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- English Word Elegiac Definition Elegiac verse.
- English Word Elegiacal Definition Elegiac.
- English Word Elegiast Definition One who composes elegies.
- English Word Elegies Definition of Elegy
- English Word Elegiographer Definition An elegist.
- English Word Elegist Definition A write of elegies.
- English Word Elegit Definition A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
- English Word Elegize Definition To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
- English Word Elegy Definition A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
- English Word Eleidin Definition Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
- English Word Element Definition One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- English Word Element Definition One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.
- English Word Element Definition One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.
- English Word Element Definition One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.
- English Word Element Definition One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
- English Word Element Definition One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
- English Word Element Definition An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
- English Word Element Definition Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.
- English Word Element Definition One of the terms in an algebraic expression.
- English Word Element Definition One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.