Electrotyping
E‐lec″tro‐ty′ping (?), n. The act or the process of making electrotypes.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Electrotypy
E‐lec″tro‐ty′py (?), n. The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
Electrum
E‐lec″trum (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �. See Electric, and cf. Electre, Electron.] 1. Amber.2. An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.3. German-silver pl...
Electuary
E‐lec″tu‐a‐ry (?; 135), n.; pl.Electuaries (#). [OE. letuaire, OF. lettuaire, electuaire, F. électuaire, L. electuarium, electarium. prob. fr. Gr. �, � a medicine that is licked...
Eleemosynarily
El′ee‐mos″y‐na‐ri‐ly (?), adv. In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
Eleemosynary
El′ee‐mos″y‐na‐ry (?; 277), a. [LL. eleemosynarius, fr. eleemosyna alms, Gr. � alms. See Alms.] 1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of cha...
Eleemosynary (2)
El′ee‐mos″y‐na‐ry, n.; pl.Eleemosynaries (�). One who subsists on charity; a dependent. South.
Elegance
{ El″e‐gance (?), El″e‐gan‐cy (?), } n. [L. elegantia, fr. elegans, -antis, elegant: cf. F. élégance.] 1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice ...
Elegant
El″e‐gant (?), a. [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. élégant. See Elect.] 1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized ...
Elegantly
El″e‐gant‐ly, adv. In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
Elegiac
E‐le″gi‐ac (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. �: cf. F. élégiaque. See Elegy.] 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an el...
Elegiac (2)
E‐le″gi‐ac (?), n. Elegiac verse.
Elegiacal
El′e‐gi″a‐cal (?), a. Elegiac.
Elegiast
E‐le″gi‐ast (?), n. One who composes elegies. Goldsmith.
Elegiographer
El′e‐gi‐og″ra‐pher (?), n. [Gr. � an elegy + -graph + -er.] An elegist.
Elegist
El″e‐gist (?), n. A write of elegies. T. Warton.
Elegit
‖E‐le″git (?), n. [L., he has chosen, fr. eligere to choose. See Elect.] (Law) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plai...
Elegize
El″e‐gize (?), v. t. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.
Elegy
El″e‐gy (?), n.; pl.Elegies (#). [L. elegia, Gr. �, fem. sing. (cf. �, prop., neut. pl. of � a distich in elegiac verse), fr. � elegiac, fr. � a song of mourning.] A mournful or...
Eleidin
E‐le″i‐din (?), n.(Biol.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
Eleme
{ El″e‐me, orEl″e‐mi, figs′ } (ĕl″ē̍‐mĭ). [Turk. eleme anything which has been sifted and freed from dust or broken parts.] A kind of figs of superior quality.
Element
El″e‐ment (?), n. [F. élément, L. elementum.] 1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental p...
Element (2)
El″e‐ment (ĕl″ē̍‐mĕnt), v. t. 1. To compound of elements or first principles. “ being elemented too.” Donne.2. To constitute; to make up with elements.His very soul was elemente...
Elemental
El′e‐men″tal (ĕl′ē̍‐mĕn″tal), a. 1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental ...
Elementalism
El′e‐men″tal‐ism (–ĭz'm), a. The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
Elementality
E′le‐men‐tal″i‐ty (–mĕn‐tăl″ĭ‐ty̆), n. The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
Elementally
El′e‐men″tal‐ly (?), adv. According to elements; literally; as, the words, “Take, eat; this is my body,” elementally understood.