELISION, n. s as z. [L. elisio, from elido, to strike off; e and loedo.] NWAD ELISION.1

1. In grammar, the cutting off or suppression of a vowel at the end of a word, for the sake of sound or measure, when the next word begins with a vowel; as, th’ embattled plain; th’ empyreal sphere. NWAD ELISION.2

2. Division; separation. [Not used.] NWAD ELISION.3

ELISOR, n. s as z. In law, a sheriff’s substitute for returning a jury. When the sheriff is not an indifferent person, as when he is a party to a suit, or related by blood or affinity to either of the parties, the venire is issued to the coroners; or if any exception lies to the coroners, the venire shall be directed to two clerks of the court, or to two persons of the county, named by the court, and sworn; and these, who are called elisors or electors, shall return the jury. NWAD ELISOR.1

ELIXATE, v.t. [L. elixo.] To extract by boiling. NWAD ELIXATE.1

ELIXATION, n. [L. elixus, from elixio, to boil, to moisten or macerate, from lixo, lix.] NWAD ELIXATION.1

1. The act of boiling or stewing; also, concoction in the stomach; digestion. NWAD ELIXATION.2

2. In pharmacy, the extraction of the virtues of ingredients by boiling or stewing; also, lixiviation. NWAD ELIXATION.3

ELIXIR, n. NWAD ELIXIR.1

1. In medicine, a compound tincture, extracted from two or more ingredients. A tincture is drawn from one ingredient; an elixir from several. But tincture is also applied to a composition of many ingredients. An elixir is a liquid medicine made by a strong infusion, where the ingredients are almost dissolved in the menstruum, and give it a thicker consistence than that of a tincture. NWAD ELIXIR.2

2. A liquor for transmuting metals into gold. NWAD ELIXIR.3

3. Quintessence; refined spirit. NWAD ELIXIR.4

4. Any cordial; that substance which invigorates. NWAD ELIXIR.5

ELK, n. [L. alce, alces.] A quadruped of the Cervine genus, with palmated horns, and a fleshy protuberance on the throat. The neck is short, with a short, thick, upright mane; the eyes are small; the ears long, broad and slouching; and the upper lip hangs over the under lip. It is the largest of the deer kind, being seventeen hands high and weighing twelve hundred pounds. It is found in the northern regions of Europe, Asia and America. In the latter country it is usually called Moose, from the Indian name musu. NWAD ELK.1

ELK-NUT, n. A plant, the Hamiltonia, called also oil-nut. NWAD ELK-NUT.1

ELL, n. [L. ulna.] A measure of different lengths in different countries, used chiefly for measuring cloth. The ells chiefly used in Great Britain are the English and Flemish. The English ell is three feet and nine inches, or a yard and a quarter. The Flemish ell is 27 inches, or three quarters of a yard. The English is to the Flemish as five to three. In Scotland, an ell is 37 2/10 English inches. NWAD ELL.1

ELLIPSE, n. ellips’. An ellipsis. NWAD ELLIPSE.1

ELLIPSIS, n. [Gr. an omission or defect, to leave or pass by.] NWAD ELLIPSIS.1

1. In geometry, an oval figure generated from the section of a cone, by a plane cutting both sides of it, but not parallel to the base. NWAD ELLIPSIS.2

2. In grammar, defect; omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words are omitted, which the hearer or reader may supply; as, the heroic virtues I admire, for the heroic virtues which I admire. NWAD ELLIPSIS.3

ELLIPSOID, n. [ellipsis and Gr. form.] In conics, a solid or figure formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its axis; an elliptic conoid; a spheroid. NWAD ELLIPSOID.1

ELLIPSOIDAL, a. Pertaining to an ellipsoid; having the form of an ellipsoid. NWAD ELLIPSOIDAL.1

ELLIPTIC, ELLIPTICAL, a. Pertaining to an ellipsis; having the form of an ellipse; oval. NWAD ELLIPTIC.1

The plants move in elliptical orbits, having the sun in one focus, and by a radius from the sun, they describe equal areas in equal times. NWAD ELLIPTIC.2

1. Defective; as an elliptical phrase. NWAD ELLIPTIC.3

ELLIPTICALLY, adv. According to the figure called an ellipsis. NWAD ELLIPTICALLY.1

1. Defectively. NWAD ELLIPTICALLY.2

ELM, n. [L. ulmus.] A tree of the genus Ulmus. The common elm is one of the largest and most majestic trees of the forest, and is cultivated for shade and ornament. Another species, the fulva, is called slippery elm, from the quality of its inner bark. One species seems to have been used to support vines. NWAD ELM.1

The treaty which William Penn made with the natives in 1682 was negotiated under a large Elm which grew on the spot now called Kensington, just above Philadelphia. It was prostrated by a storm in 1810, at which time its stem measured 24 feet in circumference. NWAD ELM.2

ELMY, a. Abounding with elms. NWAD ELMY.1

ELOCATION, n. [L. eloco.] A removal from the usual place of residence. NWAD ELOCATION.1

1. Departure from the usual method; an ecstasy. NWAD ELOCATION.2

ELOCUTION, n. [L. elocutio, from eloquor; e and loquor, to speak.] NWAD ELOCUTION.1

1. Pronunciation; the utterance or delivery of words, particularly in public discourses and arguments. We say of elocution, it is good or bad; clear, fluent or melodious. NWAD ELOCUTION.2

Elocution, which anciently embraced style and the whole art of rhetoric, now signifies manner of delivery. NWAD ELOCUTION.3

2. In rhetoric, elocution consists of elegance, composition and dignity; and Dryden uses the word as nearly synonymous with eloquence, the act of expressing thoughts with elegance or beauty. NWAD ELOCUTION.4

3. Speech; the power of speaking. NWAD ELOCUTION.5

Whose taste--gave elocution to the mute. NWAD ELOCUTION.6

4. In ancient treatises on oratory, the wording of a discourse; the choice and order of words; composition; the act of framing a writing or discourse. NWAD ELOCUTION.7

ELOCUTIVE, a. Having the power of eloquent speaking. NWAD ELOCUTIVE.1

ELOGIST, n. An eulogist. [Not used.] NWAD ELOGIST.1

ELOGY, ELOGIUM, n. [L. elogium. See Eulogy.] NWAD ELOGY.1

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric. [But we generally use eulogy.] NWAD ELOGY.2

ELOIN, v.t. NWAD ELOIN.1

1. To separate and remove to a distance. NWAD ELOIN.2

2. To convey to a distance, and withhold from sight. NWAD ELOIN.3

The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloined. NWAD ELOIN.4