Element
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a simple body, or body which human art cannot divide, as caloric, oxygene, pure metal, sulphur, clay &c. In popular language, fire, air, earth and water are called elements, a constituent or first principle
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Webster's Dictionary 1806
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1806.