Eirie Ei"rie noun See Aerie , and Eyrie .
Eisel Ei"sel noun [ Old French
aisil ,
aissil , from Latin
acetum . Confer
Acetic .]
Vinegar; verjuice. [ Obsolete]
Sir T. More.
Eisteddfod Eis·tedd"fod (ās*tĕ&thlig;"vōd)
noun [ W., session, from
eistedd to sit.]
An 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 Ei"ther (ē"&thlig;ẽr
or ī"&thlig;ẽr; 277)
adjective & pron. [ Middle English
either ,
aither , Anglo-Saxon
ǣgðer ,
ǣghwæðer (akin to Old High German
ēogiwedar , Middle High German
iegeweder );
ā +
ge +
hwæðer whether. See
Each , and
Whether , and confer
Or ,
conj .]
1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one . Lepidus flatters both,
Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him.
Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three.
Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists.
Holmes. 2. Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. His flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played.
Milton. On either side . . . was there the tree of life.
Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged.
Jowett (Thucyd).
Either Ei"ther conj. Either precedes two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or . Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth.
1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede.
Latham. »
Either was formerly sometimes used without any correlation, and where we should now use
or .
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
James iii. 12.
Ejaculate E·jac"u·late transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Ejaculated ;
present participle & verbal noun Ejaculating .] [ Latin
ejaculatus , past participle of
ejaculari to throw out;
e out +
ejaculari to throw, from
jaculum javelin, dart, from
jacere to throw. See
Eject .]
1. To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [ Archaic or Technical]
Its active rays ejaculated thence.
Blackmore. 2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
Ejaculate E·jac"u·late intransitive verb To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [ R.] "
Ejaculating to himself."
Sir W. Scott.
Ejaculation E·jac`u·la"tion noun [ Confer French
éjaculation .]
1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. [ Archaic or Technical] "An
ejaculation or irradiation of the eye."
Bacon. 2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing.
Jer. Taylor. 3. (Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
Ejaculator E·jac"u·la`tor noun [ New Latin See
Ejaculate .]
(Anat.) A muscle which helps ejaculation.
Ejaculatory E·jac"u·la·to·ry adjective 1. Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels. 2. Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition. 3. Sudden; hasty. [ Obsolete] "
Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts."
L'Estrange.
Eject E·ject" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Ejected ;
present participle & verbal noun Ejecting .] [ Latin
ejectus , past participle of
ejicere ;
e out +
jacere to throw. See
Jet a shooting forth.]
1. 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. "Eyes
ejecting flame."
H. Brooke. 2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate. Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void.
Eject E"ject noun [ See
Eject ,
transitive verb ]
(Philos.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford.
Ejecta E·jec"ta noun plural [ Latin , neut. plural of
ejectus cast out. See
Eject .]
Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta , or excreta, of the body.
Ejection E·jec"tion noun [ Latin
ejectio : confer French
éjection .]
1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast
ejection of ashes."
Eustace. "The
ejection of a word."
Johnson. 2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Ejectment E·ject"ment noun 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes. 2. (Law) 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. Wharton.
Ejector E·ject"or noun 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. 2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser (Steam Engine) ,
a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
Ejector E·ject"or noun That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
Ejoo E"joo (ē"jō)
noun [ Malay
ījū or
hījū .]
Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti .
Ejulation Ej`u·la"tion noun [ Latin
ejulatio , from
ejulare to wail, lament.]
A wailing; lamentation. [ Obsolete] "
Ejulation in the pangs of death."
Philips.
Ekabor Ek"a·bor` (ĕk"ȧ*bōr`),
Ek"a*bo"ron (-bō"rŏn)
noun [ G., from Sanskrit
ēka one + German
bor ,
boron , English
boron .]
(Chemistry) 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 Ek·al`u·min"i·um noun [ Sanskrit
ēka one + English
aluminium .]
(Chemistry) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium . See Gallium , and confer Ekabor .
Ekasilicon Ek`a·sil"i·con noun [ Sanskrit
ēka one + English
silicon .]
(Chemistry) 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 confer Ekabor .
Eke Eke (ēk)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Eked ;
present participle & verbal noun Eking .] [ Anglo-Saxon
ēkan ,
ȳkan ; akin to OFries,
āka , Old Saxon
...kian , Old High German
ouhhōn to add, Icelandic
auka to increase, Swedish
öka , Danish
öge , Goth.
aukan , Latin
augere , Sanskrit
...jas strength,
ugra mighty, and probably to English
wax , intransitive verb Confer
Augment ,
Nickname .]
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. "To
eke my pain."
Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds.
Macaulay.
Eke Eke adverb [ Anglo-Saxon
eác ; akin to OFries.
ák , Old Saxon
...k , Dutch
...ok , Old High German
ouh , G.
auch , Icelandic
auk , Swedish
och and, Danish
og , Goth.
auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.]
In addition; also; likewise. [ Obsolete or Archaic]
'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love.
Prior. A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town.
Cowper. »
Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion.
Mätzner.
Eke Eke noun An addition. [ R.]
Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
Geddes.
Ekebergite Ek"e·berg`ite noun [ From
Ekeberg , a German.]
(Min.) A variety of scapolite.
Ekename Eke"name` noun [ See
Nickname .]
An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [ Obsolete]
Eking Ek"ing noun [ From
Eke ,
transitive verb ]
(Shipbuilding) (a) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. (b) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [ Written also
eiking .]
El Dorado El` Do·ra"do plural El Doradoes [ Spanish , lit., the gilt (sc. land);
el the +
dorado gilt, past participle of
dorare to gild. Confer
Dorado .]
1. A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones. 2. Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness. The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit.
T. Moore.
Elaborate E·lab"o·rate adjective [ Latin
elaboratus , past participle of
elaborare to work out;
e out +
laborare to labor,
labor labor. See
Labor .]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Waller. Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high- wrought. --
E*lab"o*rate*ly ,
adverb --
E*lab"o*rate*ness ,
noun
Elaborate E·lab"o·rate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Elaborated ;
present participle & verbal noun Elaborating .]
1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh,
Young. 2. 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. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
Arbuthnot.
elaborated elaborated adj. developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate.
[ WordNet 1.5]
Elaboration E·lab`o·ra"tion noun [ Latin
elaboratio : confer French
élaboration .]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. 2. (Physiol.) 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 E·lab"o·ra·tive adjective Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.) ,
the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
Elaborator E·lab"o·ra`tor noun One who, or that which, elaborates.
Elaboratory E·lab"o·ra·to·ry adjective Tending to elaborate.
Elaboratory E·lab"o·ra·to·ry noun A laboratory. [ Obsolete]
Elaidate E·la"i·date noun (Chemistry) A salt of elaidic acid.
Elaidic E`la·id"ic adjective [ Confer French
élaïdique . See
Elaine .]
Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. Elaidic acid (Chemistry) ,
a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.
Elaidin E·la"i·din noun [ Confer French
élaïdine .]
(Chemistry) A solid isomeric modification of olein.
Elaine, Elain E·la"ine, E·la"in noun [ Greek ... olive oil, oil, from ... the olive tree: confer French
élaïne .]
(Chemistry) Same as Olein .
Elaiodic E`lai·od"ic adjective [ Greek ... olive oil, oil + ... form.]
(Chemistry) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [ R.]
Elaiometer E`lai·om"e·ter noun [ Greek ... olive oil, oil +
-meter .]
(Chemistry) An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
Elamite E"lam·ite noun A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.
Elamping E·lamp"ing adjective [ See
Lamp .]
Shining. [ Obsolete]
G. Fletcher.
Élan É`lan" noun [ French, from
élancer to dart.]
Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
Elance E·lance" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Elanced ;
present participle & verbal noun Elancing .] [ French
élancer , Old French
eslancier ; prefix
es- (L.
ex ) + French
lancer to dart, throw, from
lance .]
To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [ R.]
While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart.
Prior.
Eland E"land noun [ Dutch
eland elk, of Slav. origin; confer Pol.
jelen stag, Russian
oléne , Lithuanian
elnis ; perhaps akin to English
elk .]
1. (Zoology) 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 . 2. (Zoology) The elk or moose.
Elanet E·la"net noun (Zoology) A kite of the genus Elanus .
Elaolite E·la"o·lite noun (Min.) See Elæolite .
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