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2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
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Ejaculate (?), v. i. 1. To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] “Ejaculating to himself.” Sir W. Scott.
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2. to eject semen; -- of a male animal (esp. a human or other mammal) during coitus.
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Ejaculation (?), n. [Cf. F. éjaculation.] 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. [Archaic or Technical] “An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye.” Bacon.
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2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
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In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.
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3. (Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
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Ejaculator (?), n. [NL. See .] (Anat.) A muscle which helps ejaculation.
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Ejaculatory (?), a. 1. Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.
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2. Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition.
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3. Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] “Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts.” L'Estrange.
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Eject (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See a shooting forth.] 1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. “Eyes ejecting flame.” H. Brooke.
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2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.

Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void.
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Eject (?), n. [See , v. t.] (Philos.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford.
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Ejecta (?), n. pl. [L., neut. pl. of ejectus cast out. See .] Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
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Ejection (?), n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. éjection.] 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. “Vast ejection of ashes.” Eustace. “The ejection of a word.” Johnson.
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2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
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3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
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Ejectment (?), n. 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
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2. (Law) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton.
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Ejector (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
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2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
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3. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
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Coloq. Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
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Ejoo (ēj�), n. [Malay ījū or hījū.] Gomuti fiber. See .
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Ejulation (?), n. [L. ejulatio, fr. ejulare to wail, lament.] A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] “Ejulation in the pangs of death.” Philips.

{ Ekabor (ĕkȧbōr), Ekaboron (-bōrŏn), } n. [G., fr. Skr. ēka one + G. bor, boron, E. boron.] (Chem.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See .
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Ekaluminium (?), n. [Skr. ēka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See , and cf. .
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Ekasilicon (?), n. [Skr. ēka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See , and cf. .
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Eke (ēk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] [AS. ēkan, ȳkan; akin to OFries, āka, OS. �kian, OHG. ouhhōn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. �jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. , .] To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. “To eke my pain.” Spenser.
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He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.
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Eke, adv. [AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. �k, D. �ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]
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'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love. Prior.
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A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town. Cowper.
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☞ Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner.
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Eke, n. An addition. [R.]
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Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes.
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Ekebergite (?), n. [From Ekeberg, a German.] (Min.) A variety of scapolite.
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Ekename (?), n. [See .] An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [Obs.]
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Eking (?), n. [From , v. t.] (Shipbuilding) (a) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. (b) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]
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E-la (?), n. Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying. “Why, this is above E-la!” Beau. & Fl.
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Elaborate (?), a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See .] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.

-- Elaborately, adv. -- Elaborateness, n.
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Elaborate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating (?).] 1. To produce with labor
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They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young.
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2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
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The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.
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Elaboration (?), n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration.] 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
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Elaborative (?), a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
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Coloq. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
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Elaborator (?), n. One who, or that which, elaborates.
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Elaboratory (?), a. Tending to elaborate.
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Elaboratory, n. A laboratory. [Obs.]
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Elæagnus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � a Bœotian marsh plant; � olive + � sacred, pure.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.
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Elæis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms.
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☞ Elæis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.
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Elæolite (?), n. [Gr. � olive oil, oil + -lite.] (Min.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
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Coloq. Elæolite syenite , a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.
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Elæoptene (?), n. [Gr. � olive oil, oil + � winged, fleeting.] (Chem.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]
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Elaidate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of elaidic acid.
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Elaidic (?), a. [Cf. F. élaïdique. See .] Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.
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Coloq. Elaidic acid (Chem.), a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.
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Elaidin (?), n. [Cf. F. élaïdine.] (Chem.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

{ Elaine (?), or Elain }, n. [Gr. � olive oil, oil, from � the olive tree: cf. F. élaïne.] (Chem.) Same as .
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Elaiodic (?), a. [Gr. � olive oil, oil + e'i^dos form.] (Chem.) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]
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Elaiometer (?), n. [Gr. � olive oil, oil + -meter.] (Chem.) An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
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Elamite (?), n. A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.
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Elamping (?), a. [See .] Shining. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
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Élan (?), n. [F., fr. élancer to dart.] Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
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Elance (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elancing (?).] [F. élancer, OF. eslancier; pref. es- (L. ex) + F. lancer to dart, throw, fr. lance.] To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.]
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While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
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Eland (?), n. [D. eland elk, of Slav. origin; cf. Pol. jelen stag, Russ. oléne, Lith. elnis; perh. akin to E. elk.] 1. (Zoöl.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.
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2. (Zoöl.) The elk or moose.
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Elanet (?), n. (Zoöl.) A kite of the genus Elanus.
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Elaolite (?), n. (Min.) See .
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Elaphe n. a genus of snakes comprising the Old World and American rat snakes.
Syn. -- genus Elaphe.
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elapid n. a venomous snake of the family Elapidae, including the .
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Elapidae n. a natural family of snakes including the cobras, kraits, mambas, the New World coral snakes, and Australian taipan and tiger snakes.
Syn. -- family Elapidae.
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Elaoptene (?), n. (Chem.) See .
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Elaphine (?), a. [Gr. � stag.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.
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Elaphure (?), n. (Zoöl.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
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Elapidation (?), n. [L. elapidatus cleared from stones; e out + lapis stone.] A clearing away of stones. [R.]
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Elapine (?), a. [See .] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See .
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Elaps (?), n. [NL., of uncertain origin.] (Zoöl.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under .
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Elapse (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Elapsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elapsing.] [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e out + labi to fall, slide. See .] To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
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Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
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Elapsion (?), n. The act of elapsing. [R.]
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Elaqueate (?), v. t. [L. elaqueatus, p. p. of elaqueare to unfetter.] To disentangle. [R.]
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Elasipoda (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � metal beaten out, metal plate + -poda.] (Zoöl.) An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms. [Written also Elasmopoda.]
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Elasmobranch (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. -- n. One of the Elasmobranchii.
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Elasmobranchiate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. -- n. One of the Elasmobranchii.
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Elasmobranchii (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � a metal plate + L. branchia a gill.] (Zoöl.) A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimæra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
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Elasmosaurus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � a metal plate + � a lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.
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Elastic (�lăstĭk), a. [Formed fr. Gr. 'elaynein to drive; prob. akin to L. alacer lively, brisk, and E. alacrity: cf. F. élastique.] 1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
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Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.
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2. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.
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Coloq. Elastic bitumen . (Min.) See . -- Coloq. Elastic curve . (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other. (b) (Mech.) The figure assumed by the longitudinal axis of an originally straight bar under any system of bending forces. Rankine. -- Coloq. Elastic fluids , those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors. -- Coloq. Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proportional to the stress producing it. -- Coloq. Elastic tissue (Anat.), a variety of connective tissue consisting of a network of slender and very elastic fibers which are but slightly affected by acids or alkalies. -- Coloq. Gum elastic , caoutchouc.
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Elastic, n. An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber. [Colloq.]
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Elastical (�lăstĭk�l), a. Elastic. [R.] Bentley.
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elastic band (?), n. Same as .
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Elastically, adv. In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
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Elasticity (ēlăstĭsĭt�), n. [Cf. F. élasticité.] 1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; resilience; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.
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2. Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork; -- usually referred to as resilience[3].
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Coloq. Coefficient of elasticity , the quotient of a stress (of a given kind), by the strain (of a given kind) which it produces; -- called also coefficient of resistance. -- Coloq. Surface of elasticity (Geom.), the pedal surface of an ellipsoid (see ); a surface used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction and their relation to the elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.
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elasticized adj. made with strands or inserts of elastic, allowing it to stretch; -- of fabrics; as, slacks with an elasticized waistband.
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Elasticness (?), n. The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
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Elastin (?), n. [Elastic + -in.] (Physiol. Chem.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.
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Elastoplast n. [a British trademark.] an elastic bandage.
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Elate (?), a. [L. elatus elevated, fig., elated, proud (the figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e out + latus (used as p. p. of ferre to bear), for tlatus, and akin to E. tolerate. See , and cf. .]
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