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- English Word Elementary Definition Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
- English Word Elementation Definition Instruction in the elements or first principles.
- English Word Elementoid Definition Resembling an element.
- English Word Elemi Definition A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.
- English Word Elemin Definition A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.
- English Word Elench Definition That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
- English Word Elench Definition A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
- English Word Elenchical Definition Pertaining to an elench.
- English Word Elenchically Definition By means of an elench.
- English Word Elenchize Definition To dispute.
- English Word Elenchs Definition of Elench
- English Word Elenchtic Definition Alt. of Elenchtical
- English Word Elenchtical Definition Same as Elenctic.
- English Word Elenchus Definition Same as Elench.
- English Word Elenctic Definition Alt. of Elenctical
- English Word Elenctical Definition Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
- English Word Elenge Definition Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.
- English Word Elengeness Definition Loneliness; misery.
- English Word Elephansy Definition Elephantiasis.
- English Word Elephant Definition A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
- English Word Elephant Definition Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
- English Word Elephantiac Definition Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
- English Word Elephantiasis Definition A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
- English Word Elephantine Definition Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
- English Word Elephantoid Definition Alt. of Elephantoidal
- English Word Elephantoidal Definition Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
- English Word Eleusinian Definition Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
- English Word Eleuthero-petalous Definition Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.
- English Word Eleutheromania Definition A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.
- English Word Eleutheromaniac Definition Mad for freedom.