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  • English Word Elbow Definition To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.
  • English Word Elbow Definition To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.
  • English Word Elbow Definition To push rudely along; to elbow one's way.
  • English Word Elbowboard Definition The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.
  • English Word Elbowchair Definition A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
  • English Word Elbowed Definition of Elbow
  • English Word Elbowing Definition of Elbow
  • English Word Elbowroom Definition Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.
  • English Word Elcaja Definition An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.
  • English Word Elcesaite Definition One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.
  • English Word Eld Definition Old.
  • English Word Eld Definition Age; esp., old age.
  • English Word Eld Definition Old times; former days; antiquity.
  • English Word Eld Definition To age; to grow old.
  • English Word Eld Definition To make old or ancient.
  • English Word Elder Definition Older; more aged, or existing longer.
  • English Word Elder Definition Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.
  • English Word Elder Definition One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
  • English Word Elder Definition An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
  • English Word Elder Definition A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.
  • English Word Elder Definition A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
  • English Word Elder Definition A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
  • English Word Elderish Definition Somewhat old; elderly.
  • English Word Elderly Definition Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
  • English Word Eldern Definition Made of elder.
  • English Word Eldership Definition The state of being older; seniority.
  • English Word Eldership Definition Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
  • English Word Elderwort Definition Danewort.
  • English Word Eldest Definition Oldest; longest in duration.
  • English Word Eldest Definition Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.