Elfkin (n.) A little elf.
Elfland (n.) Fairyland.
Elflock (n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
Elgin marbles () Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
Elicit (a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
Elicited (imp. & p. p.) of Elicit
Eliciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elicit
Elicit (v. t.) 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.
Elicitate (v. t.) To elicit.
Elicitation (n.) The act of eliciting.
Elided (imp. & p. p.) of Elide
Eliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elide
Elide (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
Elide (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
Eligibility (n.) The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
Eligible (a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
Eligible (a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
Eligibleness (n.) The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
Eligibly (adv.) In an eligible manner.
Elimate (v. t.) To render smooth; to polish.
Eliminant (n.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
Eliminated (imp. & p. p.) of Eliminate
Eliminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eliminate
Eliminate (v. t.) To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate (v. t.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
Eliminate (v. t.) To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate (v. t.) To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
Eliminate (v. t.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Elimination (n.) The act of expelling or throwing off
Elimination (n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
Elimination (n.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
Elimination (n.) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Eliminative (a.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
Elinguate (v. t.) To deprive of the tongue.
Elinguation (n.) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
Elinguid (a.) Tongue-tied; dumb.
Eliquament (n.) A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
Eliquation (n.) 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.
Elison (n.) Division; separation.
Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
Elisor (n.) 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 (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
Elix (v. t.) To extract.
Elixate (v. t.) To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.
Elixir (n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
Elixir (n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
Elixir (n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.
Elixir (n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
Elizabethan (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
Elizabethan (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Elk (n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.
Elk (n.) Alt. of Elke
Elke (n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
Elknut (n.) The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.
Elkwood (n.) The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.
Ell (n.) See L.
Ellachick (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.
Ellagic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
Ellebore (n.) Hellebore.
Elleborin (n.) See Helleborin.
Elleck (n.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.
Ellenge (n) Alt. of Ellingeness
Ellinge (n) Alt. of Ellingeness
Ellengeness (n) Alt. of Ellingeness
Ellingeness (n) See Elenge, Elengeness.
Elles (adv. & conj.) See Else.
Ellipse (n.) 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.
Ellipse (n.) Omission. See Ellipsis.
Ellipse (n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.
Ellipses (pl. ) of Ellipsis
Ellipsis (n.) 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.
Ellipsis (n.) An ellipse.
Ellipsograph (n.) An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.
Ellipsoid (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).
Ellipsoid (a.) Alt. of Ellipsoidal
Ellipsoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
Elliptic (a.) Alt. of Elliptical
Elliptical (a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
Elliptical (a.) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Elliptically (adv.) In the form of an ellipse.
Elliptically (adv.) With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
Ellipticity (n.) 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 /.
Elliptic-lanceolate (a.) Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
Elliptograph (n.) Same as Ellipsograph.
Ellwand (n.) Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.
Elm (n.) 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.
Elmen (a.) Belonging to elms.
Elmo's fire () See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.
Elmy (a.) Abounding with elms.
Elocation (n.) A removal from the usual place of residence.
Elocation (n.) Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
Elocular (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
Elocution (n.) Utterance by speech.
Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
Elocution (n.) Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.
Elocutionary (a.) Pertaining to elocution.
Elocutionist (n.) One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
Elocutive (a.) Pertaining to oratorical expression.