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- English Word Electrotypy Definition The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
- English Word Electrum Definition Amber.
- English Word Electrum Definition An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
- English Word Electrum Definition German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
- English Word Electuaries Definition of Electuary
- English Word Electuary Definition A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.
- English Word Eleemosynaries Definition of Eleemosynary
- English Word Eleemosynarily Definition In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
- English Word Eleemosynary Definition Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
- English Word Eleemosynary Definition Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
- English Word Eleemosynary Definition Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
- English Word Eleemosynary Definition One who subsists on charity; a dependent.
- English Word Elegance Definition Alt. of Elegancy
- English Word Elegancy Definition The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.
- English Word Elegancy Definition That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
- English Word Elegant Definition Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
- English Word Elegant Definition Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
- English Word Elegantly Definition In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
- English Word Elegiac Definition Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
- English Word Elegiac Definition Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.