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- English Word Elaterometer Definition Same as Elatrometer.
- English Word Elatery Definition Acting force; elasticity.
- English Word Elating Definition of Elate
- English Word Elation Definition A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.
- English Word Elative Definition Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.
- English Word Elatrometer Definition An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.
- English Word Elayl Definition Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.
- English Word Elbow Definition The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
- English Word Elbow Definition Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- English Word Elbow Definition A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.
- 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.