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  • English Word Elysium Definition Hence, any delightful place.
  • English Word Elysiums Definition of Elysium
  • English Word Elytra Definition of Elytrum
  • English Word Elytriform Definition Having the form, or structure, of an elytron.
  • English Word Elytrin Definition See Chitin.
  • English Word Elytroid Definition Resembling a beetle's wing case.
  • English Word Elytron Definition Alt. of Elytrum
  • English Word Elytrum Definition One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.
  • English Word Elytrum Definition One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.
  • English Word Elzevir Definition Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
  • English Word Em Definition The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.
  • English Word Em- Definition A prefix. See En-.
  • English Word Emacerate Definition To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
  • English Word Emaceration Definition Emaciation.
  • English Word Emaciate Definition To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
  • English Word Emaciate Definition To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
  • English Word Emaciate Definition Emaciated.
  • English Word Emaciated Definition of Emaciate
  • English Word Emaciating Definition of Emaciate
  • English Word Emaciation Definition The act of making very lean.
  • English Word Emaciation Definition The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
  • English Word Emaculate Definition To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
  • English Word Emaculation Definition The act of clearing from spots.
  • English Word Emanant Definition Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
  • English Word Emanate Definition To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
  • English Word Emanate Definition To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
  • English Word Emanate Definition Issuing forth; emanant.
  • English Word Emanated Definition of Emanate
  • English Word Emanating Definition of Emanate
  • English Word Emanation Definition The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.