ELOINED
ELOIN'ED, participle passive Removed to a distance; carried far off.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ELOINING
ELOIN'ING, participle present tense Removing to a distance from another, or to a place unknown.
ELOINMENT
ELOIN'MENT, noun Removal to a distance; distance.
ELONG
ELONG', verb transitive [Low Latin elongo.] To put far off; to retard.
ELONGATE
ELON'GATE, verb transitive [Low Latin elongo, from longus. See Long.]1. To lengthen; to extend.2. To remove farther off.ELON'GATE, verb intransitive To depart from; to recede; t...
ELONGATED
ELON'GATED, participle passive Lengthened; removed to a distance.
ELONGATING
ELON'GATING, participle present tense Lengthening; extending.1. Receding to a greater distance, particularly as a planet from the sun in its orbit.
ELONGATION
ELONGA'TION, noun The act of stretching or lengthening; as the elongation of a fiber.1. The state of being extended.2. Distance; space which separates one thing from another.3. ...
ELOPE
ELO'PE, verb intransitive [Eng. to leap.]1. To run away; to depart from one's proper place or station privately or without permission; to quit, without permission or right, the ...
ELOPEMENT
ELO'PEMENT, noun Private or unlicensed departure from the place or station to which one is assigned by duty or law; as the elopement of a wife from her husband, or of a daughter...
ELOPING
ELO'PING, participle present tense Running away; departing privately, or without permission, from a husband, father or master.
ELOPS
E'LOPS, noun A fish, inhabiting the seas of America and the West Indies, with a long body, smooth head, one dorsal fin, and a deeply furcated tail, with a horizontal lanceolated...
ELOQUENCE
EL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin eloquentia, from eloquor, loquor, to speak; Gr. to crack, to sound, to speak. The primary sense is probably to burst with a sound; a fissure, from the sa...
ELOQUENT
EL'OQUENT, adjective Having the power of oratory; speaking with fluency, propriety, elegance and animation; as an eloquent orator; an eloquent preacher.1. Composed with elegance...
ELOQUENTLY
EL'OQUENTLY, adverb With eloquence; in an eloquent manner; in a manner to please, affect and persuade.
ELSE
ELSE, adjective or pronoun els. [Latin alius, alias. See Alien.]Other; one or something beside. Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect any thing else? [This w...
ELSEWHERE
ELSEWHERE, adverb In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere1. In some other place; in other places indefinitely. It is reported in town and elsewhere
ELUCIDATE
ELU'CIDATE, verb intransitive [Low Latin elucido, from eluceo, luceo, to shine, or from lucidus, clear, bright. See Light.]To make clear or manifest; to explain; to remove obscu...
ELUCIDATED
ELU'CIDATED, participle passive Explained; made plain, clear or intelligible.
ELUCIDATING
ELU'CIDATING, participle present tense Explaining; making clear or intelligible.
ELUCIDATION
ELUCIDA'TION, noun The act of explaining or throwing light on any obscure subject; explanation; exposition; illustration; as, one example may serve for an elucidation of the sub...
ELUCIDATOR
ELU'CIDATOR, noun One who explains; an expositor.
ELUDE
ELU'DE, verb transitive [Latin eludo; e and ludo, to play. The Latinverb forms lusi, lusum; and this may be the Heb. to deride.1. To escape; to evade; to avoid by artifice, stra...
ELUDIBLE
ELU'DIBLE, adjective That may be eluded or escaped.
ELUSION
ELU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin elusio. See Elude.] An escape by artifice or deception; evasion.
ELUSIVE
ELU'SIVE, adjective Practicing elusion; using arts to escape.Elusive of the bridal day, she givesFond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives.
ELUSORINESS
ELU'SORINESS, noun The state of being elusory.