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  • English Word Electrotypy Definition The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
  • English Word Electrum Definition Amber.
  • English Word Electrum Definition An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
  • English Word Electrum Definition German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
  • English Word Electuaries Definition of Electuary
  • English Word Electuary Definition A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.
  • English Word Eleemosynaries Definition of Eleemosynary
  • English Word Eleemosynarily Definition In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
  • English Word Eleemosynary Definition Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
  • English Word Eleemosynary Definition Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
  • English Word Eleemosynary Definition Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
  • English Word Eleemosynary Definition One who subsists on charity; a dependent.
  • English Word Elegance Definition Alt. of Elegancy
  • English Word Elegancy Definition The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.
  • English Word Elegancy Definition That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
  • English Word Elegant Definition Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
  • English Word Elegant Definition Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
  • English Word Elegantly Definition In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
  • English Word Elegiac Definition Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
  • English Word Elegiac Definition Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
  • English Word Elegiac Definition Elegiac verse.
  • English Word Elegiacal Definition Elegiac.
  • English Word Elegiast Definition One who composes elegies.
  • English Word Elegies Definition of Elegy
  • English Word Elegiographer Definition An elegist.
  • English Word Elegist Definition A write of elegies.
  • English Word Elegit Definition A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
  • English Word Elegize Definition To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
  • English Word Elegy Definition A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
  • English Word Eleidin Definition Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.