Eighth (a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
Eighth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
Eighth (n.) The interval of an octave.
Eighthly (adv.) As the eighth in order.
Eightieth (a.) The next in order after seventy-ninth.
Eightieth (a.) Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
Eightieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
Eightling (n.) A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Eighty (n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
Eighty (n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
Eigne (a.) Eldest; firstborn.
Eigne (a.) Entailed; belonging to the eldest son.
Eiking (n.) See Eking.
Eikon (n.) An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
Eikosane (n.) A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
Eikosylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
Eild (n.) Age.
Eire (n.) Air.
Eirenarch (n.) A justice of the peace; irenarch.
Eirenic (a.) Pacific. See Irenic.
Eirie (n.) See Aerie, and Eyrie.
Eisel (n.) Vinegar; verjuice.
Eisteddfod (n.) Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
Either (a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
Either (a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.
Either (conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
Ejaculated (imp. & p. p.) of Ejaculate
Ejaculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ejaculate
Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
Ejaculate (v. i.) To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
Ejaculation (n.) The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
Ejaculation (n.) The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
Ejaculation (n.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
Ejaculator (n.) A muscle which helps ejaculation.
Ejaculatory (a.) Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.
Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition.
Ejaculatory (a.) Sudden; hasty.
Ejected (imp. & p. p.) of Eject
Ejecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eject
Eject (v. t.) To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.
Eject (v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Ejection (n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
Ejection (n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
Ejection (n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Ejectment (n.) A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it.
Ejector (n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
Ejector (n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Ejoo (n.) Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.
Ejulation (n.) A wailing; lamentation.
Ekabor (n.) Alt. of Ekaboron
Ekaboron (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.
Ekaluminium (n.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
Ekasilicon (n.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor.
Eked (imp. & p. p.) of Eke
Eking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eke
Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
Eke (adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
Eke (n.) An addition.
Ekebergite (n.) A variety of scapolite.
Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
E-la (n.) Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.
Elaborate (a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
Elaborated (imp. & p. p.) of Elaborate
Elaborating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elaborate
Elaborate (v. t.) To produce with labor
Elaborate (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
Elaboration (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Elaboration (n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
Elaborative (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Elaborator (n.) One who, or that which, elaborates.
Elaboratory (a.) Tending to elaborate.
Elaboratory (n.) A laboratory.
Elaeagnus (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.
Elaeis (n.) A genus of palms.
Elaeolite (n.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
Elaeoptene (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.
Elaidate (n.) A salt of elaidic acid.
Elaidic (a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.
Elaidin (n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.
Elaine (n.) Alt. of Elain
Elain (n.) Same as Olein.
Elaiodic (a.) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.
Elaiometer (n.) An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
Elamite (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.
Elamping (a.) Shining.
Elan (b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
Elanced (imp. & p. p.) of Elance
Elancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elance
Elance (v. t.) To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Eland (n.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.
Eland (n.) The elk or moose.
Elanet (n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.
Elaolite (n.) See Elaeolite.
Elaoptene (n.) See Elaeoptene.