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- English Word Elixate Definition To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
- English Word Elixation Definition A seething; digestion.
- English Word Elixir Definition A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
- English Word Elixir Definition An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
- English Word Elixir Definition The refined spirit; the quintessence.
- English Word Elixir Definition Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
- English Word Elizabethan Definition Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
- English Word Elizabethan Definition One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
- English Word Elk Definition A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.
- English Word Elk Definition Alt. of Elke
- English Word Elke Definition The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
- English Word Elknut Definition The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.
- English Word Elkwood Definition The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
- English Word Ell Definition A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.
- English Word Ell Definition See L.
- English Word Ellachick Definition A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.
- English Word Ellagic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
- English Word Ellebore Definition Hellebore.
- English Word Elleborin Definition See Helleborin.
- English Word Elleck Definition The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.
- English Word Ellenge Definition Alt. of Ellingeness
- English Word Ellengeness Definition Alt. of Ellingeness
- English Word Elles Definition See Else.
- English Word Ellinge Definition Alt. of Ellingeness
- English Word Ellingeness Definition See Elenge, Elengeness.
- English Word Ellipse Definition An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
- English Word Ellipse Definition Omission. See Ellipsis.
- English Word Ellipse Definition The elliptical orbit of a planet.
- English Word Ellipses Definition of Ellipsis
- English Word Ellipsis Definition Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.