Electrolytical (a.) Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.
Electrolyzable (a.) Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
Electrolyzation (n.) The act or the process of electrolyzing.
Electrolyzed (imp. & p. p.) of Electrolyze
Electrolyzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electrolyze
Electrolyze (v. t.) To decompose by the direct action of electricity.
Electro-magnet (n.) A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.
Electro-magnetic (a.) Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current.
Electro-magnetism (n.) The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
Electro-metallurgy (n.) The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.
Electrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope).
Electro-metric (a.) Alt. of Electro-metrical
Electro-metrical (a.) Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.
Elextrometry (n.) The art or process of making electrical measurements.
Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
Electro-motive (a.) Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Electromotor (n.) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
Electromotor (n.) An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
Electro-muscular (a.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
Electron (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Electro-negative (a.) Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.
Electro-negative (a.) Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
Electro-negative (n.) A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
Electropathy (n.) The treatment of disease by electricity.
Electrophone (n.) An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.
Electrophori (pl. ) of Electrophorus
Electrophorus (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.
Electro-physiological (a.) Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
Electro-physiology (n.) That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.
Electroplating (imp. & p. p.) of Electroplate
Electroplate (v. t.) To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.
Electroplater (n.) One who electroplates.
Electroplating (n.) The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
Electro-polar (a.) Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
Electro-positive (a.) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
Electro-positive (a.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
Electro-positive (n.) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Electro-puncturation (n.) Alt. of Electro-puncturing
Electro-puncturing (n.) See Electropuncture.
Electro-puncture (n.) An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
Electroscope (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.
Electroscopic (a.) Relating to, or made by means of, the electroscope.
Electrostatic (a.) Pertaining to electrostatics.
Electrostatics (n.) That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
Electro-stereotype (n.) Same as Electrotype.
Electro-telegraphic (a.) Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
Electro-telegraphy (n.) The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
Electro-therapeutics (n.) The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
Electro-thermancy (n.) That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.
Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.
Electrotonic (a.) Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.
Electrotonize (v. t.) To cause or produce electrotonus.
Electrotonous (a.) Electrotonic.
Electrotonus (n.) The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
Electrotype (n.) A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
Electrotyped (imp. & p. p.) of Electrotype
Electrotyping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electrotype
Electrotype (v. t.) To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.
Electrotyper (n.) One who electrotypes.
Electrotypic (a.) Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.
Electrotyping (n.) The act or the process of making electrotypes.
Electrotypy (n.) The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.
Electro-vital (a.) Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
Electro-vitalism (n.) The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
Electrum (n.) Amber.
Electrum (n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
Electrum (n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
Electuaries (pl. ) of Electuary
Electuary (n.) A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.
Eleemosynarily (adv.) In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.
Eleemosynary (a.) Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
Eleemosynary (a.) Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
Eleemosynary (a.) Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
Eleemosynaries (pl. ) of Eleemosynary
Eleemosynary (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.
Elegance (n.) Alt. of Elegancy
Elegancy (n.) 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.
Elegancy (n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
Elegant (a.) 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.
Elegant (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Elegantly (adv.) In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Elegiac (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Elegiac (n.) Elegiac verse.
Elegiacal (a.) Elegiac.
Elegiast (n.) One who composes elegies.
Elegiographer (n.) An elegist.
Elegist (n.) A write of elegies.
Elegit (n.) 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.
Elegize (v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
Elegies (pl. ) of Elegy
Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Eleidin (n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
Element (n.) 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.
Element (n.) 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.
Element (n.) 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.
Element (n.) 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.
Element (n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
Element (n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.