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Élève (�l�v), n. [F., fr. élever to raise, bring up.] A pupil; a student.
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Eleven (�lĕv'n), a. [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, ölwe, ölwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. vënolika; and fr. the root of E. one + (prob.) a root signifying “to be left over, remain,” appearing in E. loan, or perh. in leave, v. t., life. See , and cf. .] Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
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Eleven, n. 1. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
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2. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
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3. (Cricket & American Football) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.
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eleven-plus n. an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students in England to select suitable candidates for grammar school; -- now no longer used.
Syn. -- 11-plus.
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Eleventh (?), a. [Cf. AS. endlyfta. See .] 1. Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.
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2. Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.
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3. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
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Eleventh, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
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2. (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
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Elf (ĕlf), n.; pl. Elves (ĕlvz). [AS. ælf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. ālfr elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. ṛbhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Cf. , .] 1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
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Every elf, and fairy sprite,
Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.
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2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
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Coloq. Elf arrow , a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Coloq. Elf child , a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See . -- Coloq. Elf fire , the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Coloq. Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.
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Elf, v. t. To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.
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Elf all my hair in knots. Shak.
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Elfin (-ĭn), a. Relating to elves.
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Elfin, n. A little elf or urchin. Shenstone.
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Elfish, a. Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. “Elfish light.” Coleridge.
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The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.
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Elfishly, adv. In an elfish manner.
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Elfishness, n. The quality of being elfish.
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Elfkin (?), n. A little elf.
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Elfland (?), n. Fairyland. Tennyson.
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Elflock (?), n. Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
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Elgin marbles (?). Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
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Elicit (?), a. [L. elictus, p. p. of elicere to elicit; e + lacere to entice. Cf. , .] Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident. [Obs.] “An elicit act of equity.” Jer. Taylor.
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Elicit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elicited; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliciting.] To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
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Elicitate (?), v. t. To elicit. [Obs.]
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Elicitation (?), n. The act of eliciting. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.
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elicited adj. called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; as, an elicited response.
Syn. -- evoked.
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Elide (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elided; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliding.] [L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. élider. See .] 1. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] Hooker.
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2. (Gram.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
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Eligibility (?), n. [Cf. F. éligibilité.] The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
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Eligible (?), a. [F. éligible, fr. L. eligere. See .] 1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
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2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
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The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.
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Eligibleness, n. The quality of being worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
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Eligibly, adv. In an eligible manner.
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Elimate (?), v. t. [L. elimatus, p. p. of elimare to file up; e out + limare to file, fr. lima file.] To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]
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Eliminant (?), n. (Math.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
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Eliminate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating (?).] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See .] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
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Eliminate my spirit, give it range
Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.
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2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
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3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
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Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth.
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4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
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5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
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Elimination (?), n. [Cf. F. élimination.] 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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2. (Alg.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
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3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See , 4.]
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Eliminative (?), a. (Physiol.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
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Elinguate (?), v. t. [L. elinguare.] To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).
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Elinguation (?), n. [L. elinguatio. See .] (O. Eng. Law) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
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Elinguid (?), a. [L. elinguis, prop., deprived of the tongue; hence, speechless; e + lingua tongue.] Tongue-tied; dumb. [Obs.]
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Eliquament (?), n. A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
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Eliquation (?), n. [L. eliquatio, fr. eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt.] (Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.
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Elison (?), n. [L. elisio, fr. elidere, elisum, to strike out: cf. F. élision. See .] 1. Division; separation. [Obs.] Bacon.
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2. (Gram.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
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Elisor (?), n. [F. éliseur, fr. élire to choose, L. eligere. See .] (Eng. Law) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
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Élite (ālēt), n. [F., fr. élire to choose, L. eligere. See .] 1. A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.
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2. See , Switzerland.
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Elix (?), v. t. [See .] To extract. [Obs.] Marston.
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Elixate (?), v. t. [L. elixatus, p. p. of elixare to seethe, fr. elixus thoroughly boiled; e + lixare to boil, lix ashes.] To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Elixation (?), n. [Cf. F. élixation.] A seething; digestion. [Obs.] Burton.
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Elixir (?), n. [F. élixir, Sp. elixir, Ar. eliksīr the philosopher's stone, prob. from Gr. � dry, (hence probably) a dry powder; cf. Skr. kshā to burn.] 1. (Med.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
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2. (Alchemy) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.
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3. The refined spirit; the quintessence.
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The . . . elixir of worldly delights. South.
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4. Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
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The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. Addison.
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Elizabeth prop. n. [a proper name from the Hebrew, probably meaning “ God of the oath” or “ oath of God”.] 1. Queen Elizabeth II. of the United Kingdom, born 1926.
Syn. -- Elizabeth II.
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2. Elizabeth I., the Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn (1533-1603).
Syn. -- Elizabeth I.
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☞ Elizabeth was born at Greenwich, near London, Sept. 7, 1533: died at Richmond, near London, March 24, 1603. She reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; was brought up in the Protestant faith; studied the classical languages under Roger Ascham; and is said to have been proficient in French and Italian. On her accession she appointed as secretary of state Sir William Cecil (later Baron Burleigh), who remained her chief adviser for forty years, until his death in 1598. She repealed the Roman Catholic legislation of the previous reign, reenacted the laws of Henry VIII. relating to the church, published the Thirty-nine Articles (1563), and completed the establishment of the Anglican Church. In 1564 she concluded the treaty of Troyes with France, by which she renounced her claims to Calais in consideration of 220,000 crowns. In 1587 she signed the death-warrant of Mary Queen of Scots, who, expelled by a rebellion of her subjects, had taken refuge in England in 1568, and who, by means, it is said, of forged documents, had been involved by the government in a conspiracy of Savage, Ballard, Babington, and others against Queen Elizabeth. In 1588 her admiral Howard, assisted by Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Winter, and Raleigh defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel, and prevented an invasion of England. Her reign, which was one of commercial enterprise and of intellectual activity, was made illustrious by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Bacon, and Ben Jonson.
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3. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Born at Presburg, Hungary 1207, died died at Marburg, Germany, Nov. 19, 1231. She was a Hungarian princess, daughter of Andrew II. of Hungary, and wife of Louis, landgrave of Thuringia, celebrated for her sanctity.
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4. a city in Union County in northeastern New Jersy, pop. ca. 106,000. It lies between Newark to the north and Linden to the south, and has a large port, regulated by the Port of New York Authority. It also contains most of the runway area of the Newark International Airport.
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Elizabethan (?), prop. a. Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I. or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n. One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Lowell.
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elk (ĕlk), n. [Icel. elgr; akin to Sw. elg, AS. eolh, OHG. elaho, MHG. elch, cf. L. alces; perh. akin to E. eland.] (Zoöl.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk Alces alces (formerly Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis) the largest member of the deer family, has large, spreading antlers and is closely related to the European stag. See , and .
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Coloq. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of . -- Coloq. Cape elk (Zoöl.), the eland.

{ elk, elke } (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
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Elk (ĕlk), prop. n. a member of the fraternal organization named Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, supporting various services to their communities.
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elkhound (ĕlkhound), n. a breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy gray coat developed in Norway for hunting elk.
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Elknut (?), n. (Bot.) The buffalo nut. See under .
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Elkwood (?), n. The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
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Ell (?), n. [AS. eln; akin to D. el, elle, G. elle, OHG. elina, Icel. alin, Dan. alen, Sw. aln, Goth. alenia, L. ulna elbow, ell, Gr. � elbow. Cf. , .] 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.
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Ell, n. (Arch.) See .
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Ellachick (?), n. [Native Indian name.] (Zoöl.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.
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Ellagic (?), a. [F., fr. galle gall (with the letters reversed).] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
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Coloq. Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.
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Ellebore (?), n. Hellebore. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Elleborin (?), n. See .
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Elleck (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish. [Prov. Eng.]

{Ellenge (?), Ellinge (?), a., Ellengeness, Ellingeness, n }. See , . [Obs.]
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Elles (?), adv. & conj. See . [Obs.]
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Ellipse (ĕllĭps), n. [Gr. 'elleipsis, prop., a defect, the inclination of the ellipse to the base of the cone being in defect when compared with that of the side to the base: cf. F. ellipse. See .] 1. (Geom.) 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 , and cf. .
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2. (Gram.) Omission. See .
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3. The elliptical orbit of a planet.
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The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun;
The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. Tennyson.
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Ellipsis (ĕllĭpsĭs), n.; pl. Ellipses (ĕllĭpsēz). [L., fr. Gr. 'elleipsis a leaving, defect, fr. 'elleipein to leave in, fall short; 'en in + leipein to leave. See , and , and cf. .] 1. (Gram.) 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.
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2. (Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
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3. (Printing) a printing symbol, usually three periods in a row (. . .), indicating the omission of some part of a text; -- used commonly in quotations, so as to suppress words not essential to the meaning. A long dash (---) and three asterisks ( ) are sometimes used with the same meaning.
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Ellipsograph (?), n. [Ellipse + graph: cf. F. ellipsographe.] An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.
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Ellipsoid (?), n. [Ellipse + -oid: cf. F. ellipsoide.] (Geom.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See , n., 2 (a).
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☞ The ellipsoid has three principal plane sections, a, b, and c, each at right angles to the other two, and each dividing the solid into two equal and symmetrical parts. The lines of meeting of these principal sections are the axes, or principal diameters of the ellipsoid. The point where the three planes meet is the center.
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Coloq. Ellipsoid of revolution , a spheroid; a solid figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. It is called a prolate spheroid, or prolatum, when the ellipse is revolved about the major axis, and an oblate spheroid, or oblatum, when it is revolved about the minor axis.

{ Ellipsoid (?), Ellipsoidal (?), } a. Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.

{ Elliptic (?), Elliptical (?), } a. [Gr. �: cf. F. elliptique. See .] 1. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
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The planets move in elliptic orbits. Cheyne.
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The billiard sharp who any one catches,
His doom's extremely hard --
He's made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that's always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls!
Gilbert and Sullivan (The Mikado: The More Humane Mikado Song)

2. Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
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3. leaving out information essential to comprehension; so concise as to be difficult to understand; obscure or ambiguous; -- of speech or writing; as, an elliptical comment.
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Coloq. Elliptic chuck . See under . -- Coloq. Elliptic compasses , an instrument arranged for drawing ellipses. -- Coloq. Elliptic function . (Math.) See . -- Coloq. Elliptic integral . (Math.) See . -- Coloq. Elliptic polarization . See under .
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Elliptically, adv. 1. In the form of an ellipse.
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2. With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
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Ellipticity (?), n. [Cf. F. ellipticité.] Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is 1/29966.
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☞ Some writers use ellipticity as the ratio of the difference of the two semiaxes to the minor axis, instead of the major. Nichol.
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Elliptic-lanceolate (?), a. (Bot.) Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
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Elliptograph (?), n. Same as .
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Ellwand (?), n. Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.
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Elm (?), n. [AS. elm; akin to D. olm, OHG. elm, G. ulme, Icel. almr, Dan. & Sw. alm, L. ulmus, and E. alder. Cf. .] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.
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Coloq. Elm beetle (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Coloq. Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata). -- Coloq. Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several species of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma). See Comma butterfly, under . -- Coloq. Elm moth (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of moths of which the larvæ destroy the leaves of the elm (esp. Eugonia subsignaria, called elm spanworm). -- Coloq. Elm sawfly (Zoöl.), a large sawfly (Cimbex Americana). The larva, which is white with a black dorsal stripe, feeds on the leaves of the elm.
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Elmen (?), a. Belonging to elms. [Obs.]
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Elmo's fire (?). See ; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under .
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Elmy (?), a. Abounding with elms.
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The simple spire and elmy grange. T. Warton.
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Elocation (?), n. [Pref. e- + locate.] 1. A removal from the usual place of residence. [Obs.]
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2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. [Obs.]
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